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Developing an effective liver and liver tumor segmentation model from CT scans is very important for the success of liver cancer diagnosis, surgical planning and cancer treatment. In this work, we propose a two-stage framework for 2D liver…

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The high cure rate of cancer is inextricably linked to physicians' accuracy in diagnosis and treatment, therefore a model that can accomplish high-precision tumor segmentation has become a necessity in many applications of the medical…

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Improving the efficiency of state-of-the-art methods in semantic segmentation requires overcoming the increasing computational cost as well as issues such as fusing semantic information from global and local contexts. Based on the recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Serdar Erisen

We investigate the applicability of U-Net based models for segmenting Urinary Bladder (UB) in male pelvic view UltraSound (US) images. The segmentation of UB in the US image aids radiologists in diagnosing the UB. However, UB in US images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-29 Deepak Raina , Kashish Verma , SH Chandrashekhara , Subir Kumar Saha

State-of-the-art segmentation methods rely on very deep networks that are not always easy to train without very large training datasets and tend to be relatively slow to run on standard GPUs. In this paper, we introduce a novel recurrent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Wei Wang , Kaicheng Yu , Joachim Hugonot , Pascal Fua , Mathieu Salzmann

Cancer remains one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide, and among its many forms, brain tumors are particularly notorious due to their aggressive nature and the critical challenges involved in early diagnosis. Recent advances in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-21 Mohammad Mahdi Danesh Pajouh

With the immersive development in the field of augmented and virtual reality, accurate and speedy eye-tracking is required. Facebook Research has organized a challenge, named OpenEDS Semantic Segmentation challenge for per-pixel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Priya Kansal , Sabari Nathan

Image segmentation is a fundamental task in image analysis and clinical practice. The current state-of-the-art techniques are based on U-shape type encoder-decoder networks with skip connections, called U-Net. Despite the powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Chun-Wun Cheng , Christina Runkel , Lihao Liu , Raymond H Chan , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Angelica I Aviles-Rivero

The advancements in deep learning technologies have produced immense contributions to biomedical image analysis applications. With breast cancer being the common deadliest disease among women, early detection is the key means to improve…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-04 Narinder Singh Punn , Sonali Agarwal

Recently, many methods based on hand-designed convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved promising results in automatic retinal vessel segmentation. However, these CNNs remain constrained in capturing retinal vessels in complex…

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Cancer is an abnormal growth with potential to invade locally and metastasize to distant organs. Accurate auto-segmentation of the tumor and surrounding normal tissues is required for radiotherapy treatment plan optimization. Recent…

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Introduction: Accurate intraoperative delineation of colorectal liver metastases (CRLM) is crucial for achieving negative resection margins but remains challenging using intraoperative ultrasound (iUS) due to low contrast, noise, and…

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A fully automatic technique for segmenting the liver and localizing its unhealthy tissues is a convenient tool in order to diagnose hepatic diseases and assess the response to the according treatments. In this work we propose a method to…

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The need for CT scan analysis is growing for pre-diagnosis and therapy of abdominal organs. Automatic organ segmentation of abdominal CT scan can help radiologists analyze the scans faster and segment organ images with fewer errors.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Shima Rafiei , Ebrahim Nasr-Esfahani , S. M. Reza Soroushmehr , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi , Kayvan Najarian

Accurate liver segmentation from CT scans is essential for effective diagnosis and treatment planning. Computer-aided diagnosis systems promise to improve the precision of liver disease diagnosis, disease progression, and treatment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-23 Debesh Jha , Nikhil Kumar Tomar , Koushik Biswas , Gorkem Durak , Alpay Medetalibeyoglu , Matthew Antalek , Yury Velichko , Daniela Ladner , Amir Borhani , Ulas Bagci

The U-Net architecture, built upon the fully convolutional network, has proven to be effective in biomedical image segmentation. However, U-Net applies skip connections to merge semantically different low- and high-level convolutional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-28 Hasib Zunair , A. Ben Hamza

Structures suffer from the emergence of cracks, therefore, crack detection is always an issue with much concern in structural health monitoring. Along with the rapid progress of deep learning technology, image semantic segmentation, an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Fangzheng Lin , Jiesheng Yang , Jiangpeng Shu , Raimar J. Scherer

Artificial intelligence, including deep learning models, will play a transformative role in automated medical image analysis for the diagnosis of cardiac disorders and their management. Automated accurate delineation of cardiac images is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-27 Racheal Mukisa , Arvind K. Bansal

Computer-aided segmentation methods can assist medical personnel in improving diagnostic outcomes. While recent advancements like UNet and its variants have shown promise, they face a critical challenge: balancing accuracy with…

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