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A heart murmur is an atypical sound produced by the flow of blood through the heart. It can be a sign of a serious heart condition, so detecting heart murmurs is critical for identifying and managing cardiovascular diseases. However,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-09 Dixon Vimalajeewa , Chihoon Lee , Brani Vidakovic

Interpretability is essential in medical imaging to ensure that clinicians can comprehend and trust artificial intelligence models. In this paper, we propose a novel interpretable approach that combines attribute regularization of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-15 Maxime Di Folco , Cosmin I. Bercea , Julia A. Schnabel

We introduce a method for training neural networks to perform image or volume segmentation in which prior knowledge about the topology of the segmented object can be explicitly provided and then incorporated into the training process. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-21 James R. Clough , Nicholas Byrne , Ilkay Oksuz , Veronika A. Zimmer , Julia A. Schnabel , Andrew P. King

Auscultation plays a pivotal role in early respiratory and pulmonary disease diagnosis. Despite the emergence of deep learning-based methods for automatic respiratory sound classification post-Covid-19, limited datasets impede performance…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yun Chu , Qiuhao Wang , Enze Zhou , Ling Fu , Qian Liu , Gang Zheng

This paper proposes a framework based on deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for automatic heart sound classification using short-segments of individual heart beats. We design a 1D-CNN that directly learns features from raw…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Fuad Noman , Chee-Ming Ting , Sh-Hussain Salleh , Hernando Ombao

Early identification of abnormal physiological patterns is essential for the timely detection of cardiac disease. This work introduces a hybrid quantum-classical convolutional neural network (QCNN) designed to classify S3 and murmur…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Yasaman Torabi , Shahram Shirani , James P. Reilly

Lung sounds refer to the sound generated by air moving through the respiratory system. These sounds, as most biomedical signals, are non-linear and non-stationary. A vital part of using the lung sound for disease detection is discrimination…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Andrine Elsetrønning , Adil Rasheed , Jon Bekker , Omer San

Deep learning has shown promising results in medical image analysis, however, the lack of very large annotated datasets confines its full potential. Although transfer learning with ImageNet pre-trained classification models can alleviate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Ken C. L. Wong , Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood , Mehdi Moradi

Cardiac motion estimation and segmentation play important roles in quantitatively assessing cardiac function and diagnosing cardiovascular diseases. In this paper, we propose a novel deep learning method for joint estimation of motion and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Chen Qin , Wenjia Bai , Jo Schlemper , Steffen E. Petersen , Stefan K. Piechnik , Stefan Neubauer , Daniel Rueckert

There are different algorithms for vocal fold pathology diagnosis. These algorithms usually have three stages which are Feature Extraction, Feature Reduction and Classification. While the third stage implies a choice of a variety of machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-02-08 Vahid Majidnezhad , Igor Kheidorov

Ultrasound imaging is challenging to interpret due to non-uniform intensities, low contrast, and inherent artifacts, necessitating extensive training for non-specialists. Advanced representation with clear tissue structure separation could…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Oleksandra Tmenova , Yordanka Velikova , Mahdi Saleh , Nassir Navab

In this paper, we propose an anomaly detection algorithm for machine sounds with a deep complex network trained by self-supervision. Using the fact that phase continuity information is crucial for detecting abnormalities in time-series…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-22 Miseul Kim , Minh Tri Ho , Hong-Goo Kang

Automatic objective non-invasive detection of pathological voice based on computerized analysis of acoustic signals can play an important role in early diagnosis, progression tracking and even effective treatment of pathological voices. In…

Chest radiography is an effective screening tool for diagnosing pulmonary diseases. In computer-aided diagnosis, extracting the relevant region of interest, i.e., isolating the lung region of each radiography image, can be an essential step…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-23 Hilda Azimi , Jianxing Zhang , Pengcheng Xi , Hala Asad , Ashkan Ebadi , Stephane Tremblay , Alexander Wong

One of the first steps in the diagnosis of most cardiac diseases, such as pulmonary hypertension, coronary heart disease is the segmentation of ventricles from cardiac magnetic resonance (MRI) images. Manual segmentation of the right…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-22 Yaman Dang , Deepak Anand , Amit Sethi

Automated segmentation of Lungs plays a crucial role in the computer-aided diagnosis of chest X-Ray (CXR) images. Developing an efficient Lung segmentation model is challenging because of difficulties such as the presence of several edges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Jyoti Islam , Yanqing Zhang

Accurately segmenting different organs from medical images is a critical prerequisite for computer-assisted diagnosis and intervention planning. This study proposes a deep learning-based approach for segmenting various organs from CT and…

Purpose: To develop and evaluate a deep learning-based method that allows to perform myocardial infarct segmentation in a fully-automated way. Materials and Methods: For this retrospective study, a cascaded framework of two and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-20 Matthias Schwab , Mathias Pamminger , Christian Kremser , Markus Haltmeier , Agnes Mayr

Segmentation and measurement of cardiac chambers is critical in cardiac ultrasound but is laborious and poorly reproducible. Neural networks can assist, but supervised approaches require the same laborious manual annotations. We built a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Danielle L. Ferreira , Connor Lau , Zaynaf Salaymang , Rima Arnaout

Deep learning in the presence of noisy annotations has been studied extensively in classification, but much less in segmentation tasks. In this work, we study the learning dynamics of deep segmentation networks trained on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Sheng Liu , Kangning Liu , Weicheng Zhu , Yiqiu Shen , Carlos Fernandez-Granda