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Recently, many methods based on hand-designed convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved promising results in automatic retinal vessel segmentation. However, these CNNs remain constrained in capturing retinal vessels in complex…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-14 Jiahong Wei , Zhun Fan

The advancements in deep learning technologies have produced immense contributions to biomedical image analysis applications. With breast cancer being the common deadliest disease among women, early detection is the key means to improve…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-04 Narinder Singh Punn , Sonali Agarwal

For 3D medical image (e.g. CT and MRI) segmentation, the difficulty of segmenting each slice in a clinical case varies greatly. Previous research on volumetric medical image segmentation in a slice-by-slice manner conventionally use the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Wenxuan Wang , Chen Chen , Jing Wang , Sen Zha , Yan Zhang , Jiangyun Li

Accurate and robust segmentation of abdominal organs on CT is essential for many clinical applications such as computer-aided diagnosis and computer-aided surgery. But this task is challenging due to the weak boundaries of organs, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Yan Wang , Yuyin Zhou , Wei Shen , Seyoun Park , Elliot K. Fishman , Alan L. Yuille

Automated brain tumour segmentation has the potential of making a massive improvement in disease diagnosis, surgery, monitoring and surveillance. However, this task is extremely challenging. Here, we describe our automated segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-13 Indrajit Mazumdar

Automated organ at risk (OAR) segmentation is crucial for radiation therapy planning in CT scans, but the generated contours by automated models can be inaccurate, potentially leading to treatment planning issues. The reasons for these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-22 Amin Honarmandi Shandiz , Attila Rádics , Rajesh Tamada , Makk Árpád , Karolina Glowacka , Lehel Ferenczi , Sandeep Dutta , Michael Fanariotis

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

Early diagnosis and analysis of lung cancer involve a precise and efficient lung nodule segmentation in computed tomography (CT) images. However, the anonymous shapes, visual features, and surroundings of the nodule in the CT image pose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-23 Nikhil Varma Keetha , Samson Anosh Babu P , Chandra Sekhara Rao Annavarapu

The kidney cancer is one of the most common cancer types. The treatment frequently include surgical intervention. However, surgery is in this case particularly challenging due to regional anatomical relations. Organ delineation can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 David Jozef Hresko , Marek Kurej , Jakub Gazda , Peter Drotar

Accurate medical image segmentation is crucial for diagnosis and analysis. However, the models without calibrated uncertainty estimates might lead to errors in downstream analysis and exhibit low levels of robustness. Estimating the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-16 Yanwu Yang , Xutao Guo , Yiwei Pan , Pengcheng Shi , Haiyan Lv , Ting Ma

Conventional therapy approaches limit surgeons' dexterity control due to limited field-of-view. With the advent of robot-assisted surgery, there has been a paradigm shift in medical technology for minimally invasive surgery. However, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-26 S. M. Kamrul Hasan , Cristian A. Linte

Breast tumor segmentation is a critical task in computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems for breast cancer detection because accurate tumor size, shape and location are important for further tumor quantification and classification. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-29 Bryar Shareef , Alex Vakanski , Min Xian , Phoebe E. Freer

Objective: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been widely used for the analysis and diagnosis of brain diseases. Accurate and automatic brain tumor segmentation is of paramount importance for radiation treatment. However, low tissue…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-18 Jiangyun Li , Hong Yu , Chen Chen , Meng Ding , Sen Zha

Accurate segmentation of organs-at-risk (OARs) is vital for safe and precise radiotherapy and surgery. Most existing studies segment only a limited set of organs or regions, lacking a systematic treatment of OARs segmentation. We present a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-13 Rui Hao , Dayu Tan , Qiankun Li , Chunhou Zheng , Weimin Zhong , Zhigang Zeng

Accurate segmentation for medical images is important for clinical diagnosis. Existing automatic segmentation methods are mainly based on fully supervised learning and have an extremely high demand for precise annotations, which are very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Yuanpeng Liu , Qinglei Hui , Zhiyi Peng , Shaolin Gong , Dexing Kong

Recent advances in computer-aided diagnosis for histopathology have been largely driven by the use of deep learning models for automated image analysis. While these networks can perform on par with medical experts, their performance can be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Frauke Wilm , Mathias Öttl , Marc Aubreville , Katharina Breininger

Medical image segmentation is pivotal in healthcare, enhancing diagnostic accuracy, informing treatment strategies, and tracking disease progression. This process allows clinicians to extract critical information from visual data, enabling…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-31 Ovais Iqbal Shah , Danish Raza Rizvi , Aqib Nazir Mir

Abdominal multi-organ segmentation of computed tomography (CT) images has been the subject of extensive research interest. It presents a substantial challenge in medical image processing, as the shape and distribution of abdominal organs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Yuchen Xu , Olivia Tang , Yucheng Tang , Ho Hin Lee , Yunqiang Chen , Dashan Gao , Shizhong Han , Riqiang Gao , Michael R. Savona , Richard G. Abramson , Yuankai Huo , Bennett A. Landman

Deep learning has shown great promise in the ability to automatically annotate organs in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, for example, of the brain. However, despite advancements in the field, the ability to accurately segment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Cosmin Ciausu , Deepa Krishnaswamy , Benjamin Billot , Steve Pieper , Ron Kikinis , Andrey Fedorov

Tumor volume segmentation on MRI is a challenging and time-consuming process that is performed manually in typical clinical settings. This work presents an approach to automated delineation of head and neck tumors on MRI scans, developed in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-10 Andrei Iantsen