English
Related papers

Related papers: Automatic Lumbar Spinal CT Image Segmentation with…

200 papers

We propose a method for automatic segmentation of individual muscles from a clinical CT. The method uses Bayesian convolutional neural networks with the U-Net architecture, using Monte Carlo dropout that infers an uncertainty metric in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-10 Yuta Hiasa , Yoshito Otake , Masaki Takao , Takeshi Ogawa , Nobuhiko Sugano , Yoshinobu Sato

In clinical practice, regions of interest in medical imaging often need to be identified through a process of precise image segmentation. The quality of this image segmentation step critically affects the subsequent clinical assessment of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-23 João B. S. Carvalho , João A. Santinha , Đorđe Miladinović , Joachim M. Buhmann

Intervertebral discs (IVDs), as small joints lying between adjacent vertebrae, have played an important role in pressure buffering and tissue protection. The fully-automatic localization and segmentation of IVDs have been discussed in the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-30 Chuanbo Wang , Ye Guo , Wei Chen , Zeyun Yu

Automated brain tumour segmentation has the potential of making a massive improvement in disease diagnosis, surgery, monitoring and surveillance. However, this task is extremely challenging. Here, we describe our automated segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-13 Indrajit Mazumdar

Purpose Automated segmentation of anatomical structures in medical image analysis is a prerequisite for autonomous diagnosis as well as various computer and robot aided interventions. Recent methods based on deep convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Max-Heinrich Laves , Jens Bicker , Lüder A. Kahrs , Tobias Ortmaier

Automatic segmentation of kidney and kidney tumour in Computed Tomography (CT) images is essential, as it uses less time as compared to the current gold standard of manual segmentation. However, many hospitals are still reliant on manual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-27 Qi Ming How , Hoi Leong Lee

A fully automatic technique for segmenting the liver and localizing its unhealthy tissues is a convenient tool in order to diagnose hepatic diseases and assess the response to the according treatments. In this work we propose a method to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-01 Miriam Bellver , Kevis-Kokitsi Maninis , Jordi Pont-Tuset , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto , Jordi Torres , Luc Van Gool

Osteoporosis is a common bone disease that occurs when the creation of new bone does not keep up with the loss of old bone, resulting in increased fracture risk. Adults over the age of 50 are especially at risk and see their quality of life…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-16 P. A. Bjornsson , B. Helgason , H. Palsson , S. Sigurdsson , V. Gudnason , L. M. Ellingsen

Manual or automatic delineation of the esophageal tumor in CT images is known to be very challenging. This is due to the low contrast between the tumor and adjacent tissues, the anatomical variation of the esophagus, as well as the…

Mandible bone segmentation from computed tomography (CT) scans is challenging due to mandible's structural irregularities, complex shape patterns, and lack of contrast in joints. Furthermore, connections of teeth to mandible and mandible to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Neslisah Torosdagli , Denise K. Liberton , Payal Verma , Murat Sincan Janice Lee , Sumanta Pattanaik , Ulas Bagci

Automatic medical image segmentation based on Computed Tomography (CT) has been widely applied for computer-aided surgery as a prerequisite. With the development of deep learning technologies, deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-09 Wenqiang Li , YM Tang , Ziyang Wang , KM Yu , Sandy To

Multi-phase computed tomography (CT) scans use contrast agents to highlight different anatomical structures within the body to improve the probability of identifying and detecting anatomical structures of interest and abnormalities such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-18 Abdullah F. Al-Battal , Soan T. M. Duong , Van Ha Tang , Quang Duc Tran , Steven Q. H. Truong , Chien Phan , Truong Q. Nguyen , Cheolhong An

Objective: The spinous process angle (SPA) is one of the essential parameters to denote three-dimensional (3-D) deformity of spine. We propose an automatic segmentation method based on Stacked Hourglass Network (SHN) to detect the spinous…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-25 Hong-Ye Zeng , Song-Han Ge , Yu-Chong Gao , De-Sen Zhou , Kang Zhou , Xu-Ming He , Edmond Lou , Rui Zheng

Accurate lumbar spine segmentation is crucial for diagnosing spinal disorders. Existing methods typically use coarse-grained segmentation strategies that lack the fine detail needed for precise diagnosis. Additionally, their reliance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Sheng Lian , Jianlong Cai , Dengfeng Pan , Guang-Yong Chen , Hao Xu , Fan Zhang , Guodong Fan , Shuo Li

In this paper we propose a fully automatic 2-stage cascaded approach for segmentation of liver and its tumors in CT (Computed Tomography) images using densely connected fully convolutional neural network (DenseNet). We independently train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Krishna Chaitanya Kaluva , Mahendra Khened , Avinash Kori , Ganapathy Krishnamurthi

Automated segmentation of the optic cup and disk on retinal fundus images is fundamental for the automated detection / analysis of glaucoma. Traditional segmentation approaches depend heavily upon hand-crafted features and a priori…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Lei Bi , Yuyu Guo , Qian Wang , Dagan Feng , Michael Fulham , Jinman Kim

Automatic lymph node (LN) segmentation and detection for cancer staging are critical. In clinical practice, computed tomography (CT) and positron emission tomography (PET) imaging detect abnormal LNs. Despite its low contrast and variety in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-23 Al-Akhir Nayan , Boonserm Kijsirikul , Yuji Iwahori

Towards automated retinal screening, this paper makes an endeavor to simultaneously achieve pixel-level retinal lesion segmentation and image-level disease classification. Such a multi-task approach is crucial for accurate and clinically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Qijie Wei , Xirong Li , Weihong Yu , Xiao Zhang , Yongpeng Zhang , Bojie Hu , Bin Mo , Di Gong , Ning Chen , Dayong Ding , Youxin Chen

Liver lesion segmentation is an important step for liver cancer diagnosis, treatment planning and treatment evaluation. LiTS (Liver Tumor Segmentation Challenge) provides a common testbed for comparing different automatic liver lesion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-05 Xiao Han

Precise segmentation and anatomical identification of the vertebrae provides the basis for automatic analysis of the spine, such as detection of vertebral compression fractures or other abnormalities. Most dedicated spine CT and MR scans as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Nikolas Lessmann , Bram van Ginneken , Pim A. de Jong , Ivana Išgum