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Precise characterization of stroke lesions from MRI data has immense value in prognosticating clinical and cognitive outcomes following a stroke. Manual stroke lesion segmentation is time-consuming and requires the expertise of neurologists…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-28 Liang Shang , William A. Sethares , Anusha Adluru , Andrew L. Alexander , Vivek Prabhakaran , Veena A. Nair , Nagesh Adluru

Segmentation of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) lesions is a challenging problem. Several deep-learning-based methods have been proposed in recent years. However, most methods tend to be static, that is, a single model trained on a large,…

In this paper, we present a novel automated method for White Matter (WM) lesion segmentation of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patient images. Our approach is based on a cascade of two 3D patch-wise convolutional neural networks (CNN). The first…

Automated segmentation of multiple sclerosis (MS) lesions from MRI scans is important to quantify disease progression. In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown top performance for this task when a large amount of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Jiacheng Wang , Hao Li , Han Liu , Dewei Hu , Daiwei Lu , Keejin Yoon , Kelsey Barter , Francesca Bagnato , Ipek Oguz

A major challenge in stroke research and stroke recovery predictions is the determination of a stroke lesion's extent and its impact on relevant brain systems. Manual segmentation of stroke lesions from 3D magnetic resonance (MR) imaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Sovesh Mohapatra , Advait Gosai , Anant Shinde , Aleksei Rutkovskii , Sirisha Nouduri , Gottfried Schlaug

The accurate understanding of ischemic stroke lesions is critical for efficient therapy and prognosis of stroke patients. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is sensitive to acute ischemic stroke and is a common diagnostic method for stroke.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 R. P. Chowdhury , T. Rahman

The accurate segmentation of multiple types of lesions from adjacent tissues in medical images is significant in clinical practice. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) based on the coarse-to-fine strategy have been widely used in this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-12 Xiangyu Zhao , Peng Zhang , Fan Song , Chenbin Ma , Guangda Fan , Yangyang Sun , Youdan Feng , Guanglei Zhang

Automatic multiple sclerosis (MS) lesion segmentation using multi-contrast magnetic resonance (MR) images provides improved efficiency and reproducibility compared to manual delineation. Current state-of-the-art automatic MS lesion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-05 Jinwei Zhang , Lianrui Zuo , Blake E. Dewey , Samuel W. Remedios , Dzung L. Pham , Aaron Carass , Jerry L. Prince

Segmentation for tracking surgical instruments plays an important role in robot-assisted surgery. Segmentation of surgical instruments contributes to capturing accurate spatial information for tracking. In this paper, a novel network,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Zhen-Liang Ni , Gui-Bin Bian , Xiao-Liang Xie , Zeng-Guang Hou , Xiao-Hu Zhou , Yan-Jie Zhou

Segmentation of white matter lesions and deep grey matter structures is an important task in the quantification of magnetic resonance imaging in multiple sclerosis. In this paper we explore segmentation solutions based on convolutional…

Medical image segmentation involves identifying and separating object instances in a medical image to delineate various tissues and structures, a task complicated by the significant variations in size, shape, and density of these features.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Sina Ghorbani Kolahi , Seyed Kamal Chaharsooghi , Toktam Khatibi , Afshin Bozorgpour , Reza Azad , Moein Heidari , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Dorit Merhof

Efficiently capturing multi-scale information and building long-range dependencies among pixels are essential for medical image segmentation because of the various sizes and shapes of the lesion regions or organs. In this paper, we present…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-18 Hao Shao , Quansheng Zeng , Qibin Hou , Jufeng Yang

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

This study's objective was to segment spinal metastases in diagnostic MR images using a deep learning-based approach. Segmentation of such lesions can present a pivotal step towards enhanced therapy planning and validation, as well as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-29 Georg Hille , Johannes Steffen , Max Dünnwald , Mathias Becker , Sylvia Saalfeld , Klaus Tönnies

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown remarkable progress in medical image segmentation. However, lesion segmentation remains a challenge to state-of-the-art CNN-based algorithms due to the variance in scales and shapes. On the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-31 Yanwen Li , Luyang Luo , Huangjing Lin , Pheng-Ann Heng , Hao Chen

Segmentation is essential for medical image analysis to identify and localize diseases, monitor morphological changes, and extract discriminative features for further diagnosis. Skin cancer is one of the most common types of cancer…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-02 Hritam Basak , Rohit Kundu , Ram Sarkar

Cortical lesions (CLs) have emerged as valuable biomarkers in multiple sclerosis (MS), offering high diagnostic specificity and prognostic relevance. However, their routine clinical integration remains limited due to subtle magnetic…

Magnetic resonance images (MRI) play an important role in supporting and substituting clinical information in the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) disease by presenting lesion in brain MR images. In this paper, an algorithm for MS…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-11 Saba Heidari Gheshlaghi , Abolfazl Madani , AmirAbolfazl Suratgar , Fardin Faraji

The morbidity of brain stroke increased rapidly in the past few years. To help specialists in lesion measurements and treatment planning, automatic segmentation methods are critically required for clinical practices. Recently, approaches…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-01 Kehan Qi , Hao Yang , Cheng Li , Zaiyi Liu , Meiyun Wang , Qiegen Liu , Shanshan Wang

Deep learning has become the de facto method for medical image segmentation, with 3D segmentation models excelling in capturing complex 3D structures and 2D models offering high computational efficiency. However, segmenting 2.5D images,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-02 Amarjeet Kumar , Hongxu Jiang , Muhammad Imran , Cyndi Valdes , Gabriela Leon , Dahyun Kang , Parvathi Nataraj , Yuyin Zhou , Michael D. Weiss , Wei Shao