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Maternal-fetal Ultrasound is the primary modality for monitoring fetal development, yet automated segmentation remains challenging due to the scarcity of high-quality annotations. To address this limitation, we propose a semi-supervised…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Fangyijie Wang , Guénolé Silvestre , Kathleen M. Curran

Purpose: To develop and validate a computer tool for automatic and simultaneous segmentation of body composition depicted on computed tomography (CT) scans for the following tissues: visceral adipose (VAT), subcutaneous adipose (SAT),…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-17 Lucy Pu , Syed F. Ashraf , Naciye S Gezer , Iclal Ocak , Rajeev Dhupar

Segmentation of biomedical images can assist radiologists to make a better diagnosis and take decisions faster by helping in the detection of abnormalities, such as tumors. Manual or semi-automated segmentation, however, can be a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-11 Dhanunjaya Mitta , Soumick Chatterjee , Oliver Speck , Andreas Nürnberger

Automatic medical image segmentation is a fundamental step in computer-aided diagnosis, yet fully supervised approaches demand extensive pixel-level annotations that are costly and time-consuming. To alleviate this burden, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Lei Shi , Gang Li , Junxing Zhang

Vertebral body (VB) segmentation is an important preliminary step towards medical visual diagnosis for spinal diseases. However, most previous works require pixel/voxel-wise strong supervisions, which is expensive, tedious and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Shiqi Peng , Bolin Lai , Guangyu Yao , Xiaoyun Zhang , Ya Zhang , Yan-Feng Wang , Hui Zhao

Despite that deep learning has achieved state-of-the-art performance for medical image segmentation, its success relies on a large set of manually annotated images for training that are expensive to acquire. In this paper, we propose an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-01 Lu Wang , Dong Guo , Guotai Wang , Shaoting Zhang

Whole abdominal organ segmentation is important in diagnosing abdomen lesions, radiotherapy, and follow-up. However, oncologists' delineating all abdominal organs from 3D volumes is time-consuming and very expensive. Deep learning-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-14 Xiangde Luo , Wenjun Liao , Jianghong Xiao , Jieneng Chen , Tao Song , Xiaofan Zhang , Kang Li , Dimitris N. Metaxas , Guotai Wang , Shaoting Zhang

Along with the breakthrough of convolutional neural networks, learning-based segmentation has emerged in many research works. Most of them are based on supervised learning, requiring plenty of annotated data; however, to support…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Junhuan Yang , Yi Sheng , Yuzhou Zhang , Weiwen Jiang , Lei Yang

Liver lesion segmentation is an important step for liver cancer diagnosis, treatment planning and treatment evaluation. LiTS (Liver Tumor Segmentation Challenge) provides a common testbed for comparing different automatic liver lesion…

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Blood vessels of the brain provide the human brain with the required nutrients and oxygen. As a vulnerable part of the cerebral blood supply, pathology of small vessels can cause serious problems such as Cerebral Small Vessel Diseases…

Performance metrics for medical image segmentation models are used to measure the agreement between the reference annotation and the predicted segmentation. Usually, overlap metrics, such as the Dice, are used as a metric to evaluate the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Sophie Ostmeier , Brian Axelrod , Jeroen Bertels , Fabian Isensee , Maarten G. Lansberg , Soren Christensen , Gregory W. Albers , Li-Jia Li , Jeremy J. Heit

Accurate and automated tumor segmentation is highly desired since it has the great potential to increase the efficiency and reproducibility of computing more complete tumor measurements and imaging biomarkers, comparing to (often partial)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-26 Ling Zhang , Yu Shi , Jiawen Yao , Yun Bian , Kai Cao , Dakai Jin , Jing Xiao , Le Lu

Accurate segmentation of brain resection cavities (RCs) aids in postoperative analysis and determining follow-up treatment. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are the state-of-the-art image segmentation technique, but require large…

Brain tumor segmentation presents a formidable challenge in the field of Medical Image Segmentation. While deep-learning models have been useful, human expert segmentation remains the most accurate method. The recently released Segment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-11 Mohammad Peivandi , Jason Zhang , Michael Lu , Dongxiao Zhu , Zhifeng Kou

Although the U-Net architecture has been extensively used for segmentation of medical images, we address two of its shortcomings in this work. Firstly, the accuracy of vanilla U-Net degrades when the target regions for segmentation exhibit…

Vision transformers, with their ability to more efficiently model long-range context, have demonstrated impressive accuracy gains in several computer vision and medical image analysis tasks including segmentation. However, such methods need…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-27 Jue Jiang , Neelam Tyagi , Kathryn Tringale , Christopher Crane , Harini Veeraraghavan

Accurate segmentation of kidneys and kidney tumors is an essential step for radiomic analysis as well as developing advanced surgical planning techniques. In clinical analysis, the segmentation is currently performed by clinicians from the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-05 Wenshuai Zhao , Dihong Jiang , Jorge Peña Queralta , Tomi Westerlund

We propose a method for automatic segmentation of individual muscles from a clinical CT. The method uses Bayesian convolutional neural networks with the U-Net architecture, using Monte Carlo dropout that infers an uncertainty metric in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-10 Yuta Hiasa , Yoshito Otake , Masaki Takao , Takeshi Ogawa , Nobuhiko Sugano , Yoshinobu Sato

Most of the current state-of-the-art methods for tumor segmentation are based on machine learning models trained on manually segmented images. This type of training data is particularly costly, as manual delineation of tumors is not only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Pawel Mlynarski , Hervé Delingette , Antonio Criminisi , Nicholas Ayache