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Brain magnetic resonance (MR) segmentation for hydrocephalus patients is considered as a challenging work. Encoding the variation of the brain anatomical structures from different individuals cannot be easily achieved. The task becomes even…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-14 Xuhua Ren , Jiayu Huo , Kai Xuan , Dongming Wei , Lichi Zhang , Qian Wang

Segmentation is a key stage in dermoscopic image processing, where the accuracy of the border line that defines skin lesions is of utmost importance for subsequent algorithms (e.g., classification) and computer-aided early diagnosis of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Pedro M. M. Pereira , Rui Fonseca-Pinto , Rui Pedro Paiva , Luis M. N. Tavora , Pedro A. A. Assuncao , Sergio M. M. de Faria

Models for segmentation of brain lesions in multi-modal MRI are commonly trained for a specific pathology using a single database with a predefined set of MRI modalities, determined by a protocol for the specific disease. This work explores…

This paper proposes a 3D attention-based U-Net architecture for multi-region segmentation of brain tumors using a single stacked multi-modal volume created by combining three non-native MRI volumes. The attention mechanism added to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-11 Maryann M. Gitonga

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

Brain metastasis segmentation poses a significant challenge in medical imaging due to the complex presentation and variability in size and location of metastases. In this study, we first investigate the impact of different imaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-22 Yousef Sadegheih , Dorit Merhof

Bone segmentation from CT images is a task that has been worked on for decades. It is an important ingredient to several diagnostics or treatment planning approaches and relevant to various diseases. As high-quality manual and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-04 André Klein , Jan Warszawski , Jens Hillengaß , Klaus H. Maier-Hein

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a crucial medical imaging modality. However, long acquisition times remain a significant challenge, leading to increased costs, and reduced patient comfort. Recent studies have shown the potential of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Amirmohammad Shamaei , Alexander Stebner , Salome , Bosshart , Johanna Ospel , Gouri Ginde , Mariana Bento , Roberto Souza

Automatic segmentation is essential for the brain tumor diagnosis, disease prognosis, and follow-up therapy of patients with gliomas. Still, accurate detection of gliomas and their sub-regions in multimodal MRI is very challenging due to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-20 Ramy A. Zeineldin , Mohamed E. Karar , Oliver Burgert , Franziska Mathis-Ullrich

Longitudinal MRIs are often used to capture the gradual deterioration of brain structure and function caused by aging or neurological diseases. Analyzing this data via machine learning generally requires a large number of ground-truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Jiahong Ouyang , Qingyu Zhao , Ehsan Adeli , Edith V Sullivan , Adolf Pfefferbaum , Greg Zaharchuk , Kilian M Pohl

Malignant brain tumors have become an aggressive and dangerous disease that leads to death worldwide.Multi-modal MRI data is crucial for accurate brain tumor segmentation, but missing modalities common in clinical practice can severely…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-11 Guoyan Liang , Qin Zhou , Jingyuan Chen , Bingcang Huang , Kai Chen , Lin Gu , Zhe Wang , Sai Wu , Chang Yao

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

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease developed in human brain and spinal cord, which can cause permanent damage or deterioration of the nerves. The severity of MS disease is monitored by the Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Kai Zhang , John A. Lincoln , Xiaoqian Jiang , Elmer V. Bernstam , Shayan Shams

Brain lesions, including stroke and tumours, have a high degree of variability in terms of location, size, intensity and form, making automatic segmentation difficult. We propose an improvement to existing segmentation methods by exploiting…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-22 Kevin Raina , Uladzimir Yahorau , Tanya Schmah

A brain tumor, whether benign or malignant, can potentially be life threatening and requires painstaking efforts in order to identify the type, origin and location, let alone cure one. Manual segmentation by medical specialists can be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-02 Ayan Gupta , Mayank Dixit , Vipul Kumar Mishra , Attulya Singh , Atul Dayal

Deep neural networks (DNN) have shown promises in the lesion segmentation of multiple sclerosis (MS) from multicontrast MRI including T1, T2, proton density (PD) and FLAIR sequences. However, one challenge in deploying such networks into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Yushan Feng , Huitong Pan , Craig Meyer , Xue Feng

Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), which delivers high doses of irradiation in a single or few shots to small targets, has been a standard of care for brain metastases. While very effective, SRS currently requires manually intensive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-16 Szu-Yeu Hu , Wei-Hung Weng , Shao-Lun Lu , Yueh-Hung Cheng , Furen Xiao , Feng-Ming Hsu , Jen-Tang Lu

MRI tumor segmentation remains a critical challenge in medical imaging, where volumetric analysis faces unique computational demands due to the complexity of 3D data. The spatially sequential arrangement of adjacent MRI slices provides…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Jiacheng Lu , Hui Ding , Shiyu Zhang , Guoping Huo

Using multimodal Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is necessary for accurate brain tumor segmentation. The main problem is that not all types of MRIs are always available in clinical exams. Based on the fact that there is a strong…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-11 Tongxue Zhou , Stéphane Canu , Pierre Vera , Su Ruan

In this work, we present a comparison of a shallow and a deep learning architecture for the automated segmentation of white matter lesions in MR images of multiple sclerosis patients. In particular, we train and test both methods on early…