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Although the U-Net architecture has been extensively used for segmentation of medical images, we address two of its shortcomings in this work. Firstly, the accuracy of vanilla U-Net degrades when the target regions for segmentation exhibit…

Segmenting medical images accurately and reliably is important for disease diagnosis and treatment. It is a challenging task because of the wide variety of objects' sizes, shapes, and scanning modalities. Recently, many convolutional neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-22 Ange Lou , Shuyue Guan , Murray Loew

Medical image segmentation, particularly in multi-domain scenarios, requires precise preservation of anatomical structures across diverse representations. While deep learning has advanced this field, existing models often struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Afshin Bozorgpour , Sina Ghorbani Kolahi , Reza Azad , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Dorit Merhof

Tumor volume segmentation on MRI is a challenging and time-consuming process that is performed manually in typical clinical settings. This work presents an approach to automated delineation of head and neck tumors on MRI scans, developed in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-10 Andrei Iantsen

Brain tumors are one of the deadliest forms of cancer with a mortality rate of over 80%. A quick and accurate diagnosis is crucial to increase the chance of survival. However, in medical analysis, the manual annotation and segmentation of a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-18 Zachary Schwehr , Sriman Achanta

In this paper, we introduce a conceptually simple network for generating discriminative tissue-level segmentation masks for the purpose of breast cancer diagnosis. Our method efficiently segments different types of tissues in breast biopsy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Sachin Mehta , Ezgi Mercan , Jamen Bartlett , Donald Weave , Joann G. Elmore , Linda Shapiro

Image segmentation is a critical step in computational biomedical image analysis, typically evaluated using metrics like the Dice coefficient during training and validation. However, in clinical settings without manual annotations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Sikha O K , Meritxell Riera-Marín , Adrian Galdran , Javier García Lopez , Julia Rodríguez-Comas , Gemma Piella , Miguel A. González Ballester

Brain tumor classification is crucial for clinical analysis and an effective treatment plan to cure patients. Deep learning models help radiologists to accurately and efficiently analyze tumors without manual intervention. However, brain…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-13 Mirza Mumtaz Zahoor , Saddam Hussain Khan

Multimodal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is crucial for brain tumor segmentation, with many methods leveraging its four key modalities to capture complementary information for effective sub-region analysis. However, the absence of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Sha Tao , Jiao Pan , Yu Guo , Chao Yao

One of the most important tasks in medical image processing is the brain's whole tumor segmentation. It assists in quicker clinical assessment and early detection of brain tumors, which is crucial for lifesaving treatment procedures of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Apurva Pandya , Catherine Samuel , Nisargkumar Patel , Vaibhavkumar Patel , Thangarajah Akilan

Usually, lesions are not isolated but are associated with the surrounding tissues. For example, the growth of a tumour can depend on or infiltrate into the surrounding tissues. Due to the pathological nature of the lesions, it is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-12 Lin Wang , Xiufen Ye , Donghao Zhang , Wanji He , Lie Ju , Yi Luo , Huan Luo , Xin Wang , Wei Feng , Kaimin Song , Xin Zhao , Zongyuan Ge

According to official statistics, cancer is considered as the second leading cause of human fatalities. Among different types of cancer, brain tumor is seen as one of the deadliest forms due to its aggressive nature, heterogeneous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Parnian Afshar , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis , Arash Mohammadi

Accurate segmentation and classification of brain tumors from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) remain key challenges in medical image analysis, primarily due to the lack of high-quality, balanced, and diverse datasets with expert…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-29 Amirreza Fateh , Yasin Rezvani , Sara Moayedi , Sadjad Rezvani , Fatemeh Fateh , Mansoor Fateh , Vahid Abolghasemi

Accurate detection and segmentation of brain tumors in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are critical for effective diagnosis and treatment planning. Despite advances in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) such as U-Net, existing models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Sashank Makanaboyina

Accurate segmentation of brain tissues such as gray matter and white matter from magnetic resonance imaging is essential for studying brain anatomy, diagnosing neurological disorders, and monitoring disease progression. Traditional methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Chang Sun , Rui Shi , Tsukasa Koike , Tetsuro Sekine , Akio Morita , Tetsuya Sakai

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

The accurate identification of brain tumors from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is essential for timely diagnosis and effective therapeutic intervention. While deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), particularly those pre-trained on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Helia Abedini , Saba Rahimi , Reza Vaziri

Uncertainty quantification is vital for safety-critical Deep Learning applications like medical image segmentation. We introduce BA U-Net, an uncertainty-aware model for MRI segmentation that integrates Bayesian Neural Networks with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Lohith Konathala

Purpose: Lesion segmentation in medical imaging is key to evaluating treatment response. We have recently shown that reinforcement learning can be applied to radiological images for lesion localization. Furthermore, we demonstrated that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Joseph Stember , Hrithwik Shalu

Medical image analysis using deep neural networks has been actively studied. Deep neural networks are trained by learning data. For accurate training of deep neural networks, the learning data should be sufficient, of good quality, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-05 Sunho Kim , Byungjai Kim , HyunWook Park