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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

Over half a million individuals are diagnosed with head and neck cancer each year worldwide. Radiotherapy is an important curative treatment for this disease, but it requires manual time consuming delineation of radio-sensitive organs at…

Early diagnosis and accurate segmentation of brain tumors are imperative for successful treatment. Unfortunately, manual segmentation is time consuming, costly and despite extensive human expertise often inaccurate. Here, we present an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-07 Markus Frey , Matthias Nau

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance for automatic medical image segmentation. However, they have not demonstrated sufficiently accurate and robust results for clinical use. In addition, they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Guotai Wang , Wenqi Li , Maria A. Zuluaga , Rosalind Pratt , Premal A. Patel , Michael Aertsen , Tom Doel , Anna L. David , Jan Deprest , Sebastien Ourselin , Tom Vercauteren

Although the combined treatment of surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and emerging target therapy has significantly improved the outcomes of patients with head and neck cancer, distant metastasis remains the leading cause of treatment…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-02 Nuo Tong , Changhao Liu , Zizhao Tang , Feifan Sun , Yingping Li , Shuiping Gou , Mei Shi

A brain tumor, whether benign or malignant, can potentially be life threatening and requires painstaking efforts in order to identify the type, origin and location, let alone cure one. Manual segmentation by medical specialists can be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-02 Ayan Gupta , Mayank Dixit , Vipul Kumar Mishra , Attulya Singh , Atul Dayal

Radiotherapy is the main treatment modality for nasopharynx cancer. Delineation of Gross Target Volume (GTV) from medical images such as CT and MRI images is a prerequisite for radiotherapy. As manual delineation is time-consuming and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-28 Haochen Mei , Wenhui Lei , Ran Gu , Shan Ye , Zhengwentai Sun , Shichuan Zhang , Guotai Wang

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

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-31 Syed Haider Ali , Asrar Ahmad , Muhammad Ali , Asifullah Khan , Nadeem Shaukat

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the world and the most prevalent cause of death among women worldwide. Nevertheless, it is also one of the most treatable malignancies if detected early. In this paper, a deep convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Hussin Ragb , Redha Ali , Elforjani Jera , Nagi Buaossa

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

Colorectal cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide. However, early diagnosis dramatically increases the chances of survival, for which it is crucial to identify the tumor in the body. Since its imaging uses high-resolution techniques,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-18 Nisarg A. Shah , Divij Gupta , Romil Lodaya , Ujjwal Baid , Sanjay Talbar

Oral Cavity Squamous Cell Carcinoma (OCSCC) is the most common type of head and neck cancer. Due to the subtle nature of its early stages, deep and hidden areas of development, and slow growth, OCSCC often goes undetected, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Vishal Manikanden , Aniketh Bandlamudi , Daniel Haehn

The superior soft tissue differentiation provided by MRI may enable more accurate tumor segmentation compared to CT and PET, potentially enhancing adaptive radiotherapy treatment planning. The Head and Neck Tumor Segmentation for MR-Guided…

Image segmentation is a fundamental and challenging problem in computer vision with applications spanning multiple areas, such as medical imaging, remote sensing, and autonomous vehicles. Recently, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Ali Hatamizadeh

Brain tumor is considered as one of the deadliest and most common form of cancer both in children and in adults. Consequently, determining the correct type of brain tumor in early stages is of significant importance to devise a precise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Parnian Afshar , Arash Mohammadi , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

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

Radiation therapy (RT) is essential in treating head and neck cancer (HNC), with magnetic resonance imaging(MRI)-guided RT offering superior soft tissue contrast and functional imaging. However, manual tumor segmentation is time-consuming…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-25 Nikoo Moradi , André Ferreira , Behrus Puladi , Jens Kleesiek , Emad Fatemizadeh , Gijs Luijten , Victor Alves , Jan Egger

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common type of primary liver cancer in adults, and the most common cause of death of people suffering from cirrhosis. The segmentation of liver lesions in CT images allows assessment of tumor load,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Nadja Gruber , Stephan Antholzer , Werner Jaschke , Christian Kremser , Markus Haltmeier

Early detection of cancer can help improve patient prognosis by early intervention. Head and neck cancer is diagnosed in specialist centres after a surgical biopsy, however, there is a potential for these to be missed leading to delayed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Abdullah Alsalemi , Anza Shakeel , Mollie Clark , Syed Ali Khurram , Shan E Ahmed Raza