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Segmentation of brain tumors is a critical step in treatment planning, yet manual segmentation is both time-consuming and subjective, relying heavily on the expertise of radiologists. In Sub-Saharan Africa, this challenge is magnified by…

Gliomas appear with wide variation in their characteristics both in terms of their appearance and location on brain MR images, which makes robust tumour segmentation highly challenging, and leads to high inter-rater variability even in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-25 Vaanathi Sundaresan , Ludovica Griffanti , Mark Jenkinson

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

The brain tumor segmentation task aims to classify tissue into the whole tumor (WT), tumor core (TC), and enhancing tumor (ET) classes using multimodel MRI images. Quantitative analysis of brain tumors is critical for clinical decision…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-15 Saqib Qamar , Parvez Ahmad , Linlin Shen

Brain tumor segmentation is an active research area due to the difficulty in delineating highly complex shaped and textured tumors as well as the failure of the commonly used U-Net architectures. The combination of different neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-02 Lanhong Yao , Zheyuan Zhang , Ulas Bagci

Automatic brain tumor segmentation method plays an extremely important role in the whole process of brain tumor diagnosis and treatment. In this paper, we propose a multi-step cascaded network which takes the hierarchical topology of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-26 Xiangyu Li , Gongning Luo , Kuanquan Wang

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

The paper demonstrates the use of the fully convolutional neural network for glioma segmentation on the BraTS 2019 dataset. Three-layers deep encoder-decoder architecture is used along with dense connection at encoder part to propagate the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-23 Rupal Agravat , Mehul S Raval

Deep convolutional neural network (CNN) achieves remarkable performance for medical image analysis. UNet is the primary source in the performance of 3D CNN architectures for medical imaging tasks, including brain tumor segmentation. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-30 Parvez Ahmad , Saqib Qamar , Linlin Shen , Adnan Saeed

Recently deep learning has been playing a major role in the field of computer vision. One of its applications is the reduction of human judgment in the diagnosis of diseases. Especially, brain tumor diagnosis requires high accuracy, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Zahra Sobhaninia , Safiyeh Rezaei , Alireza Noroozi , Mehdi Ahmadi , Hamidreza Zarrabi , Nader Karimi , Ali Emami , Shadrokh Samavi

In this paper, we present a fully automatic brain tumor segmentation method based on Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). The proposed networks are tailored to glioblastomas (both low and high grade) pictured in MR images. By their very nature,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-23 Mohammad Havaei , Axel Davy , David Warde-Farley , Antoine Biard , Aaron Courville , Yoshua Bengio , Chris Pal , Pierre-Marc Jodoin , Hugo Larochelle

Glioma, the malignant brain tumor, requires immediate treatment to improve the survival of patients. Gliomas heterogeneous nature makes the segmentation difficult, especially for sub-regions like necrosis, enhancing tumor, non-enhancing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-01 Rupal Agravat , Mehul S Raval

Quantitative analysis of brain tumors is critical for clinical decision making. While manual segmentation is tedious, time consuming and subjective, this task is at the same time very challenging to solve for automatic segmentation methods.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Fabian Isensee , Philipp Kickingereder , Wolfgang Wick , Martin Bendszus , Klaus H. Maier-Hein

3D medical image processing with deep learning greatly suffers from a lack of data. Thus, studies carried out in this field are limited compared to works related to 2D natural image analysis, where very large datasets exist. As a result,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Hicham Messaoudi , Ahror Belaid , Mohamed Lamine Allaoui , Ahcene Zetout , Mohand Said Allili , Souhil Tliba , Douraied Ben Salem , Pierre-Henri Conze

One of the main requirements of tumor extraction is the annotation and segmentation of tumor boundaries correctly. For this purpose, we present a threefold deep learning architecture. First classifiers are implemented with a deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Shanaka Ramesh Gunasekara , H. N. T. K. Kaldera , Maheshi B. Dissanayake

MRI analysis takes central position in brain tumor diagnosis and treatment, thus it's precise evaluation is crucially important. However, it's 3D nature imposes several challenges, so the analysis is often performed on 2D projections that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Dmitry Lachinov , Evgeny Vasiliev , Vadim Turlapov

This article presents a multiscale patch based convolutional neural network for the automatic segmentation of brain tumors in multi-modality 3D MR images. We use multiscale deep supervision and inputs to train a convolutional network. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-09 Jean Stawiaski

Automatic segmentation of brain glioma from multimodal MRI scans plays a key role in clinical trials and practice. Unfortunately, manual segmentation is very challenging, time-consuming, costly, and often inaccurate despite human expertise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-08 Minh H. Vu , Tufve Nyholm , Tommy Löfstedt

In this paper we propose a fully automatic 2-stage cascaded approach for segmentation of liver and its tumors in CT (Computed Tomography) images using densely connected fully convolutional neural network (DenseNet). We independently train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Krishna Chaitanya Kaluva , Mahendra Khened , Avinash Kori , Ganapathy Krishnamurthi

A U-Net based deep learning architecture is designed to segment brain tumors as they appear on various MRI modalities. Special emphasis is lent to the non-enhancing tumor compartment. The latter has not been considered anymore in recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 T. Schaffer , A. Brawanski , S. Wein , A. M. Tomé , E. W. Lang