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The 3D volumetric shape of the heart's left ventricle (LV) myocardium (MYO) wall provides important information for diagnosis of cardiac disease and invasive procedure navigation. Many cardiac image segmentation methods have relied on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Meng Ye , Qiaoying Huang , Dong Yang , Pengxiang Wu , Jingru Yi , Leon Axel , Dimitris Metaxas

Accurate segmentation of retinal vessels is a basic step in Diabetic retinopathy(DR) detection. Most methods based on deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) have small receptive fields, and hence they are unable to capture global context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Yun Jiang , Ning Tan , Tingting Peng , Hai Zhang

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) show outstanding performance in many image processing problems, such as image recognition, object detection and image segmentation. Semantic segmentation is a very challenging task that requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Fan Jia , Jun Liu , Xue-cheng Tai

Vessel image segmentation plays a pivotal role in medical diagnostics, aiding in the early detection and treatment of vascular diseases. While segmentation based on deep learning has shown promising results, effectively segmenting small…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-24 Ruiqiang Xiao , Zhuoyue Wan

Recent developments in deep learning have revolutionized the paradigm of image restoration. However, its applications on real image denoising are still limited, due to its sensitivity to training data and the complex nature of real image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Jin Zeng , Jiahao Pang , Wenxiu Sun , Gene Cheung

In this paper, we propose an interpretable denoising method for graph signals using regularization by denoising (RED). RED is a technique developed for image restoration that uses an efficient (and sometimes black-box) denoiser in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-27 Hayate Kojima , Hiroshi Higashi , Yuichi Tanaka

Among the research efforts to segment the retinal vasculature from fundus images, deep learning models consistently achieve superior performance. However, this data-driven approach is very sensitive to domain shifts. For fundus images, such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-04 Dewei Hu , Xing Yao , Jiacheng Wang , Yuankai K. Tao , Ipek Oguz

Accurate vascular segmentation is essential for coronary visualization and the diagnosis of coronary heart disease. This task involves the extraction of sparse tree-like vascular branches from the volumetric space. However, existing methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-21 Bowen Liu , Chunlei Meng , Wei Lin , Hongda Zhang , Ziqing Zhou , Zhongxue Gan , Chun Ouyang

Segmentation of carotid vessel wall is required in vessel wall volume (VWV) and local vessel-wall-plus-plaque thickness (VWT) quantification of the carotid artery. Manual segmentation of the vessel wall is time-consuming and prone to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-27 Mingjie Jiang , J. David Spence , Bernard Chiu

In interventional radiology, short video sequences of vein structure in motion are captured in order to help medical personnel identify vascular issues or plan intervention. Semantic segmentation can greatly improve the usefulness of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Athanasios Vlontzos , Krystian Mikolajczyk

Effective retinal vessel segmentation requires a sophisticated integration of global contextual awareness and local vessel continuity. To address this challenge, we propose the Graph Capsule Convolution Network (GCC-UNet), which merges…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-19 Xinxu Wei , Xi Lin , Haiyun Liu , Shixuan Zhao , Yongjie Li

Accurate segmentation of vascular networks from sparse CT scan slices remains a significant challenge in medical imaging, particularly due to the thin, branching nature of vessels and the inherent sparsity between imaging planes. Existing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Salvatore Esposito , Daniel Rebain , Arno Onken , Changjian Li , Oisin Mac Aodha

Blood vessel networks, represented as 3D graphs, help predict disease biomarkers, simulate blood flow, and aid in synthetic image generation, relevant in both clinical and pre-clinical settings. However, generating realistic vessel graphs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Chinmay Prabhakar , Suprosanna Shit , Fabio Musio , Kaiyuan Yang , Tamaz Amiranashvili , Johannes C. Paetzold , Hongwei Bran Li , Bjoern Menze

Regularization in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) is usually addressed with dropout layers. However, dropout is sometimes detrimental in the convolutional part of a CNN as it simply sets to zero a percentage of pixels in the feature…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-29 Juan P. Vigueras-Guillén , Joan Lasenby , Frank Seeliger

In recent years, deep learning based methods have shown success in essential medical image analysis tasks such as segmentation. Post-processing and refining the results of segmentation is a common practice to decrease the misclassifications…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-29 Ufuk Demir , Atahan Ozer , Yusuf H. Sahin , Gozde Unal

Our research focuses on the critical field of early diagnosis of disease by examining retinal blood vessels in fundus images. While automatic segmentation of retinal blood vessels holds promise for early detection, accurate analysis remains…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-14 Fatema Tuj Johora Faria , Mukaffi Bin Moin , Pronay Debnath , Asif Iftekher Fahim , Faisal Muhammad Shah

Reliable cell segmentation and classification from biomedical images is a crucial step for both scientific research and clinical practice. A major challenge for more robust segmentation and classification methods is the large variations in…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2017-10-31 Mo Zhang , Xiang Li , Mengjia Xu , Quanzheng Li

Purpose: Automated distinct bone segmentation from CT scans is widely used in planning and navigation workflows. U-Net variants are known to provide excellent results in supervised semantic segmentation. However, in distinct bone…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-01 Eva Schnider , Julia Wolleb , Antal Huck , Mireille Toranelli , Georg Rauter , Magdalena Müller-Gerbl , Philippe C. Cattin

A method is presented for the registration of MRA and 4D Flow images, with the goal of calculating blood flow properties using both modalities simultaneously. In particular, the method produces an alignment of segmentations of vessel…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-04-28 Dan Lior , Craig G. Rusin , Justin Weigand , Kristina V. Montez , Yimo Wang , Silvana Molossi , Daniel J. Penny , Charles Puelz

Vascular structures in the retina contain important information for the detection and analysis of ocular diseases, including age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma. Commonly used modalities in diagnosis of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Erick O. Rodrigues , Aura Conci , Panos Liatsis