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X-ray computed microtomography ({\mu}-CT) is a non-destructive technique that can generate high-resolution 3D images of the internal anatomy of medical and biological samples. These images enable clinicians to examine internal anatomy and…

Cardiac segmentation from late gadolinium enhancement MRI is an important task in clinics to identify and evaluate the infarction of myocardium. The automatic segmentation is however still challenging, due to the heterogeneous intensity…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-26 Qian Yue , Xinzhe Luo , Qing Ye , Lingchao Xu , Xiahai Zhuang

We propose an unsupervised deep learning algorithm for the motion-compensated reconstruction of 5D cardiac MRI data from 3D radial acquisitions. Ungated free-breathing 5D MRI simplifies the scan planning, improves patient comfort, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Joseph Kettelkamp , Ludovica Romanin , Davide Piccini , Sarv Priya , Mathews Jacob

Objective: The accurate segmentation of capnograms during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is essential for effective patient monitoring and advanced airway management. This study aims to develop a robust algorithm using a U-net…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-29 Andoni Elola , Imanol Ania , Xabier Jaureguibeitia , Henry Wang , Michelle Nassal , Ahamed Idris , Elisabete Aramendi

Aggregating multi-level feature representation plays a critical role in achieving robust volumetric medical image segmentation, which is important for the auxiliary diagnosis and treatment. Unlike the recent neural architecture search (NAS)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Yuanfeng Ji , Ruimao Zhang , Zhen Li , Jiamin Ren , Shaoting Zhang , Ping Luo

Existing methods to reconstruct vascular structures from a computed tomography (CT) angiogram rely on injection of intravenous contrast to enhance the radio-density within the vessel lumen. However, pathological changes can be present in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-11 Anirudh Chandrashekar , Ashok Handa , Natesh Shivakumar , Pierfrancesco Lapolla , Vicente Grau , Regent Lee

Cardiac structure segmentation plays an important role in medical analysis procedures. Images' blurred boundaries issue always limits the segmentation performance. To address this difficult problem, we presented a novel network structure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Fei Feng , Jiajia Luo

Recently, U-shaped networks have dominated the field of medical image segmentation due to their simple and easily tuned structure. However, existing U-shaped segmentation networks: 1) mostly focus on designing complex self-attention modules…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-24 Junlong Cheng , Chengrui Gao , Fengjie Wang , Min Zhu

Purpose: Automated distinct bone segmentation from CT scans is widely used in planning and navigation workflows. U-Net variants are known to provide excellent results in supervised semantic segmentation. However, in distinct bone…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-01 Eva Schnider , Julia Wolleb , Antal Huck , Mireille Toranelli , Georg Rauter , Magdalena Müller-Gerbl , Philippe C. Cattin

In interventional radiology, short video sequences of vein structure in motion are captured in order to help medical personnel identify vascular issues or plan intervention. Semantic segmentation can greatly improve the usefulness of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Athanasios Vlontzos , Krystian Mikolajczyk

Brain tumor segmentation models have aided diagnosis in recent years. However, they face MRI complexity and variability challenges, including irregular shapes and unclear boundaries, leading to noise, misclassification, and incomplete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Ruoxin Wang , Tianyi Tang , Haiming Du , Yuxuan Cheng , Yu Wang , Lingjie Yang , Xiaohui Duan , Yunfang Yu , Yu Zhou , Donglong Chen

Cardiac MR image segmentation is essential for the morphological and functional analysis of the heart. Inspired by how experienced clinicians assess the cardiac morphology and function across multiple standard views (i.e. long- and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-18 Chen Chen , Carlo Biffi , Giacomo Tarroni , Steffen Petersen , Wenjia Bai , Daniel Rueckert

Pixelwise segmentation of the left ventricular (LV) myocardium and the four cardiac chambers in 2-D steady state free precession (SSFP) cine sequences is an essential preprocessing step for a wide range of analyses. Variability in contrast,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Davis M. Vigneault , Weidi Xie , Carolyn Y. Ho , David A. Bluemke , J. Alison Noble

Medical image segmentation is a difficult but important task for many clinical operations such as cardiac bi-ventricular volume estimation. More recently, there has been a shift to utilizing deep learning and fully convolutional neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-17 Jesse Sun , Fatemeh Darbehani , Mark Zaidi , Bo Wang

Motion artifacts caused by prolonged acquisition time are a significant challenge in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), hindering accurate tissue segmentation. These artifacts appear as blurred images that mimic tissue-like appearances,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-06 Sunyoung Jung , Yoonseok Choi , Mohammed A. Al-masni , Minyoung Jung , Dong-Hyun Kim

In this work, we propose a new segmentation network by integrating DenseUNet and bidirectional LSTM together with attention mechanism, termed as DA-BDense-UNet. DenseUNet allows learning enough diverse features and enhancing the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-27 Wenming Cao , Philip L. H. Yu , Gilbert C. S. Lui , Keith W. H. Chiu , Ho-Ming Cheng , Yanwen Fang , Man-Fung Yuen , Wai-Kay Seto

Medical image segmentation is an important step in medical image analysis. With the rapid development of convolutional neural network in image processing, deep learning has been used for medical image segmentation, such as optic disc…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Zaiwang Gu , Jun Cheng , Huazhu Fu , Kang Zhou , Huaying Hao , Yitian Zhao , Tianyang Zhang , Shenghua Gao , Jiang Liu

Automatic and accurate segmentation of the ventricles and myocardium from multi-sequence cardiac MRI (CMR) is crucial for the diagnosis and treatment management for patients suffering from myocardial infarction (MI). However, due to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-29 Jiexiang Wang , Hongyu Huang , Chaoqi Chen , Wenao Ma , Yue Huang , Xinghao Ding

Bias field artifacts in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans introduce spatially smooth intensity inhomogeneities that degrade image quality and hinder downstream analysis. To address this challenge, we propose a novel variational…

Purpose Medical imaging diagnosis faces challenges, including low-resolution images due to machine artifacts and patient movement. This paper presents the Frequency-Guided U-Net (GFNet), a novel approach for medical image segmentation that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-03 Haytham Al Ewaidat , Youness El Brag , Ahmad Wajeeh Yousef E'layan , Ali Almakhadmeh