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Sub-cortical brain structure segmentation in Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) has attracted the interest of the research community for a long time because morphological changes in these structures are related to different neurodegenerative…

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Purpose: Repeated brain MRI scans are performed in many clinical scenarios, such as follow up of patients with tumors and therapy response assessment. In this paper, the authors show an approach to utilize former scans of the patient for…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-08-28 Lior Weizman , Yonina C. Eldar , Dafna Ben Bashat

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

A common problem with segmentation of medical images using neural networks is the difficulty to obtain a significant number of pixel-level annotated data for training. To address this issue, we proposed a semi-supervised segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Ange Lou , Kareem Tawfik , Xing Yao , Ziteng Liu , Jack Noble

Lesion segmentation is a core task for quantitative analysis of MRI scans of Multiple Sclerosis patients. The recent success of deep learning techniques in a variety of medical image analysis applications has renewed community interest in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Huahong Zhang , Ipek Oguz

The evaluation of white matter lesion progression is an important biomarker in the follow-up of MS patients and plays a crucial role when deciding the course of treatment. Current automated lesion segmentation algorithms are susceptible to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-28 Mattias Billast , Maria Ines Meyer , Diana M. Sima , David Robben

Deep learning algorithms utilizing magnetic resonance (MR) images have demonstrated cutting-edge proficiency in autonomously segmenting multiple sclerosis (MS) lesions. Despite their achievements, these algorithms may struggle to extend…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-01 Jinwei Zhang , Lianrui Zuo , Blake E. Dewey , Samuel W. Remedios , Savannah P. Hays , Dzung L. Pham , Jerry L. Prince , Aaron Carass

Purpose: This study demonstrated an MR signal multitask learning method for 3D simultaneous segmentation and relaxometry of human brain tissues. Materials and Methods: A 3D inversion-prepared balanced steady-state free precession sequence…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-12-02 Peng Cao , Jing Liu , Shuyu Tang , Andrew Leynes , Janine M. Lupo , Duan Xu , Peder E. Z. Larson

Traditional brain lesion segmentation models for multi-modal MRI are typically tailored to specific pathologies, relying on datasets with predefined modalities. Adapting to new MRI modalities or pathologies often requires training separate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-25 Yousef Sadegheih , Pratibha Kumari , Dorit Merhof

Brain pathologies can vary greatly in size and shape, ranging from few pixels (i.e. MS lesions) to large, space-occupying tumors. Recently proposed Autoencoder-based methods for unsupervised anomaly segmentation in brain MRI have shown…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-24 Christoph Baur , Benedikt Wiestler , Shadi Albarqouni , Nassir Navab

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the non-invasive modality of choice for body tissue composition analysis due to its excellent soft tissue contrast and lack of ionizing radiation. However, quantification of body composition requires an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Ismail Irmakci , Sarfaraz Hussein , Aydogan Savran , Rita R. Kalyani , David Reiter , Chee W. Chia , Kenneth W. Fishbein , Richard G. Spencer , Luigi Ferrucci , Ulas Bagci

Brain lesion and anatomy segmentation in magnetic resonance images are fundamental tasks in neuroimaging research and clinical practice. Given enough training data, convolutional neuronal networks (CNN) proved to outperform all existent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Nicolas Roulet , Diego Fernandez Slezak , Enzo Ferrante

Segmentation models are important tools for the detection and analysis of lesions in brain MRI. Depending on the type of brain pathology that is imaged, MRI scanners can acquire multiple, different image modalities (contrasts). Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Anthony P. Addison , Felix Wagner , Wentian Xu , Natalie Voets , Konstantinos Kamnitsas

Segmentation and quantification of white matter hyperintensities (WMHs) are of great importance in studying and understanding various neurological and geriatric disorders. Although automatic methods have been proposed for WMH segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Dakai Jin , Ziyue Xu , Adam P. Harrison , Daniel J. Mollura

Accurate segmentation of brain tissues such as gray matter and white matter from magnetic resonance imaging is essential for studying brain anatomy, diagnosing neurological disorders, and monitoring disease progression. Traditional methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Chang Sun , Rui Shi , Tsukasa Koike , Tetsuro Sekine , Akio Morita , Tetsuya Sakai

White matter hyperintensities (WMH) are radiological markers of small vessel disease and neurodegeneration, whose accurate segmentation and spatial localization are crucial for diagnosis and monitoring. While multimodal MRI offers…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-30 Julia Machnio , Sebastian Nørgaard Llambias , Mads Nielsen , Mostafa Mehdipour Ghazi

Multiple sclerosis is an inflammatory autoimmune demyelinating disease that is characterized by lesions in the central nervous system. Typically, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is used for tracking disease progression. Automatic image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-06 Nils Gessert , Julia Krüger , Roland Opfer , Ann-Christin Ostwaldt , Praveena Manogaran , Hagen H. Kitzler , Sven Schippling , Alexander Schlaefer

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown promising results on several segmentation tasks in magnetic resonance (MR) images. However, the accuracy of CNNs may degrade severely when segmenting images acquired with different scanners…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-28 Neerav Karani , Krishna Chaitanya , Christian Baumgartner , Ender Konukoglu

Estimating brain age from structural MRI has emerged as a powerful tool for characterizing normative and pathological aging. In this work, we explore contrastive learning as a scalable and robust alternative to L1-supervised approaches for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Carlo Alberto Barbano , Benoit Dufumier , Edouard Duchesnay , Marco Grangetto , Pietro Gori