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As intensities of MRI volumes are inconsistent across institutes, it is essential to extract universal features of multi-modal MRIs to precisely segment brain tumors. In this concept, we propose a volumetric vision transformer that follows…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-19 Himashi Peiris , Munawar Hayat , Zhaolin Chen , Gary Egan , Mehrtash Harandi

Automatic segmentation of liver tumors in medical images is crucial for the computer-aided diagnosis and therapy. It is a challenging task, since the tumors are notoriously small against the background voxels. This paper proposes a new…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-18 Huiyu Li , Xiabi Liu , Said Boumaraf , Weihua Liu , Xiaopeng Gong , Xiaohong Ma

We propose a novel procedure to improve liver and lesion segmentation from CT scans for U-Net based models. Our method extends standard segmentation pipelines to focus on higher target recall or reduction of noisy false-positive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-13 Karsten Roth , Jürgen Hesser , Tomasz Konopczyński

Automated liver segmentation from radiology scans (CT, MRI) can improve surgery and therapy planning and follow-up assessment in addition to conventional use for diagnosis and prognosis. Although convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-31 Ugur Demir , Zheyuan Zhang , Bin Wang , Matthew Antalek , Elif Keles , Debesh Jha , Amir Borhani , Daniela Ladner , Ulas Bagci

In this work, we propose a new segmentation network by integrating DenseUNet and bidirectional LSTM together with attention mechanism, termed as DA-BDense-UNet. DenseUNet allows learning enough diverse features and enhancing the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-27 Wenming Cao , Philip L. H. Yu , Gilbert C. S. Lui , Keith W. H. Chiu , Ho-Ming Cheng , Yanwen Fang , Man-Fung Yuen , Wai-Kay Seto

Automatic liver lesion segmentation is a challenging task while having a significant impact on assisting medical professionals in the designing of effective treatment and planning proper care. In this paper we propose a cascaded system that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-26 Raunak Dey , Yi Hong

Semantic segmentation of remote sensing images is essential for various applications, including vegetation monitoring, disaster management, and urban planning. Previous studies have demonstrated that the self-attention mechanism (SA) is an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Wei Long , Yongjun Zhang , Zhongwei Cui , Yujie Xu , Xuexue Zhang

Medical image segmentation, a crucial task in computer vision, facilitates the automated delineation of anatomical structures and pathologies, supporting clinicians in diagnosis, treatment planning, and disease monitoring. Notably,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Fuchen Zheng , Xinyi Chen , Xuhang Chen , Haolun Li , Xiaojiao Guo , Weihuang Liu , Chi-Man Pun , Shoujun Zhou

Glioblastoma is a highly aggressive and malignant brain tumor type that requires early diagnosis and prompt intervention. Due to its heterogeneity in appearance, developing automated detection approaches is challenging. To address this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Ziya Ata Yazıcı , İlkay Öksüz , Hazım Kemal Ekenel

Segmentation of biomedical images can assist radiologists to make a better diagnosis and take decisions faster by helping in the detection of abnormalities, such as tumors. Manual or semi-automated segmentation, however, can be a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-11 Dhanunjaya Mitta , Soumick Chatterjee , Oliver Speck , Andreas Nürnberger

Explainability of decisions made by deep neural networks is of high value as it allows for validation and improvement of models. This work proposes an approach to explain semantic segmentation networks by means of layer-wise relevance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-30 Grzegorz Chlebus , Nasreddin Abolmaali , Andrea Schenk , Hans Meine

KiTs19 challenge paves the way to haste the improvement of solid kidney tumor semantic segmentation methodologies. Accurate segmentation of kidney tumor in computer tomography (CT) images is a challenging task due to the non-uniform motion,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-12 D. Sabarinathan , M. Parisa Beham , S. M. Md. Mansoor Roomi

Accurate image segmentation of the liver is a challenging problem owing to its large shape variability and unclear boundaries. Although the applications of fully convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown groundbreaking results,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Minyoung Chung , Jingyu Lee , Jeongjin Lee , Yeong-Gil Shin

Accurate liver and lesion segmentation from computed tomography (CT) images are highly demanded in clinical practice for assisting the diagnosis and assessment of hepatic tumor disease. However, automatic liver and lesion segmentation from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-23 Liping Zhang , Simon Chun-Ho Yu

A volumetric attention(VA) module for 3D medical image segmentation and detection is proposed. VA attention is inspired by recent advances in video processing, enables 2.5D networks to leverage context information along the z direction, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-07 Xudong Wang , Shizhong Han , Yunqiang Chen , Dashan Gao , Nuno Vasconcelos

This paper proposes a novel attention model for semantic segmentation, which aggregates multi-scale and context features to refine prediction. Specifically, the skeleton convolutional neural network framework takes in multiple different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Shiqi Yang , Gang Peng

Pedestrian detection plays an important role in many applications such as autonomous driving. We propose a method that explores semantic segmentation results as self-attention cues to significantly improve the pedestrian detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Chengju Zhou , Meiqing Wu , Siew-Kei Lam

Early detection and accurate diagnosis can predict the risk of malignant disease transformation, thereby increasing the probability of effective treatment. Identifying mild syndrome with small pathological regions serves as an ominous…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-15 Wei Dai , Rui Liu , Zixuan Wu , Tianyi Wu , Min Wang , Junxian Zhou , Yixuan Yuan , Jun Liu

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 phase attention residual network (PA-ResSeg) to model multi-phase features for accurate liver tumor segmentation, in which a phase attention (PA) is newly proposed to additionally exploit the images of arterial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-15 Yingying Xu , Ming Cai , Lanfen Lin , Yue Zhang , Hongjie Hu , Zhiyi Peng , Qiaowei Zhang , Qingqing Chen , Xiongwei Mao , Yutaro Iwamoto , Xian-Hua Han , Yen-Wei Chen , Ruofeng Tong