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Deep learning has quickly become the weapon of choice for brain lesion segmentation. However, few existing algorithms pre-configure any biological context of their chosen segmentation tissues, and instead rely on the neural network's…

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Anomaly detection for Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) can be solved with unsupervised methods by learning the distribution of healthy images and identifying anomalies as outliers. In presence of an additional dataset of unlabelled data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Alexandra-Ioana Albu , Alina Enescu , Luigi Malagò

Deep learning models (DLMs) frequently achieve accurate segmentation and classification of tumors from medical images. However, DLMs lacking feedback on their image segmentation mechanisms, such as Dice coefficients and confidence in their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Elhoucine Elfatimi , Pratik Shah

Despite recent advances in the accuracy of brain tumor segmentation, the results still suffer from low reliability and robustness. Uncertainty estimation is an efficient solution to this problem, as it provides a measure of confidence in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-15 Hao Li , Yang Nan , Javier Del Ser , Guang Yang

Deep learning algorithms have accounted for the rapid acceleration of research in artificial intelligence in medical image analysis, interpretation, and segmentation with many potential applications across various sub disciplines in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-23 Shanaka Ramesh Gunasekara , HNTK Kaldera , Maheshi B. Dissanayake

Intracranial tumors are groups of cells that usually grow uncontrollably. One out of four cancer deaths is due to brain tumors. Early detection and evaluation of brain tumors is an essential preventive medical step that is performed by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-07 Zahra Sobhaninia , Safiyeh Rezaei , Nader Karimi , Ali Emami , Shadrokh Samavi

Uncertainty estimates of modern neuronal networks provide additional information next to the computed predictions and are thus expected to improve the understanding of the underlying model. Reliable uncertainties are particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Alain Jungo , Raphael Meier , Ekin Ermis , Evelyn Herrmann , Mauricio Reyes

Accurate brain tumor segmentation from MRI scans is critical for diagnosis and treatment planning. Despite the strong performance of recent deep learning approaches, two fundamental limitations remain: (1) the lack of reliable uncertainty…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Bahram Mohammadi , Yanqiu Wu , Vu Minh Hieu Phan , Sam White , Minh-Son To , Jian Yang , Michael Sheng , Yang Song , Yuankai Qi

Brain tumor segmentation is a critical pre-processing step in the medical image analysis pipeline that involves precise delineation of tumor regions from healthy brain tissue in medical imaging data, particularly MRI scans. An efficient and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 GodsGift Uzor , Tania-Amanda Nkoyo Fredrick Eneye , Chukwuebuka Ijezue

We explore encoding brain symmetry into a neural network for a brain tumor segmentation task. A healthy human brain is symmetric at a high level of abstraction, and the high-level asymmetric parts are more likely to be tumor regions. Paying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Hejia Zhang , Xia Zhu , Theodore L. Willke

Accurate medical image segmentation commonly requires effective learning of the complementary information from multimodal data. However, in clinical practice, we often encounter the problem of missing imaging modalities. We tackle this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Cheng Chen , Qi Dou , Yueming Jin , Hao Chen , Jing Qin , Pheng-Ann Heng

Despite the recent improvements in overall accuracy, deep learning systems still exhibit low levels of robustness. Detecting possible failures is critical for a successful clinical integration of these systems, where each data point…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-14 Alain Jungo , Mauricio Reyes

Brain tumor segmentation remains a significant challenge, particularly in the context of multi-modal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) where missing modality images are common in clinical settings, leading to reduced segmentation accuracy.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-14 Zhongao Sun , Jiameng Li , Yuhan Wang , Jiarong Cheng , Qing Zhou , Chun Li

Deep Learning is the newest and the current trend of the machine learning field that paid a lot of the researchers' attention in the recent few years. As a proven powerful machine learning tool, deep learning was widely used in several…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-27 Ali Mohammad Alqudah , Hiam Alquraan , Isam Abu Qasmieh , Amin Alqudah , Wafaa Al-Sharu

In this paper, we present a fully automatic brain tumor segmentation and classification model using a Deep Convolutional Neural Network that includes a multiscale approach. One of the differences of our proposal with respect to previous…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-12 Francisco Javier Díaz-Pernas , Mario Martínez-Zarzuela , Míriam Antón-Rodríguez , David González-Ortega

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

Being able to adequately process and combine data arising from different sites is crucial in neuroimaging, but is difficult, owing to site, sequence and acquisition-parameter dependent biases. It is important therefore to design algorithms…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-05 Pedro Borges , Richard Shaw , Thomas Varsavsky , Kerstin Klaser , David Thomas , Ivana Drobnjak , Sebastien Ourselin , M Jorge Cardoso

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

A cascade of fully convolutional neural networks is proposed to segment multi-modal Magnetic Resonance (MR) images with brain tumor into background and three hierarchical regions: whole tumor, tumor core and enhancing tumor core. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Guotai Wang , Wenqi Li , Sebastien Ourselin , Tom Vercauteren

Brain tumor imaging has been part of the clinical routine for many years to perform non-invasive detection and grading of tumors. Tumor segmentation is a crucial step for managing primary brain tumors because it allows a volumetric analysis…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-05 Masoomeh Rahimpour , Ahmed Radwan , Henri Vandermeulen , Stefan Sunaert , Karolien Goffin , Michel Koole