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Surgical context inference has recently garnered significant attention in robot-assisted surgery as it can facilitate workflow analysis, skill assessment, and error detection. However, runtime context inference is challenging since it…

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Robust matching of side-scan sonar imagery remains a fundamental challenge in seafloor mapping due to view-dependent backscatter, shadows, and geometric distortion. This paper proposes a novel matching framework that combines physical…

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Spinal surgery planning necessitates automatic segmentation of vertebrae in cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT), an intraoperative imaging modality that is widely used in intervention. However, CBCT images are of low-quality and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-10 Yuanyuan Lyu , Haofu Liao , Heqin Zhu , S. Kevin Zhou

In recent years, deep neural networks have achieved state-of-the-art performance in a variety of recognition and segmentation tasks in medical imaging including brain tumor segmentation. We investigate that segmenting a brain tumor is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Ngan Le , Kashu Yamazaki , Dat Truong , Kha Gia Quach , Marios Savvides

Skin cancer is a frequently occurring cancer in the human population, and it is very important to be able to diagnose malignant tumors in the body early. Lesion segmentation is crucial for monitoring the morphological changes of skin…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Changlu Guo , Jiangyan Dai , Marton Szemenyei , Yugen Yi

In this paper we present a new data-driven method for robust skin detection from a single human portrait image. Unlike previous methods, we incorporate human body as a weak semantic guidance into this task, considering acquiring large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Yi He , Jiayuan Shi , Chuan Wang , Haibin Huang , Jiaming Liu , Guanbin Li , Risheng Liu , Jue Wang

Ultrasound (US) imaging is commonly used to assist in the diagnosis and interventions of spine diseases, while the standardized US acquisitions performed by manually operating the probe require substantial experience and training of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Keyu Li , Yangxin Xu , Jian Wang , Dong Ni , Li Liu , Max Q. -H. Meng

Accurate segmentation of the pelvic CTs is crucial for the clinical diagnosis of pelvic bone diseases and for planning patient-specific hip surgeries. With the emergence and advancements of deep learning for digital healthcare, several…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-28 Prabhakara Subramanya Jois , Aniketh Manjunath , Thomas Fevens

Retinal image segmentation plays an important role in automatic disease diagnosis. This task is very challenging because the complex structure and texture information are mixed in a retinal image, and distinguishing the information is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Shihao Zhang , Huazhu Fu , Yanwu Xu , Yanxia Liu , Mingkui Tan

Comprehensive semantic segmentation is one of the key components for robust scene understanding and a requirement to enable autonomous driving. Driven by large scale datasets, convolutional neural networks show impressive results on this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Jan-Nico Zaech , Dengxin Dai , Martin Hahner , Luc Van Gool

Ultrasound imaging of the cortex of long bones may enable the measurement of the cortical thickness and the ultrasound wave speed in cortical bone tissue. However, with bone loss, the cortical porosity and the size of the pores increase,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Amadou S. Dia , Quentin Grimal , Guillaume Renaud

Automatic detection of shadow regions in an image is a difficult task due to the lack of prior information about the illumination source and the dynamic of the scene objects. To address this problem, in this paper, a deep-learning based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Sorour Mohajerani , Parvaneh Saeedi

Automatic skin lesion segmentation on dermoscopic images is an essential step in computer-aided diagnosis of melanoma. However, this task is challenging due to significant variations of lesion appearances across different patients. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Yading Yuan , Yeh-Chi Lo

We present a recurrent network for the 3D reconstruction of neurons that sequentially generates binary masks for every object in an image with spatio-temporal consistency. Our network models consistency in two parts: (i) local, which allows…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Felix Gonda , Donglai Wei , Hanspeter Pfister

Segmentation is essential for medical image analysis to identify and localize diseases, monitor morphological changes, and extract discriminative features for further diagnosis. Skin cancer is one of the most common types of cancer…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-02 Hritam Basak , Rohit Kundu , Ram Sarkar

The segmentation of medical images is a fundamental step in automated clinical decision support systems. Existing medical image segmentation methods based on supervised deep learning, however, remain problematic because of their reliance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Euijoon Ahn , Dagan Feng , Jinman Kim

We present a rectangle-based segmentation algorithm that sets up a graph and performs a graph cut to separate an object from the background. However, graph-based algorithms distribute the graph's nodes uniformly and equidistantly on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-03-14 Jan Egger , Tina Kapur , Thomas Dukatz , Malgorzata Kolodziej , Dzenan Zukic , Bernd Freisleben , Christopher Nimsky

Medical ultrasound (US) imaging is widely used in clinical examinations due to its portability, real-time capability, and radiation-free nature. To address inter- and intra-operator variability, robotic ultrasound systems have gained…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Yifan Zhang , Dianye Huang , Nassir Navab , Zhongliang Jiang

Shadows encode rich information about scene geometry and illumination, yet existing methods either predict a unified shadow mask or overlook attached shadows entirely. We address this gap by proposing a framework for jointly detecting cast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Shilin Hu , Jingyi Xu , Sagnik Das , Dimitris Samaras , Hieu Le

Medical image segmentation remains challenging in low-data regimes, where scarce annotations often yield poor generalization and ambiguous boundaries with missing fine structures. Recent self-supervised pretraining has improved…

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