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Most recent semantic segmentation methods adopt a U-Net framework with an encoder-decoder architecture. It is still challenging for U-Net with a simple skip connection scheme to model the global multi-scale context: 1) Not each skip…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Haonan Wang , Peng Cao , Jiaqi Wang , Osmar R. Zaiane

U-Net has become one of the state-of-the-art deep learning-based approaches for modern computer vision tasks such as semantic segmentation, super resolution, image denoising, and inpainting. Previous extensions of U-Net have focused mainly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Tiange Xiang , Chaoyi Zhang , Dongnan Liu , Yang Song , Heng Huang , Weidong Cai

Deep convolutional neural network (CNN) achieves remarkable performance for medical image analysis. UNet is the primary source in the performance of 3D CNN architectures for medical imaging tasks, including brain tumor segmentation. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-30 Parvez Ahmad , Saqib Qamar , Linlin Shen , Adnan Saeed

With the introduction of spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT), much larger image datasets are routinely acquired compared to what was possible using the previous generation of time-domain OCT. Thus, the need for 3-D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-05-03 Yankui Sun , Tian Zhang

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is an emerging technique in the field of biomedical imaging, with applications in ophthalmology, dermatology, coronary imaging etc. Due to the underlying physics, OCT images usually suffer from a granular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-10 Ahmadreza Baghaie , Roshan M. D'souza , Zeyun Yu

Accurate segmentation of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) images is crucial for diagnosing and monitoring retinal diseases. However, the labor-intensive nature of pixel-level annotation limits the scalability of supervised learning for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Jiaqi Yang , Nitish Mehta , Xiaoling Hu , Chao Chen , Chia-Ling Tsai

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) helps ophthalmologists assess macular edema, accumulation of fluids, and lesions at microscopic resolution. Quantification of retinal fluids is necessary for OCT-guided treatment management, which relies…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-15 Reza Rasti , Armin Biglari , Mohammad Rezapourian , Ziyun Yang , Sina Farsiu

The vascular structure of blood vessels is important in diagnosing retinal conditions such as glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy. Accurate segmentation of these vessels can help in detecting retinal objects such as the optic disc and optic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-18 Abdullah Sarhan , Jon Rokne , Reda Alhajj , Andrew Crichton

Medical image registration plays a vital role in medical image processing. Extracting expressive representations for medical images is crucial for improving the registration quality. One common practice for this end is constructing a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-09 Jinhai Xiang , Shuai Guo , Qianru Han , Dantong Shi , Xinwei He , Xiang Bai

Automated medical image segmentation plays an important role in many clinical applications, which however is a very challenging task, due to complex background texture, lack of clear boundary and significant shape and texture variation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-26 Qikui Zhu , Liang Li , Jiangnan Hao , Yunfei Zha , Yan Zhang , Yanxiang Cheng , Fei Liao , Pingxiang Li

Automatic segmentation of retinal blood vessels from fundus images plays an important role in the computer aided diagnosis of retinal diseases. The task of blood vessel segmentation is challenging due to the extreme variations in morphology…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Avijit Dasgupta , Sonam Singh

The task of localizing and categorizing objects in medical images often remains formulated as a semantic segmentation problem. This approach, however, only indirectly solves the coarse localization task by predicting pixel-level scores,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Paul F. Jaeger , Simon A. A. Kohl , Sebastian Bickelhaupt , Fabian Isensee , Tristan Anselm Kuder , Heinz-Peter Schlemmer , Klaus H. Maier-Hein

Automated medical image segmentation is becoming increasingly crucial to modern clinical practice, driven by the growing demand for precise diagnosis, the push towards personalized treatment plans, and the advancements in machine learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-13 Tan-Hanh Pham , Xianqi Li , Kim-Doang Nguyen

We present an approach for estimating surface normals from in-the-wild color images of faces. While data-driven strategies have been proposed for single face images, limited available ground truth data makes this problem difficult. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Victoria Fernandez Abrevaya , Adnane Boukhayma , Philip H. S. Torr , Edmond Boyer

This paper proposes an automated method for the segmentation and extraction of the posterior segment of the human eye, including the vitreous, retina, choroid, and sclera compartments, using multi-vendor optical coherence tomography (OCT)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-19 Bilal Hassan , Taimur Hassan , Ramsha Ahmed , Shiyin Qin , Naoufel Werghi

Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography (OCTA) is a non-invasive imaging technique that provides high-resolution cross-sectional images of the retina, which are useful for diagnosing and monitoring various retinal diseases. However, manual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-07 Can Koz , Onat Dalmaz , Mertay Dayanc

Medical image segmentation is an important step in medical image analysis. With the rapid development of convolutional neural network in image processing, deep learning has been used for medical image segmentation, such as optic disc…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Zaiwang Gu , Jun Cheng , Huazhu Fu , Kang Zhou , Huaying Hao , Yitian Zhao , Tianyang Zhang , Shenghua Gao , Jiang Liu

Automated and accurate segmentation of cystoid structures in Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is of interest in the early detection of retinal diseases. It is, however, a challenging task. We propose a novel method for localizing cysts in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Karthik Gopinath , Jayanthi Sivaswamy

Anatomical consistency in biomarker segmentation is crucial for many medical image analysis tasks. A promising paradigm for achieving anatomically consistent segmentation via deep networks is incorporating pixel connectivity, a basic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-04 Ziyun Yang , Sina Farsiu

Vessel segmentation of retinal images is a key diagnostic capability in ophthalmology. This problem faces several challenges including low contrast, variable vessel size and thickness, and presence of interfering pathology such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Venkateswararao Cherukuri , Vijay Kumar BG , Raja Bala , Vishal Monga