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COVID-19 is a global health problem. Consequently, early detection and analysis of the infection patterns are crucial for controlling infection spread as well as devising a treatment plan. This work proposes a two-stage deep Convolutional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-21 Saddam Hussain Khan , Anabia Sohail , Asifullah Khan , Yeon Soo Lee

Automated CT report generation plays a crucial role in improving diagnostic accuracy and clinical workflow efficiency. However, existing methods lack interpretability and impede patient-clinician understanding, while their static nature…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-06 Yannian Gu , Wenhui Lei , Hanyu Chen , Xiaofan Zhang , Shaoting Zhang

Quantifying COVID-19 infection over time is an important task to manage the hospitalization of patients during a global pandemic. Recently, deep learning-based approaches have been proposed to help radiologists automatically quantify…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-22 Tobias Czempiel , Coco Rogers , Matthias Keicher , Magdalini Paschali , Rickmer Braren , Egon Burian , Marcus Makowski , Nassir Navab , Thomas Wendler , Seong Tae Kim

We propose a new iterative segmentation model which can be accurately learned from a small dataset. A common approach is to train a model to directly segment an image, requiring a large collection of manually annotated images to capture the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Danielle F. Pace , Adrian V. Dalca , Tom Brosch , Tal Geva , Andrew J. Powell , Jürgen Weese , Mehdi H. Moghari , Polina Golland

Automated semantic image segmentation is an essential step in quantitative image analysis and disease diagnosis. This study investigates the performance of a deep learning-based model for lung segmentation from CT images for normal and…

The pandemic of novel SARS-CoV-2 also known as COVID-19 has been spreading worldwide, causing rampant loss of lives. Medical imaging such as CT, X-ray, etc., plays a significant role in diagnosing the patients by presenting the visual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Narinder Singh Punn , Sonali Agarwal

Automated detecting lung infections from computed tomography (CT) data plays an important role for combating COVID-19. However, there are still some challenges for developing AI system. 1) Most current COVID-19 infection segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-11 Liansheng Wang , Jiacheng Wang , Lei Zhu , Huazhu Fu , Ping Li , Gary Cheng , Zhipeng Feng , Shuo Li , Pheng-Ann Heng

Semantic segmentation of medical images is an essential first step in computer-aided diagnosis systems for many applications. However, given many disparate imaging modalities and inherent variations in the patient data, it is difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Bhavani Sambaturu , Ashutosh Gupta , C. V. Jawahar , Chetan Arora

In recent years, there has been a notable increase in the level of attention that is given to algorithms based on deep learning in the context of medical image segmentation. Nevertheless, the reliability of the field has been hindered due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Sarmad Khan , Arslan Shaukat , Umer Asgher , Basim Azam

This paper proposes an automated segmentation method of infection and normal regions in the lung from CT volumes of COVID-19 patients. From December 2019, novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) spreads over the world and giving…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-11 Masahiro Oda , Yuichiro Hayashi , Yoshito Otake , Masahiro Hashimoto , Toshiaki Akashi , Kensaku Mori

In this contribution, a semi-automatic segmentation algorithm for (medical) image analysis is presented. More precise, the approach belongs to the category of interactive contouring algorithms, which provide real-time feedback of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-06-10 Jan Egger

Understanding chest CT imaging of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) will help detect infections early and assess the disease progression. Especially, automated severity assessment of COVID-19 in CT images plays an essential role in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-26 Kelei He , Wei Zhao , Xingzhi Xie , Wen Ji , Mingxia Liu , Zhenyu Tang , Feng Shi , Yang Gao , Jun Liu , Junfeng Zhang , Dinggang Shen

Background: Triage of patients is important to control the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), especially during the peak of the pandemic when clinical resources become extremely limited. Purpose: To develop a method that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-14 Mengqiu Liu , Ying Liu , Yidong Yang , Aiping Liu , Shana Li , Changbing Qu , Xiaohui Qiu , Yang Li , Weifu Lv , Peng Zhang , Jie Wen

The novelty of the COVID-19 disease and the speed of spread has created a colossal chaos, impulse among researchers worldwide to exploit all the resources and capabilities to understand and analyze characteristics of the coronavirus in term…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-07 Omar Elharrouss , Nandhini Subramanian , Somaya Al-Maadeed

Automatic lung lesions segmentation of chest CT scans is considered a pivotal stage towards accurate diagnosis and severity measurement of COVID-19. Traditional U-shaped encoder-decoder architecture and its variants suffer from diminutions…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-04 Tanvir Mahmud , Md Awsafur Rahman , Shaikh Anowarul Fattah , Sun-Yuan Kung

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has resulted in a pandemic crippling the a breadth of services critical to daily life. Segmentation of lung infections in computerized tomography (CT) slices could be be used to improve diagnosis and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Aritra Chowdhury , Alberto Santamaria-Pang , James R. Kubricht , Jianwei Qiu , Peter Tu

This paper presents a new approach for effective segmentation of images that can be integrated into any model and methodology; the paradigm that we choose is classification of medical images (3-D chest CT scans) for Covid-19 detection. Our…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-25 Dimitrios Kollias , Anastasios Arsenos , James Wingate , Stefanos Kollias

In this study, we propose a robust methodology for automatic segmentation of infected lung regions in COVID-19 CT scans using convolutional neural networks. The approach is based on a modified U-Net architecture enhanced with attention…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-20 Amal Lahchim , Lazar Davic

The purpose of this study was to develop a fully-automated segmentation algorithm, robust to various density enhancing lung abnormalities, to facilitate rapid quantitative analysis of computed tomography images. A polymorphic training…

Medical image classification and segmentation based on deep learning (DL) are emergency research topics for diagnosing variant viruses of the current COVID-19 situation. In COVID-19 computed tomography (CT) images of the lungs, ground glass…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-08 Shiyi Wang , Guang Yang