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Most image segmentation algorithms are trained on binary masks formulated as a classification task per pixel. However, in applications such as medical imaging, this "black-and-white" approach is too constraining because the contrast between…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-19 Charley Gros , Andreanne Lemay , Julien Cohen-Adad

Ensuring the realism of computer-generated synthetic images is crucial to deep neural network (DNN) training. Due to different semantic distributions between synthetic and real-world captured datasets, there exists semantic mismatch between…

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Semi-supervised learning has demonstrated great potential in medical image segmentation by utilizing knowledge from unlabeled data. However, most existing approaches do not explicitly capture high-level semantic relations between distant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Qianying Liu , Xiao Gu , Paul Henderson , Fani Deligianni

Robot perception systems need to perform reliable image segmentation in real-time on noisy, raw perception data. State-of-the-art segmentation approaches use large CNN models and carefully constructed datasets; however, these models focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Jonathan C Balloch , Varun Agrawal , Irfan Essa , Sonia Chernova

Unsupervised pre-training has been proven as an effective approach to boost various downstream tasks given limited labeled data. Among various methods, contrastive learning learns a discriminative representation by constructing positive and…

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Segmenting stroke lesions in MRI is challenging due to diverse acquisition protocols that limit model generalisability. In this work, we introduce two physics-constrained approaches to generate synthetic quantitative MRI (qMRI) images that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Liam Chalcroft , Jenny Crinion , Cathy J. Price , John Ashburner

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been applied to various automatic image segmentation tasks in medical image analysis, including brain MRI segmentation. Generative adversarial networks have recently gained popularity because of…

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Deep Learning is a promising approach to either automate or simplify several tasks in the healthcare domain. In this work, we introduce SegAN-CAT, an approach to brain tumor segmentation in Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI), based on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-02 Edoardo Giacomello , Daniele Loiacono , Luca Mainardi

A key feature of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is its ability to manipulate how the intrinsic tissue parameters of the anatomy ultimately contribute to the contrast properties of the final, acquired image. This flexibility, however, can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Dzung L. Pham , Snehashis Roy

Detecting and segmenting brain metastases is a tedious and time-consuming task for many radiologists, particularly with the growing use of multi-sequence 3D imaging. This study demonstrates automated detection and segmentation of brain…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-30 Endre Grøvik , Darvin Yi , Michael Iv , Elisabeth Tong , Daniel L. Rubin , Greg Zaharchuk

Medical imaging plays a critical role in various clinical applications. However, due to multiple considerations such as cost and risk, the acquisition of certain image modalities could be limited. To address this issue, many cross-modality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-09 Dong Nie , Lei Xiang , Qian Wang , Dinggang Shen

The magnetic resonance (MR) analysis of brain tumors is widely used for diagnosis and examination of tumor subregions. The overlapping area among the intensity distribution of healthy, enhancing, non-enhancing, and edema regions makes the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-01 Mohammad Hamghalam , Baiying Lei , Tianfu Wang

Deep learning approaches based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been successful in solving a number of problems in medical imaging, including image segmentation. In recent years, it has been shown that CNNs are vulnerable to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-26 Liang Chen , Paul Bentley , Kensaku Mori , Kazunari Misawa , Michitaka Fujiwara , Daniel Rueckert

Recent multimodal models such as Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) have shown remarkable ability to align visual and linguistic representations. However, domains where small visual differences carry large semantic significance,…

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In this paper, we study weakly-supervised laparoscopic image segmentation with sparse annotations. We introduce a novel Bayesian deep learning approach designed to enhance both the accuracy and interpretability of the model's segmentation,…

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Recent methods for deep metric learning have been focusing on designing different contrastive loss functions between positive and negative pairs of samples so that the learned feature embedding is able to pull positive samples of the same…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Shichao Kan , Zhiquan He , Yigang Cen , Yang Li , Vladimir Mladenovic , Zhihai He

Accurate brain lesion delineation is important for planning neurosurgical treatment. Automatic brain lesion segmentation methods based on convolutional neural networks have demonstrated remarkable performance. However, neural network…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-20 Jiayu Huo , Sebastien Ourselin , Rachel Sparks

This paper presents a new regularization method to train a fully convolutional network for semantic tissue segmentation in histopathological images. This method relies on the benefit of unsupervised learning, in the form of image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-26 C. T. Sari , C. Sokmensuer , C. Gunduz-Demir

The most recent fast and accurate image segmentation methods are built upon fully convolutional deep neural networks. In this paper, we propose new deep learning strategies for DenseNets to improve segmenting images with subtle differences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Seyed Raein Hashemi , Sanjay P. Prabhu , Simon K. Warfield , Ali Gholipour

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown excellent performance in object recognition tasks and dense classification problems such as semantic segmentation. However, training deep neural networks on large and sparse datasets is…

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