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Automated prostate segmentation in MRI is highly demanded for computer-assisted diagnosis. Recently, a variety of deep learning methods have achieved remarkable progress in this task, usually relying on large amounts of training data. Due…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-20 Quande Liu , Qi Dou , Lequan Yu , Pheng Ann Heng

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) show outstanding performance in many image processing problems, such as image recognition, object detection and image segmentation. Semantic segmentation is a very challenging task that requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Fan Jia , Jun Liu , Xue-cheng Tai

Medical ultrasound image segmentation presents a formidable challenge in the realm of computer vision. Traditional approaches rely on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Transformer-based methods to address the intricacies of medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Weixin Xu , Ziliang Wang

Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most prevalent cancer among men in the United States, accounting for nearly 300,000 cases, 29\% of all diagnoses and 35,000 total deaths in 2024. Traditional screening methods such as prostate-specific antigen…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Jarett Dewbury , Chi-en Amy Tai , Alexander Wong

Convolutional networks have become state-of-the-art techniques for automatic medical image analysis, with the U-net architecture being the most popular at this moment. In this article we report the application of a 3D version of U-net to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Germonda Mooij , Ines Bagulho , Henkjan Huisman

Prostate biopsy and image-guided treatment procedures are often performed under the guidance of ultrasound fused with magnetic resonance images (MRI). Accurate image fusion relies on accurate segmentation of the prostate on ultrasound…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Sulaiman Vesal , Iani Gayo , Indrani Bhattacharya , Shyam Natarajan , Leonard S. Marks , Dean C Barratt , Richard E. Fan , Yipeng Hu , Geoffrey A. Sonn , Mirabela Rusu

This study focuses on comparing deep learning methods for the segmentation and quantification of uncertainty in prostate segmentation from MRI images. The aim is to improve the workflow of prostate cancer detection and diagnosis. Seven…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-10 Pablo Cesar Quihui-Rubio , Daniel Flores-Araiza , Gilberto Ochoa-Ruiz , Miguel Gonzalez-Mendoza , Christian Mata

Accurate segmentation of surgical instruments in robotic-assisted surgery is critical for enabling context-aware computer-assisted interventions, such as tool tracking, workflow analysis, and autonomous decision-making. In this study, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Sara Ameli

Purpose: The research is to develop a novel CNN-based adversarial deep learning method to improve and expedite the multi-organ semantic segmentation of CT images, and to generate accurate contours on pelvic CT images. Methods: Planning CT…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-09 Zhuangzhuang Zhang , Tianyu Zhao , Hiram Gay , Weixiong Zhang , Baozhou Sun

Automatic prostate segmentation in transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) images is of essential importance for image-guided prostate interventions and treatment planning. However, developing such automatic solutions remains very challenging due to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-05 Yi Wang , Haoran Dou , Xiaowei Hu , Lei Zhu , Xin Yang , Ming Xu , Jing Qin , Pheng-Ann Heng , Tianfu Wang , Dong Ni

Deep learning algorithms have obtained great success in semantic segmentation of very high-resolution (VHR) images. Nevertheless, training these models generally requires a large amount of accurate pixel-wise annotations, which is very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Yonghao Xu , Pedram Ghamisi

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

Deep learning (DL) based semantic segmentation methods have been providing state-of-the-art performance in the last few years. More specifically, these techniques have been successfully applied to medical image classification, segmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Md Zahangir Alom , Mahmudul Hasan , Chris Yakopcic , Tarek M. Taha , Vijayan K. Asari

The rapid increment of morbidity of brain stroke in the last few years have been a driving force towards fast and accurate segmentation of stroke lesions from brain MRI images. With the recent development of deep-learning, computer-aided…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-25 Hritam Basak , Rukhshanda Hussain , Ajay Rana

Recent works have shown the benefit of integrating Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) models into deep architectures for improving pixel-level prediction tasks. Following this line of research, in this paper we introduce a novel approach for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Dan Xu , Wei Wang , Hao Tang , Hong Liu , Nicu Sebe , Elisa Ricci

Real-time deployment of prostate MRI segmentation on clinical workstations is often bottlenecked by computational load and memory footprint. Deep learning-based prostate gland segmentation approaches remain challenging due to anatomical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Anning Tian , Byunghyun Ko , Kaichen Qu , Mengyuan Liu , Jeongkyu Lee

Structure learning of Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) can be cast into an L1-regularized optimization problem. To avoid optimizing over a fully linked model, gain-based or gradient-based feature selection methods start from an empty model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-07-01 Ni Lao , Jun Zhu

Automatic pancreas segmentation in radiology images, eg., computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), is frequently required by computer-aided screening, diagnosis, and quantitative assessment. Yet pancreas is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Jinzheng Cai , Le Lu , Fuyong Xing , Lin Yang

We propose a supervised nonrigid image registration method, trained using artificial displacement vector fields (DVF), for which we propose and compare three network architectures. The artificial DVFs allow training in a fully supervised…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-28 Hessam Sokooti , Bob de Vos , Floris Berendsen , Mohsen Ghafoorian , Sahar Yousefi , Boudewijn P. F. Lelieveldt , Ivana Isgum , Marius Staring

It is a challenge to segment the location and size of rectal cancer tumours through deep learning. In this paper, in order to improve the ability of extracting suffi-cient feature information in rectal tumour segmentation, attention…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-28 Hongwei Wu , Junlin Wang , Xin Wang , Hui Nan , Yaxin Wang , Haonan Jing , Kaixuan Shi