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This study's objective was to segment spinal metastases in diagnostic MR images using a deep learning-based approach. Segmentation of such lesions can present a pivotal step towards enhanced therapy planning and validation, as well as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-29 Georg Hille , Johannes Steffen , Max Dünnwald , Mathias Becker , Sylvia Saalfeld , Klaus Tönnies

Automated detection of sclerotic metastases (bone lesions) in Computed Tomography (CT) images has potential to be an important tool in clinical practice and research. State-of-the-art methods show performance of 79% sensitivity or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-07-23 Holger R. Roth , Jianhua Yao , Le Lu , James Stieger , Joseph E. Burns , Ronald M. Summers

Unsupervised learning methods, such as Deep Image Prior (DIP), have shown great potential in tomographic imaging due to their training-data-free nature and high generalization capability. However, their reliance on numerous network…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-21 Hao Fang , Hao Yu , Sihao Teng , Tao Zhang , Siyi Yuan , Huaiwu He , Zhe Liu , Yunjie Yang

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides, a new class of atomically thin semiconductors, possess optically coupled 2D valley excitons. The nature of exciton relaxation in these systems is currently poorly understood. Here, we investigate…

Semantic segmentation neural networks require pixel-level annotations in large quantities to achieve a good performance. In the medical domain, such annotations are expensive, because they are time-consuming and require expert knowledge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Grzegorz Chlebus , Andrea Schenk , Horst K. Hahn , Bram van Ginneken , Hans Meine

This paper investigates the application of deep learning models for lung Computed Tomography (CT) image analysis. Traditional deep learning frameworks encounter compatibility issues due to variations in slice numbers and resolutions in CT…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-16 Chih-Chung Hsu , Chih-Yu Jian , Chia-Ming Lee , Chi-Han Tsai , Sheng-Chieh Dai

Ultrasound images are commonly formed by sequential acquisition of beam-steered scan-lines. Minimizing the number of required scan-lines can significantly enhance frame rate, field of view, energy efficiency, and data transfer speeds.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-08 Simon W. Penninga , Hans van Gorp , Ruud J. G. van Sloun

In compressed sensing MRI (CS-MRI), k-space measurements are under-sampled to achieve accelerated scan times. CS-MRI presents two fundamental problems: (1) where to sample and (2) how to reconstruct an under-sampled scan. In this paper, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-01 Cagla D. Bahadir , Alan Q. Wang , Adrian V. Dalca , Mert R. Sabuncu

Purpose: To implement a brain segmentation pipeline based on convolutional neural networks, which rapidly segments 3D volumes into 27 anatomical structures. To provide an extensive, comparative study of segmentation performance on various…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-12 Jonathan Zopes , Moritz Platscher , Silvio Paganucci , Christian Federau

Wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) is an effective mean for diagnosis of gastrointestinal disorders. Detection of informative scenes in WCE video could reduce the length of transmitted videos and help the diagnosis procedure. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Mohsen Hajabdollahi , Reza Esfandiarpoor , Pejman Khadivi , S. M. Reza Soroushmehr , Nader Karimi , Kayvan Najarian , Shadrokh Samavi

The Cholinergic Pathways Hyperintensities Scale (CHIPS) is a visual rating scale used to assess the extent of cholinergic white matter hyperintensities in T2-FLAIR images, serving as an indicator of dementia severity. However, the manual…

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The dispersion scan (d-scan) technique has emerged as a simple-to-implement characterization method for ultrashort laser pulses. D-scan traces are intuitive to interpret and retrieval algorithms that are both fast and robust have been…

In this paper, we propose an easily trained yet powerful representation learning approach with performance highly competitive to deep neural networks in a digital pathology image segmentation task. The method, called sparse coding driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Jie Song , Liang Xiao , Mohsen Molaei , Zhichao Lian

Twenty cases of different brain pathology have been studied via MRI using an open resistive magnet with magnetic field strength of 0.2 Tesla. The relative signal intensity with respect to the repetition time (TR) at fixed echo time (TE)…

Medical Physics · Physics 2009-12-05 Indra Dev Sahu , Sheshkant Aryal , Shanta Lal Shrestha , Ram Kumar Ghimire

We present an approach to spin dynamics by extending the optical Bloch equations for the driven two-level system to derive microscopic expressions for the transverse and longitudinal spin relaxation times. This is done for the 6-level…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Lechner , U. Roessler

Tumor detection in biomedical imaging is a time-consuming process for medical professionals and is not without errors. Thus in recent decades, researchers have developed algorithmic techniques for image processing using a wide variety of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Laramie Paxton , Yufeng Cao , Kevin R. Vixie , Yuan Wang , Brian Hobbs , Chaan Ng

Deep neural networks enable highly accurate image segmentation, but require large amounts of manually annotated data for supervised training. Few-shot learning aims to address this shortcoming by learning a new class from a few annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Abhijit Guha Roy , Shayan Siddiqui , Sebastian Pölsterl , Nassir Navab , Christian Wachinger

This work presents a proof-of-concept solution designed to improve the accuracy of radiographic feature characterisation in pre-surgical CT/MR volumes. The solution involves 3D co-location of 2D digital histology slides within ex-vivo,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-05 Robert Phillips , Constantine Zakkaroff , Keren Dittmer , Nicholas Robillard , Kenzie Baer , Anthony Butler

Computer vision has transformed medical diagnosis, treatment, and research through advanced image processing and machine learning techniques. Fracture classification, a critical area in healthcare, has greatly benefited from these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-24 Snigdha Paul , Sambit Mallick , Anindya Sen

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) mimic the information-processing mechanisms of the human brain and are highly energy-efficient, making them well-suited for low-power edge devices. However, the pursuit of accuracy in current studies leads to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Qianhui Liu , Jiaqi Yan , Malu Zhang , Gang Pan , Haizhou Li