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Cancer is an abnormal growth with potential to invade locally and metastasize to distant organs. Accurate auto-segmentation of the tumor and surrounding normal tissues is required for radiotherapy treatment plan optimization. Recent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-31 Syed Haider Ali , Asrar Ahmad , Muhammad Ali , Asifullah Khan , Nadeem Shaukat

Medical image segmentation is a difficult but important task for many clinical operations such as cardiac bi-ventricular volume estimation. More recently, there has been a shift to utilizing deep learning and fully convolutional neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-17 Jesse Sun , Fatemeh Darbehani , Mark Zaidi , Bo Wang

From diagnosing neovascular diseases to detecting white matter lesions, accurate tiny vessel segmentation in fundus images is critical. Promising results for accurate vessel segmentation have been known. However, their effectiveness in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Suraj Mishra , Danny Z. Chen , X. Sharon Hu

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-18 Tejashwini P S , Thriveni J , Venugopal K R

Radiation therapy is the primary method used to treat cancer in the clinic. Its goal is to deliver a precise dose to the planning target volume (PTV) while protecting the surrounding organs at risk (OARs). However, the traditional workflow…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-10 Tara Gheshlaghi , Shahabedin Nabavi , Samire Shirzadikia , Mohsen Ebrahimi Moghaddam , Nima Rostampour

A brain tumor, whether benign or malignant, can potentially be life threatening and requires painstaking efforts in order to identify the type, origin and location, let alone cure one. Manual segmentation by medical specialists can be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-02 Ayan Gupta , Mayank Dixit , Vipul Kumar Mishra , Attulya Singh , Atul Dayal

When confronted with objects of unknown types in an image, humans can effortlessly and precisely tell their visual boundaries. This recognition mechanism and underlying generalization capability seem to contrast to state-of-the-art image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Zunlei Feng , Lechao Cheng , Xinchao Wang , Xiang Wang , Yajie Liu , Xiangtong Du , Mingli Song

Segmentation of pancreas is important for medical image analysis, yet it faces great challenges of class imbalance, background distractions and non-rigid geometrical features. To address these difficulties, we introduce a Deep Q…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Yunze Man , Yangsibo Huang , Junyi Feng , Xi Li , Fei Wu

In this study, the main objective is to develop an algorithm capable of identifying and delineating tumor regions in breast ultrasound (BUS) and mammographic images. The technique employs two advanced deep learning architectures, namely…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-14 Mohsen Ahmadi , Masoumeh Farhadi Nia , Sara Asgarian , Kasra Danesh , Elyas Irankhah , Ahmad Gholizadeh Lonbar , Abbas Sharifi

This paper presents a new approach for precisely estimating the renal vascular dominant region using a Voronoi diagram. To provide computer-assisted diagnostics for the pre-surgical simulation of partial nephrectomy surgery, we must obtain…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-27 Chenglong Wang , Holger R. Roth , Takayuki Kitasaka , Masahiro Oda , Yuichiro Hayashi , Yasushi Yoshino , Tokunori Yamamoto , Naoto Sassa , Momokazu Goto , Kensaku Mori

This manuscript presents an image segmentation algorithm developed for the Cross-Organ and Cross-Scanner Adenocarcinoma Segmentation (COSAS 2024) challenge. We adopted an organ-stratified and scanner-stratified approach to train multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Huang Jiayan , Ji Zheng , Kuang Jinbo , Xu Shuoyu

We trained and applied an encoder-decoder model to semantically segment breast biopsy images into biologically meaningful tissue labels. Since conventional encoder-decoder networks cannot be applied directly on large biopsy images and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-12 Sachin Mehta , Ezgi Mercan , Jamen Bartlett , Donald Weaver , Joann Elmore , Linda Shapiro

Accurate multi-organ abdominal CT segmentation is essential to many clinical applications such as computer-aided intervention. As data annotation requires massive human labor from experienced radiologists, it is common that training data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Yuyin Zhou , Zhe Li , Song Bai , Chong Wang , Xinlei Chen , Mei Han , Elliot Fishman , Alan Yuille

Accurate three-dimensional (3D) tooth segmentation from Cone-Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) is a prerequisite for digital dental workflows. However, achieving high-fidelity segmentation remains challenging due to adhesion artifacts in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Bing Yu , Liu Shi , Haitao Wang , Deran Qi , Xiang Cai , Wei Zhong , Qiegen Liu

Self-supervised learning is emerging as an effective substitute for transfer learning from large datasets. In this work, we use kidney segmentation to explore this idea. The anatomical asymmetry of kidneys is leveraged to define an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Abhinav Dhere , Jayanthi Sivaswamy

Segmentation of carotid vessel wall is required in vessel wall volume (VWV) and local vessel-wall-plus-plaque thickness (VWT) quantification of the carotid artery. Manual segmentation of the vessel wall is time-consuming and prone to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-27 Mingjie Jiang , J. David Spence , Bernard Chiu

We present an approach for fully automatic urinary bladder segmentation in CT images with artificial neural networks in this study. Automatic medical image analysis has become an invaluable tool in the different treatment stages of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Christina Gsaxner , Peter M. Roth , Jürgen Wallner , Jan Egger

Histology method is vital in the diagnosis and prognosis of cancers and many other diseases. For the analysis of histopathological images, we need to detect and segment all gland structures. These images are very challenging, and the task…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-05 Safiye Rezaei , Ali Emami , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi

Early detection and accurate diagnosis can predict the risk of malignant disease transformation, thereby increasing the probability of effective treatment. Identifying mild syndrome with small pathological regions serves as an ominous…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-15 Wei Dai , Rui Liu , Zixuan Wu , Tianyi Wu , Min Wang , Junxian Zhou , Yixuan Yuan , Jun Liu

Accurate segmentation for medical images is important for clinical diagnosis. Existing automatic segmentation methods are mainly based on fully supervised learning and have an extremely high demand for precise annotations, which are very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Yuanpeng Liu , Qinglei Hui , Zhiyi Peng , Shaolin Gong , Dexing Kong