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Renal cancer is one of the most prevalent cancers worldwide. Clinical signs of kidney cancer include hematuria and low back discomfort, which are quite distressing to the patient. Some surgery-based renal cancer treatments like laparoscopic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-06 Zhenyu Bu , Kai-Ni Wang , Guang-Quan Zhou

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common fatal cancer in the world. Polypectomy can effectively interrupt the progression of adenoma to adenocarcinoma, thus reducing the risk of CRC development. Colonoscopy is the primary method to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-19 Zihuan Qiu , Zhichuan Wang , Miaomiao Zhang , Ziyong Xu , Jie Fan , Linfeng Xu

Breast ultrasound imaging is a valuable tool for early breast cancer detection, but automated tumor segmentation is challenging due to inherent noise, variations in scale of lesions, and fuzzy boundaries. To address these challenges, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Muhammad Azeem Aslam , Asim Naveed , Nisar Ahmed

In colonoscopy, 80% of the missed polyps could be detected with the help of Deep Learning models. In the search for algorithms capable of addressing this challenge, foundation models emerge as promising candidates. Their zero-shot or…

Early-stage 3D brain tumor segmentation from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans is crucial for prompt and effective treatment. However, this process faces the challenge of precise delineation due to the tumors' complex heterogeneity.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Ebtihal J. Alwadee , Xianfang Sun , Yipeng Qin , Frank C. Langbein

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers and a leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States. Colorectal polyps that grow on the intima of the colon or rectum is an important precursor for CRC. Currently,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-30 Xinzi Sun , Pengfei Zhang , Dechun Wang , Yu Cao , Benyuan Liu

In saliency detection, every pixel needs contextual information to make saliency prediction. Previous models usually incorporate contexts holistically. However, for each pixel, usually only part of its context region is useful and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Nian Liu , Junwei Han , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Polyp segmentation plays a crucial role in the early detection and diagnosis of colorectal cancer. However, obtaining accurate segmentations often requires labor-intensive annotations and specialized models. Recently, Meta AI Research…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Mobina Mansoori , Sajjad Shahabodini , Jamshid Abouei , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis , Arash Mohammadi

Fine-tuning a network which has been trained on a large dataset is an alternative to full training in order to overcome the problem of scarce and expensive data in medical applications. While the shallow layers of the network are usually…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-21 Mina Amiri , Rupert Brooks , Hassan Rivaz

Despite the great progress made by deep CNNs in image semantic segmentation, they typically require a large number of densely-annotated images for training and are difficult to generalize to unseen object categories. Few-shot segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Kaixin Wang , Jun Hao Liew , Yingtian Zou , Daquan Zhou , Jiashi Feng

We address the problem of weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) using bounding box annotations. Although object bounding boxes are good indicators to segment corresponding objects, they do not specify object boundaries, making it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Youngmin Oh , Beomjun Kim , Bumsub Ham

Polyp segmentation in colonoscopy is crucial for detecting colorectal cancer. However, it is challenging due to variations in the structure, color, and size of polyps, as well as the lack of clear boundaries with surrounding tissues.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Tapas Kumar Dutta , Snehashis Majhi , Deepak Ranjan Nayak , Debesh Jha

Polyp segmentation in colonoscopy images is crucial for early detection and diagnosis of colorectal cancer. However, this task remains a significant challenge due to the substantial variations in polyp shape, size, and color, as well as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Tapas K. Dutta , Snehashis Majhi , Deepak Ranjan Nayak , Debesh Jha

In recent years, computer-aided automatic polyp segmentation and neoplasm detection have been an emerging topic in medical image analysis, providing valuable support to colonoscopy procedures. Attentions have been paid to improving the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-02 Nguyen Sy An , Phan Ngoc Lan , Dao Viet Hang , Dao Van Long , Tran Quang Trung , Nguyen Thi Thuy , Dinh Viet Sang

Real-time polyp segmentation is essential for early colorectal cancer detection, yet clinical deployment remains blocked by GPU dependency. We introduce the UltraSeg family, a set of CPU-native segmentation models operating below 0.3M…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Weihao Gao , Zhuo Deng , Zheng Gong , Lan Ma

Early detection, accurate segmentation, classification and tracking of polyps during colonoscopy are critical for preventing colorectal cancer. Many existing deep-learning-based methods for analyzing colonoscopic videos either require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Anwesa Choudhuri , Zhongpai Gao , Meng Zheng , Benjamin Planche , Terrence Chen , Ziyan Wu

Labeling medical images depends on professional knowledge, making it difficult to acquire large amount of annotated medical images with high quality in a short time. Thus, making good use of limited labeled samples in a small dataset to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Peng Jiang , Juan Liu , Lang Wang , Zhihui Ynag , Hongyu Dong , Jing Feng

Incorporating human domain knowledge for breast tumor diagnosis is challenging, since shape, boundary, curvature, intensity, or other common medical priors vary significantly across patients and cannot be employed. This work proposes a new…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-03 Aleksandar Vakanski , Min Xian , Phoebe Freer

Colorectal polyps are key indicators for early detection of colorectal cancer. However, traditional endoscopic imaging often struggles with accurate polyp localization and lacks comprehensive contextual awareness, which can limit the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Teja Krishna Cherukuri , Nagur Shareef Shaik , Sribhuvan Reddy Yellu , Jun-Won Chung , Dong Hye Ye

Segmentation using deep learning has shown promising directions in medical imaging as it aids in the analysis and diagnosis of diseases. Nevertheless, a main drawback of deep models is that they require a large amount of pixel-level labels,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Sukesh Adiga , Jose Dolz , Herve Lombaert