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Radiation therapy (RT) is widely employed in the clinic for the treatment of head and neck (HaN) cancers. An essential step of RT planning is the accurate segmentation of various organs-at-risks (OARs) in HaN CT images. Nevertheless,…

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Deep learning approaches have achieved state-of-the-art performance in cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) image segmentation. However, most approaches have focused on learning image intensity features for segmentation, whereas the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Jinming Duan , Ghalib Bello , Jo Schlemper , Wenjia Bai , Timothy J W Dawes , Carlo Biffi , Antonio de Marvao , Georgia Doumou , Declan P O'Regan , Daniel Rueckert

We propose a method for automatic segmentation of individual muscles from a clinical CT. The method uses Bayesian convolutional neural networks with the U-Net architecture, using Monte Carlo dropout that infers an uncertainty metric in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-10 Yuta Hiasa , Yoshito Otake , Masaki Takao , Takeshi Ogawa , Nobuhiko Sugano , Yoshinobu Sato

Advancements in medical imaging and endovascular grafting have facilitated minimally invasive treatments for aortic diseases. Accurate 3D segmentation of the aorta and its branches is crucial for interventions, as inaccurate segmentation…

Tomography medical imaging is essential in the clinical workflow of modern cancer radiotherapy. Radiation oncologists identify cancerous tissues, applying delineation on treatment regions throughout all image slices. This kind of task is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Chun-Hung Chao , Yen-Chi Cheng , Hsien-Tzu Cheng , Chi-Wen Huang , Tsung-Ying Ho , Chen-Kan Tseng , Le Lu , Min Sun

Convolutional networks have become state-of-the-art techniques for automatic medical image analysis, with the U-net architecture being the most popular at this moment. In this article we report the application of a 3D version of U-net to…

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Medical images used in clinical practice are heterogeneous and not the same quality as scans studied in academic research. Preprocessing breaks down in extreme cases when anatomy, artifacts, or imaging parameters are unusual or protocols…

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Brain tumor segmentation plays a pivotal role in medical image processing. In this work, we aim to segment brain MRI volumes. 3D convolution neural networks (CNN) such as 3D U-Net and V-Net employing 3D convolutions to capture the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Chen Chen , Xiaopeng Liu , Meng Ding , Junfeng Zheng , Jiangyun Li

Detection of buildings and other objects from aerial images has various applications in urban planning and map making. Automated building detection from aerial imagery is a challenging task, as it is prone to varying lighting conditions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Clint Sebastian , Bas Boom , Thijs van Lankveld , Egor Bondarev , Peter H. N. De With

We present extraction of tree structures, such as airways, from image data as a graph refinement task. To this end, we propose a graph auto-encoder model that uses an encoder based on graph neural networks (GNNs) to learn embeddings from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Raghavendra Selvan , Thomas Kipf , Max Welling , Jesper H. Pedersen , Jens Petersen , Marleen de Bruijne

This paper presents a novel unsupervised segmentation method for 3D medical images. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have brought significant advances in image segmentation. However, most of the recent methods rely on supervised…

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For the task of subdecimeter aerial imagery segmentation, fine-grained semantic segmentation results are usually difficult to obtain because of complex remote sensing content and optical conditions. Recently, convolutional neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Kai Yue , Lei Yang , Ruirui Li , Wei Hu , Fan Zhang , Wei Li

Segmentation is one of the most significant steps in image processing. Segmenting an image is a technique that makes it possible to separate a digital image into various areas based on the different characteristics of pixels in the image.…

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Purpose: To enable fast and reliable assessment of subcutaneous and visceral adipose tissue compartments derived from whole-body MRI. Methods: Quantification and localization of different adipose tissue compartments from whole-body MR…

Automated segmentation of distinct tumor regions is critical for accurate diagnosis and treatment planning in pediatric brain tumors. This study evaluates the efficacy of the Multi-Planner U-Net (MPUnet) approach in segmenting different…

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Delineation approaches provide significant benefits to various domains, including agriculture, environmental and natural disasters monitoring. Most of the work in the literature utilize traditional segmentation methods that require a large…

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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.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-12 N. Khalili , N. Lessmann , E. Turk , N. Claessens , R. de Heus , T. Kolk , M. A. Viergever , M. J. N. L. Benders , I. Isgum

Automated detection of curvilinear structures, e.g., blood vessels or nerve fibres, from medical and biomedical images is a crucial early step in automatic image interpretation associated to the management of many diseases. Precise…

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