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Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques for image-based segmentation have garnered much attention in recent years. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown impressive results and potential towards fully automated segmentation in…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Fereshteh Yousefirizi , Abhinav K. Jha , Julia Brosch-Lenz , Babak Saboury , Arman Rahmim

Spatial attention has been introduced to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for improving both their performance and interpretability in visual tasks including image classification. The essence of the spatial attention is to learn a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-03 Linchuan Xu , Jun Huang , Atsushi Nitanda , Ryo Asaoka , Kenji Yamanishi

Due to the success of CNN-based and Transformer-based models in various computer vision tasks, recent works study the applicability of CNN-Transformer hybrid architecture models in 3D multi-modality medical segmentation tasks. Introducing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Yonghao Huang , Leiting Chen , Chuan Zhou

Delineating lesions and anatomical structure is important for image-guided interventions. Point-supervised medical image segmentation (PSS) has great potential to alleviate costly expert delineation labeling. However, due to the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Xiaofeng Liu , Jonghye Woo , Chao Ma , Jinsong Ouyang , Georges El Fakhri

Automatic segmentation of brain tumors is an essential but challenging step for extracting quantitative imaging biomarkers for accurate tumor detection, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment planning and assessment. Multimodal Brain Tumor…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-30 Yading Yuan

Even though many semantic segmentation methods exist that are able to perform well on many medical datasets, often, they are not designed for direct use in clinical practice. The two main concerns are generalization to unseen data with a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-05 Franz Thaler , Christian Payer , Horst Bischof , Darko Stern

Tumor segmentation in PET-CT images is challenging due to the dual nature of the acquired information: low metabolic information in CT and low spatial resolution in PET. U-Net architecture is the most common and widely recognized approach…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-06 Simone Bendazzoli , Mehdi Astaraki

Medical image segmentation, a crucial task in computer vision, facilitates the automated delineation of anatomical structures and pathologies, supporting clinicians in diagnosis, treatment planning, and disease monitoring. Notably,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Fuchen Zheng , Xinyi Chen , Xuhang Chen , Haolun Li , Xiaojiao Guo , Weihuang Liu , Chi-Man Pun , Shoujun Zhou

Medical image segmentation, particularly for brain tumor analysis, demands precise and computationally efficient models due to the complexity of multimodal MRI datasets and diverse tumor morphologies. This study introduces PSO-UNet, which…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Shoffan Saifullah , Rafał Dreżewski

Recently, deep learning enabled the accurate segmentation of various diseases in medical imaging. These performances, however, typically demand large amounts of manual voxel annotations. This tedious process for volumetric data becomes more…

Computer-aided segmentation of brain tumors from MRI data is of crucial significance to clinical decision-making in diagnosis, treatment planning, and follow-up disease monitoring. Gliomas, owing to their high malignancy and heterogeneity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 MD Rashidul Islam , Bakary Gibba

Accurate and efficient segmentation of brain tumors is critical for diagnosis, treatment planning, and monitoring in clinical practice. In this study, we present an enhanced ResUNet architecture for automatic brain tumor segmentation,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Majid Behzadpour , Ebrahim Azizi , Kai Wu , Bengie L. Ortiz

Segmenting organs in CT scan images is a necessary process for multiple downstream medical image analysis tasks. Currently, manual CT scan segmentation by radiologists is prevalent, especially for organs like the pancreas, which requires a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-22 Juwita juwita , Ghulam Mubashar Hassan , Naveed Akhtar , Amitava Datta

Medical image segmentation is vital to the area of medical imaging because it enables professionals to more accurately examine and understand the information offered by different imaging modalities. The technique of splitting a medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-01 Aitik Gupta , Joydip Dhar

Background: Accurate segmentation of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) lesions is challenging due to their complex patterns in medical imaging. Objective: This study aims to develop a precise segmentation method for DLBCL using…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Huan Huang , Liheng Qiu , Shenmiao Yang , Longxi Li , Jiaofen Nan , Yanting Li , Chuang Han , Fubao Zhu , Chen Zhao , Weihua Zhou

Ophthalmic image segmentation serves as a critical foundation for ocular disease diagnosis. Although fully convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are commonly employed for segmentation, they are constrained by inductive biases and face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Zunjie Xiao , Xiaoqing Zhang , Risa Higashita , Jiang Liu

Spinal cord tumors significantly contribute to neurological morbidity and mortality. Precise morphometric quantification, encompassing the size, location, and type of such tumors, holds promise for optimizing treatment planning strategies.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Hongkang Song , Zihui Zhang , Yanpeng Zhou , Jie Hu , Zishuo Wang , Hou Him Chan , Chon Lok Lei , Chen Xu , Yu Xin , Bo Yang

One of the most challenges in medical imaging is the lack of data and annotated data. It is proven that classical segmentation methods such as U-NET are useful but still limited due to the lack of annotated data. Using a weakly supervised…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-20 Amine Amyar , Romain Modzelewski , Pierre Vera , Vincent Morard , Su Ruan

Pancreatic cancer carries a poor prognosis and relies on endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) for targeted biopsy and radiotherapy. However, the speckle noise, low contrast, and unintuitive appearance of EUS make segmentation of pancreatic tumors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Pascal Spiegler , Taha Koleilat , Arash Harirpoush , Corey S. Miller , Hassan Rivaz , Marta Kersten-Oertel , Yiming Xiao

Segmentation is vital for ophthalmology image analysis. But its various modal images hinder most of the existing segmentation algorithms applications, as they rely on training based on a large number of labels or hold weak generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Zhongxi Qiu , Yan Hu , Heng Li , Jiang Liu