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Live cell culture is crucial in biomedical studies for analyzing cell properties and dynamics in vitro. This study focuses on segmenting unstained live cells imaged with bright-field microscopy. While many segmentation approaches exist for…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-26 Surajit Das , Gourav Roy , Pavel Zun

In recent years, an enormous amount of fluorescence microscopy images were collected in high-throughput lab settings. Analyzing and extracting relevant information from all images in a short time is almost impossible. Detecting tiny…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Asmaa Haja , Lambert R. B. Schomaker

Automatic segmentation of multiple organs and tumors from 3D medical images such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) scans using deep learning methods can aid in diagnosing and treating cancer. However, organs…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-25 Hao Li , Yang Nan , Javier Del Ser , Guang Yang

U-Nets have achieved tremendous success in medical image segmentation. Nevertheless, it may suffer limitations in global (long-range) contextual interactions and edge-detail preservation. In contrast, Transformer has an excellent ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Nan Wang , Shaohui Lin , Xiaoxiao Li , Ke Li , Yunhang Shen , Yue Gao , Lizhuang Ma

Purpose: Accurate segmentation of glioma subregions in multi-parametric MRI (MP-MRI) is essential for diagnosis and treatment planning but remains challenging due to tumor heterogeneity and ambiguous boundaries. This study proposes an…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Zhenyu Yang , Chen Yang , Rihui Zhang , Minbin Chen , Chunhao Wang , Fang-Fang Yin

Online zero-shot 3D instance segmentation of a progressively reconstructed scene is both a critical and challenging task for embodied applications. With the success of visual foundation models (VFMs) in the image domain, leveraging 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yijie Tang , Jiazhao Zhang , Yuqing Lan , Yulan Guo , Dezun Dong , Chenyang Zhu , Kai Xu

Advances in fluorescence microscopy enable acquisition of 3D image volumes with better image quality and deeper penetration into tissue. Segmentation is a required step to characterize and analyze biological structures in the images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Chichen Fu , Soonam Lee , David Joon Ho , Shuo Han , Paul Salama , Kenneth W. Dunn , Edward J. Delp

In medicine, visualizing chromosomes is important for medical diagnostics, drug development, and biomedical research. Unfortunately, chromosomes often overlap and it is necessary to identify and distinguish between the overlapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-21 R. Lily Hu , Jeremy Karnowski , Ross Fadely , Jean-Patrick Pommier

Wood comprises different cell types, such as fibers, tracheids and vessels, defining its properties. Studying cells' shape, size, and arrangement in microscopy images is crucial for understanding wood characteristics. Typically, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Saqib Qamar , Abu Imran Baba , Stéphane Verger , Magnus Andersson

Segmentation of brain structures on MRI is the primary step for further quantitative analysis of brain diseases. Manual segmentation is still considered the gold standard in terms of accuracy; however, such data is extremely time-consuming…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-16 Mengyu Li , Magnus Magnusson , Thilo van Eimeren , Lotta M. Ellingsen

In this paper, we introduce an anchor-free and single-shot instance segmentation method, which is conceptually simple with 3 independent branches, fully convolutional and can be used by easily embedding it into mobile and embedded devices.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Longfei Zeng , Mohammed Sabah

Macular holes are a common eye condition which result in visual impairment. We look at the application of deep convolutional neural networks to the problem of macular hole segmentation. We use the 3D U-Net architecture as a basis and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-08 Jonathan Frawley , Chris G. Willcocks , Maged Habib , Caspar Geenen , David H. Steel , Boguslaw Obara

Nucleus image segmentation is a crucial step in the analysis, pathological diagnosis, and classification, which heavily relies on the quality of nucleus segmentation. However, the complexity of issues such as variations in nucleus size,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-11 Junzhou Chen , Qian Huang , Yulin Chen , Linyi Qian , Chengyuan Yu

Object detection remains an active area of research in the field of computer vision, and considerable advances and successes has been achieved in this area through the design of deep convolutional neural networks for tackling object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Alexander Wong , Mahmoud Famuori , Mohammad Javad Shafiee , Francis Li , Brendan Chwyl , Jonathan Chung

Medical imaging is essential in healthcare to provide key insights into patient anatomy and pathology, aiding in diagnosis and treatment. Non-invasive techniques such as X-ray, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Computed Tomography (CT), and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-04 Fnu Neha , Deepshikha Bhati , Deepak Kumar Shukla , Sonavi Makarand Dalvi , Nikolaos Mantzou , Safa Shubbar

Automated cell segmentation in microscopy images is essential for biomedical research, yet conventional methods are labor-intensive and prone to error. While deep learning-based approaches have proven effective, they often require large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Rüveyda Yilmaz , Kaan Keven , Yuli Wu , Johannes Stegmaier

In recent years, deep learning technology has developed rapidly, and the application of deep neural networks in the medical image processing field has become the focus of the spotlight. This paper aims to achieve needle position detection…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-17 Jidong Xu , Jinglun Yu , Jianing Yao , Rendong Zhang

3D lung segmentation is essential since it processes the volumetric information of the lungs, removes the unnecessary areas of the scan, and segments the actual area of the lungs in a 3D volume. Recently, the deep learning model, such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-07 Dhaval D. Kadia , Md Zahangir Alom , Ranga Burada , Tam V. Nguyen , Vijayan K. Asari

Medical image segmentation has been so far achieving promising results with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). However, it is arguable that in traditional CNNs, its pooling layer tends to discard important information such as positions.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-12 Tan Nguyen , Binh-Son Hua , Ngan Le

Living cell segmentation from bright-field light microscopy images is challenging due to the image complexity and temporal changes in the living cells. Recently developed deep learning (DL)-based methods became popular in medical and…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-07-07 Ali Ghaznavi , Renata Rychtarikova , Mohammadmehdi Saberioon , Dalibor Stys