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Automated brain tissue segmentation into white matter (WM), gray matter (GM), and cerebro-spinal fluid (CSF) from magnetic resonance images (MRI) is helpful in the diagnosis of neuro-disorders such as epilepsy, Alzheimer's, multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Pulkit Kumar , Pravin Nagar , Chetan Arora , Anubha Gupta

Brain atrophy and white matter hyperintensity (WMH) are critical neuroimaging features for ascertaining brain injury in cerebrovascular disease and multiple sclerosis. Automated segmentation and quantification is desirable but existing…

Due to the lack of automated methods, to diagnose cerebrovascular disease, time-of-flight magnetic resonance angiography (TOF-MRA) is assessed visually, making it time-consuming. The commonly used encoder-decoder architectures for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Syed Farhan Abbas , Nguyen Thanh Duc , Yoonguu Song , Kyungwon Kim , Ekta Srivastava , Boreom Lee

Pubic symphysis-fetal head segmentation in transperineal ultrasound images plays a critical role for the assessment of fetal head descent and progression. Existing transformer segmentation methods based on sparse attention mechanism use…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-16 Pengzhou Cai , Lu Jiang , Yanxin Li , Xiaojuan Liu , Libin Lan

The accurate assessment of White matter hyperintensities (WMH) burden is of crucial importance for epidemiological studies to determine association between WMHs, cognitive and clinical data. The manual delineation of WMHs is tedious, costly…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2018-01-03 R. Guerrero , C. Qin , O. Oktay , C. Bowles , L. Chen , R. Joules , R. Wolz , M. C. Valdes-Hernandez , D. A. Dickie , J. Wardlaw , D. Rueckert

Large-scale semantic segmentation networks often achieve high performance, while their application can be challenging when faced with limited sample sizes and computational resources. In scenarios with restricted network size and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Wentao Wang , Xili Wang

Various deep learning methods have been proposed to segment breast lesion from ultrasound images. However, similar intensity distributions, variable tumor morphology and blurred boundaries present challenges for breast lesions segmentation,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-23 Gongping Chen , Yu Dai , Jianxun Zhang , Moi Hoon Yap

Segmentation of macro and microvascular structures in fundoscopic retinal images plays a crucial role in the detection of multiple retinal and systemic diseases, yet it is a difficult problem to solve. Most neural network approaches face…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-30 Shikhar Mohan , Saumik Bhattacharya , Sayantari Ghosh

Purpose Medical imaging diagnosis faces challenges, including low-resolution images due to machine artifacts and patient movement. This paper presents the Frequency-Guided U-Net (GFNet), a novel approach for medical image segmentation that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-03 Haytham Al Ewaidat , Youness El Brag , Ahmad Wajeeh Yousef E'layan , Ali Almakhadmeh

Automatic segmentation of multi-sequence (multi-modal) cardiac MR (CMR) images plays a significant role in diagnosis and management for a variety of cardiac diseases. However, the performance of relevant algorithms is significantly affected…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-08 Haochuan Jiang , Chengjia Wang , Agisilaos Chartsias , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

White matter hyperintensities (WMH) are key imaging markers in cognitive aging, Alzheimer's disease (AD), and related dementias. Although automated methods for WMH segmentation have advanced, most provide only global lesion load and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Julia Machnio , Mads Nielsen , Mostafa Mehdipour Ghazi

Segmenting vascular pathologies such as white matter lesions in Brain magnetic resonance images (MRIs) require acquisition of multiple sequences such as T1-weighted (T1-w) --on which lesions appear hypointense-- and fluid attenuated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Mauricio Orbes-Arteaga , M. Jorge Cardoso , Lauge Sørensen , Marc Modat , Sébastien Ourselin , Mads Nielsen , Akshay Pai

Brain tumor segmentation is a critical task in medical image analysis, aiding in the diagnosis and treatment planning of brain tumor patients. The importance of automated and accurate brain tumor segmentation cannot be overstated. It…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-24 Muhammad Ansab Butt , Absaar Ul Jabbar

Accurate segmentation of MR brain tissue is a crucial step for diagnosis,surgical planning, and treatment of brain abnormalities. However,it is a time-consuming task to be performed by medical experts. So, automatic and reliable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Yang Deng , Yao Sun , Yongpei Zhu , Mingwang Zhu , Wei Han , Kehong Yuan

Sturge-Weber syndrome (SWS) is a vascular malformation disease, and it may cause blindness if the patient's condition is severe. Clinical results show that SWS can be divided into two types based on the characteristics of scleral blood…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-26 Chang Yao , Jingyu Tang , Menghan Hu , Yue Wu , Wenyi Guo , Qingli Li , Xiao-Ping Zhang

In the realm of medical diagnostics, rapid advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have significantly yielded remarkable improvements in brain tumor segmentation. Encoder-Decoder architectures, such as U-Net, have played a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Eyad Gad , Seif Soliman , M. Saeed Darweesh

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is the most commonly used non-intrusive technique for medical image acquisition. Brain tumor segmentation is the process of algorithmically identifying tumors in brain MRI scans. While many approaches have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-04 Jason Walsh , Alice Othmani , Mayank Jain , Soumyabrata Dev

Early-stage 3D brain tumor segmentation from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans is crucial for prompt and effective treatment. However, this process faces the challenge of precise delineation due to the tumors' complex heterogeneity.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Ebtihal J. Alwadee , Xianfang Sun , Yipeng Qin , Frank C. Langbein

In radiotherapy planning, manual contouring is labor-intensive and time-consuming. Accurate and robust automated segmentation models improve the efficiency and treatment outcome. We aim to develop a novel hybrid deep learning approach,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Zhuangzhuang Zhang , Tianyu Zhao , Hiram Gay , Weixiong Zhang , Baozhou Sun

The precise categorization of white blood cell (WBC) is crucial for diagnosing blood-related disorders. However, manual analysis in clinical settings is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and prone to errors. Numerous studies have employed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yuzhuo Chen , Zetong Chen , Yunuo An , Chenyang Lu , Xu Qiao