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Deep learning has shown great promise in the ability to automatically annotate organs in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, for example, of the brain. However, despite advancements in the field, the ability to accurately segment…
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Magnetic resonance images (MRIs) are widely used to quantify vestibular schwannoma and the cochlea. Recently, deep learning methods have shown state-of-the-art performance for segmenting these structures. However, training segmentation…
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3D volume segmentation is a fundamental task in many scientific and medical applications. Producing accurate segmentations efficiently is challenging, in part due to low imaging data quality (e.g., noise and low image resolution) and…
High resolution (HR) 3D images are widely used nowadays, such as medical images like Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Computed Tomography (CT). However, segmentation of these 3D images remains a challenge due to their high spatial…
This paper presents a simple and effective generalization method for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) segmentation when data is collected from multiple MRI scanning sites and as a consequence is affected by (site-)domain shifts. We propose…
Layer segmentation is important to quantitative analysis of retinal optical coherence tomography (OCT). Recently, deep learning based methods have been developed to automate this task and yield remarkable performance. However, due to the…
MR images of fetuses allow clinicians to detect brain abnormalities in an early stage of development. The cornerstone of volumetric and morphologic analysis in fetal MRI is segmentation of the fetal brain into different tissue classes.…
Self-supervised learning (SSL) has advanced medical image analysis be enabling learning form large unlabelled data. However, in brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), most 3D models remain specialized for either segmentation of…