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Automated segmentation of individual calf muscle compartments from 3D magnetic resonance (MR) images is essential for developing quantitative biomarkers for muscular disease progression and its prediction. Achieving clinically acceptable…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-23 Zhihui Guo , Honghai Zhang , Zhi Chen , Ellen van der Plas , Laurie Gutmann , Daniel Thedens , Peggy Nopoulos , Milan Sonka

In medical imaging, accurate image segmentation is crucial for quantifying diseases, assessing prognosis, and evaluating treatment outcomes. However, existing methods lack an in-depth integration of global and local features, failing to pay…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-15 Yizhi Pan , Junyi Xin , Tianhua Yang , Teeradaj Racharak , Le-Minh Nguyen , Guanqun Sun

Medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in various clinical applications. A major challenge in medical image segmentation is achieving accurate delineation of regions of interest in the presence of noise, low contrast, or complex…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-20 Yucheng Zeng

The majority of medical images, especially those that resemble cells, have similar characteristics. These images, which occur in a variety of shapes, often show abnormalities in the organ or cell region. The convolution operation possesses…

The accurate segmentation of medical images is a crucial step in obtaining reliable morphological statistics. However, training a deep neural network for this task requires a large amount of labeled data to ensure high-accuracy results. To…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-04 Xianjun Han , Qianqian Chen , Zhaoyang Xie , Xuejun Li , Hongyu Yang

Accurate brain tissue segmentation in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has attracted the attention of medical doctors and researchers since variations in tissue volume help in diagnosing and monitoring neurological diseases. Several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Jose Bernal , Kaisar Kushibar , Mariano Cabezas , Sergi Valverde , Arnau Oliver , Xavier Lladó

This paper introduces a deep architecture for segmenting 3D objects into their labeled semantic parts. Our architecture combines image-based Fully Convolutional Networks (FCNs) and surface-based Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) to yield…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Evangelos Kalogerakis , Melinos Averkiou , Subhransu Maji , Siddhartha Chaudhuri

With pervasive applications of medical imaging in health-care, biomedical image segmentation plays a central role in quantitative analysis, clinical diagno- sis, and medical intervention. Since manual anno- tation su ers limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Xiaowei Xu , Qing Lu , Yu Hu , Lin Yang , Sharon Hu , Danny Chen , Yiyu Shi

Automatic segmentation of fine-grained brain structures remains a challenging task. Current segmentation methods mainly utilize 2D and 3D deep neural networks. The 2D networks take image slices as input to produce coarse segmentation in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Yuemeng Li , Hangfan Liu , Hongming Li , Yong Fan

Recently, deep convolutional neural networks have achieved great success for medical image segmentation. However, unlike segmentation of natural images, most medical images such as MRI and CT are volumetric data. In order to make full use…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-08 Yichi Zhang , Qingcheng Liao , Le Ding , Jicong Zhang

Semantic segmentation is essentially important to biomedical image analysis. Many recent works mainly focus on integrating the Fully Convolutional Network (FCN) architecture with sophisticated convolution implementation and deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Xuhua Ren , Lichi Zhang , Sahar Ahmad , Dong Nie , Fan Yang , Lei Xiang , Qian Wang , Dinggang Shen

Although existing medical image segmentation methods provide impressive pixel-wise accuracy, they often neglect topological correctness, making their segmentations unusable for many downstream tasks. One option is to retrain such models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Liu Li , Hanchun Wang , Matthew Baugh , Qiang Ma , Weitong Zhang , Cheng Ouyang , Daniel Rueckert , Bernhard Kainz

Most current semantic segmentation approaches fall back on deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, their use of convolution operations with local receptive fields causes failures in modeling contextual spatial relations. Prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Lichao Mou , Yuansheng Hua , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown promising results on several segmentation tasks in magnetic resonance (MR) images. However, the accuracy of CNNs may degrade severely when segmenting images acquired with different scanners…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-28 Neerav Karani , Krishna Chaitanya , Christian Baumgartner , Ender Konukoglu

Automating classification and segmentation process of abnormal regions in different body organs has a crucial role in most of medical imaging applications such as funduscopy, endoscopy, and dermoscopy. Detecting multiple abnormalities in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Mohsen Hajabdollahi , Reza Esfandiarpoor , Elyas Sabeti , Nader Karimi , Kayvan Najarian , S. M. Reza Soroushmehr , Shadrokh Samavi

Medical image segmentation can provide a reliable basis for further clinical analysis and disease diagnosis. The performance of medical image segmentation has been significantly advanced with the convolutional neural networks (CNNs).…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-02 Ruxin Wang , Shuyuan Chen , Chaojie Ji , Jianping Fan , Ye Li

Curvilinear structures are present in various fields in image processing such as blood vessels in medical imaging or roads in remote sensing. Their detection is crucial for many applications. In this article, we propose an unsupervised…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-26 Sophie Carneiro-Esteves , Antoine Vacavant , Odyssée Merveille

Medical image segmentation plays a vital role in various clinical applications, enabling accurate delineation and analysis of anatomical structures or pathological regions. Traditional CNNs have achieved remarkable success in this field.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-18 Seyed M. R. Modaresi , Aomar Osmani , Mohammadreza Razzazi , Abdelghani Chibani

The segmentation of organs in volumetric medical images plays an important role in computer-aided diagnosis and treatment/surgery planning. Conventional 2D convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can hardly exploit the spatial correlation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-21 Zhuoyuan Wang , Dong Sun , Xiangyun Zeng , Ruodai Wu , Yi Wang

Automatic segmentation of multiple organs and tumors from 3D medical images such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) scans using deep learning methods can aid in diagnosing and treating cancer. However, organs…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-25 Hao Li , Yang Nan , Javier Del Ser , Guang Yang