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Medical image segmentation is a fundamental task for medical image analysis and surgical planning. In recent years, UNet-based networks have prevailed in the field of medical image segmentation. However, convolution-neural networks (CNNs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Xin You , Junjun He , Jie Yang , Yun Gu

Segmentation is essential for medical image analysis to identify and localize diseases, monitor morphological changes, and extract discriminative features for further diagnosis. Skin cancer is one of the most common types of cancer…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-02 Hritam Basak , Rohit Kundu , Ram Sarkar

In clinical practice, regions of interest in medical imaging often need to be identified through a process of precise image segmentation. The quality of this image segmentation step critically affects the subsequent clinical assessment of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-23 João B. S. Carvalho , João A. Santinha , Đorđe Miladinović , Joachim M. Buhmann

Understanding how segmentation performance scales with training data is fundamental for developing data-efficient medical AI systems. In this study, we systematically revisit data scaling behavior across 15 anatomical segmentation tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yuetan Chu , Zhongyi Han , Gongning Luo , Xin Gao

Topological structures in image data, such as connected components and loops, play a crucial role in understanding image content (e.g., biomedical objects). % Despite remarkable successes of numerous image processing methods that rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Pengfei Gu , Hongxiao Wang , Yejia Zhang , Huimin Li , Chaoli Wang , Danny Chen

In this paper we present a methodology that uses convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for segmentation by iteratively growing predicted mask regions in each coordinate direction. The CNN is used to predict class probability scores in a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-25 John Lagergren , Erica Rutter , Kevin Flores

Image segmentation is widely used in a variety of computer vision tasks, such as object localization and recognition, boundary detection, and medical imaging. This thesis proposes deep learning architectures to improve automatic object…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-24 Debleena Sengupta

Although existing medical image segmentation methods provide impressive pixel-wise accuracy, they often neglect topological correctness, making their segmentations unusable for many downstream tasks. One option is to retrain such models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Liu Li , Hanchun Wang , Matthew Baugh , Qiang Ma , Weitong Zhang , Cheng Ouyang , Daniel Rueckert , Bernhard Kainz

Skeletonization extracts thin representations from images that compactly encode their geometry and topology. These representations have become an important topological prior for preserving connectivity in curvilinear structures, aiding…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Luis D. Reyes Vargas , Martin J. Menten , Johannes C. Paetzold , Nassir Navab , Mohammad Farid Azampour

Deep learning has been shown to produce state of the art results in many tasks in biomedical imaging, especially in segmentation. Moreover, segmentation of the cerebrovascular structure from magnetic resonance angiography is a challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Pedro Sanches , Cyril Meyer , Vincent Vigon , Benoît Naegel

Accurate segmentation of topological tubular structures, such as blood vessels and roads, is crucial in various fields, ensuring accuracy and efficiency in downstream tasks. However, many factors complicate the task, including thin local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Yaolei Qi , Yuting He , Xiaoming Qi , Yuan Zhang , Guanyu Yang

Background:Accurate tooth segmentation from cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) images is crucial for digital dentistry but remains challenging in cases of interdental adhesions, which cause severe anatomical shape distortion. Methods: To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Zongrui Ji , Zhiming Cui , Na Li , Qianhan Zheng , Miaojing Shi , Ke Deng , Jingyang Zhang , Chaoyuan Li , Xuepeng Chen , Yi Dong , Lei Ma

Automatic medical image segmentation, an essential component of medical image analysis, plays an importantrole in computer-aided diagnosis. For example, locating and segmenting the liver can be very helpful in livercancer diagnosis and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-28 Xi Fang , Bo Du , Sheng Xu , Bradford J. Wood , Pingkun Yan

The Resolution of feature maps is critical for medical image segmentation. Most of the existing Transformer-based networks for medical image segmentation are U-Net-like architecture that contains an encoder that utilizes a sequence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Chen Wei , Shenghan Ren , Kaitai Guo , Haihong Hu , Jimin Liang

Segmenting medical images is critical to facilitating both patient diagnoses and quantitative research. A major limiting factor is the lack of labeled data, as obtaining expert annotations for each new set of imaging data and task can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Chen Liu , Matthew Amodio , Liangbo L. Shen , Feng Gao , Arman Avesta , Sanjay Aneja , Jay C. Wang , Lucian V. Del Priore , Smita Krishnaswamy

Topological consistency plays a crucial role in the task of boundary segmentation for reticular images, such as cell membrane segmentation in neuron electron microscopic images, grain boundary segmentation in material microscopic images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Chuni Liu , Boyuan Ma , Xiaojuan Ban , Yujie Xie , Hao Wang , Weihua Xue , Jingchao Ma , Ke Xu

This paper presents a new regularization method to train a fully convolutional network for semantic tissue segmentation in histopathological images. This method relies on the benefit of unsupervised learning, in the form of image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-26 C. T. Sari , C. Sokmensuer , C. Gunduz-Demir

Tubular structure segmentation in medical images, e.g., segmenting vessels in CT scans, serves as a vital step in the use of computers to aid in screening early stages of related diseases. But automatic tubular structure segmentation in CT…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Yan Wang , Xu Wei , Fengze Liu , Jieneng Chen , Yuyin Zhou , Wei Shen , Elliot K. Fishman , Alan L. Yuille

Medical image segmentation is vital to the area of medical imaging because it enables professionals to more accurately examine and understand the information offered by different imaging modalities. The technique of splitting a medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-01 Aitik Gupta , Joydip Dhar

Multi-class segmentation of cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) images seeks a separation of data into anatomical components with known structure and configuration. The most popular CNN-based methods are optimised using pixel wise loss…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-09 Nick Byrne , James R Clough , Isra Valverde , Giovanni Montana , Andrew P King