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Volumetric analysis of brain ventricle (BV) structure is a key tool in the study of central nervous system development in embryonic mice. High-frequency ultrasound (HFU) is the only non-invasive, real-time modality available for rapid…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-09 Ziming Qiu , Jack Langerman , Nitin Nair , Orlando Aristizabal , Jonathan Mamou , Daniel H. Turnbull , Jeffrey Ketterling , Yao Wang

Deep learning-based segmentation methods are widely utilized for detecting lesions in ultrasound images. Throughout the imaging procedure, the attenuation and scattering of ultrasound waves cause contour blurring and the formation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-22 Ruiguo Yu , Yiyang Zhang , Yuan Tian , Zhiqiang Liu , Xuewei Li , Jie Gao

Longitudinal fetal brain atlas is a powerful tool for understanding and characterizing the complex process of fetus brain development. Existing fetus brain atlases are typically constructed by averaged brain images on discrete time points…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-15 Lixuan Chen , Jiangjie Wu , Qing Wu , Hongjiang Wei , Yuyao Zhang

Prenatal diagnosis of tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) and hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS), two serious congenital heart defects, improves outcomes and can in some cases facilitate in utero interventions. In practice, however, the fetal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Rima Arnaout , Lara Curran , Erin Chinn , Yili Zhao , Anita Moon-Grady

Ultrasound imaging is a commonly used technology for visualising patient anatomy in real-time during diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. High operator dependency and low reproducibility make ultrasound imaging and interpretation…

MR images of the fetus allow non-invasive analysis of the fetal brain. Quantitative analysis of fetal brain development requires automatic brain tissue segmentation that is typically preceded by segmentation of the intracranial volume…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-09 N. Khalili , P. Moeskops , N. H. P. Claessens , S. Scherpenzeel , E. Turk , R. de Heus , M. J. N. L. Benders , M. A. Viergever , J. P. W. Pluim , I. Išgum

Segmentation is a fundamental task in medical image analysis. The clinical interest is often to measure the volume of a structure. To evaluate and compare segmentation methods, the similarity between a segmentation and a predefined ground…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-09 Jeroen Bertels , David Robben , Dirk Vandermeulen , Paul Suetens

Although the segmentation of brain structures in ultrasound helps initialize image based registration, assist brain shift compensation, and provides interventional decision support, the task of segmenting grey and white matter in cranial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Beatrice Demiray , Julia Rackerseder , Stevica Bozhinoski , Nassir Navab

We propose a novel 3D fully convolutional deep network for automated pancreas segmentation from both MRI and CT scans. More specifically, the proposed model consists of a 3D encoder that learns to extract volume features at different…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-29 Federica Proietto Salanitri , Giovanni Bellitto , Ismail Irmakci , Simone Palazzo , Ulas Bagci , Concetto Spampinato

Analyzing fetal body motion and shape is paramount in prenatal diagnostics and monitoring. Existing methods for fetal MRI analysis mainly rely on anatomical keypoints or volumetric body segmentations. Keypoints simplify body structure to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Yingcheng Liu , Peiqi Wang , Sebastian Diaz , Esra Abaci Turk , Benjamin Billot , P. Ellen Grant , Polina Golland

Breast Ultrasound plays a vital role in cancer diagnosis as a non-invasive approach with cost-effective. In recent years, with the development of deep learning, many CNN-based approaches have been widely researched in both tumor…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Dat T. Chung , Minh-Anh Dang , Mai-Anh Vu , Minh T. Nguyen , Thanh-Huy Nguyen , Vinh Q. Dinh

This paper presents FeTal-SAM, a novel adaptation of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) tailored for fetal brain MRI segmentation. Traditional deep learning methods often require large annotated datasets for a fixed set of labels, making them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Qi Zeng , Weide Liu , Bo Li , Ryne Didier , P. Ellen Grant , Davood Karimi

Ultrasound is widely used in clinical practice due to its affordability, portability, and safety. However, current AI research often overlooks combined disease prediction and tissue segmentation. We propose UniUSNet, a universal framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Zehui Lin , Zhuoneng Zhang , Xindi Hu , Zhifan Gao , Xin Yang , Yue Sun , Dong Ni , Tao Tan

Recent medical vision-language models have shown promise on tasks such as VQA, report generation, and anomaly detection. However, most are adapted to structured adult imaging and underperform in fetal ultrasound, which poses challenges of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Xiao He , Huangxuan Zhao , Guojia Wan , Wei Zhou , Yanxing Liu , Juhua Liu , Yongchao Xu , Yong Luo , Dacheng Tao , Bo Du

Medical image data is less accessible than in other domains due to privacy and regulatory constraints. In addition, labeling requires costly, time-intensive manual image annotation by clinical experts. To overcome these challenges,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-11 Fangyijie Wang , Kevin Whelan , Félix Balado , Kathleen M. Curran , Guénolé Silvestre

Automated detection and segmentation of surgical devices, such as catheters or wires, in X-ray fluoroscopic images have the potential to enhance image guidance in minimally invasive heart surgeries. In this paper, we present a convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Lin Xi , Yingliang Ma , Ethan Koland , Sandra Howell , Aldo Rinaldi , Kawal S. Rhode

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has played a crucial role in fetal neurodevelopmental research. Structural annotations of MR images are an important step for quantitative analysis of the developing human brain, with Deep Learning providing…

Mammography images are widely used to detect non-palpable breast lesions or nodules, preventing cancer and providing the opportunity to plan interventions when necessary. The identification of some structures of interest is essential to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-21 Cesar A. Sierra-Franco , Jan Hurtado , Victor de A. Thomaz , Leonardo C. da Cruz , Santiago V. Silva , Alberto B. Raposo

Congenital heart disease (CHD) screening from fetal echocardiography requires accurate analysis of multiple standard cardiac views, yet developing reliable artificial intelligence models remains challenging due to limited annotations and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-20 Fangyijie Wang , Guénolé Silvestre , Kathleen M. Curran

Segmentation of magnetic resonance images (MRI) facilitates analysis of human brain development by delineating anatomical structures. However, in infants and young children, accurate segmentation is challenging due to development and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Malte Hoffmann , Lilla Zöllei , Adrian V. Dalca