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Measuring lesion size is an important step to assess tumor growth and monitor disease progression and therapy response in oncology image analysis. Although it is tedious and highly time-consuming, radiologists have to work on this task by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-06 Youbao Tang , Ke Yan , Jinzheng Cai , Lingyun Huang , Guotong Xie , Jing Xiao , Jingjing Lu , Gigin Lin , Le Lu

In clinical practice, segmenting specific lesions based on the needs of physicians can significantly enhance diagnostic accuracy and treatment efficiency. However, conventional lesion segmentation models lack the flexibility to distinguish…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Shuyi Ouyang , Jinyang Zhang , Xiangye Lin , Xilai Wang , Qingqing Chen , Yen-Wei Chen , Lanfen Lin

Early detection and segmentation of skin lesions is crucial for timely diagnosis and treatment, necessary to improve the survival rate of patients. However, manual delineation is time consuming and subject to intra- and inter-observer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Sulaiman Vesal , Shreyas Malakarjun Patil , Nishant Ravikumar , Andreas Maier

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a central modality for stroke imaging. It is used upon patient admission to make treatment decisions such as selecting patients for intravenous thrombolysis or endovascular therapy. MRI is later used in…

Accurate medical image segmentation is critical for early medical diagnosis. Most existing methods are based on U-shape structure and use element-wise addition or concatenation to fuse different level features progressively in decoder.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xiaoqi Zhao , Hongpeng Jia , Youwei Pang , Long Lv , Feng Tian , Lihe Zhang , Weibing Sun , Huchuan Lu

Accurate segmentation of lesions plays a critical role in medical image analysis and diagnosis. Traditional segmentation approaches that rely solely on visual features often struggle with the inherent uncertainty in lesion distribution and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-03 Dandan Shan , Zihan Li , Yunxiang Li , Qingde Li , Jie Tian , Qingqi Hong

In this paper, we propose generating synthetic multiple sclerosis (MS) lesions on MRI images with the final aim to improve the performance of supervised machine learning algorithms, therefore avoiding the problem of the lack of available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Mostafa Salem , Sergi Valverde , Mariano Cabezas , Deborah Pareto , Arnau Oliver , Joaquim Salvi , Àlex Rovira , Xavier Lladó

Segmentation and labeling of vertebrae in MRI images of the spine are critical for the diagnosis of illnesses and abnormalities. These steps are indispensable as MRI technology provides detailed information about the tissue structure of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Rikathi Pal , Priya Saha , Somoballi Ghoshal , Amlan Chakrabarti , Susmita Sur-Kolay

Accurate lesion-level segmentation on MRI is critical for multiple sclerosis (MS) diagnosis, prognosis, and disease monitoring. However, current evaluation practices largely rely on semantic segmentation post-processed with connected…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-29 Maxence Wynen , Pedro M. Gordaliza , Maxime Istasse , Anna Stölting , Pietro Maggi , Benoît Macq , Meritxell Bach Cuadra

In this paper, we demonstrate the feasibility and performance of deep residual neural networks for volumetric segmentation of irreversibly damaged brain tissue lesions on T1-weighted MRI scans for chronic stroke patients. A total of 239…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-27 Naofumi Tomita , Steven Jiang , Matthew E. Maeder , Saeed Hassanpour

Accurate segmentation of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) lesions in longitudinal MRI scans is crucial for monitoring disease progression and treatment efficacy. Although changes across time are taken into account when assessing images in clinical…

Skin lesion segmentation plays a crucial role in the computer-aided diagnosis of melanoma. Deep Learning models have shown promise in accurately segmenting skin lesions, but their widespread adoption in real-life clinical settings is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-01 Shankara Narayanan , Sikha OK , Raul Benitez

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a severe neurological disease characterized by inflammatory lesions in the central nervous system. Hence, predicting inflammatory disease activity is crucial for disease assessment and treatment. However, MS…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-01 Chinmay Prabhakar , Hongwei Bran Li , Johannes C. Paetzold , Timo Loehr , Chen Niu , Mark Mühlau , Daniel Rueckert , Benedikt Wiestler , Bjoern Menze

Retinal vessel segmentation plays an imaportant role in the field of retinal image analysis because changes in retinal vascular structure can aid in the diagnosis of diseases such as hypertension and diabetes. In recent research, numerous…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-09 Changlu Guo , Márton Szemenyei , Yugen Yi , Ying Xue , Wei Zhou , Yangyuan Li

Accurate medical image segmentation is essential for diagnosis and treatment planning of diseases. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance for automatic medical image segmentation. However, they are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Ran Gu , Guotai Wang , Tao Song , Rui Huang , Michael Aertsen , Jan Deprest , Sébastien Ourselin , Tom Vercauteren , Shaoting Zhang

Deep learning-based medical image segmentation technology aims at automatic recognizing and annotating objects on the medical image. Non-local attention and feature learning by multi-scale methods are widely used to model network, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Bo Wang , Lei Wang , Junyang Chen , Zhenghua Xu , Thomas Lukasiewicz , Zhigang Fu

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

Current anomaly detection methods excel with benchmark industrial data but struggle with natural images and medical data due to varying definitions of 'normal' and 'abnormal.' This makes accurate identification of deviations in these fields…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Zeduo Zhang , Yalda Mohsenzadeh

Lesion segmentation requires both speed and accuracy. In this paper, we propose a simple yet efficient network DSNet, which consists of a encoder based on Transformer and a convolutional neural network(CNN)-based distinct pyramid decoder…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-15 Yunxiao Liu

Cerebrovascular accident, or commonly known as stroke, is an acute disease with extreme impact on patients and healthcare systems and is the second largest cause of death worldwide. Fast and precise stroke lesion detection and location is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-25 Chuanlong Li