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Segmentation of magnetic resonance images (MRI) facilitates analysis of human brain development by delineating anatomical structures. However, in infants and young children, accurate segmentation is challenging due to development and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Malte Hoffmann , Lilla Zöllei , Adrian V. Dalca

Introduction: Fetal resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) is a rapidly evolving field that provides valuable insight into brain development before birth. Accurate segmentation of the fetal brain from the surrounding…

Segmentation of brain structures on MRI is the primary step for further quantitative analysis of brain diseases. Manual segmentation is still considered the gold standard in terms of accuracy; however, such data is extremely time-consuming…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-16 Mengyu Li , Magnus Magnusson , Thilo van Eimeren , Lotta M. Ellingsen

Quantitative, volumetric analysis of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a fundamental way researchers study the brain in a host of neurological conditions including normal maturation and aging. Despite the availability of open-source brain…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-11-15 Aakash Kaku , Chaitra V. Hegde , Jeffrey Huang , Sohae Chung , Xiuyuan Wang , Matthew Young , Alireza Radmanesh , Yvonne W. Lui , Narges Razavian

Automatic image segmentation becomes very crucial for tumor detection in medical image processing.In general, manual and semi automatic segmentation techniques require more time and knowledge. However these drawbacks had overcome by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-09 D. Anithadevi , K. Perumal

Background: The hippocampus plays a crucial role in memory and cognition. Because of the associated toxicity from whole brain radiotherapy, more advanced treatment planning techniques prioritize hippocampal avoidance, which depends on an…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Yang Lei , Yifu Ding , Richard L. J. Qiu , Tonghe Wang , Justin Roper , Yabo Fu , Hui-Kuo Shu , Hui Mao , Xiaofeng Yang

Automated brain tumor segmentation methods have become well-established and reached performance levels offering clear clinical utility. These methods typically rely on four input magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) modalities: T1-weighted…

Accurate hippocampus segmentation in brain MRI is critical for studying cognitive and memory functions and diagnosing neurodevelopmental disorders. While high-field MRIs provide detailed imaging, low-field MRIs are more accessible and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-24 Himashi Peiris , Zhaolin Chen

Five different threshold segmentation based approaches have been reviewed and compared over here to extract the tumor from set of brain images. This research focuses on the analysis of image segmentation methods, a comparison of five…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-10 Muhammad Ali Qadar , Yan Zhaowen

The brain tumor segmentation on MRI images is a very difficult and important task which is used in surgical and medical planning and assessments. If experts do the segmentation manually with their own medical knowledge, it will be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-12-31 Saeid Fazli , Parisa Nadirkhanlou

Recent advancements in medical image segmentation techniques have achieved compelling results. However, most of the widely used approaches do not take into account any prior knowledge about the shape of the biomedical structures being…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-18 Zhou He , Siqi Bao , Albert Chung

Brain image segmentation is used for visualizing and quantifying anatomical structures of the brain. We present an automated ap-proach using 2D deep residual dilated networks which captures rich context information of different tissues for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Hongwei Li , Andrii Zhygallo , Bjoern Menze

Accurate segmentation of cerebral vasculature and a quantitative assessment of cerebrovascular morphology is critical to various diagnostic and therapeutic purposes and is pertinent to studying brain health and disease. However, this is…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-02-27 Aditi Deshpande , Nima Jamilpour , Bin Jiang , Chelsea Kidwell , Max Wintermark , Kaveh Laksari

Segmentation of brain magnetic resonance images (MRI) is crucial for the analysis of the human brain and diagnosis of various brain disorders. The drawbacks of time-consuming and error-prone manual delineation procedures are aimed to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Can Taylan Sari , Sila Kurugol , Onur Afacan , Simon K. Warfield

Recent advances in deep learning have led to robust automated tools for segmentation of abdominal computed tomography (CT). Meanwhile, segmentation of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is substantially more challenging due to the inherent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-28 Deepa Krishnaswamy , Cosmin Ciausu , Steve Pieper , Ron Kikinis , Benjamin Billot , Andrey Fedorov

Multimodal brain tumor segmentation challenge (BraTS) brings together researchers to improve automated methods for 3D MRI brain tumor segmentation. Tumor segmentation is one of the fundamental vision tasks necessary for diagnosis and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Andriy Myronenko , Ali Hatamizadeh

The magnetic resonance (MR) analysis of brain tumors is widely used for diagnosis and examination of tumor subregions. The overlapping area among the intensity distribution of healthy, enhancing, non-enhancing, and edema regions makes the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-01 Mohammad Hamghalam , Baiying Lei , Tianfu Wang

Purpose: Conventional automated segmentation of the head anatomy in MRI distinguishes different brain and non-brain tissues based on image intensities and prior tissue probability maps (TPM). This works well for normal head anatomies, but…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-20 Lukas Hirsch , Yu Huang , Lucas C Parra

Many functional and structural neuroimaging studies call for accurate morphometric segmentation of different brain structures starting from image intensity values of MRI scans. Current automatic (multi-) atlas-based segmentation strategies…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-27 Dennis Bontempi , Sergio Benini , Alberto Signoroni , Michele Svanera , Lars Muckli