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We propose a model for the joint segmentation of the liver and liver lesions in computed tomography (CT) volumes. We build the model from two fully convolutional networks, connected in tandem and trained together end-to-end. We evaluate our…

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Automatic segmentation of liver tumors in medical images is crucial for the computer-aided diagnosis and therapy. It is a challenging task, since the tumors are notoriously small against the background voxels. This paper proposes a new…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-18 Huiyu Li , Xiabi Liu , Said Boumaraf , Weihua Liu , Xiaopeng Gong , Xiaohong Ma

Segmentation in 3D scans is playing an increasingly important role in current clinical practice supporting diagnosis, tissue quantification, or treatment planning. The current 3D approaches based on convolutional neural networks usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Alexey Novikov , David Major , Maria Wimmer , Dimitrios Lenis , Katja Bühler

Purpose: Automated liver tumor segmentation from Computed Tomography (CT) images is a necessary prerequisite in the interventions of hepatic abnormalities and surgery planning. However, accurate liver tumor segmentation remains challenging…

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Improving connectivity and completeness are the most challenging aspects of liver vessel segmentation, especially for small vessels. These challenges require both learning the continuous vessel geometry, and focusing on small vessel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Xiaotong Zhang , Alexander Broersen , Gonnie CM van Erp , Silvia L. Pintea , Jouke Dijkstra

Medical imaging has been employed to support medical diagnosis and treatment. It may also provide crucial information to surgeons to facilitate optimal surgical preplanning and perioperative management. Essentially, semi-automatic organ and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-26 K. E. Sengun , Y. T. Cetin , M. S Guzel , S. Can , E. Bostanci

Vessel segmentation is widely used to help with vascular disease diagnosis. Vessels reconstructed using existing methods are often not sufficiently accurate to meet clinical use standards. This is because 3D vessel structures are highly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-09 Gangming Zhao , Kongming Liang , Chengwei Pan , Fandong Zhang , Xianpeng Wu , Xinyang Hu , Yizhou Yu

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

Ultrasound (US) is the most commonly used liver imaging modality worldwide. It plays an important role in follow-up of cancer patients with liver metastases. We present an interactive segmentation approach for liver tumors in US…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-29 Jan Egger , Philip Voglreiter , Mark Dokter , Michael Hofmann , Xiaojun Chen , Wolfram G. Zoller , Dieter Schmalstieg , Alexander Hann

Automatic liver lesion segmentation is a challenging task while having a significant impact on assisting medical professionals in the designing of effective treatment and planning proper care. In this paper we propose a cascaded system that…

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Liver tumour ablation presents a significant clinical challenge: whilst tumours are clearly visible on pre-operative MRI, they are often effectively invisible on intra-operative CT due to minimal contrast between pathological and healthy…

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Automatic segmentation of the liver and hepatic lesions is an important step towards deriving quantitative biomarkers for accurate clinical diagnosis and computer-aided decision support systems. This paper presents a method to automatically…

Medical image segmentation plays a pivotal role in disease diagnosis and treatment planning, particularly in resource-constrained clinical settings where lightweight and generalizable models are urgently needed. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Chengqi Dong , Fenghe Tang , Rongge Mao , Xinpei Gao , S. Kevin Zhou

Segmentation of lymphoma lesions is challenging due to their varied sizes and locations in whole-body PET scans. This work presents a fully-automated segmentation technique using a multi-center dataset of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma…

The performance of a computer-aided automated diagnosis system of lung cancer from Computed Tomography (CT) volumetric images greatly depends on the accurate detection and segmentation of tumor regions. In this paper, we present Recurrent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-09 Uday Kamal , Abdul Muntakim Rafi , Rakibul Hoque , Jonathan Wu , Md. Kamrul Hasan

In this paper, we introduce a simple, yet powerful pipeline for medical image segmentation that combines Fully Convolutional Networks (FCNs) with Fully Convolutional Residual Networks (FC-ResNets). We propose and examine a design that takes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-20 Michal Drozdzal , Gabriel Chartrand , Eugene Vorontsov , Lisa Di Jorio , An Tang , Adriana Romero , Yoshua Bengio , Chris Pal , Samuel Kadoury

Quantitative cancer image analysis relies on the accurate delineation of tumours, a very specialised and time-consuming task. For this reason, methods for automated segmentation of tumours in medical imaging have been extensively developed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-07 Saúl Alonso-Monsalve , Leigh H. Whitehead , Adam Aurisano , Lorena Escudero Sanchez

Accurate segmentation of different sub-regions of gliomas including peritumoral edema, necrotic core, enhancing and non-enhancing tumor core from multimodal MRI scans has important clinical relevance in diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of…

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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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Multimodal learning has been demonstrated to enhance performance across various clinical tasks, owing to the diverse perspectives offered by different modalities of data. However, existing multimodal segmentation methods rely on…

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