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Breast tumor segmentation is one of the key steps that helps us characterize and localize tumor regions. However, variable tumor morphology, blurred boundary, and similar intensity distributions bring challenges for accurate segmentation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-23 Gongping Chen , Lei Li , JianXun Zhang , Yu Dai

This research presents an enhanced approach for precise segmentation of brain tumor masses in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using an advanced 3D-UNet model combined with a Context Transformer (CoT). By architectural expansion CoT, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Thien-Qua T. Nguyen , Hieu-Nghia Nguyen , Thanh-Hieu Bui , Thien B. Nguyen-Tat , Vuong M. Ngo

Gliomas are brain tumors composed of different highly heterogeneous histological subregions. Image analysis techniques to identify relevant tumor substructures have high potential for improving patient diagnosis, treatment and prognosis.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-18 José Gerardo Suárez-García Javier Miguel Hernández-López , Eduardo Moreno-Barbosa , Benito de Celis-Alonso

Brain cancer can be very fatal, but chances of survival increase through early detection and treatment. Doctors use Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) to detect and locate tumors in the brain, and very carefully analyze scans to segment brain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Ryan Sherman

Computer-aided segmentation of brain tumors from MRI data is of crucial significance to clinical decision-making in diagnosis, treatment planning, and follow-up disease monitoring. Gliomas, owing to their high malignancy and heterogeneity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 MD Rashidul Islam , Bakary Gibba

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved remarkable success in automatically segmenting organs or lesions on 3D medical images. Recently, vision transformer networks have exhibited exceptional performance in 2D image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-18 Qiran Jia , Hai Shu

Brain tumor segmentation models have aided diagnosis in recent years. However, they face MRI complexity and variability challenges, including irregular shapes and unclear boundaries, leading to noise, misclassification, and incomplete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Ruoxin Wang , Tianyi Tang , Haiming Du , Yuxuan Cheng , Yu Wang , Lingjie Yang , Xiaohui Duan , Yunfang Yu , Yu Zhou , Donglong Chen

Accurate and automatic segmentation of brain tumors in multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI) is essential for quantitative measurements, which play an increasingly important role in clinical diagnosis and prognosis. The…

Training a deep neural network is an optimization problem with four main ingredients: the design of the deep neural network, the per-sample loss function, the population loss function, and the optimizer. However, methods developed to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-31 Lucas Fidon , Sebastien Ourselin , Tom Vercauteren

Brain tumors, particularly gliomas, pose significant chall-enges due to their complex growth patterns, infiltrative nature, and the variability in brain structure across individuals, which makes accurate diagnosis and monitoring difficult.…

In this paper, we present a novel approach for segmenting pediatric brain tumors using a deep learning architecture, inspired by expert radiologists' segmentation strategies. Our model delineates four distinct tumor labels and is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Max Bengtsson , Elif Keles , Gorkem Durak , Syed Anwar , Yuri S. Velichko , Marius G. Linguraru , Angela J. Waanders , Ulas Bagci

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

A major challenge in brain tumor treatment planning and quantitative evaluation is determination of the tumor extent. The noninvasive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique has emerged as a front-line diagnostic tool for brain tumors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Hao Dong , Guang Yang , Fangde Liu , Yuanhan Mo , Yike Guo

We propose a segmentation framework that uses deep neural networks and introduce two innovations. First, we describe a biophysics-based domain adaptation method. Second, we propose an automatic method to segment white and gray matter, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Amir Gholami , Shashank Subramanian , Varun Shenoy , Naveen Himthani , Xiangyu Yue , Sicheng Zhao , Peter Jin , George Biros , Kurt Keutzer

This article presents a convolutional neural network for the automatic segmentation of brain tumors in multimodal 3D MR images based on a U-net architecture.We evaluate the use of a densely connected convolutional network encoder (DenseNet)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Jean Stawiaski

Segmenting brain tumors is complex due to their diverse appearances and scales. Brain metastases, the most common type of brain tumor, are a frequent complication of cancer. Therefore, an effective segmentation model for brain metastases…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Siwei Yang , Xianhang Li , Jieru Mei , Jieneng Chen , Cihang Xie , Yuyin Zhou

Accurate segmentation of different sub-regions of gliomas including peritumoral edema, necrotic core, enhancing and non-enhancing tumor core from multimodal MRI scans has important clinical relevance in diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Xue Feng , Nicholas Tustison , Craig Meyer

Brain tumor imaging has been part of the clinical routine for many years to perform non-invasive detection and grading of tumors. Tumor segmentation is a crucial step for managing primary brain tumors because it allows a volumetric analysis…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-05 Masoomeh Rahimpour , Ahmed Radwan , Henri Vandermeulen , Stefan Sunaert , Karolien Goffin , Michel Koole

Robust and generalizable segmentation of brain tumors on multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) remains difficult because tumor types differ widely. The BraTS 2025 Lighthouse Challenge benchmarks segmentation methods on diverse…

This paper proposes a novel cascaded U-Net for brain tumor segmentation. Inspired by the distinct hierarchical structure of brain tumor, we design a cascaded deep network framework, in which the whole tumor is segmented firstly and then the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-19 Hongying Liu , Xiongjie Shen , Fanhua Shang , Fei Wang