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Purpose: Manual medical image segmentation is an exhausting and time-consuming task along with high inter-observer variability. In this study, our objective is to improve the multi-resolution image segmentation performance of U-Net…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-20 Simindokht Jahangard , Mohammad Hossein Zangooei , Maysam Shahedi

In interventional radiology, short video sequences of vein structure in motion are captured in order to help medical personnel identify vascular issues or plan intervention. Semantic segmentation can greatly improve the usefulness of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Athanasios Vlontzos , Krystian Mikolajczyk

Accurate segmentation of kidneys and kidney tumors is an essential step for radiomic analysis as well as developing advanced surgical planning techniques. In clinical analysis, the segmentation is currently performed by clinicians from the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-05 Wenshuai Zhao , Dihong Jiang , Jorge Peña Queralta , Tomi Westerlund

Cardiac segmentation from late gadolinium enhancement MRI is an important task in clinics to identify and evaluate the infarction of myocardium. The automatic segmentation is however still challenging, due to the heterogeneous intensity…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-26 Qian Yue , Xinzhe Luo , Qing Ye , Lingchao Xu , Xiahai Zhuang

Segmenting organs in CT scan images is a necessary process for multiple downstream medical image analysis tasks. Currently, manual CT scan segmentation by radiologists is prevalent, especially for organs like the pancreas, which requires a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-22 Juwita juwita , Ghulam Mubashar Hassan , Naveed Akhtar , Amitava Datta

Medical images used in clinical practice are heterogeneous and not the same quality as scans studied in academic research. Preprocessing breaks down in extreme cases when anatomy, artifacts, or imaging parameters are unusual or protocols…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-31 Mostafa Mehdipour Ghazi , Mads Nielsen

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is the most commonly used non-intrusive technique for medical image acquisition. Brain tumor segmentation is the process of algorithmically identifying tumors in brain MRI scans. While many approaches have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-04 Jason Walsh , Alice Othmani , Mayank Jain , Soumyabrata Dev

In this paper, we present a novel neural network architecture for retinal vessel segmentation that improves over the state of the art on two benchmark datasets, is the first to run in real time on high resolution images, and its small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Tim Laibacher , Tillman Weyde , Sepehr Jalali

For 3D medical image (e.g. CT and MRI) segmentation, the difficulty of segmenting each slice in a clinical case varies greatly. Previous research on volumetric medical image segmentation in a slice-by-slice manner conventionally use the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Wenxuan Wang , Chen Chen , Jing Wang , Sen Zha , Yan Zhang , Jiangyun Li

The goal of this project is to use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data to provide an end-to-end analytics pipeline for left and right ventricle (LV and RV) segmentation. Another aim of the project is to find a model that would be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-19 Bosung Seo , Daniel Mariano , John Beckfield , Vinay Madenur , Yuming Hu , Tony Reina , Marcus Bobar , Mai H. Nguyen , Ilkay Altintas

Segmenting an entire 3D image often has high computational complexity and requires large memory consumption; by contrast, performing volumetric segmentation in a slice-by-slice manner is efficient but does not fully leverage the 3D data. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Rutu Gandhi , Yi Hong

Performing a real-time and accurate instrument segmentation from videos is of great significance for improving the performance of robotic-assisted surgery. We identify two important clues for surgical instrument perception, including local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Jiacheng Wang , Yueming Jin , Liansheng Wang , Shuntian Cai , Pheng-Ann Heng , Jing Qin

In recent years Deep Learning has brought about a breakthrough in Medical Image Segmentation. U-Net is the most prominent deep network in this regard, which has been the most popular architecture in the medical imaging community. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Nabil Ibtehaz , M. Sohel Rahman

Deep learning techniques, particularly convolutional neural networks, have shown great potential in computer vision and medical imaging applications. However, deep learning models are computationally demanding as they require enormous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-07 Owais Ali , Hazrat Ali , Syed Ayaz Ali Shah , Aamir Shahzad

Fully automatic cardiac segmentation can be a fast and reproducible method to extract clinical measurements from an echocardiography examination. The U-Net architecture is the current state-of-the-art deep learning architecture for medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Gilles Van De Vyver , Sarina Thomas , Guy Ben-Yosef , Sindre Hellum Olaisen , Håvard Dalen , Lasse Løvstakken , Erik Smistad

Non-invasive detection of cardiovascular disorders from radiology scans requires quantitative image analysis of the heart and its substructures. There are well-established measurements that radiologists use for diseases assessment such as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-04 Aliasghar Mortazi , Jeremy Burt , Ulas Bagci

Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging is widely used to visualise cardiac motion and diagnose heart disease. However, standard CMR imaging requires patients to lie still in a confined space inside a loud machine for 40-60 min, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Chujie Chang , Shoko Miyauchi , Ken'ichi Morooka , Ryo Kurazume , Oscar Martinez Mozos

Medical image segmentation is vital to the area of medical imaging because it enables professionals to more accurately examine and understand the information offered by different imaging modalities. The technique of splitting a medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-01 Aitik Gupta , Joydip Dhar

In modern medical diagnostics, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an important technique that provides detailed insights into anatomical structures. In this paper, we present a comprehensive methodology focusing on streamlining the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-25 Siddharth Jha , Zichen Gui , Benjamin Delbos , Richard Moreau , Arnaud Leleve , Irene Cheng

Real-time cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plays an increasingly important role in guiding various cardiac interventions. In order to provide better visual assistance, the cine MRI frames need to be segmented on-the-fly to avoid…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-15 Dewen Zeng , Weiwen Jiang , Tianchen Wang , Xiaowei Xu , Haiyun Yuan , Meiping Huang , Jian Zhuang , Jingtong Hu , Yiyu Shi