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Automatic pancreas segmentation in radiology images, eg., computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), is frequently required by computer-aided screening, diagnosis, and quantitative assessment. Yet pancreas is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Jinzheng Cai , Le Lu , Fuyong Xing , Lin Yang

We propose Path-CNN, a method for the segmentation of centerlines of tubular structures by embedding convolutional neural networks (CNNs) into the progressive minimal path method. Minimal path methods are widely used for topology-aware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Wei Liao

In this research project, we put forward an advanced method for airway segmentation based on the existent convolutional neural network (CNN) and graph neural network (GNN). The method is originated from the vessel segmentation, but we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-01 Yihua Yang

Over the past two decades, machine analysis of medical imaging has advanced rapidly, opening up significant potential for several important medical applications. As complicated diseases increase and the number of cases rises, the role of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-08 Fares Bougourzi , Fadi Dornaika , Cosimo Distante , Abdelmalik Taleb-Ahmed

Medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. Although models based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Transformers have achieved remarkable success in medical image segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-04 Jiashu Xu

Segmentation of white matter lesions and deep grey matter structures is an important task in the quantification of magnetic resonance imaging in multiple sclerosis. In this paper we explore segmentation solutions based on convolutional…

The convolutional neural network-based methods have become more and more popular for medical image segmentation due to their outstanding performance. However, they struggle with capturing long-range dependencies, which are essential for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-30 Hongkun Sun , Jing Xu , Yuping Duan

Brain tissue segmentation has demonstrated great utility in quantifying MRI data through Voxel-Based Morphometry and highlighting subtle structural changes associated with various conditions within the brain. However, manual segmentation is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-02 Vishwanatha M. Rao , Zihan Wan , Soroush Arabshahi , David J. Ma , Pin-Yu Lee , Ye Tian , Xuzhe Zhang , Andrew F. Laine , Jia Guo

This paper introduces a novel approach that combines unsupervised active contour models with deep learning for robust and adaptive image segmentation. Indeed, traditional active contours, provide a flexible framework for contour evolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Antoine Habis , Vannary Meas-Yedid , Elsa Angelini , Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin

Surgical tool segmentation in endoscopic images is an important problem: it is a crucial step towards full instrument pose estimation and it is used for integration of pre- and intra-operative images into the endoscopic view. While many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Daniil Pakhomov , Wei Shen , Nassir Navab

Fully Convolutional Neural Networks (FCNNs) with contracting and expanding paths have shown prominence for the majority of medical image segmentation applications since the past decade. In FCNNs, the encoder plays an integral role by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-12 Ali Hatamizadeh , Yucheng Tang , Vishwesh Nath , Dong Yang , Andriy Myronenko , Bennett Landman , Holger Roth , Daguang Xu

To accurately analyze changes of anatomical structures in longitudinal imaging studies, consistent segmentation across multiple time-points is required. Existing solutions often involve independent registration and segmentation components.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-28 Bo Li , Wiro Niessen , Stefan Klein , Marius de Groot , Arfan Ikram , Meike Vernooij , Esther Bron

Automatic tumor or lesion segmentation is a crucial step in medical image analysis for computer-aided diagnosis. Although the existing methods based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved the state-of-the-art performance,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-01 Shuchao Pang , Anan Du , Mehmet A. Orgun , Yan Wang , Quan Z. Sheng , Shoujin Wang , Xiaoshui Huang , Zhenmei Yu

In the past few years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved milestones in medical image analysis. Especially, the deep neural networks based on U-shaped architecture and skip-connections have been widely applied in a variety…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-13 Hu Cao , Yueyue Wang , Joy Chen , Dongsheng Jiang , Xiaopeng Zhang , Qi Tian , Manning Wang

Accurate medical image segmentation is essential for diagnosis and treatment planning of diseases. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance for automatic medical image segmentation. However, they are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Ran Gu , Guotai Wang , Tao Song , Rui Huang , Michael Aertsen , Jan Deprest , Sébastien Ourselin , Tom Vercauteren , Shaoting Zhang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have emerged as powerful tools for learning discriminative image features. In this paper, we propose a framework of 3-D fully CNN models for Glioblastoma segmentation from multi-modality MRI data. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Darvin Yi , Mu Zhou , Zhao Chen , Olivier Gevaert

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown promising results on several segmentation tasks in magnetic resonance (MR) images. However, the accuracy of CNNs may degrade severely when segmenting images acquired with different scanners…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-28 Neerav Karani , Krishna Chaitanya , Christian Baumgartner , Ender Konukoglu

Precision medicine in the quantitative management of chronic diseases and oncology would be greatly improved if the Computed Tomography (CT) scan of any patient could be segmented, parsed and analyzed in a precise and detailed way. However,…

We introduce a one-shot segmentation method to alleviate the burden of manual annotation for medical images. The main idea is to treat one-shot segmentation as a classical atlas-based segmentation problem, where voxel-wise correspondence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Shuxin Wang , Shilei Cao , Dong Wei , Renzhen Wang , Kai Ma , Liansheng Wang , Deyu Meng , Yefeng Zheng

Medical image segmentation is crucial for disease diagnosis and monitoring. Though effective, the current segmentation networks such as UNet struggle with capturing long-range features. More accurate models such as TransUNet, Swin-UNet, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Khaled Alrfou , Tian Zhao