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Automated and accurate segmentation of cystoid structures in Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is of interest in the early detection of retinal diseases. It is, however, a challenging task. We propose a novel method for localizing cysts in…

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Efficient and accurate brain ventricle segmentation from clinical CT scans is critical for emergency surgeries like ventriculostomy. With the challenges in poor soft tissue contrast and a scarcity of well-annotated databases for clinical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-16 Reihaneh Teimouri , Marta Kersten-Oertel , Yiming Xiao

In medical imaging, there are clinically relevant segmentation tasks where the output mask is a projection to a subset of input image dimensions. In this work, we propose a novel convolutional neural network architecture that can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Dmitrii Lachinov , Philipp Seeboeck , Julia Mai , Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth , Hrvoje Bogunovic

Segmentation of medical images is a fundamental task with numerous applications. While MRI, CT, and PET modalities have significantly benefited from deep learning segmentation techniques, more recent modalities, like functional ultrasound…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Hana Sebia , Thomas Guyet , Mickaël Pereira , Marco Valdebenito , Hugues Berry , Benjamin Vidal

Models based on deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) have significantly improved the performance of semantic segmentation. However, learning these models requires a large amount of training images with pixel-level labels, which are very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Linwei Ye , Zhi Liu , Yang Wang

Various deep learning models have been developed to segment anatomical structures from medical images, but they typically have poor performance when tested on another target domain with different data distribution. Recently, unsupervised…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-21 Linkai Peng , Li Lin , Pujin Cheng , Ziqi Huang , Xiaoying Tang

Convolutional Neural Network models have successfully detected retinal illness from optical coherence tomography (OCT) and fundus images. These CNN models frequently rely on vast amounts of labeled data for training, difficult to obtain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Sourya Dipta Das , Saikat Dutta , Nisarg A. Shah , Dwarikanath Mahapatra , Zongyuan Ge

Left ventricular non-compaction (LVNC) is a rare cardiomyopathy characterized by abnormal trabeculations in the left ventricle cavity. Although traditional computer vision approaches exist for LVNC diagnosis, deep learning-based tools could…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-01 Jesús M. Rodríguez-de-Vera , Josefa González-Carrillo , José M. García , Gregorio Bernabé

The retina is the only part of the human body in which blood vessels can be accessed non-invasively using imaging techniques such as digital fundus images (DFI). The spatial distribution of the retinal microvasculature may change with…

Angiography is widely used to detect, diagnose, and treat cerebrovascular diseases. While numerous techniques have been proposed to segment the vascular network from different imaging modalities, deep learning (DL) has emerged as a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-29 Mumu Aktar , Hassan Rivaz , Marta Kersten-Oertel , Yiming Xiao

Automated surface segmentation of retinal layer is important and challenging in analyzing optical coherence tomography (OCT). Recently, many deep learning based methods have been developed for this task and yield remarkable performance.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-07 Hong Liu , Dong Wei , Donghuan Lu , Yuexiang Li , Kai Ma , Liansheng Wang , Yefeng Zheng

Carotid arteries vulnerable plaques are a crucial factor in the screening of atherosclerosis by ultrasound technique. However, the plaques are contaminated by various noises such as artifact, speckle noise, and manual segmentation may be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-19 Yanchao Yuan , Cancheng Li , Lu Xu , Ke Zhang , Yang Hua , Jicong Zhang

Intracoronary Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) enables high-resolution visualization of coronary vessel anatomy but presents challenges due to noise, imaging artifacts, and complex tissue structures. This paper proposes a fully automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Amal Lahchim , Lambros Athanasiou

Deep-learning based segmentation model is proposed for Optical Coherence Tomography images of human varicose vein based on the U-Net model employing atrous convolution with residual blocks, which gives an accuracy of 0.9932.

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-03 Maryam Viqar , Violeta Madjarova , Amit Kumar Yadav , Desislava Pashkuleva , Alexander S. Machikhin

Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) is a non-invasive imaging technique widely used to study vascular structures and micro-circulation dynamics in the retina and choroid. OCTA has been widely used in clinics for diagnosing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Kejie Chen , Guanbing Gao , Xiaochun Yang , Wenbo Wang , Jing Na

Retinal blood vessel segmentation can extract clinically relevant information from fundus images. As manual tracing is cumbersome, algorithms based on Convolution Neural Networks have been developed. Such studies have used small publicly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-24 Jeremiah Fadugba , Patrick Köhler , Lisa Koch , Petru Manescu , Philipp Berens

Atherosclerosis, a chronic inflammatory disease affecting the large arteries, presents a global health risk. Accurate analysis of diagnostic images, like computed tomographic angiograms (CTAs), is essential for staging and monitoring the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-28 Alireza Bagheri Rajeoni , Breanna Pederson , Daniel G. Clair , Susan M. Lessner , Homayoun Valafar

Diagnosing different retinal diseases from Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography (SD-OCT) images is a challenging task. Different automated approaches such as image processing, machine learning and deep learning algorithms have been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Sharif Amit Kamran , Sourajit Saha , Ali Shihab Sabbir , Alireza Tavakkoli

Purpose: In this study we investigate whether a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) can generate clinically relevant parametric maps from CT perfusion data in a clinical setting of patients with acute ischemic stroke. Methods: Training of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-18 Umberto A. Gava , Federico D'Agata , Enzo Tartaglione , Marco Grangetto , Francesca Bertolino , Ambra Santonocito , Edwin Bennink , Mauro Bergui

Worldwide, sight loss is commonly occurred by retinal diseases, with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) being a notable facet that affects elderly patients. Approaching 170 million persons wide-ranging have been spotted with AMD, a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-27 Khaled Al-Saih , Fares Al-Shargie , Mohammed Isam Al-hiyali , Reham Alhejaili