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Computer-aided segmentation methods can assist medical personnel in improving diagnostic outcomes. While recent advancements like UNet and its variants have shown promise, they face a critical challenge: balancing accuracy with…

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An automatic evidential segmentation method based on Dempster-Shafer theory and deep learning is proposed to segment lymphomas from three-dimensional Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Computed Tomography (CT) images. The architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Ling Huang , Su Ruan , Pierre Decazes , Thierry Denoeux

In this work, we propose a new segmentation network by integrating DenseUNet and bidirectional LSTM together with attention mechanism, termed as DA-BDense-UNet. DenseUNet allows learning enough diverse features and enhancing the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-27 Wenming Cao , Philip L. H. Yu , Gilbert C. S. Lui , Keith W. H. Chiu , Ho-Ming Cheng , Yanwen Fang , Man-Fung Yuen , Wai-Kay Seto

Accurate detection and segmentation of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) from PET images has important implications for estimation of total metabolic tumor volume, radiomics analysis, surgical intervention and radiotherapy. Manual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-13 Shadab Ahamed , Natalia Dubljevic , Ingrid Bloise , Claire Gowdy , Patrick Martineau , Don Wilson , Carlos F. Uribe , Arman Rahmim , Fereshteh Yousefirizi

Automated histopathological image analysis plays a vital role in computer-aided diagnosis of various diseases. Among developed algorithms, deep learning-based approaches have demonstrated excellent performance in multiple tasks, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Nima Torbati , Anastasia Meshcheryakova , Ramona Woitek , Diana Mechtcheriakova , Amirreza Mahbod

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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Automatic segmentation of kidney and kidney tumour in Computed Tomography (CT) images is essential, as it uses less time as compared to the current gold standard of manual segmentation. However, many hospitals are still reliant on manual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-27 Qi Ming How , Hoi Leong Lee

We present an automatic method for joint liver lesion segmentation and classification using a hierarchical fine-tuning framework. Our dataset is small, containing 332 2-D CT examinations with lesion annotated into 3 lesion types: cysts,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-01 Michal Heker , Avi Ben-Cohen , Hayit Greenspan

Purpose: Accurate identification of hepatocystic anatomy is critical to preventing surgical complications during laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Deep learning models often struggle with occlusions, long-range dependencies, and capturing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Yihan Li , Nikhil Churamani , Maria Robu , Imanol Luengo , Danail Stoyanov

Semantic segmentation in cataract surgery has a wide range of applications contributing to surgical outcome enhancement and clinical risk reduction. However, the varying issues in segmenting the different relevant structures in these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Negin Ghamsarian , Mario Taschwer , Raphael Sznitman , Klaus Schoeffmann

Three-dimensional cine-MRI is of crucial importance for assessing the cardiac function. Features that describe the anatomy and function of cardiac structures (e.g. Left Ventricle (LV), Right Ventricle (RV), and Myocardium(MC)) are known to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-12 M. Hossein Eybposh , Mohammad Haghir Ebrahim-Abadi , Mohammad Jalilpour-Monesi , Seyed Saman Saboksayr

An automatic segmentation algorithm for delineation of the gross tumour volume and pathologic lymph nodes of head and neck cancers in PET/CT images is described. The proposed algorithm is based on a convolutional neural network using the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-05 Yngve Mardal Moe , Aurora Rosvoll Groendahl , Martine Mulstad , Oliver Tomic , Ulf Indahl , Einar Dale , Eirik Malinen , Cecilia Marie Futsaether

Medical image segmentation is crucial for diagnosis and treatment planning. Traditional CNN-based models, like U-Net, have shown promising results but struggle to capture long-range dependencies and global context. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Marzia Binta Nizam , Marian Zlateva , James Davis

This paper presents a fully automated atlas-based pancreas segmentation method from CT volumes utilizing 3D fully convolutional network (FCN) feature-based pancreas localization. Segmentation of the pancreas is difficult because it has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Masahiro Oda , Natsuki Shimizu , Holger R. Roth , Ken'ichi Karasawa , Takayuki Kitasaka , Kazunari Misawa , Michitaka Fujiwara , Daniel Rueckert , Kensaku Mori

Automated brain tumour segmentation has the potential of making a massive improvement in disease diagnosis, surgery, monitoring and surveillance. However, this task is extremely challenging. Here, we describe our automated segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-13 Indrajit Mazumdar

Multi-phase computed tomography (CT) images provide crucial complementary information for accurate liver tumor segmentation (LiTS). State-of-the-art multi-phase LiTS methods usually fused cross-phase features through phase-weighted…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-06 Yue Zhang , Chengtao Peng , Liying Peng , Huimin Huang , Ruofeng Tong , Lanfen Lin , Jingsong Li , Yen-Wei Chen , Qingqing Chen , Hongjie Hu , Zhiyi Peng

Liver cancer is a leading cause of mortality worldwide, and accurate Computed Tomography (CT)-based tumor segmentation is essential for diagnosis and treatment. Manual delineation is time-intensive, prone to variability, and highlights the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Hairong Wang , Lingchao Mao , Zihan Zhang , Jing Li

The accurate segmentation of retinal vessels in fundus images is a great challenge in medical image segmentation tasks due to their highly complex structure from other organs.Currently, deep-learning based methods for retinal cessel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Yiwang Dong , Xiangyu Deng

We present a method to address the challenging problem of segmentation of lumbar vertebrae from CT images acquired with varying fields of view. Our method is based on cascaded 3D Fully Convolutional Networks (FCNs) consisting of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Rens Janssens , Guodong Zeng , Guoyan Zheng

Introduction: Accurate intraoperative delineation of colorectal liver metastases (CRLM) is crucial for achieving negative resection margins but remains challenging using intraoperative ultrasound (iUS) due to low contrast, noise, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Tiziano Natali , Karin A. Olthof , Niels F. M. Kok , Koert F. D. Kuhlmann , Theo J. M. Ruers , Matteo Fusaglia