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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused great casualties and becomes almost the most urgent public health events worldwide. Computed tomography (CT) is a significant screening tool for COVID-19 infection, and automated segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-11 Xiangyu Zhao , Peng Zhang , Fan Song , Guangda Fan , Yangyang Sun , Yujia Wang , Zheyuan Tian , Luqi Zhang , Guanglei Zhang

Image segmentation plays a crucial role in extracting important objects of interest from images, enabling various applications. While existing methods have shown success in segmenting clean images, they often struggle to produce accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Han Zhang , Daoping Zhang , Lok Ming Lui

Interactive segmentation aims to segment the specified target on the image with positive and negative clicks from users. Interactive ambiguity is a crucial issue in this field, which refers to the possibility of multiple compliant outcomes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Zheng Lin , Nan Zhou , Chen-Xi Du , Deng-Ping Fan , Shi-Min Hu

Early and accurate diagnosis of interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) is crucial for making treatment decisions, but can be challenging even for experienced radiologists. The diagnostic procedure is based on the detection and recognition of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Marios Anthimopoulos , Stergios Christodoulidis , Lukas Ebner , Thomas Geiser , Andreas Christe , Stavroula Mougiakakou

This study aimed to evaluate the performance of a novel unsupervised deep learning-based framework for automated infections lesion segmentation from CT images of Covid patients. In the first step, two residual networks were independently…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-25 Faeze Gholamian Khah , Samaneh Mostafapour , Seyedjafar Shojaerazavi , Nouraddin Abdi-Goushbolagh , Hossein Arabi

(This paper was submitted as an invited paper to IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering on April 6, 2020.) The pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is spreading all over the world. Medical imaging such as X-ray and computed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-21 Feng Shi , Jun Wang , Jun Shi , Ziyan Wu , Qian Wang , Zhenyu Tang , Kelei He , Yinghuan Shi , Dinggang Shen

The devastation caused by the coronavirus pandemic makes it imperative to design automated techniques for a fast and accurate detection. We propose a novel non-invasive tool, using deep learning and imaging, for delineating COVID-19…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-26 Surochita Pal Das , Sushmita Mitra , B. Uma Shankar

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread globally and become a health crisis faced by humanity since first reported. Radiology imaging technologies such as computer tomography (CT) and chest X-ray imaging (CXR) are effective tools for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-05 Hongyan Xu , Dadong Wang , Arcot Sowmya

Interactive segmentation allows efficient label generation by leveraging user-provided clicks to progressively refine predictions, which is critical when fully supervised labels are costly or generalization to unseen classes is needed.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xueyang Kang , Zijian Yu , Kourosh Khoshelham , Liangliang Nan

We propose an automatic COVID1-19 diagnosis framework from lung CT-scan slice images using double BERT feature extraction. In the first BERT feature extraction, A 3D-CNN is first used to extract CNN internal feature maps. Instead of using…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-01 Weijun Tan , Qi Yao , Jingfeng Liu

This paper presents our solution for the 2nd COVID-19 Severity Detection Competition. This task aims to distinguish the Mild, Moderate, Severe, and Critical grades in COVID-19 chest CT images. In our approach, we devise a novel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-02 Junlin Hou , Jilan Xu , Nan Zhang , Yuejie Zhang , Xiaobo Zhang , Rui Feng

Automatic segmentation of lung lesions associated with COVID-19 in CT images requires large amount of annotated volumes. Annotations mandate expert knowledge and are time-intensive to obtain through fully manual segmentation methods.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Muhammad Asad , Lucas Fidon , Tom Vercauteren

Early detection of COVID-19 is vital to control its spread. Deep learning methods have been presented to detect suggestive signs of COVID-19 from chest CT images. However, due to the novelty of the disease, annotated volumetric data are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-18 Azael M. Sousa , Fabiano Reis , Rachel Zerbini , João L. D. Comba , Alexandre X. Falcão

Deep learning techniques have shown great potential in medical image processing, particularly through accurate and reliable image segmentation on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans or computed tomography (CT) scans, which allow the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-10 Yang Liu , Ersi Zhang , Lulu Xu , Chufan Xiao , Xiaoyun Zhong , Lijin Lian , Fang Li , Bin Jiang , Yuhan Dong , Lan Ma , Qiming Huang , Ming Xu , Yongbing Zhang , Dongmei Yu , Chenggang Yan , Peiwu Qin

In this work it is proposed a medical image segmentation pipeline for accurate bone segmentation from CT imaging. It is a two-step methodology, with a pre-segmentation step and a segmentation refinement step. First, the user performs a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Manuel Pinheiro , J. L. Alves

Interactive image segmentation aims at obtaining a segmentation mask for an image using simple user annotations. During each round of interaction, the segmentation result from the previous round serves as feedback to guide the user's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Qiaoqiao Wei , Hui Zhang , Jun-Hai Yong

The task of medical image segmentation presents unique challenges, necessitating both localized and holistic semantic understanding to accurately delineate areas of interest, such as critical tissues or aberrant features. This complexity is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-22 Pranav Singh , Luoyao Chen , Mei Chen , Jinqian Pan , Raviteja Chukkapalli , Shravan Chaudhari , Jacopo Cirrone

Accurate segmentation of COVID-19 CT images is crucial for reducing the severity and mortality rates associated with COVID-19 infections. In response to blurred boundaries and high variability characteristic of lesion areas in COVID-19 CT…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-05 Jiao Ding , Jie Chang , Renrui Han , Li Yang

Improving automated analysis of medical imaging will provide clinicians more options in providing care for patients. The 2023 AI-enabled Medical Image Analysis Workshop and Covid-19 Diagnosis Competition (AI-MIA-COV19D) provides an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Robert Turnbull

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…