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Automatic segmentation of abdominal organs in computed tomography (CT) images can support radiation therapy and image-guided surgery workflows. Developing of such automatic solutions remains challenging mainly owing to complex organ…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-22 Zefan Yang , Di Lin , Dong Ni , Yi Wang

Gastrointestinal (GI) cancers account for 1.5 million deaths worldwide. Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection (ESD) is an advanced therapeutic endoscopy technique with superior clinical outcome due to the minimally invasive and en bloc removal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Timo J. C. Oude Vrielink , Ming Zhao , Ara Darzi , George P. Mylonas

Efficient three-dimensional reconstruction and real-time visualization are critical in surgical scenarios such as endoscopy. In recent years, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated remarkable performance in efficient 3D…

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Lung cancer has been one of the major threats across the world with the highest mortalities. Computer-aided detection (CAD) can help in early detection and thus can help increase the survival rate. Accurate lung parenchyma segmentation (to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Muhammad Abdullah , Furqan Shaukat

In this study, we show that landmark detection or face alignment task is not a single and independent problem. Instead, its robustness can be greatly improved with auxiliary information. Specifically, we jointly optimize landmark detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Zhanpeng Zhang , Ping Luo , Chen Change Loy , Xiaoou Tang

Recent electroencephalography (EEG) spatial super-resolution (SR) methods, while showing improved quality by either directly predicting missing signals from visible channels or adapting latent diffusion-based generative modeling to temporal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Laura Yao , Gengwei Zhang , Moajjem Chowdhury , Yunmei Liu , Tianlong Chen

We propose a novel end-to-end deep architecture for face landmark detection, based on a deep convolutional and deconvolutional network followed by carefully designed recurrent network structures. The pipeline of this architecture consists…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Hanjiang Lai , Shengtao Xiao , Yan Pan , Zhen Cui , Jiashi Feng , Chunyan Xu , Jian Yin , Shuicheng Yan

This paper introduces a learning-based modeling framework for a magnetically steerable soft suction device designed for endoscopic endonasal brain tumor resection. The device is miniaturized (4 mm outer diameter, 2 mm inner diameter, 40 mm…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Majid Roshanfar , Alex Zhang , Changyan He , Amir Hooshiar , Dale J. Podolsky , Thomas Looi , Eric Diller

Retrieving accurate semantic information in challenging high dynamic range (HDR) and high-speed conditions remains an open challenge for image-based algorithms due to severe image degradations. Event cameras promise to address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Zhaoning Sun , Nico Messikommer , Daniel Gehrig , Davide Scaramuzza

In this paper, we address the problem of landmark-based visual place recognition. In the state-of-the-art method, accurate object proposal algorithms are first leveraged for generating a set of local regions containing particular landmarks…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Bo Yang , Jun Li , Xiaosu Xu , Hong Zhang

Deep convolutional neural networks achieve remarkable performance by exhaustively processing dense spatial feature maps, yet this brute-force strategy introduces significant computational redundancy and encourages reliance on spurious…

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Retinal vessel segmentation plays an imaportant role in the field of retinal image analysis because changes in retinal vascular structure can aid in the diagnosis of diseases such as hypertension and diabetes. In recent research, numerous…

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Motion artifacts caused by prolonged acquisition time are a significant challenge in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), hindering accurate tissue segmentation. These artifacts appear as blurred images that mimic tissue-like appearances,…

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Magnetic resonance imaging is a fundamental tool to reach a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis and monitoring its progression. Although several attempts have been made to segment multiple sclerosis lesions using artificial intelligence, fully…

Diabetic retinopathy is one of the leading causes of preventable blindness in the world. Its earliest sign are red lesions, a general term that groups both microaneurysms and hemorrhages. In daily clinical practice, these lesions are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-16 José Ignacio Orlando , Elena Prokofyeva , Mariana del Fresno , Matthew B. Blaschko

Radiologists use various imaging modalities to aid in different tasks like diagnosis of disease, lesion visualization, surgical planning and prognostic evaluation. Most of these tasks rely on the the accurate delineation of the anatomical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-22 Ronnie Rajan , Rachana Sathish , Debdoot Sheet

Purpose: Endoscopic surgical environments present challenges for dissection zone segmentation due to unclear boundaries between tissue types, leading to segmentation errors where models misidentify or overlook edges. This study aims to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Mengya Xu , Wenjin Mo , Guankun Wang , Huxin Gao , An Wang , Zhen Li , Xiaoxiao Yang , Hongliang Ren

Visual speech recognition is a technique to identify spoken content in silent speech videos, which has raised significant attention in recent years. Advancements in data-driven deep learning methods have significantly improved both the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Lei Yang , Junshan Jin , Mingyuan Zhang , Yi He , Bofan Chen , Shilin Wang

Landmark detection algorithms trained on high resolution images perform poorly on datasets containing low resolution images. This deters the performance of algorithms relying on quality landmarks, for example, face recognition. To the best…

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