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Brain tumor diagnosis is a challenging task for clinicians in the modern world. Among the major reasons for cancer-related death is the brain tumor. Gliomas, a category of central nervous system (CNS) tumors, encompass diverse subregions.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Kiranmayee Janardhan , Christy Bobby T

Brain tumors remain a critical global health challenge, necessitating advancements in diagnostic techniques and treatment methodologies. A tumor or its recurrence often needs to be identified in imaging studies and differentiated from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-18 Shashidhar Reddy Javaji , Sovesh Mohapatra , Advait Gosai , Gottfried Schlaug

Computer-aided segmentation of brain tumors from MRI data is of crucial significance to clinical decision-making in diagnosis, treatment planning, and follow-up disease monitoring. Gliomas, owing to their high malignancy and heterogeneity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 MD Rashidul Islam , Bakary Gibba

Pediatric brain tumor segmentation presents unique challenges due to the rarity and heterogeneity of these malignancies, yet remains critical for clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. We propose an ensemble approach integrating…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Yuxiao Yi , Qingyao Zhuang , Zhi-Qin John Xu , Xiaowen Wang , Yan Ren , Tianming Qiu

A glioma is a malignant brain tumor that seriously affects cognitive functions and lowers patients' life quality. Segmentation of brain glioma is challenging because of interclass ambiguities in tumor regions. Recently, deep learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-02 Yiming Yao , Peisheng Qian , Ziyuan Zhao , Zeng Zeng

Accurate segmentation of brain tumors from 3D multimodal MRI is vital for diagnosis and treatment planning across diverse brain tumors. This paper addresses the challenges posed by the BraTS 2023, presenting a unified transfer learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-12 Ramy A. Zeineldin , Franziska Mathis-Ullrich

A U-Net based deep learning architecture is designed to segment brain tumors as they appear on various MRI modalities. Special emphasis is lent to the non-enhancing tumor compartment. The latter has not been considered anymore in recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 T. Schaffer , A. Brawanski , S. Wein , A. M. Tomé , E. W. Lang

Accurate segmentation of brain tumors is vital for diagnosis, surgical planning, and treatment monitoring. Deep learning has advanced on benchmarks, but two issues limit clinical use: no uncertainty estimates for errors and no segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Andrew Zhou

Automatic segmentation of brain glioma from multimodal MRI scans plays a key role in clinical trials and practice. Unfortunately, manual segmentation is very challenging, time-consuming, costly, and often inaccurate despite human expertise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-08 Minh H. Vu , Tufve Nyholm , Tommy Löfstedt

Brain tumor segmentation is an active research area due to the difficulty in delineating highly complex shaped and textured tumors as well as the failure of the commonly used U-Net architectures. The combination of different neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-02 Lanhong Yao , Zheyuan Zhang , Ulas Bagci

Brain tumors, particularly gliomas, pose significant chall-enges due to their complex growth patterns, infiltrative nature, and the variability in brain structure across individuals, which makes accurate diagnosis and monitoring difficult.…

3D medical image processing with deep learning greatly suffers from a lack of data. Thus, studies carried out in this field are limited compared to works related to 2D natural image analysis, where very large datasets exist. As a result,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Hicham Messaoudi , Ahror Belaid , Mohamed Lamine Allaoui , Ahcene Zetout , Mohand Said Allili , Souhil Tliba , Douraied Ben Salem , Pierre-Henri Conze

Brain tumor segmentation plays a crucial role in computer-aided diagnosis. This study introduces a novel segmentation algorithm utilizing a modified nnU-Net architecture. Within the nnU-Net architecture's encoder section, we enhance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Sahaj K. Mistry , Sourav Saini , Aashray Gupta , Aayush Gupta , Sunny Rai , Vinit Jakhetiya , Ujjwal Baid , Sharath Chandra Guntuku

Tumor segmentation from multi-modal brain MRI images is a challenging task due to the limited samples, high variance in shapes and uneven distribution of tumor morphology. The performance of automated medical image segmentation has been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-13 Tianyi Ren , Ethan Honey , Harshitha Rebala , Abhishek Sharma , Agamdeep Chopra , Mehmet Kurt

The diagnosis of brain cancer relies heavily on medical imaging techniques, with MRI being the most commonly used. It is necessary to perform automatic segmentation of brain tumors on MRI images. This project intends to build an MRI…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-28 Yuxiang Hu , Haowei Yang , Ting Xu , Shuyao He , Jiajie Yuan , Haozhang Deng

Deep learning methods are actively used for brain lesion segmentation. One of the most popular models is DeepMedic, which was developed for segmentation of relatively large lesions like glioma and ischemic stroke. In our work, we consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Egor Krivov , Valery Kostjuchenko , Alexandra Dalechina , Boris Shirokikh , Gleb karchuk , Alexander Denisenko , Andrey Golanov , Mikhail Belyaev

This work introduces a novel framework for brain tumor segmentation leveraging pre-trained GANs and Unet architectures. By combining a global anomaly detection module with a refined mask generation network, the proposed model accurately…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-27 Qifei Cui , Xinyu Lu

Brain tumor segmentation is one of the most challenging problems in medical image analysis. The goal of brain tumor segmentation is to generate accurate delineation of brain tumor regions. In recent years, deep learning methods have shown…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-18 Zhihua Liu , Lei Tong , Zheheng Jiang , Long Chen , Feixiang Zhou , Qianni Zhang , Xiangrong Zhang , Yaochu Jin , Huiyu Zhou

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

Most of the current state-of-the-art methods for tumor segmentation are based on machine learning models trained on manually segmented images. This type of training data is particularly costly, as manual delineation of tumors is not only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Pawel Mlynarski , Hervé Delingette , Antonio Criminisi , Nicholas Ayache