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Accurate and reliable brain tumor segmentation, particularly when dealing with missing modalities, remains a critical challenge in medical image analysis. Previous studies have not fully resolved the challenges of tumor boundary…

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Existing brain tumor segmentation methods usually utilize multiple Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) modalities in brain tumor images for segmentation, which can achieve better segmentation performance. However, in clinical applications,…

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This paper proposes a 3D attention-based U-Net architecture for multi-region segmentation of brain tumors using a single stacked multi-modal volume created by combining three non-native MRI volumes. The attention mechanism added to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-11 Maryann M. Gitonga

Recent advances in machine learning and prevalence of digital medical images have opened up an opportunity to address the challenging brain tumor segmentation (BTS) task by using deep convolutional neural networks. However, different from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-10 Dingwen Zhang , Guohai Huang , Qiang Zhang , Jungong Han , Junwei Han , Yizhou Yu

The magnetic resonance (MR) analysis of brain tumors is widely used for diagnosis and examination of tumor subregions. The overlapping area among the intensity distribution of healthy, enhancing, non-enhancing, and edema regions makes the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-01 Mohammad Hamghalam , Baiying Lei , Tianfu Wang

Precise segmentation of brain tumors, particularly contrast-enhancing regions visible in post-contrast MRI (areas highlighted by contrast agent injection), is crucial for accurate clinical diagnosis and treatment planning but remains…

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Gliomas are one of the most frequent brain tumors and are classified into high grade and low grade gliomas. The segmentation of various regions such as tumor core, enhancing tumor etc. plays an important role in determining severity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Navchetan Awasthi , Rohit Pardasani , Swati Gupta

In the field of multimodal segmentation, the correlation between different modalities can be considered for improving the segmentation results. Considering the correlation between different MR modalities, in this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Tongxue Zhou , Su Ruan , Pierre Vera , Stéphane Canu

Multimodal Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) provides essential complementary information for analyzing brain tumor subregions. While methods using four common MRI modalities for automatic segmentation have shown success, they often face…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-14 Runze Cheng , Zhongao Sun , Ye Zhang , Chun Li

Leveraging multimodal information from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) plays a vital role in lesion segmentation, especially for brain tumors. However, in clinical practice, multimodal MRI data are often incomplete, making it challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Yulong Zou , Bo Liu , Cun-Jing Zheng , Yuan-ming Geng , Siyue Li , Qiankun Zuo , Shuihua Wang , Yudong Zhang , Jin Hong

Multimodal MRI is essential for brain tumor segmentation, yet missing modalities in clinical practice cause existing methods to exhibit >40% performance variance across modality combinations, rendering them clinically unreliable. We propose…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Chengxiang Guo , Jian Wang , Junhua Fei , Xiao Li , Chunling Chen , Yun Jin

This study presents a unified Attention U-Net architecture trained jointly on MRI (BraTS 2021) and CT (LIDC-IDRI) datasets to investigate the generalizability of a single model across diverse imaging modalities and anatomical sites. Our…

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Accurate segmentation of brain tumors in MRI scans is critical for clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. We propose a semi-supervised, two-stage framework that extends the ReCoSeg approach to the larger and more heterogeneous BraTS…

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Brain tumor segmentation remains a significant challenge, particularly in the context of multi-modal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) where missing modality images are common in clinical settings, leading to reduced segmentation accuracy.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-14 Zhongao Sun , Jiameng Li , Yuhan Wang , Jiarong Cheng , Qing Zhou , Chun Li

Automated brain tumor segmentation methods have become well-established and reached performance levels offering clear clinical utility. These methods typically rely on four input magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) modalities: T1-weighted…

Complete and high-quality multi-modal Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is essential for accurate neuro-oncological assessment, as each contrast provides complementary anatomical and pathological information. However, acquiring all…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-04 Zaid A. Abod , Furqan Aziz

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a widely used imaging technique to assess brain tumor. Accurately segmenting brain tumor from MR images is the key to clinical diagnostics and treatment planning. In addition, multi-modal MR images can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-21 Tongxue Zhou , Stéphane Canu , Pierre Vera , Su Ruan

Brain tumor segmentation is often based on multiple magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). However, in clinical practice, certain modalities of MRI may be missing, which presents an even more difficult scenario. To cope with this challenge,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-16 Tianyi Liu , Zhaorui Tan , Haochuan Jiang , Xi Yang , Kaizhu Huang

Automatic segmentation of brain tumors is an essential but challenging step for extracting quantitative imaging biomarkers for accurate tumor detection, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment planning and assessment. Multimodal Brain Tumor…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-30 Yading Yuan

Multimodal MR images can provide complementary information for accurate brain tumor segmentation. However, it's common to have missing imaging modalities in clinical practice. Since there exists a strong correlation between multi…

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