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Radiation therapy (RT) is widely employed in the clinic for the treatment of head and neck (HaN) cancers. An essential step of RT planning is the accurate segmentation of various organs-at-risks (OARs) in HaN CT images. Nevertheless,…

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Dealing with the application of grading colorectal cancer images, this work proposes a 3 step pipeline for prediction of cancer levels from a histopathology image. The overall model performs better compared to other state of the art methods…

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Automatic segmentation of medical images with DL algorithms has proven to be highly successful. With most of these algorithms, inter-observer variation is an acknowledged problem, leading to sub-optimal results. This problem is even more…

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The burden of liver tumors is important, ranking as the fourth leading cause of cancer mortality. In case of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the delineation of liver and tumor on contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (CE-MRI) is…

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Histopathological assessments, including surgical resection and core needle biopsy, are the standard procedures in the diagnosis of the prostate cancer. Current interpretation of the histopathology images includes the determination of the…

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Accurate medical image segmentation is essential for diagnosis and treatment planning of diseases. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance for automatic medical image segmentation. However, they are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Ran Gu , Guotai Wang , Tao Song , Rui Huang , Michael Aertsen , Jan Deprest , Sébastien Ourselin , Tom Vercauteren , Shaoting Zhang

Accurate automatic segmentation of brain anatomy from $T_1$-weighted~($T_1$-w) magnetic resonance images~(MRI) has been a computationally intensive bottleneck in neuroimaging pipelines, with state-of-the-art results obtained by unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Amod Jog , Bruce Fischl

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is crucial in diagnosing various abdominal conditions and anomalies. Traditional MRI scans often yield anisotropic data due to technical constraints, resulting in varying resolutions across spatial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-01 Rotem Benisty , Yevgenia Shteynman , Moshe Porat , Anat Ilivitzki , Moti Freiman

Prostate cancer is a commonly diagnosed cancerous disease among men world-wide. Even with modern technology such as multi-parametric magnetic resonance tomography and guided biopsies, the process for diagnosing prostate cancer remains time…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-17 Malte Rippa , Ruben Schulze , Marian Himstedt , Felice Burn

The morphology of glands has been used routinely by pathologists to assess the malignancy degree of adenocarcinomas. Accurate segmentation of glands from histology images is a crucial step to obtain reliable morphological statistics for…

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The segmentation of prostate whole gland and transition zone in Diffusion Weighted MRI (DWI) are the first step in designing computer-aided detection algorithms for prostate cancer. However, variations in MRI acquisition parameters and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-29 Saman Motamed , Isha Gujrathi , Dominik Deniffel , Anton Oentoro , Masoom A. Haider , Farzad Khalvati

This paper presents a novel method for ground segmentation in Velodyne point clouds. We propose an encoding of sparse 3D data from the Velodyne sensor suitable for training a convolutional neural network (CNN). This general purpose approach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Martin Velas , Michal Spanel , Michal Hradis , Adam Herout

Due to the irregular motion, similar appearance and diverse shape, accurate segmentation of kidney tumor in CT images is a difficult and challenging task. To this end, we present a novel automatic segmentation method, termed as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Qian Yu , Yinghuan Shi , Jinquan Sun , Yang Gao , Yakang Dai , Jianbing Zhu

To accurately analyze changes of anatomical structures in longitudinal imaging studies, consistent segmentation across multiple time-points is required. Existing solutions often involve independent registration and segmentation components.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-28 Bo Li , Wiro Niessen , Stefan Klein , Marius de Groot , Arfan Ikram , Meike Vernooij , Esther Bron

Automated segmentation tools often encounter accuracy and adaptability issues when applied to images of different pathology. The purpose of this study is to explore the feasibility of building a workflow to efficiently route images to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-06 Peilong Wang , Timothy L. Kline , Andy D. Missert , Cole J. Cook , Matthew R. Callstrom , Alex Chan , Robert P. Hartman , Zachary S. Kelm , Panagiotis Korfiatis

Nuclei segmentation is a fundamental task that is critical for various computational pathology applications including nuclei morphology analysis, cell type classification, and cancer grading. Conventional vision-based methods for nuclei…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Faisal Mahmood , Daniel Borders , Richard Chen , Gregory N. McKay , Kevan J. Salimian , Alexander Baras , Nicholas J. Durr

Precise segmentation of knee tissues from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is critical in quantitative imaging and diagnosis. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which are state of the art, have limitations owing to the lack of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-30 Sheheryar Khan , Basim Azam , Yongcheng Yao , Weitian Chen

Background: Ultrasound imaging plays a pivotal role in diagnosing carotid atherosclerosis, a significant precursor to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and events. This non-invasive modality provides real-time, high-resolution…

The quantitative analysis of cellular membranes helps understanding developmental processes at the cellular level. Particularly 3D microscopic image data offers valuable insights into cell dynamics, but error-free automatic segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Dennis Eschweiler , Thiago V. Spina , Rohan C. Choudhury , Elliot Meyerowitz , Alexandre Cunha , Johannes Stegmaier