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In this paper, we present a novel approach for segmenting pediatric brain tumors using a deep learning architecture, inspired by expert radiologists' segmentation strategies. Our model delineates four distinct tumor labels and is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Max Bengtsson , Elif Keles , Gorkem Durak , Syed Anwar , Yuri S. Velichko , Marius G. Linguraru , Angela J. Waanders , Ulas Bagci

Segmentation of brain structures on MRI is the primary step for further quantitative analysis of brain diseases. Manual segmentation is still considered the gold standard in terms of accuracy; however, such data is extremely time-consuming…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-16 Mengyu Li , Magnus Magnusson , Thilo van Eimeren , Lotta M. Ellingsen

In recent years, deep learning has shown great promise in the automated detection and classification of brain tumors from MRI images. However, achieving high accuracy and computational efficiency remains a challenge. In this research, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-10 Daniel Onah , Ravish Desai

Automatic brain tumor segmentation from multi-modal MRI remains challenging because volumetric models often incur substantial computational cost. This paper presents DALight-3D, a compact 3D U-Net variant that combines depthwise separable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Nand Kumar Mishra , Dhruv Mishra , Dr Manu Pratap Singh

Transformer, which can benefit from global (long-range) information modeling using self-attention mechanisms, has been successful in natural language processing and 2D image classification recently. However, both local and global features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Wenxuan Wang , Chen Chen , Meng Ding , Jiangyun Li , Hong Yu , Sen Zha

Brain tumor is the most common and deadliest disease that can be found in all age groups. Generally, MRI modality is adopted for identifying and diagnosing tumors by the radiologists. The correct identification of tumor regions and its type…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-10 Sachin Gupta , Narinder Singh Punn , Sanjay Kumar Sonbhadra , Sonali Agarwal

This study presents a unified Attention U-Net architecture trained jointly on MRI (BraTS 2021) and CT (LIDC-IDRI) datasets to investigate the generalizability of a single model across diverse imaging modalities and anatomical sites. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Nishan Rai , Pushpa R. Dahal

Detection of brain tumor using a segmentation based approach is critical in cases, where survival of a subject depends on an accurate and timely clinical diagnosis. Gliomas are the most commonly found tumors having irregular shape and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-16 Saddam Hussain , Syed Muhammad Anwar , Muhammad Majid

Brain tumor segmentation is crucial for diagnosis and treatment planning, yet challenges such as class imbalance and limited model generalization continue to hinder progress. This work presents a reproducible evaluation of U-Net…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Saumya B

Deep learning-based brain tumor segmentation (BTS) models for multi-modal MRI images have seen significant advancements in recent years. However, a common problem in practice is the unavailability of some modalities due to varying scanning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Weide Liu , Jingwen Hou , Xiaoyang Zhong , Huijing Zhan , Jun Cheng , Yuming Fang , Guanghui Yue

Automated medical image analysis has a significant value in diagnosis and treatment of lesions. Brain tumors segmentation has a special importance and difficulty due to the difference in appearances and shapes of the different tumor regions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Mina Rezaei , Konstantin Harmuth , Willi Gierke , Thomas Kellermeier , Martin Fischer , Haojin Yang , Christoph Meinel

Liver cancer is one of the most prevalent and lethal forms of cancer, making early detection crucial for effective treatment. This paper introduces a novel approach for automated liver tumor segmentation in computed tomography (CT) images…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Nastaran Ghorbani , Bitasadat Jamshidi , Mohsen Rostamy-Malkhalifeh

Brain tumor image segmentation is a challenging research topic in which deep-learning models have presented the best results. However, the traditional way of training those models from many pre-annotated images leaves several unanswered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Matheus A. Cerqueira , Flávia Sprenger , Bernardo C. A. Teixeira , Alexandre X. Falcão

Purpose: In this paper, we investigate a framework for interactive brain tumor segmentation which, at its core, treats the problem of interactive brain tumor segmentation as a machine learning problem. Methods: This method has an advantage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-20 Mohammad Havaei , Hugo Larochelle , Philippe Poulin , Pierre-Marc Jodoin

Accurate and efficient segmentation of brain tumors is critical for diagnosis, treatment planning, and monitoring in clinical practice. In this study, we present an enhanced ResUNet architecture for automatic brain tumor segmentation,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Majid Behzadpour , Ebrahim Azizi , Kai Wu , Bengie L. Ortiz

In this paper we demonstrate the effectiveness of a well trained U-Net in the context of the BraTS 2018 challenge. This endeavour is particularly interesting given that researchers are currently besting each other with architectural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Fabian Isensee , Philipp Kickingereder , Wolfgang Wick , Martin Bendszus , Klaus H. Maier-Hein

One of the main requirements of tumor extraction is the annotation and segmentation of tumor boundaries correctly. For this purpose, we present a threefold deep learning architecture. First classifiers are implemented with a deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Shanaka Ramesh Gunasekara , H. N. T. K. Kaldera , Maheshi B. Dissanayake

$\bf{Purpose:}$ The goal of this study was (i) to use artificial intelligence to automate the traditionally labor-intensive process of manual segmentation of tumor regions in pathology slides performed by a pathologist and (ii) to validate…

In this work, we develop an attention convolutional neural network (CNN) to segment brain tumors from Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI). Further, we predict the survival rate using various machine learning methods. We adopt a 3D UNet…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-05 Mobarakol Islam , Vibashan VS , V Jeya Maria Jose , Navodini Wijethilake , Uppal Utkarsh , Hongliang Ren

Inspired by the recent success of Transformers for Natural Language Processing and vision Transformer for Computer Vision, many researchers in the medical imaging community have flocked to Transformer-based networks for various main stream…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-22 Ye Li , Junyu Chen , Se-in Jang , Kuang Gong , Quanzheng Li