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Myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE) is an imaging technique that assesses left ventricle function and myocardial perfusion for the detection of coronary artery diseases. Automatic MCE perfusion quantification is challenging and…

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Cardiac cine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is one of the important means to assess cardiac functions and vascular abnormalities. Mitigating artifacts arising during image reconstruction and accelerating cardiac cine MRI acquisition to…

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Objective: Automated segmentation tools are useful for calculating kidney volumes rapidly and accurately. Furthermore, these tools have the power to facilitate large-scale image-based artificial intelligence projects by generating input…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-15 Lucas Aronson , Ruben Ngnitewe Massaa , Syed Jamal Safdar Gardezi , Andrew L. Wentland

Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques have been proposed for automating analysis of short axis (SAX) cine cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR), but no CMR analysis tool exists to automatically analyse large (unstructured) clinical CMR…

Four-dimensional (4D) left ventricular myocardial velocity mapping (MVM) is a cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) technique that allows assessment of cardiac motion in three orthogonal directions. Accurate and reproducible delineation of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-23 Yinzhe Wu , Suzan Hatipoglu , Diego Alonso-Álvarez , Peter Gatehouse , David Firmin , Jennifer Keegan , Guang Yang

Computational modeling of cardiovascular function has become a critical part of diagnosing, treating and understanding cardiovascular disease. Most strategies involve constructing anatomically accurate computer models of cardiovascular…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-28 Numi Sveinsson Cepero , Shawn C. Shadden

Automatic and accurate whole-heart and great vessel segmentation from 3D cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) images plays an important role in the computer-assisted diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease. However, this task is very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Lequan Yu , Jie-Zhi Cheng , Qi Dou , Xin Yang , Hao Chen , Jing Qin , Pheng-Ann Heng

Myocardial Velocity Mapping Cardiac MR (MVM-CMR) can be used to measure global and regional myocardial velocities with proved reproducibility. Accurate left ventricle delineation is a prerequisite for robust and reproducible myocardial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-28 Mengmeng Kuang , Yinzhe Wu , Diego Alonso-Álvarez , David Firmin , Jennifer Keegan , Peter Gatehouse , Guang Yang

Segmentation of the left ventricle (LV) from cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) datasets is an essential step for calculation of clinical indices such as ventricular volume and ejection fraction. In this work, we employ deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-29 M. R. Avendi , A. Kheradvar , H. Jafarkhani

Integrating multi-modal data to promote medical image analysis has recently gained great attention. This paper presents a novel scheme to learn the mutual benefits of different modalities to achieve better segmentation results for unpaired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Jie Yang , Ye Zhu , Chaoqun Wang , Zhen Li , Ruimao Zhang

Segmentation and measurement of cardiac chambers is critical in cardiac ultrasound but is laborious and poorly reproducible. Neural networks can assist, but supervised approaches require the same laborious manual annotations. We built a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Danielle L. Ferreira , Connor Lau , Zaynaf Salaymang , Rima Arnaout

In this paper we introduce a novel and accurate optimisation method for segmentation of cardiac MR (CMR) images in patients with pulmonary hypertension (PH). The proposed method explicitly takes into account the image features learned from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Jinming Duan , Jo Schlemper , Wenjia Bai , Timothy J W Dawes , Ghalib Bello , Georgia Doumou , Antonio De Marvao , Declan P O'Regan , Daniel Rueckert

Quantification of cardiac structures in non-contrast CT (NCCT) could improve cardiovascular risk stratification. However, setting a manual reference to train a fully convolutional network (FCN) for automatic segmentation of NCCT images is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-22 Steffen Bruns , Jelmer M. Wolterink , Robbert W. van Hamersvelt , Tim Leiner , Ivana Išgum

Many strides have been made in semantic segmentation of multiple classes within an image. This has been largely due to advancements in deep learning and convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Features within a CNN are automatically learned…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-17 Erik Gaasedelen , Alex Deakyne , Paul Iaizzo

The goal of this project is to use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data to provide an end-to-end analytics pipeline for left and right ventricle (LV and RV) segmentation. Another aim of the project is to find a model that would be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-19 Bosung Seo , Daniel Mariano , John Beckfield , Vinay Madenur , Yuming Hu , Tony Reina , Marcus Bobar , Mai H. Nguyen , Ilkay Altintas

It remains challenging to automatically segment kidneys in clinical ultrasound images due to the kidneys' varied shapes and image intensity distributions, although semi-automatic methods have achieved promising performance. In this study,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Shi Yin , Zhengqiang Zhang , Hongming Li , Qinmu Peng , Xinge You , Susan L. Furth , Gregory E. Tasian , Yong Fan

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been applied to various automatic image segmentation tasks in medical image analysis, including brain MRI segmentation. Generative adversarial networks have recently gained popularity because of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Pim Moeskops , Mitko Veta , Maxime W. Lafarge , Koen A. J. Eppenhof , Josien P. W. Pluim

Precise and effective processing of cardiac imaging data is critical for the identification and management of the cardiovascular diseases. We introduce IntelliCardiac, a comprehensive, web-based medical image processing platform for the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-09 Ting Yu Tsai , An Yu , Meghana Spurthi Maadugundu , Ishrat Jahan Mohima , Umme Habiba Barsha , Mei-Hwa F. Chen , Balakrishnan Prabhakaran , Ming-Ching Chang

Automatic cell image segmentation methods in connectomics produce merge and split errors, which require correction through proofreading. Previous research has identified the visual search for these errors as the bottleneck in interactive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Daniel Haehn , Verena Kaynig , James Tompkin , Jeff W. Lichtman , Hanspeter Pfister

Accurate coronary artery segmentation from coronary computed tomography angiography is essential for quantitative coronary analysis and clinical decision support. Nevertheless, reliable segmentation remains challenging because of small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Huan Huang , Michele Esposito , Chen Zhao