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Image segmentation is a primary task in many medical applications. Recently, many deep networks derived from U-Net have been extensively used in various medical image segmentation tasks. However, in most of the cases, networks similar to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Balamurali Murugesan , Kaushik Sarveswaran , Sharath M Shankaranarayana , Keerthi Ram , Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam

While deep learning has significantly advanced medical image segmentation, most existing methods still struggle with handling complex anatomical regions. Cascaded or deep supervision-based approaches attempt to address this challenge…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Tao Chen , Chenhui Wang , Zhihao Chen , Hongming Shan

Robust segmentation for non-elongated tissues in medical images is hard to realize due to the large variation of the shape, size, and appearance of these tissues in different patients. In this paper, we present an end-to-end trainable deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-06 Qian Yu , Yinghuan Shi , Yefeng Zheng , Yang Gao , Jianbing Zhu , Yakang Dai

Report generation models offer fine-grained textual interpretations of medical images like chest X-rays, yet they often lack interactivity (i.e. the ability to steer the generation process through user queries) and localized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Philip Müller , Georgios Kaissis , Daniel Rueckert

Deep learning-based cardiac segmentation has seen significant advancements over the years. Many studies have tackled the challenge of anatomically incorrect segmentation predictions by introducing auxiliary modules. These modules either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Zahid Ullah , Jihie Kim

Purpose: We perform anatomical landmarking for craniomaxillofacial (CMF) bones without explicitly segmenting them. Towards this, we propose a new simple yet efficient deep network architecture, called \textit{relational reasoning network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Neslisah Torosdagli , Syed Anwar , Payal Verma , Denise K Liberton , Janice S. Lee , Wade W. Han , Ulas Bagci

Rapid and precise diagnosis of COVID-19 is one of the major challenges faced by the global community to control the spread of this overgrowing pandemic. In this paper, a hybrid neural network is proposed, named CovTANet, to provide an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-05 Tanvir Mahmud , Md. Jahin Alam , Sakib Chowdhury , Shams Nafisa Ali , Md Maisoon Rahman , Shaikh Anowarul Fattah , Mohammad Saquib

Chest radiography is an effective screening tool for diagnosing pulmonary diseases. In computer-aided diagnosis, extracting the relevant region of interest, i.e., isolating the lung region of each radiography image, can be an essential step…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-23 Hilda Azimi , Jianxing Zhang , Pengcheng Xi , Hala Asad , Ashkan Ebadi , Stephane Tremblay , Alexander Wong

Computed tomography (CT) generates a stack of cross-sectional images covering a region of the body. The visual assessment of these images for the identification of potential abnormalities is a challenging and time consuming task due to the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-03 Petros-Pavlos Ypsilantis , Giovanni Montana

Despite the success of deep neural networks in chest X-ray (CXR) diagnosis, supervised learning only allows the prediction of disease classes that were seen during training. At inference, these networks cannot predict an unseen disease…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Nasir Hayat , Hazem Lashen , Farah E. Shamout

Timely and affordable computer-aided diagnosis of retinal diseases is pivotal in precluding blindness. Accurate retinal vessel segmentation plays an important role in disease progression and diagnosis of such vision-threatening diseases. To…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-26 Tariq M. Khan , Syed S. Naqvi , Antonio Robles-Kelly , Imran Razzak

Tissue awareness has a great demand to improve surgical accuracy in minimally invasive procedures. In arthroscopy, it is one of the challenging tasks due to surgical sites exhibit limited features and textures. Moreover, arthroscopic…

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Over the last year, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) and its variants have highlighted the importance of screening tools with high diagnostic accuracy for new illnesses such as COVID-19. To that regard, deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-26 Danilo Avola , Andrea Bacciu , Luigi Cinque , Alessio Fagioli , Marco Raoul Marini , Riccardo Taiello

The medical image is characterized by the inter-class indistinction, high variability, and noise, where the recognition of pixels is challenging. Unlike previous self-attention based methods that capture context information from one level,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Fei Ding , Gang Yang , Jinlu Liu , Jun Wu , Dayong Ding , Jie Xv , Gangwei Cheng , Xirong Li

Chest X-ray is one of the most widespread examinations of the human body. In interventional radiology, its use is frequently associated with the need to visualize various tube-like objects, such as puncture needles, guiding sheaths, wires,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-15 Ilyas Sirazitdinov , Heinrich Schulz , Axel Saalbach , Steffen Renisch , Dmitry V. Dylov

Chest computed tomography (CT) is central to the detection and management of thoracic disease, yet the growing scale and complexity of volumetric imaging increasingly exceed what can be addressed by scan-level prediction alone. Clinically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Xuguang Bai , Mingxuan Liu , Tongxi Song , Yifei Chen , Hongjia Yang , Kasidit Anmahapong , Zihan Li , Ying Zhou , Qiyuan Tian

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

The diagnosis and treatment of chest diseases play a crucial role in maintaining human health. X-ray examination has become the most common clinical examination means due to its efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Artificial intelligence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Jingfeng Yao , Xinggang Wang , Yuehao Song , Huangxuan Zhao , Jun Ma , Yajie Chen , Wenyu Liu , Bo Wang

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to devastate globally, the use of chest X-ray (CXR) imaging as a complimentary screening strategy to RT-PCR testing continues to grow given its routine clinical use for respiratory complaint. As part of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-17 Maya Pavlova , Naomi Terhljan , Audrey G. Chung , Andy Zhao , Siddharth Surana , Hossein Aboutalebi , Hayden Gunraj , Ali Sabri , Amer Alaref , Alexander Wong

Fast diagnosis and treatment of pneumothorax, a collapsed or dropped lung, is crucial to avoid fatalities. Pneumothorax is typically detected on a chest X-ray image through visual inspection by experienced radiologists. However, the…

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