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Accurate lung nodule segmentation is crucial for early-stage lung cancer diagnosis, as it can substantially enhance patient survival rates. Computed tomography (CT) images are widely employed for early diagnosis in lung nodule analysis.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Muhammad Usman , Azka Rehman , Abd Ur Rehman , Abdullah Shahid , Tariq Mahmood Khan , Imran Razzak , Minyoung Chung , Yeong Gil Shin

Automated diagnosis with artificial intelligence has emerged as a promising area in the realm of medical imaging, while the interpretability of the introduced deep neural networks still remains an urgent concern. Although contemporary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Binghua Li , Jie Mao , Zhe Sun , Chao Li , Qibin Zhao , Toshihisa Tanaka

Due to the poor prognosis of Pancreatic cancer, accurate early detection and segmentation are critical for improving treatment outcomes. However, pancreatic segmentation is challenged by blurred boundaries, high shape variability, and class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Leilei Zeng , Xuechen Li , Xinquan Yang , Linlin Shen , Song Wu

Automatic segmentation of breast tumors from the ultrasound images is essential for the subsequent clinical diagnosis and treatment plan. Although the existing deep learning-based methods have achieved significant progress in automatic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-24 Xing Yang , Jian Zhang , Qijian Chen , Li Wang , Lihui Wang

Tumor segmentation in multimodal medical images has seen a growing trend towards deep learning based methods. Typically, studies dealing with this topic fuse multimodal image data to improve the tumor segmentation contour for a single…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-25 Theresa Neubauer , Maria Wimmer , Astrid Berg , David Major , Dimitrios Lenis , Thomas Beyer , Jelena Saponjski , Katja Bühler

Lung cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related deaths globally. PET-CT is crucial for imaging lung tumors, providing essential metabolic and anatomical information, while it faces challenges such as poor image quality, motion artifacts,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-24 Jie Mei , Chenyu Lin , Yu Qiu , Yaonan Wang , Hui Zhang , Ziyang Wang , Dong Dai

Even though convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are driving progress in medical image segmentation, standard models still have some drawbacks. First, the use of multi-scale approaches, i.e., encoder-decoder architectures, leads to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Ashish Sinha , Jose Dolz

Delineating the brain tumor from magnetic resonance (MR) images is critical for the treatment of gliomas. However, automatic delineation is challenging due to the complex appearance and ambiguous outlines of tumors. Considering that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-03 Chenyu Liu , Wangbin Ding , Lei Li , Zhen Zhang , Chenhao Pei , Liqin Huang , Xiahai Zhuang

Medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in clinical diagnosis and treatment planning, where accurate boundary delineation is essential for precise lesion localization, organ identification, and quantitative assessment. In recent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Peiting Tian , Xi Chen , Haixia Bi , Fan Li

Background: A crucial initial processing step for quantitative PET/CT analysis is the segmentation of tumor lesions enabling accurate feature ex-traction, tumor characterization, oncologic staging, and image-based therapy response…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Ludovic Sibille , Xinrui Zhan , Lei Xiang

Multimodal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can reveal different patterns of human tissue and is crucial for clinical diagnosis. However, limited by cost, noise and manual labeling, obtaining diverse and reliable multimodal MR images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-11 Li Zhu , Jiawei Jiang , Lin Lu , Jin Li

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Computer Tomography (CT) are routinely used together to detect tumors. PET/CT segmentation models can automate tumor delineation, however, current multimodal models do not fully exploit the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-14 Zdravko Marinov , Simon Reiß , David Kersting , Jens Kleesiek , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Sequential whole-body 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) scans are regarded as the imaging modality of choice for the assessment of treatment response in the lymphomas because they detect treatment response when…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-10 Kai-Chieh Liang , Lei Bi , Ashnil Kumar , Michael Fulham , Jinman Kim

Polyp segmentation for colonoscopy images is of vital importance in clinical practice. It can provide valuable information for colorectal cancer diagnosis and surgery. While existing methods have achieved relatively good performance, polyp…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Xiaolu Kang , Zhuoqi Ma , Kang Liu , Yunan Li , Qiguang Miao

In this study, the main objective is to develop an algorithm capable of identifying and delineating tumor regions in breast ultrasound (BUS) and mammographic images. The technique employs two advanced deep learning architectures, namely…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-14 Mohsen Ahmadi , Masoumeh Farhadi Nia , Sara Asgarian , Kasra Danesh , Elyas Irankhah , Ahmad Gholizadeh Lonbar , Abbas Sharifi

Rectal cancer segmentation of CT image plays a crucial role in timely clinical diagnosis, radiotherapy treatment, and follow-up. Although current segmentation methods have shown promise in delineating cancerous tissues, they still encounter…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-17 Hantao Zhang , Weidong Guo , Chenyang Qiu , Shouhong Wan , Bingbing Zou , Wanqin Wang , Peiquan Jin

Lung cancer is an extremely lethal disease primarily due to its late-stage diagnosis and significant mortality rate, making it the major cause of cancer-related demises globally. Machine Learning (ML) and Convolution Neural network (CNN)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Asha V , Bhavanishankar K

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

Breast cancer screening, primarily conducted through mammography, is often supplemented with ultrasound for women with dense breast tissue. However, existing deep learning models analyze each modality independently, missing opportunities to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-16 Yiqiu Shen , Jungkyu Park , Frank Yeung , Eliana Goldberg , Laura Heacock , Farah Shamout , Krzysztof J. Geras

Tumor region segmentation is an essential task for the quantitative analysis of digital pathology. Recently presented deep neural networks have shown state-of-the-art performance in various image-segmentation tasks. However, because of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Seonghui Min , Won-Ki Jeong