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Medical image segmentation can provide a reliable basis for further clinical analysis and disease diagnosis. The performance of medical image segmentation has been significantly advanced with the convolutional neural networks (CNNs).…

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Brain tumor is deliberated as one of the severe health complications which lead to decrease in life expectancy of the individuals and is also considered as a prominent cause of mortality worldwide. Therefore, timely detection and prediction…

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Accurate lung nodule segmentation is crucial for early-stage lung cancer diagnosis, as it can substantially enhance patient survival rates. Computed tomography (CT) images are widely employed for early diagnosis in lung nodule analysis.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Muhammad Usman , Azka Rehman , Abd Ur Rehman , Abdullah Shahid , Tariq Mahmood Khan , Imran Razzak , Minyoung Chung , Yeong Gil Shin

Robust and accurate segmentation for elongated physiological structures is challenging, especially in the ambiguous region, such as the corneal endothelium microscope image with uneven illumination or the fundus image with disease…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-31 Yinglin Zhang , Ruiling Xi , Huazhu Fu , Dave Towey , RuiBin Bai , Risa Higashita , Jiang Liu

Accurate airway anatomical labeling is crucial for clinicians to identify and navigate complex bronchial structures during bronchoscopy. Automatic airway anatomical labeling is challenging due to significant individual variability and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Chenyu Li , Minghui Zhang , Chuyan Zhang , Yun Gu

Brain tumor segmentation remains challenging because the three standard sub-regions, i.e., whole tumor (WT), tumor core (TC), and enhancing tumor (ET), often exhibit ambiguous visual boundaries. Integrating radiological description texts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Bahram Mohammadi , Ta Duc Huy , Afrouz Sheikholeslami , Qi Chen , Vu Minh Hieu Phan , Sam White , Minh-Son To , Xuyun Zhang , Amin Beheshti , Luping Zhou , Yuankai Qi

This paper presents a comprehensive study on the classification and detection of Silicosis-related lung inflammation. Our main contributions include 1) the creation of a newly curated chest X-ray (CXR) image dataset named SVBCX that is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Bao Q. Bui , Tien T. T. Nguyen , Duy M. Le , Cong Tran , Cuong Pham

Airway segmentation is crucial for the examination, diagnosis, and prognosis of lung diseases, while its manual delineation is unduly burdensome. To alleviate this time-consuming and potentially subjective manual procedure, researchers have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-12 Yang Nan , Javier Del Ser , Zeyu Tang , Peng Tang , Xiaodan Xing , Yingying Fang , Francisco Herrera , Witold Pedrycz , Simon Walsh , Guang Yang

Pneumothorax, the abnormal accumulation of air in the pleural space, can be life-threatening if undetected. Chest X-rays are the first-line diagnostic tool, but small cases may be subtle. We propose an automated deep-learning pipeline using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Alvaro Aranibar Roque , Helga Sebastian

Over the past two decades, machine analysis of medical imaging has advanced rapidly, opening up significant potential for several important medical applications. As complicated diseases increase and the number of cases rises, the role of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-08 Fares Bougourzi , Fadi Dornaika , Cosimo Distante , Abdelmalik Taleb-Ahmed

Automatic organ segmentation is an important yet challenging problem for medical image analysis. The pancreas is an abdominal organ with very high anatomical variability. This inhibits previous segmentation methods from achieving high…

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Purpose: Segmentation of the breast region in dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) is essential for the automatic measurement of breast density and the quantitative analysis of imaging findings. This study aims to…

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Accurate vessel segmentation is crucial to assist in clinical diagnosis by medical experts. However, the intricate tree-like tubular structure of blood vessels poses significant challenges for existing segmentation algorithms. Small…

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-Background. Network neuroscience examines the brain as a complex system represented by a network (or connectome), providing deeper insights into the brain morphology and function, allowing the identification of atypical brain connectivity…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-09-01 Mert Lostar , Islem Rekik

The performance of a computer-aided automated diagnosis system of lung cancer from Computed Tomography (CT) volumetric images greatly depends on the accurate detection and segmentation of tumor regions. In this paper, we present Recurrent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-09 Uday Kamal , Abdul Muntakim Rafi , Rakibul Hoque , Jonathan Wu , Md. Kamrul Hasan

To improve the prognosis of patients suffering from pulmonary diseases, such as lung cancer, early diagnosis and treatment are crucial. The analysis of CT images is invaluable for diagnosis, whereas high quality segmentation of the airway…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Karen-Helene Støverud , David Bouget , Andre Pedersen , Håkon Olav Leira , Thomas Langø , Erlend Fagertun Hofstad

Accurately segmenting different organs from medical images is a critical prerequisite for computer-assisted diagnosis and intervention planning. This study proposes a deep learning-based approach for segmenting various organs from CT and…

Segmentation of brain structures from magnetic resonance (MR) scans plays an important role in the quantification of brain morphology. Since 3D deep learning models suffer from high computational cost, 2D deep learning methods are favored…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-09 Yuemeng Li , Hongming Li , Yong Fan

In this paper, we present a new approach to learning cascaded classifiers for use in computing environments that involve networks of heterogeneous and resource-constrained, low-power embedded compute and sensing nodes. We present a…

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