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Purpose: The research is to develop a novel CNN-based adversarial deep learning method to improve and expedite the multi-organ semantic segmentation of CT images, and to generate accurate contours on pelvic CT images. Methods: Planning CT…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-09 Zhuangzhuang Zhang , Tianyu Zhao , Hiram Gay , Weixiong Zhang , Baozhou Sun

Deep learning models for medical image segmentation are primarily data-driven. Models trained with more data lead to improved performance and generalizability. However, training is a computationally expensive process because multiple…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-13 Vishwesh Nath , Dong Yang , Ali Hatamizadeh , Anas A. Abidin , Andriy Myronenko , Holger Roth , Daguang Xu

This study addresses critical gaps in automated lymphoma segmentation from PET/CT images, focusing on issues often overlooked in existing literature. While deep learning has been applied for lymphoma lesion segmentation, few studies…

Due to cellular heterogeneity, cell nuclei classification, segmentation, and detection from pathological images are challenging tasks. In the last few years, Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNN) approaches have been shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Md Zahangir Alom , Chris Yakopcic , Tarek M. Taha , Vijayan K. Asari

Prostate cancer is the most common malignant tumors in men but prostate Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) analysis remains challenging. Besides whole prostate gland segmentation, the capability to differentiate between the blurry boundary of…

Considering the increased workload in pathology laboratories today, automated tools such as artificial intelligence models can help pathologists with their tasks and ease the workload. In this paper, we are proposing a segmentation model…

There has recently been great progress in automatic segmentation of medical images with deep learning algorithms. In most works observer variation is acknowledged to be a problem as it makes training data heterogeneous but so far no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Arkadiy Dushatskiy , Adriënne M. Mendrik , Peter A. N. Bosman , Tanja Alderliesten

On-line segmentation of the uterus can aid effective image-based guidance for precise delivery of dose to the target tissue (the uterocervix) during cervix cancer radiotherapy. 3D ultrasound (US) can be used to image the uterus, however,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-21 Bahareh Behboodi , Hassan Rivaz , Susan Lalondrelle , Emma Harris

Residual network (ResNet) and densely connected network (DenseNet) have significantly improved the training efficiency and performance of deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) mainly for object classification tasks. In this paper, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-29 Mina Jafari , Dorothee Auer , Susan Francis , Jonathan Garibaldi , Xin Chen

Continual learning (CL) methods designed for natural image classification often fail to reach basic quality standards for medical image segmentation. Atlas-based segmentation, a well-established approach in medical imaging, incorporates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Amin Ranem , Camila González , Daniel Pinto dos Santos , Andreas M. Bucher , Ahmed E. Othman , Anirban Mukhopadhyay

The large number of trainable parameters of deep neural networks renders them inherently data hungry. This characteristic heavily challenges the medical imaging community and to make things even worse, many imaging modalities are ambiguous…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Simon Kohl , David Bonekamp , Heinz-Peter Schlemmer , Kaneschka Yaqubi , Markus Hohenfellner , Boris Hadaschik , Jan-Philipp Radtke , Klaus Maier-Hein

We explore the use of deep learning for breast mass segmentation in mammograms. By integrating the merits of residual learning and probabilistic graphical modelling with standard U-Net, we propose a new deep network, Conditional Residual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Heyi Li , Dongdong Chen , Bill Nailon , Mike Davies , Dave Laurenson

We evaluated the temporal performance of a deep learning (DL) based artificial intelligence (AI) model for auto segmentation in prostate radiotherapy, seeking to correlate its efficacy with changes in clinical landscapes. Our study involved…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-17 Biling Wang , Michael Dohopolski , Ti Bai , Junjie Wu , Raquibul Hannan , Neil Desai , Aurelie Garant , Daniel Yang , Dan Nguyen , Mu-Han Lin , Robert Timmerman , Xinlei Wang , Steve Jiang

Tumor volume segmentation on MRI is a challenging and time-consuming process that is performed manually in typical clinical settings. This work presents an approach to automated delineation of head and neck tumors on MRI scans, developed in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-10 Andrei Iantsen

Prostate cancer is one of the common diseases in men, and it is the most common malignant tumor in developed countries. Studies have shown that the male prostate incidence rate is as high as 2.5% to 16%, Currently, the inci-dence of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-23 Xiangxiang Qin

Image segmentation is widely used in a variety of computer vision tasks, such as object localization and recognition, boundary detection, and medical imaging. This thesis proposes deep learning architectures to improve automatic object…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-24 Debleena Sengupta

The segmentation of ultra-high resolution images poses challenges such as loss of spatial information or computational inefficiency. In this work, a novel approach that combines encoder-decoder architectures with domain decomposition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Corné Verburg , Alexander Heinlein , Eric C. Cyr

The segmentation of prostate whole gland and transition zone in Diffusion Weighted MRI (DWI) are the first step in designing computer-aided detection algorithms for prostate cancer. However, variations in MRI acquisition parameters and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-29 Saman Motamed , Isha Gujrathi , Dominik Deniffel , Anton Oentoro , Masoom A. Haider , Farzad Khalvati

U-net is an image segmentation technique developed primarily for medical image analysis that can precisely segment images using a scarce amount of training data. These traits provide U-net with a very high utility within the medical imaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-10 Nahian Siddique , Paheding Sidike , Colin Elkin , Vijay Devabhaktuni

The emergence of multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI) has had a profound impact on the diagnosis of prostate cancers (PCa), which is the most prevalent malignancy in males in the western world, enabling a better selection of…