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Machine learning in medical imaging often faces a fundamental dilemma, namely, the small sample size problem. Many recent studies suggest using multi-domain data pooled from different acquisition sites/centers to improve statistical power.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Hao Guan , Pew-Thian Yap , Andrea Bozoki , Mingxia Liu

Semantic segmentation of brain tumors is a fundamental medical image analysis task involving multiple MRI imaging modalities that can assist clinicians in diagnosing the patient and successively studying the progression of the malignant…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-05 Ali Hatamizadeh , Vishwesh Nath , Yucheng Tang , Dong Yang , Holger Roth , Daguang Xu

Medical image segmentation is a relevant problem, with deep learning being an exponent. However, the necessity of a high volume of fully annotated images for training massive models can be a problem, especially for applications whose images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Matheus A. Cerqueira , Flávia Sprenger , Bernardo C. A. Teixeira , Alexandre X. Falcão

This research presents an enhanced approach for precise segmentation of brain tumor masses in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using an advanced 3D-UNet model combined with a Context Transformer (CoT). By architectural expansion CoT, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Thien-Qua T. Nguyen , Hieu-Nghia Nguyen , Thanh-Hieu Bui , Thien B. Nguyen-Tat , Vuong M. Ngo

Brain tumor segmentation is often based on multiple magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). However, in clinical practice, certain modalities of MRI may be missing, which presents a more difficult scenario. To cope with this challenge, Knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Tianyi Liu , Zhaorui Tan , Muyin Chen , Xi Yang , Haochuan Jiang , Kaizhu Huang

Gliomas, the most prevalent primary brain tumors, require precise segmentation for diagnosis and treatment planning. However, this task poses significant challenges, particularly in the African population, were limited access to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-20 Mohannad Barakat , Noha Magdy , Jjuuko George William , Ethel Phiri , Raymond Confidence , Dong Zhang , Udunna C Anazodo

Deep learning methods for brain tumor segmentation are typically trained in an ad hoc fashion on all available data. Brain tumors are tremendously heterogeneous in image appearance and labeled training data is limited. We argue that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-31 Raphael Meier , Michael Rebsamen , Urspeter Knecht , Mauricio Reyes , Roland Wiest , Richard McKinley

Deep learning models for brain tumor analysis require large and diverse datasets that are often siloed across healthcare institutions due to privacy regulations. We present a federated learning framework for brain tumor localization that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Andrea Protani , Riccardo Taiello , Marc Molina Van Den Bosch , Luigi Serio

The amount of biomedical data continues to grow rapidly. However, the ability to analyze these data is limited due to privacy and regulatory concerns. Machine learning approaches that require data to be copied to a single location are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Dimitris Stripelis , Jose Luis Ambite , Pradeep Lam , Paul Thompson

In recent years, data-driven machine learning (ML) methods have revolutionized the computer vision community by providing novel efficient solutions to many unsolved (medical) image analysis problems. However, due to the increasing privacy…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-08 Cosmin I. Bercea , Benedikt Wiestler , Daniel Rueckert , Shadi Albarqouni

Accurate segmentation of cervical structures in transvaginal ultrasound (TVS) is critical for assessing the risk of spontaneous preterm birth (PTB), yet the scarcity of labeled data limits the performance of supervised learning approaches.…

Medical image segmentation is crucial for computer-aided diagnosis, yet privacy constraints hinder data sharing across institutions. Federated learning addresses this limitation, but existing approaches often rely on lightweight…

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We utilize 3-D fully convolutional neural networks (CNN) to segment gliomas and its constituents from multimodal Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI). The architecture uses dense connectivity patterns to reduce the number of weights and residual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-06 Vikas Kumar Anand , Sanjeev Grampurohit , Pranav Aurangabadkar , Avinash Kori , Mahendra Khened , Raghavendra S Bhat , Ganapathy Krishnamurthi

Brain tumors in magnetic resonance imaging (MR) are difficult, time-consuming, and prone to human error. These challenges can be resolved by developing automatic brain tumor segmentation methods from MR images. Various deep-learning models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-23 Subin Sahayam , John Michael Sujay Zakkam , Yoga Sri Varshan , Umarani Jayaraman

Motivation: Tumor classification using Imaging Mass Spectrometry (IMS) data has a high potential for future applications in pathology. Due to the complexity and size of the data, automated feature extraction and classification steps are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-28 Jens Behrmann , Christian Etmann , Tobias Boskamp , Rita Casadonte , Jörg Kriegsmann , Peter Maass

The magnetic resonance (MR) analysis of brain tumors is widely used for diagnosis and examination of tumor subregions. The overlapping area among the intensity distribution of healthy, enhancing, non-enhancing, and edema regions makes the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-01 Mohammad Hamghalam , Baiying Lei , Tianfu Wang

We explore encoding brain symmetry into a neural network for a brain tumor segmentation task. A healthy human brain is symmetric at a high level of abstraction, and the high-level asymmetric parts are more likely to be tumor regions. Paying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Hejia Zhang , Xia Zhu , Theodore L. Willke

Gliomas are among the most aggressive cancers, characterized by high mortality rates and complex diagnostic processes. Existing studies on glioma diagnosis and classification often describe issues such as high variability in imaging data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Md. Abdur Rahman , Mohaimenul Azam Khan Raiaan , Arefin Ittesafun Abian , Yan Zhang , Mirjam Jonkman , Sami Azam

Accurate segmentation of pediatric brain tumors in multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI) is critical for diagnosis, treatment planning, and monitoring, yet faces unique challenges due to limited data, high anatomical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Xiaolong Li , Zhi-Qin John Xu , Yan Ren , Tianming Qiu , Xiaowen Wang

Automatic brain tumor segmentation method plays an extremely important role in the whole process of brain tumor diagnosis and treatment. In this paper, we propose a multi-step cascaded network which takes the hierarchical topology of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-26 Xiangyu Li , Gongning Luo , Kuanquan Wang