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Accurate whole-heart segmentation is a critical component in the precise diagnosis and interventional planning of cardiovascular diseases. Integrating complementary information from modalities such as computed tomography (CT) and magnetic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-13 Jierui Qu , Jianchun Zhao

Recently, deep networks have shown impressive performance for the segmentation of cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) images. However, their achievement is proving slow to transition to widespread use in medical clinics because of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-22 Fatmatulzehra Uslu , Anil A. Bharath

The utilisation of deep learning segmentation algorithms that learn complex organs and tissue patterns and extract essential regions of interest from the noisy background to improve the visual ability for medical image diagnosis has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Yanming Guo

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides high spatial resolution and excellent soft-tissue contrast without using harmful ionising radiation. Dynamic MRI is an essential tool for interventions to visualise movements or changes of the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-02-14 Soumick Chatterjee , Chompunuch Sarasaen , Georg Rose , Andreas Nürnberger , Oliver Speck

In the clinical environment, myocardial infarction (MI) as one com-mon cardiovascular disease is mainly evaluated based on the late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) cardiac magnetic resonance images (CMRIs). The auto-matic segmentations of left…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-06 Xiyue Wang , Sen Yang , Mingxuan Tang , Yunpeng Wei , Ling He , Jing Zhang , Xiao Han

We propose a method based on deep learning to perform cardiac segmentation on short axis MRI image stacks iteratively from the top slice (around the base) to the bottom slice (around the apex). At each iteration, a novel variant of U-net is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Qiao Zheng , Hervé Delingette , Nicolas Duchateau , Nicholas Ayache

Semantic segmentation for medical 3D image stacks enables accurate volumetric reconstructions, computer-aided diagnostics and follow up treatment planning. In this work, we present a novel variant of the Unet model called the NUMSnet that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-07 Sohini Roychowdhury

The 3D volumetric shape of the heart's left ventricle (LV) myocardium (MYO) wall provides important information for diagnosis of cardiac disease and invasive procedure navigation. Many cardiac image segmentation methods have relied on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Meng Ye , Qiaoying Huang , Dong Yang , Pengxiang Wu , Jingru Yi , Leon Axel , Dimitris Metaxas

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) enables non-invasive, high-resolution analysis of muscle structures. However, automated segmentation remains limited by high computational costs, reliance on large training datasets, and reduced accuracy in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Mengyuan Liu , Jeongkyu Lee

Background. Fully automatic analysis of myocardial perfusion MRI datasets enables rapid and objective reporting of stress/rest studies in patients with suspected ischemic heart disease. Developing deep learning techniques that can analyze…

We explore the use of deep learning for breast mass segmentation in mammograms. By integrating the merits of residual learning and probabilistic graphical modelling with standard U-Net, we propose a new deep network, Conditional Residual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Heyi Li , Dongdong Chen , Bill Nailon , Mike Davies , Dave Laurenson

Image segmentation is a fundamental task in image analysis and clinical practice. The current state-of-the-art techniques are based on U-shape type encoder-decoder networks with skip connections, called U-Net. Despite the powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Chun-Wun Cheng , Christina Runkel , Lihao Liu , Raymond H Chan , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Angelica I Aviles-Rivero

Accurately segmenting temporal frames of cine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a crucial step in various real-time MRI guided cardiac interventions. To achieve fast and accurate visual assistance, there are strict requirements on the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-14 Qing Lu , Xiaowei Xu , Shunjie Dong , Cong Hao , Lei Yang , Cheng Zhuo , Yiyu Shi

Radiological imaging offers effective measurement of anatomy, which is useful in disease diagnosis and assessment. Previous study has shown that the left atrial wall remodeling can provide information to predict treatment outcome in atrial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Shuman Jia , Antoine Despinasse , Zihao Wang , Hervé Delingette , Xavier Pennec , Pierre Jaïs , Hubert Cochet , Maxime Sermesant

Cardiac segmentation is in great demand for clinical practice. Due to the enormous labor of manual delineation, unsupervised segmentation is desired. The ill-posed optimization problem of this task is inherently challenging, requiring…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 Sihan Wang , Fuping Wu , Lei Li , Zheyao Gao , Byung-Woo Hong , Xiahai Zhuang

Accelerating the acquisition of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a challenging problem, and many works have been proposed to reconstruct images from undersampled k-space data. However, if the main purpose is to extract certain…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-22 Chen Qin , Wenjia Bai , Jo Schlemper , Steffen E. Petersen , Stefan K. Piechnik , Stefan Neubauer , Daniel Rueckert

Magnetic resonance imaging is a fundamental tool to reach a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis and monitoring its progression. Although several attempts have been made to segment multiple sclerosis lesions using artificial intelligence, fully…

Cardiac cine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is one of the important means to assess cardiac functions and vascular abnormalities. Mitigating artifacts arising during image reconstruction and accelerating cardiac cine MRI acquisition to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-03 Xiaoxiang Han , Yang Chen , Qiaohong Liu , Yiman Liu , Keyan Chen , Yuanjie Lin , Weikun Zhang

Large prospective epidemiological studies acquire cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) images for pre-symptomatic populations and follow these over time. To support this approach, fully automatic large-scale 3D analysis is essential. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-04 Rahman Attar , Marco Pereanez , Christopher Bowles , Stefan K. Piechnik , Stefan Neubauer , Steffen E. Petersen , Alejandro F. Frangi

Deep learning approaches may help radiologists in the early diagnosis and timely treatment of cerebrovascular diseases. Accurate cerebral vessel segmentation of Time-of-Flight Magnetic Resonance Angiographs (TOF-MRAs) is an essential step…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-25 V. de Vos , K. M. Timmins , I. C. van der Schaaf , Y. Ruigrok , B. K. Velthuis , H. J. Kuijf