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Planning of radiotherapy involves accurate segmentation of a large number of organs at risk, i.e. organs for which irradiation doses should be minimized to avoid important side effects of the therapy. We propose a deep learning method for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-04 Pawel Mlynarski , Hervé Delingette , Hamza Alghamdi , Pierre-Yves Bondiau , Nicholas Ayache

2D single-slice abdominal computed tomography (CT) enables the assessment of body habitus and organ health with low radiation exposure. However, single-slice data necessitates the use of 2D networks for segmentation, but these networks…

Neuroanatomical segmentation in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain is a prerequisite for volume, thickness and shape measurements. This work introduces a new highly accurate and versatile method based on 3D convolutional neural…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-02-07 Philip Novosad , Vladimir Fonov , D. Louis Collins

Automatic organ segmentation is an important yet challenging problem for medical image analysis. The pancreas is an abdominal organ with very high anatomical variability. This inhibits previous segmentation methods from achieving high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Holger R. Roth , Le Lu , Amal Farag , Hoo-Chang Shin , Jiamin Liu , Evrim Turkbey , Ronald M. Summers

Accurate segmentation of multiple organs of the head, neck, chest, and abdomen from medical images is an essential step in computer-aided diagnosis, surgical navigation, and radiation therapy. In the past few years, with a data-driven…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-03 Xiaoyu Liu , Linhao Qu , Ziyue Xie , Jiayue Zhao , Yonghong Shi , Zhijian Song

Brain image segmentation is used for visualizing and quantifying anatomical structures of the brain. We present an automated ap-proach using 2D deep residual dilated networks which captures rich context information of different tissues for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Hongwei Li , Andrii Zhygallo , Bjoern Menze

Abdominal organ segmentation from CT and MRI is an essential prerequisite for surgical planning and computer-aided navigation systems. It is challenging due to the high variability in the shape, size, and position of abdominal organs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Fabian Bongratz , Anne-Marie Rickmann , Christian Wachinger

We implemented and evaluated a multiple resolution residual network (MRRN) for multiple normal organs-at-risk (OAR) segmentation from computed tomography (CT) images for thoracic radiotherapy treatment (RT) planning. Our approach…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Hyemin Um , Jue Jiang , Maria Thor , Andreas Rimner , Leo Luo , Joseph O. Deasy , Harini Veeraraghavan

Boundary-based instance segmentation has drawn much attention since of its attractive efficiency. However, existing methods suffer from the difficulty in long-distance regression. In this paper, we propose a coarse-to-fine module to address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Feng Luo , Bin-Bin Gao , Jiangpeng Yan , Xiu Li

Abdominal multi-organ segmentation of computed tomography (CT) images has been the subject of extensive research interest. It presents a substantial challenge in medical image processing, as the shape and distribution of abdominal organs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Yuchen Xu , Olivia Tang , Yucheng Tang , Ho Hin Lee , Yunqiang Chen , Dashan Gao , Shizhong Han , Riqiang Gao , Michael R. Savona , Richard G. Abramson , Yuankai Huo , Bennett A. Landman

The accurate segmentation of multiple types of lesions from adjacent tissues in medical images is significant in clinical practice. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) based on the coarse-to-fine strategy have been widely used in this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-12 Xiangyu Zhao , Peng Zhang , Fan Song , Chenbin Ma , Guangda Fan , Yangyang Sun , Youdan Feng , Guanglei Zhang

Accurate segmentation of gastrointestinal (GI) organs in magnetic resonance enterography (MRE) is critical for diagnosing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). However, anatomical variability, class imbalance, and low tissue contrast hinder…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Ashiqur Rahman , Md. Abu Sayed , Md Sharjis Ibne Wadud , Md. Abu Asad Al-Hafiz , Adam Mushtak , Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury

Automated abdominal multi-organ segmentation is a crucial yet challenging task in the computer-aided diagnosis of abdominal organ-related diseases. Although numerous deep learning models have achieved remarkable success in many medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-26 Shishuai Hu , Zehui Liao , Yong Xia

Accurate segmentation is crucial for clinical applications, but existing models often assume fixed, high-resolution inputs and degrade significantly when faced with lower-resolution data in real-world scenarios. To address this limitation,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Simon Winther Albertsen , Hjalte Svaneborg Bjørnstrup , Mostafa Mehdipour Ghazi

Deep learning empowers the mainstream medical image segmentation methods. Nevertheless current deep segmentation approaches are not capable of efficiently and effectively adapting and updating the trained models when new incremental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Zhanghexuan Ji , Dazhou Guo , Puyang Wang , Ke Yan , Le Lu , Minfeng Xu , Jingren Zhou , Qifeng Wang , Jia Ge , Mingchen Gao , Xianghua Ye , Dakai Jin

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), especially fully convolutional networks, have been widely applied to automatic medical image segmentation problems, e.g., multi-organ segmentation. Existing CNN-based segmentation methods mainly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Yan Wang , Yuyin Zhou , Peng Tang , Wei Shen , Elliot K. Fishman , Alan L. Yuille

In this paper, we propose an end-to-end deep neural network for solving the problem of imbalanced large and small organ segmentation in head and neck (HaN) CT images. To conduct radiotherapy planning for nasopharyngeal cancer, more than 10…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-30 Yunhe Gao , Rui Huang , Ming Chen , Zhe Wang , Jincheng Deng , Yuanyuan Chen , Yiwei Yang , Jie Zhang , Chanjuan Tao , Hongsheng Li

Deep neural network-based semantic segmentation generally requires large-scale cost extensive annotations for training to obtain better performance. To avoid pixel-wise segmentation annotations which are needed for most methods, recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Longlong Jing , Yucheng Chen , Yingli Tian

Over half a million individuals are diagnosed with head and neck cancer each year worldwide. Radiotherapy is an important curative treatment for this disease, but it requires manual time consuming delineation of radio-sensitive organs at…

Purposes: This study aimed to develop a computed tomography (CT)-based multi-organ segmentation model for delineating organs-at-risk (OARs) in pediatric upper abdominal tumors and evaluate its robustness across multiple datasets. Materials…