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The performance of the state-of-the-art image segmentation methods heavily relies on the high-quality annotations, which are not easily affordable, particularly for medical data. To alleviate this limitation, in this study, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-08-20 Aliasghar Mortazi , Naji Khosravan , Drew A. Torigian , Sila Kurugol , Ulas Bagci

Accurate lung tumor segmentation is crucial for improving diagnosis, treatment planning, and patient outcomes in oncology. However, the complexity of tumor morphology, size, and location poses significant challenges for automated…

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Cell nuclei detection is a challenging research topic because of limitations in cellular image quality and diversity of nuclear morphology, i.e. varying nuclei shapes, sizes, and overlaps between multiple cell nuclei. This has been a topic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-23 Mohammad Tofighi , Tiantong Guo , Jairam K. P. Vanamala , Vishal Monga

$\bf{Purpose:}$ The goal of this study was (i) to use artificial intelligence to automate the traditionally labor-intensive process of manual segmentation of tumor regions in pathology slides performed by a pathologist and (ii) to validate…

Many computer vision systems require low-cost segmentation algorithms based on deep learning, either because of the enormous size of input images or limited computational budget. Common solutions uniformly downsample the input images to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Chen Jin , Ryutaro Tanno , Thomy Mertzanidou , Eleftheria Panagiotaki , Daniel C. Alexander

Understanding the relationship between the evolution of microstructures of irradiated LiAlO2 pellets and tritium diffusion, retention and release could improve predictions of tritium-producing burnable absorber rod performance. Given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Marjolein Oostrom , Alex Hagen , Nicole LaHaye , Karl Pazdernik

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

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

This paper presents a new probabilistic generative model for image segmentation, i.e. the task of partitioning an image into homogeneous regions. Our model is grounded on a mid-level image representation, called a region tree, in which…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-15 Shell X. Hu , Christopher K. I. Williams , Sinisa Todorovic

Accurate geometry representation is essential in developing finite element models. Although generally good, deep-learning segmentation approaches with only few data have difficulties in accurately segmenting fine features, e.g., gaps and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-19 Peidi Xu , Faezeh Moshfeghifar , Torkan Gholamalizadeh , Michael Bachmann Nielsen , Kenny Erleben , Sune Darkner

Deep learning has proved particularly useful for semantic segmentation, a fundamental image analysis task. However, the standard deep learning methods need many training images with ground-truth pixel-wise annotations, which are usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Denis Baručić , Jan Kybic

Image BERT pre-training with masked image modeling (MIM) becomes a popular practice to cope with self-supervised representation learning. A seminal work, BEiT, casts MIM as a classification task with a visual vocabulary, tokenizing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Xiaotong Li , Yixiao Ge , Kun Yi , Zixuan Hu , Ying Shan , Ling-Yu Duan

Accurate thalamic nuclei segmentation is crucial for understanding neurological diseases, brain functions, and guiding clinical interventions. However, the optimal inputs for segmentation remain unclear. This study systematically evaluates…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-19 Anqi Feng , Zhangxing Bian , Samuel W. Remedios , Savannah P. Hays , Blake E. Dewey , Jiachen Zhuo , Dan Benjamini , Jerry L. Prince

Implicit neural representations (INRs) have achieved remarkable successes in learning expressive yet compact signal representations. However, they are not naturally amenable to predictive tasks such as segmentation, where they must learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Kushal Vyas , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Guha Balakrishnan

Detection of cell nuclei in microscopic images is a challenging research topic, because of limitations in cellular image quality and diversity of nuclear morphology, i.e. varying nuclei shapes, sizes, and overlaps between multiple cell…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Mohammad Tofighi , Tiantong Guo , Jairam K. P. Vanamala , Vishal Monga

Brains with complex distortion of cerebral anatomy present several challenges to automatic tissue segmentation methods of T1-weighted MR images. First, the very high variability in the morphology of the tissues can be incompatible with the…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2020-03-25 Gabriele Amorosino , Denis Peruzzo , Pietro Astolfi , Daniela Redaelli , Paolo Avesani , Filippo Arrigoni , Emanuele Olivetti

We present a method combining affinity prediction with region agglomeration, which improves significantly upon the state of the art of neuron segmentation from electron microscopy (EM) in accuracy and scalability. Our method consists of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Jan Funke , Fabian David Tschopp , William Grisaitis , Arlo Sheridan , Chandan Singh , Stephan Saalfeld , Srinivas C. Turaga

Recently, segmentation neural networks have been significantly improved by demonstrating very promising accuracies on public benchmarks. However, these models are very heavy and generally suffer from low inference speed, which limits their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Jiafeng Xie , Bing Shuai , Jian-Fang Hu , Jingyang Lin , Wei-Shi Zheng

Introducing explicit constraints on the structural predictions has been an effective way to improve the performance of semantic segmentation models. Existing methods are mainly based on insufficient hand-crafted rules that only partially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Boxi Wu , Shuai Zhao , Wenqing Chu , Zheng Yang , Deng Cai