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Semantic segmentation of remote sensing images is essential for various applications, including vegetation monitoring, disaster management, and urban planning. Previous studies have demonstrated that the self-attention mechanism (SA) is an…

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We propose a segmentation framework that uses deep neural networks and introduce two innovations. First, we describe a biophysics-based domain adaptation method. Second, we propose an automatic method to segment white and gray matter, and…

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Tumor treating fields (TTFields) is an FDA approved therapy for the treatment of Gliobastoma Multiform (GBM) and currently being investigated for additional tumor types. TTFields are delivered to the tumor through the placement of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-27 Reuben R Shamir , Zeev Bomzon

Accurate quantification in positron emission tomography (PET) is essential for accurate diagnostic results and effective treatment tracking. A major issue encountered in PET imaging is attenuation. Attenuation refers to the diminution of…

The Standardized Uptake Value (SUV) is a critical metric in positron emission tomography (PET) imaging, used to assess metabolic activity. However, calculating SUV from DICOM files presents challenges due to vendor-specific DICOM attributes…

Automated segmentation of large volumes of medical images is often plagued by the limited availability of fully annotated data and the diversity of organ surface properties resulting from the use of different acquisition protocols for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Yazhou Zhu , Shidong Wang , Tong Xin , Haofeng Zhang

Introducing explicit constraints on the structural predictions has been an effective way to improve the performance of semantic segmentation models. Existing methods are mainly based on insufficient hand-crafted rules that only partially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Boxi Wu , Shuai Zhao , Wenqing Chu , Zheng Yang , Deng Cai

We propose a magnetic resonance (MR)-based method for estimation of continuous linear attenuation coefficients (LAC) in positron emission tomography (PET) using a physical compartmental model and ultrashort echo time (UTE)/multi-echo Dixon…

In this paper, we present a novel region-based segmentation method for cortical spreading depressions in 2-photon microscopy images. Fluorescent microscopy has become an important tool in neuroscience, but segmentation approaches are…

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In this work it is proposed a medical image segmentation pipeline for accurate bone segmentation from CT imaging. It is a two-step methodology, with a pre-segmentation step and a segmentation refinement step. First, the user performs a…

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Image segmentation is a complex mathematical problem, especially for images that contain intensity inhomogeneity and tightly packed objects with missing boundaries in between. For instance, Magnetic Resonance (MR) muscle images often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Paramjyoti Mohapatra , Richard Lartey , Weihong Guo , Michael Judkovich , Xiaojuan Li

Recent advances in 3D fully convolutional networks (FCN) have made it feasible to produce dense voxel-wise predictions of volumetric images. In this work, we show that a multi-class 3D FCN trained on manually labeled CT scans of several…

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The clinical interest is often to measure the volume of a structure, which is typically derived from a segmentation. In order to evaluate and compare segmentation methods, the similarity between a segmentation and a predefined ground truth…

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Medical Image Segmentation is a useful application for medical image analysis including detecting diseases and abnormalities in imaging modalities such as MRI, CT etc. Deep learning has proven to be promising for this task but usually has a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-08 Soham Bhosale , Arjun Krishna , Ge Wang , Klaus Mueller

In this work we propose a deep adaptive sampling (DAS) method for solving partial differential equations (PDEs), where deep neural networks are utilized to approximate the solutions of PDEs and deep generative models are employed to…

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Background/Aims: Standard Automated Perimetry (SAP) is the gold standard to monitor visual field (VF) loss in glaucoma management, but is prone to intra-subject variability. We developed and validated a deep learning (DL) regression model…

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Accurate segmentation of tubular and curvilinear structures, such as blood vessels, neurons, and road networks, is crucial in various applications. A key challenge is ensuring topological correctness while maintaining computational…

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Annotating medical images demands significant time and expertise, often requiring pathologists to invest hundreds of hours in labeling mammary epithelial nuclei datasets. We address this critical challenge by achieving 95.5% Dice score…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Varun Kumar Dasoju , Qingsu Cheng , Zeyun Yu

Segmenting histology images into diagnostically relevant regions is imperative to support timely and reliable decisions by pathologists. To this end, computer-aided techniques have been proposed to delineate relevant regions in scanned…