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Accurate segmentation of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) lesions in longitudinal MRI scans is crucial for monitoring disease progression and treatment efficacy. Although changes across time are taken into account when assessing images in clinical…

In this paper we propose a novel method for the segmentation of longitudinal brain MRI scans of patients suffering from Multiple Sclerosis. The method builds upon an existing cross-sectional method for simultaneous whole-brain and lesion…

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Magnetic resonance imaging is a fundamental tool to reach a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis and monitoring its progression. Although several attempts have been made to segment multiple sclerosis lesions using artificial intelligence, fully…

This report summarizes the outcomes of the ICPR 2024 Competition on Multiple Sclerosis Lesion Segmentation (MSLesSeg). The competition aimed to develop methods capable of automatically segmenting multiple sclerosis lesions in MRI scans.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-11 Alessia Rondinella , Francesco Guarnera , Elena Crispino , Giulia Russo , Clara Di Lorenzo , Davide Maimone , Francesco Pappalardo , Sebastiano Battiato

This study's objective was to segment spinal metastases in diagnostic MR images using a deep learning-based approach. Segmentation of such lesions can present a pivotal step towards enhanced therapy planning and validation, as well as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-29 Georg Hille , Johannes Steffen , Max Dünnwald , Mathias Becker , Sylvia Saalfeld , Klaus Tönnies

To date, several automated strategies for identification/segmentation of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) lesions with the use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) have been presented, but they are outperformed by human experts, from whom they act…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Giuseppe Placidi , Luigi Cinque , Daniela Iacoviello , Filippo Mignosi , Matteo Polsinelli

Assessment of lesions and their longitudinal progression from brain magnetic resonance (MR) images plays a crucial role in diagnosing and monitoring multiple sclerosis (MS). Machine learning models have demonstrated a great potential for…

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In recent years, several convolutional neural network (CNN) methods have been proposed for the automated white matter lesion segmentation of multiple sclerosis (MS) patient images, due to their superior performance compared with those of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Sergi Valverde , Mostafa Salem , Mariano Cabezas , Deborah Pareto , Joan C. Vilanova , Lluís Ramió-Torrentà , Àlex Rovira , Joaquim Salvi , Arnau Oliver , Xavier Lladó

Convolutional neural networks have been applied to a wide variety of computer vision tasks. Recent advances in semantic segmentation have enabled their application to medical image segmentation. While most CNNs use two-dimensional kernels,…

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The detection of new multiple sclerosis (MS) lesions is an important marker of the evolution of the disease. The applicability of learning-based methods could automate this task efficiently. However, the lack of annotated longitudinal data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-17 Reda Abdellah Kamraoui , Boris Mansencal , José V Manjon , Pierrick Coupé

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown remarkable progress in medical image segmentation. However, lesion segmentation remains a challenge to state-of-the-art CNN-based algorithms due to the variance in scales and shapes. On the…

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Acute stroke lesion segmentation tasks are of great clinical interest as they can help doctors make better informed treatment decisions. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is time demanding but can provide images that are considered gold…

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Assessing lesions and tracking their progression over time in brain magnetic resonance (MR) images is essential for diagnosing and monitoring multiple sclerosis (MS). Machine learning models have shown promise in automating the segmentation…

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Deep learning has been widely used for medical image segmentation and a large number of papers has been presented recording the success of deep learning in the field. In this paper, we present a comprehensive thematic survey on medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Risheng Wang , Tao Lei , Ruixia Cui , Bingtao Zhang , Hongying Meng , Asoke K. Nandi

Multiple sclerosis lesion activity segmentation is the task of detecting new and enlarging lesions that appeared between a baseline and a follow-up brain MRI scan. While deep learning methods for single-scan lesion segmentation are common,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Nils Gessert , Marcel Bengs , Julia Krüger , Roland Opfer , Ann-Christin Ostwaldt , Praveena Manogaran , Sven Schippling , Alexander Schlaefer

Deep neural networks (DNN) have shown promises in the lesion segmentation of multiple sclerosis (MS) from multicontrast MRI including T1, T2, proton density (PD) and FLAIR sequences. However, one challenge in deploying such networks into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Yushan Feng , Huitong Pan , Craig Meyer , Xue Feng

Multiple sclerosis (MS) lesions occupy a small fraction of the brain volume, and are heterogeneous with regards to shape, size and locations, which poses a great challenge for training deep learning based segmentation models. We proposed a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Hang Zhang , Jinwei Zhang , Rongguang Wang , Qihao Zhang , Susan A. Gauthier , Pascal Spincemaille , Thanh D. Nguyen , Yi Wang

Machine learning-based imaging diagnostics has recently reached or even superseded the level of clinical experts in several clinical domains. However, classification decisions of a trained machine learning system are typically…

Lesion segmentation on computed tomography (CT) scans is an important step for precisely monitoring changes in lesion/tumor growth. This task, however, is very challenging since manual segmentation is prohibitively time-consuming,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Vatsal Agarwal , Youbao Tang , Jing Xiao , Ronald M. Summers

Accurate lesion detection in computer tomography (CT) slices benefits pathologic organ analysis in the medical diagnosis process. More recently, it has been tackled as an object detection problem using the Convolutional Neural Networks…

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