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Some lung diseases are related to bronchial airway structures and morphology. Although airway segmentation from chest CT volumes is an important task in the computer-aided diagnosis and surgery assistance systems for the chest, complete 3-D…

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For the task of subdecimeter aerial imagery segmentation, fine-grained semantic segmentation results are usually difficult to obtain because of complex remote sensing content and optical conditions. Recently, convolutional neural networks…

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Automatic pancreas segmentation in radiology images, eg., computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), is frequently required by computer-aided screening, diagnosis, and quantitative assessment. Yet pancreas is a…

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Lung cancer ranks as one of the leading causes of cancer diagnosis and is the foremost cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide. The early detection of lung nodules plays a pivotal role in improving outcomes for patients, as it enables…

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Monocular depth estimation in bronchoscopy can significantly improve real-time navigation accuracy and enhance the safety of interventions in complex, branching airways. Recent advances in depth foundation models have shown promise for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Francis Xiatian Zhang , Emile Mackute , Mohammadreza Kasaei , Kevin Dhaliwal , Robert Thomson , Mohsen Khadem

Accurate, automatic and complete extraction of pulmonary airway in medical images plays an important role in analyzing thoracic CT volumes such as lung cancer detection, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-16 Shaofeng Yuan

Airway segmentation from chest computed tomography scans has played an essential role in the pulmonary disease diagnosis. The computer-assisted airway segmentation based on the U-net architecture is more efficient and accurate compared to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-23 Kunpeng Wang , Yuexi Dong , Yunpu Zeng , Zhichun Ye , Yangzhe Wang

This paper presents a fully automatic and end-to-end optimised airway segmentation method for thoracic computed tomography, based on the U-Net architecture. We use a simple and low-memory 3D U-Net as backbone, which allows the method to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-04 A. Garcia-Uceda , R. Selvan , Z. Saghir , H. A. W. M. Tiddens , M. de Bruijne

To improve the prognosis of patients suffering from pulmonary diseases, such as lung cancer, early diagnosis and treatment are crucial. The analysis of CT images is invaluable for diagnosis, whereas high quality segmentation of the airway…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Karen-Helene Støverud , David Bouget , Andre Pedersen , Håkon Olav Leira , Thomas Langø , Erlend Fagertun Hofstad

Manual annotation of airway regions in computed tomography images is a time-consuming and expertise-dependent task. Automatic airway segmentation is therefore a prerequisite for enabling rapid bronchoscopic navigation and the clinical…

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The lung airway tree modeling is essential to work for the diagnosis of pulmonary diseases, especially for X-Ray computed tomography (CT). The airway tree modeling on CT images can provide the experts with 3-dimension measurements like wall…

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Accurate medical image segmentation is essential for diagnosis, surgical planning and many other applications. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have become the state-of-the-art automatic segmentation methods. However, fully automatic…

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The segmentation of medical images is important for the improvement and creation of healthcare systems, particularly for early disease detection and treatment planning. In recent years, the use of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and…

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There is an increasing interest in applying deep learning to 3D mesh segmentation. We observe that 1) existing feature-based techniques are often slow or sensitive to feature resizing, 2) there are minimal comparative studies and 3)…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-02-09 David George , Xianghua Xie , Gary KL Tam

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been intensively used for multi-class segmentation of data from different modalities and achieved state-of-the-art performances. However, a common problem when dealing with large, high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Chengjia Wang , Tom MacGillivray , Gillian Macnaught , Guang Yang , David Newby

We propose a dual pathway, 11-layers deep, three-dimensional Convolutional Neural Network for the challenging task of brain lesion segmentation. The devised architecture is the result of an in-depth analysis of the limitations of current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Konstantinos Kamnitsas , Christian Ledig , Virginia F. J. Newcombe , Joanna P. Simpson , Andrew D. Kane , David K. Menon , Daniel Rueckert , Ben Glocker

Deep learning models are increasingly used for radiographic analysis, but their reliability is challenged by the stochastic noise inherent in clinical imaging. A systematic, cross-task understanding of how different noise types impact these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-15 Derek Jiu , Kiran Nijjer , Nishant Chinta , Ryan Bui , Kevin Zhu

This is the technical report of the 9th place in the final result of PARSE2022 Challenge. We solve the segmentation problem of the pulmonary artery by using a two-stage method based on a 3D CNN network. The coarse model is used to locate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-15 ZeYu Liu , Yi Wang , Jing Wen , Yong Zhang , Hao Yin , Chao Guo , ZhongYu Wang

This paper addresses the problem of pathological lung segmentation, a significant challenge in medical image analysis, particularly pronounced in cases of peripheral opacities (severe fibrosis and consolidation) because of the textural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-10 Rezkellah Noureddine Khiati , Pierre-Yves Brillet , Aurélien Justet , Radu Ispas , Catalin Fetita

Corneal endothelial cell segmentation plays a vital role inquantifying clinical indicators such as cell density, coefficient of variation,and hexagonality. However, the corneal endothelium's uneven reflectionand the subject's tremor and…

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