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This paper introduces a network for volumetric segmentation that learns from sparsely annotated volumetric images. We outline two attractive use cases of this method: (1) In a semi-automated setup, the user annotates some slices in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Özgün Çiçek , Ahmed Abdulkadir , Soeren S. Lienkamp , Thomas Brox , Olaf Ronneberger

Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) are extremely used in the medical field to detect and better understand diseases. In order to fasten automatic processing of scans and enhance medical research, this project focuses on automatically…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-16 Antoine Delplace

The liver is one of the most critical metabolic organs in vertebrates due to its vital functions in the human body, such as detoxification of the blood from waste products and medications. Liver diseases due to liver tumors are one of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-30 Khaled Humady , Yasmeen Al-Saeed , Nabila Eladawi , Ahmed Elgarayhi , Mohammed Elmogy , Mohammed Sallah

Although deep neural networks have been a dominant method for many 2D vision tasks, it is still challenging to apply them to 3D tasks, such as medical image segmentation, due to the limited amount of annotated 3D data and limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Yingwei Li , Zhuotun Zhu , Yuyin Zhou , Yingda Xia , Wei Shen , Elliot K. Fishman , Alan L. Yuille

The kidney cancer is one of the most common cancer types. The treatment frequently include surgical intervention. However, surgery is in this case particularly challenging due to regional anatomical relations. Organ delineation can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 David Jozef Hresko , Marek Kurej , Jakub Gazda , Peter Drotar

Segmentation of the sigmoid colon is a crucial aspect of treating diverticulitis. It enables accurate identification and localisation of inflammation, which in turn helps healthcare professionals make informed decisions about the most…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Md Akizur Rahman , Sonit Singh , Kuruparan Shanmugalingam , Sankaran Iyer , Alan Blair , Praveen Ravindran , Arcot Sowmya

Image segmentation is a critical step in computational biomedical image analysis, typically evaluated using metrics like the Dice coefficient during training and validation. However, in clinical settings without manual annotations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Sikha O K , Meritxell Riera-Marín , Adrian Galdran , Javier García Lopez , Julia Rodríguez-Comas , Gemma Piella , Miguel A. González Ballester

Liver cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer death. To assist doctors in hepatocellular carcinoma diagnosis and treatment planning, an accurate and automatic liver and tumor segmentation method is highly demanded in the clinical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Xiaomeng Li , Hao Chen , Xiaojuan Qi , Qi Dou , Chi-Wing Fu , Pheng Ann Heng

This paper presents a method to register a pre-operative Computed-Tomography (CT) volume to a sparse set of intra-operative Ultra-Sound (US) slices. In the context of percutaneous renal puncture, the aim is to transfer planning information…

Medical Physics · Physics 2007-06-25 Antoine Leroy , Pierre Mozer , Yohan Payan , Jocelyne Troccaz

Accurate automatic liver and tumor segmentation plays a vital role in treatment planning and disease monitoring. Recently, deep convolutional neural network (DCNNs) has obtained tremendous success in 2D and 3D medical image segmentation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Ziyuan Zhao , Zeyu Ma , Yanjie Liu , Zeng Zeng , Pierce KH Chow

Medical image segmentation is of great significance in analysis of illness. The use of deep neural networks in medical image segmentation can help doctors extract regions of interest from complex medical images, thereby improving diagnostic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Zhuoyi Fang , Kexuan Shi , Jiajia Liu , Qiang Han

A fully automatic technique for segmenting the liver and localizing its unhealthy tissues is a convenient tool in order to diagnose hepatic diseases and assess the response to the according treatments. In this work we propose a method to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-01 Miriam Bellver , Kevis-Kokitsi Maninis , Jordi Pont-Tuset , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto , Jordi Torres , Luc Van Gool

Lumbar disk segmentation is essential for diagnosing and curing spinal disorders by enabling precise detection of disk boundaries in medical imaging. The advent of deep learning has resulted in the development of many segmentation methods,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Serkan Salturk , Irem Sayin , Ibrahim Cem Balci , Taha Emre Pamukcu , Zafer Soydan , Huseyin Uvet

In 2023, it is estimated that 81,800 kidney cancer cases will be newly diagnosed, and 14,890 people will die from this cancer in the United States. Preoperative dynamic contrast-enhanced abdominal computed tomography (CT) is often used for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-12 Kwang-Hyun Uhm , Hyunjun Cho , Zhixin Xu , Seohoon Lim , Seung-Won Jung , Sung-Hoo Hong , Sung-Jea Ko

Accurate detection and segmentation of glomeruli in kidney tissue are essential for diagnostic applications. Traditional deep learning methods primarily rely on semantic segmentation, which often fails to precisely delineate adjacent…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-17 Behnaz Elhaminia , Catherine King , Jiaqi Lv , Lorraine Harper , Paul Moss , Owen Cain , Dimitrios Chanouzas , Shan E Ahmed Raza

Segmentation of 3D medical images is a critical task for accurate diagnosis and treatment planning. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have dominated the field, achieving significant success in 3D medical image segmentation. However, CNNs…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-11 Canxuan Gang

Automatic segmentation of multiple organs and tumors from 3D medical images such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) scans using deep learning methods can aid in diagnosing and treating cancer. However, organs…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-25 Hao Li , Yang Nan , Javier Del Ser , Guang Yang

Accurate segmentation of organ at risk (OAR) play a critical role in the treatment planning of image guided radiation treatment of head and neck cancer. This segmentation task is challenging for both human and automatic algorithms because…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Yueyue Wang , Liang Zhao , Zhijian Song , Manning Wang

U-Net has been the go-to architecture for medical image segmentation tasks, however computational challenges arise when extending the U-Net architecture to 3D images. We propose the Implicit U-Net architecture that adapts the efficient…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-01 Sergio Naval Marimont , Giacomo Tarroni

Macular holes are a common eye condition which result in visual impairment. We look at the application of deep convolutional neural networks to the problem of macular hole segmentation. We use the 3D U-Net architecture as a basis and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-08 Jonathan Frawley , Chris G. Willcocks , Maged Habib , Caspar Geenen , David H. Steel , Boguslaw Obara