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Tumor volume segmentation on MRI is a challenging and time-consuming process that is performed manually in typical clinical settings. This work presents an approach to automated delineation of head and neck tumors on MRI scans, developed in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-10 Andrei Iantsen

Semantic image segmentation plays an important role in modeling patient-specific anatomy. We propose a convolution neural network, called Kid-Net, along with a training schema to segment kidney vessels: artery, vein and collecting system.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Ahmed Taha , Pechin Lo , Junning Li , Tao Zhao

The irregular geometry and high inter-slice variability in computerized tomography (CT) scans of the human pancreas make an accurate segmentation of this crucial organ a challenging task for existing data-driven deep learning methods. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Hao Li , Jun Li , Xiaozhu Lin , Xiaohua Qian

The coronary microvascular disease poses a great threat to human health. Computer-aided analysis/diagnosis systems help physicians intervene in the disease at early stages, where 3D vessel segmentation is a fundamental step. However, there…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-24 Chengwei Pan , Baolian Qi , Gangming Zhao , Jiaheng Liu , Chaowei Fang , Dingwen Zhang , Jinpeng Li

It remains challenging to automatically segment kidneys in clinical ultrasound (US) images due to the kidneys' varied shapes and image intensity distributions, although semi-automatic methods have achieved promising performance. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Shi Yin , Qinmu Peng , Hongming Li , Zhengqiang Zhang , Xinge You , Susan L. Furth , Gregory E. Tasian , Yong Fan

Renal cancer is one of the most prevalent cancers worldwide. Clinical signs of kidney cancer include hematuria and low back discomfort, which are quite distressing to the patient. Some surgery-based renal cancer treatments like laparoscopic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-06 Zhenyu Bu , Kai-Ni Wang , Guang-Quan Zhou

Accurate brain tumour segmentation is a crucial step towards improving disease diagnosis and proper treatment planning. In this paper, we propose a deep-learning based method to segment a brain tumour into its subregions: whole tumour,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-17 Mina Ghaffari , Arcot Sowmya , Ruth Oliver

Accurately segmenting brain tumors from MRI scans is important for developing effective treatment plans and improving patient outcomes. This study introduces a new implementation of the Columbia-University-Net (CU-Net) architecture for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Qimin Zhang , Weiwei Qi , Huili Zheng , Xinyu Shen

The automatic segmentation of kidney, kidney tumor and kidney cyst on Computed Tomography (CT) scans is a challenging task due to the indistinct lesion boundaries and fuzzy texture. Considering the large range and unbalanced distribution of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-28 Cancan Chen , RongguoZhang

Kidney stone disease ranks among the most prevalent conditions in urology, and understanding the composition of these stones is essential for creating personalized treatment plans and preventing recurrence. Current methods for analyzing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Changmiao Wang , Songqi Zhang , Yongquan Zhang , Yifei Wang , Liya Liu , Nannan Li , Xingzhi Li , Jiexin Pan , Yi Jiang , Xiang Wan , Hai Wang , Ahmed Elazab

Kidney structures segmentation is a crucial yet challenging task in the computer-aided diagnosis of surgery-based renal cancer. Although numerous deep learning models have achieved remarkable success in many medical image segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-30 Shishuai Hu , Yiwen Ye , Zehui Liao , Yong Xia

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a growing global health concern, necessitating precise and efficient image analysis to aid diagnosis and treatment planning. Automated segmentation of kidney pathology images plays a central role in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-09 Mingyang Zhu , Yuqiu Liang , Jiacheng Wang

Cancer is an abnormal growth with potential to invade locally and metastasize to distant organs. Accurate auto-segmentation of the tumor and surrounding normal tissues is required for radiotherapy treatment plan optimization. Recent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-31 Syed Haider Ali , Asrar Ahmad , Muhammad Ali , Asifullah Khan , Nadeem Shaukat

This paper proposes a 3D attention-based U-Net architecture for multi-region segmentation of brain tumors using a single stacked multi-modal volume created by combining three non-native MRI volumes. The attention mechanism added to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-11 Maryann M. Gitonga

Kidney abnormality segmentation has important potential to enhance the clinical workflow, especially in settings requiring quantitative assessments. Kidney volume could serve as an important biomarker for renal diseases, with changes in…

Self-supervised learning is emerging as an effective substitute for transfer learning from large datasets. In this work, we use kidney segmentation to explore this idea. The anatomical asymmetry of kidneys is leveraged to define an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Abhinav Dhere , Jayanthi Sivaswamy

Deep learning has become an extremely powerful tool for complex tasks such as image classification and segmentation. The medical industry often lacks high-quality, balanced datasets, which can be a challenge for deep learning algorithms…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Muhammad Shoaib Farooq , Ayesha Tariq

Deep learning has quickly become the weapon of choice for brain lesion segmentation. However, few existing algorithms pre-configure any biological context of their chosen segmentation tissues, and instead rely on the neural network's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Andrew Beers , Ken Chang , James Brown , Emmett Sartor , CP Mammen , Elizabeth Gerstner , Bruce Rosen , Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in medical image segmentation tasks. A common feature in most top-performing CNNs is an encoder-decoder architecture inspired by the U-Net. For multi-region…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-07 Syed Talha Bukhari , Hassan Mohy-ud-Din

Non-invasive techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are widely employed in brain tumor diagnostics. However, manual segmentation of brain tumors from 3D MRI volumes is a time-consuming task that requires trained expert…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-24 Benjamin Maas , Erfan Zabeh , Soroush Arabshahi