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Recovering clear structures from severely blurry inputs is a challenging problem due to the large movements between the camera and the scene. Although some works apply segmentation maps on human face images for deblurring, they cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Pei Wang , Danna Xue , Yu Zhu , Jinqiu Sun , Qingsen Yan , Sung-eui Yoon , Yanning Zhang

Segmenting multiple objects (e.g., organs) in medical images often requires an understanding of their topology, which simultaneously quantifies the shape of the objects and their positions relative to each other. This understanding is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-16 Mehmet Bahadir Erden , Sinan Unver , Ilke Ali Gurses , Rustu Turkay , Cigdem Gunduz-Demir

Existing research highlights the crucial role of topological priors in image segmentation, particularly in preserving essential structures such as connectivity and genus. Accurately capturing these topological features often requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Wenxiao Li , Xue-Cheng Tai , Jun Liu

The accurate segmentation of medical images is a crucial step in obtaining reliable morphological statistics. However, training a deep neural network for this task requires a large amount of labeled data to ensure high-accuracy results. To…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-04 Xianjun Han , Qianqian Chen , Zhaoyang Xie , Xuejun Li , Hongyu Yang

When developing deep neural networks for segmenting intraoperative ultrasound images, several practical issues are encountered frequently, such as the presence of ultrasound frames that do not contain regions of interest and the high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Liam F Chalcroft , Jiongqi Qu , Sophie A Martin , Iani JMB Gayo , Giulio V Minore , Imraj RD Singh , Shaheer U Saeed , Qianye Yang , Zachary MC Baum , Andre Altmann , Yipeng Hu

Probabilistic atlas priors have been commonly used to derive adaptive and robust brain MRI segmentation algorithms. Widely-used neuroimage analysis pipelines rely heavily on these techniques, which are often computationally expensive. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Adrian V. Dalca , Evan Yu , Polina Golland , Bruce Fischl , Mert R. Sabuncu , Juan Eugenio Iglesias

Deep learning-based medical image segmentation techniques have shown promising results when evaluated based on conventional metrics such as the Dice score or Intersection-over-Union. However, these fully automatic methods often fail to meet…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-06 Liu Li , Qiang Ma , Cheng Ouyang , Johannes C. Paetzold , Daniel Rueckert , Bernhard Kainz

Topological correctness is critical for segmentation of tubular structures, which pervade in biomedical images. Existing topological segmentation loss functions are primarily based on the persistent homology of the image. They match the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Bo Wen , Haochen Zhang , Dirk-Uwe G. Bartsch , William R. Freeman , Truong Q. Nguyen , Cheolhong An

The identification and segmentation of moderate-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) lesions pose a significant challenge in neuroimaging. This difficulty arises from the extreme heterogeneity of these lesions, which vary in size, number,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Ghanshyam Dhamat , Vaanathi Sundaresan

In the deep metric learning approach to image segmentation, a convolutional net densely generates feature vectors at the pixels of an image. Pairs of feature vectors are trained to be similar or different, depending on whether the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Kyle Luther , H. Sebastian Seung

Image segmentation is a challenging task influenced by multiple sources of uncertainty, such as the data labeling process or the sampling of training data. In this paper we focus on binary segmentation and address these challenges using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Luca Mossina , Corentin Friedrich

This paper addresses the task of nuclei segmentation in high-resolution histopathological images. We propose an auto- matic end-to-end deep neural network algorithm for segmenta- tion of individual nuclei. A nucleus-boundary model is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Yuxin Cui , Guiying Zhang , Zhonghao Liu , Zheng Xiong , Jianjun Hu

We propose an automatic preprocessing and ensemble learning for segmentation of cell images with low quality. It is difficult to capture cells with strong light. Therefore, the microscopic images of cells tend to have low image quality but…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-31 Sota Kato , Kazuhiro Hotta

Segmentation networks are not explicitly imposed to learn global invariants of an image, such as the shape of an object and the geometry between multiple objects, when they are trained with a standard loss function. On the other hand,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Seher Ozcelik , Sinan Unver , Ilke Ali Gurses , Rustu Turkay , Cigdem Gunduz-Demir

Transfer learning is a critical technique in training deep neural networks for the challenging medical image segmentation task that requires enormous resources. With the abundance of medical image data, many research institutions release…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Yuncheng Yang , Meng Wei , Junjun He , Jie Yang , Jin Ye , Yun Gu

Despite the tremendous success of deep neural networks in medical image segmentation, they typically require a large amount of costly, expert-level annotated data. Few-shot segmentation approaches address this issue by learning to transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Qinji Yu , Kang Dang , Nima Tajbakhsh , Demetri Terzopoulos , Xiaowei Ding

Deep neural networks show high accuracy in theproblem of semantic and instance segmentation of biomedicaldata. However, this approach is computationally expensive. Thecomputational cost may be reduced with network simplificationafter…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-18 Alexander Karimov , Artem Razumov , Ruslana Manbatchurina , Ksenia Simonova , Irina Donets , Anastasia Vlasova , Yulia Khramtsova , Konstantin Ushenin

Accurate and reliable image segmentation is an essential part of biomedical image analysis. In this paper, we consider the problem of biomedical image segmentation using deep convolutional neural networks. We propose a new end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Amirhossein Dadashzadeh , Alireza Tavakoli Targhi

Deep learning techniques have successfully been employed in numerous computer vision tasks including image segmentation. The techniques have also been applied to medical image segmentation, one of the most critical tasks in computer-aided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Titinunt Kitrungrotsakul , Iwamoto Yutaro , Lanfen Lin , Ruofeng Tong , Jingsong Li , Yen-Wei Chen

There is large consent that successful training of deep networks requires many thousand annotated training samples. In this paper, we present a network and training strategy that relies on the strong use of data augmentation to use the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Olaf Ronneberger , Philipp Fischer , Thomas Brox