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Medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in clinical diagnosis and treatment planning, where accurate boundary delineation is essential for precise lesion localization, organ identification, and quantitative assessment. In recent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Peiting Tian , Xi Chen , Haixia Bi , Fan Li

Automatic segmentation of abdomen organs using medical imaging has many potential applications in clinical workflows. Recently, the state-of-the-art performance for organ segmentation has been achieved by deep learning models, i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Jinzheng Cai , Yingda Xia , Dong Yang , Daguang Xu , Lin Yang , Holger Roth

Accurate segmentation of lesions in pancreatic endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) images is crucial for effective diagnosis and treatment. However, the collection of enough crisp EUS images for effective diagnosis is arduous. Recently, domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 ZhiChao Yan , Hui Xue , Yi Zhu , Bin Xiao , Hao Yuan

Segmenting organs in CT scan images is a necessary process for multiple downstream medical image analysis tasks. Currently, manual CT scan segmentation by radiologists is prevalent, especially for organs like the pancreas, which requires a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-22 Juwita juwita , Ghulam Mubashar Hassan , Naveed Akhtar , Amitava Datta

Automating classification and segmentation process of abnormal regions in different body organs has a crucial role in most of medical imaging applications such as funduscopy, endoscopy, and dermoscopy. Detecting multiple abnormalities in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Mohsen Hajabdollahi , Reza Esfandiarpoor , Elyas Sabeti , Nader Karimi , Kayvan Najarian , S. M. Reza Soroushmehr , Shadrokh Samavi

The accurate segmentation of organs-at-risk (OARs) in head and neck CT images is a critical step for radiation therapy of head and neck cancer patients. However, manual delineation for numerous OARs is time-consuming and laborious, even for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-26 Shuai Wang , Theodore Yanagihara , Bhishamjit Chera , Colette Shen , Pew-Thian Yap , Jun Lian

Automated volumetric segmentation of the pancreas on cross-sectional imaging is needed for diagnosis and follow-up of pancreatic diseases. While CT-based pancreatic segmentation is more established, MRI-based segmentation methods are…

In recent years, "U-shaped" neural networks featuring encoder and decoder structures have gained popularity in the field of medical image segmentation. Various variants of this model have been developed. Nevertheless, the evaluation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-02 Qi Ye , Lihua Guo

Purpose: An approach for the automated segmentation of visceral adipose tissue (VAT) and subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) in multicenter water-fat MRI scans of the abdomen was investigated, using two different neural network architectures.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Taro Langner , Anders Hedström , Katharina Mörwald , Daniel Weghuber , Anders Forslund , Peter Bergsten , Håkan Ahlström , Joel Kullberg

In this work, we propose to resolve the issue existing in current deep learning based organ segmentation systems that they often produce results that do not capture the overall shape of the target organ and often lack smoothness. Since…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Yuan Xue , Hui Tang , Zhi Qiao , Guanzhong Gong , Yong Yin , Zhen Qian , Chao Huang , Wei Fan , Xiaolei Huang

Minimally invasive surgery is a surgical intervention used to examine the organs inside the abdomen and has been widely used due to its effectiveness over open surgery. Due to the hardware improvements such as high definition cameras, this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-04 Debesh Jha , Sharib Ali , Nikhil Kumar Tomar , Michael A. Riegler , Dag Johansen , Håvard D. Johansen , Pål Halvorsen

Although deep models have greatly improved the accuracy and robustness of image segmentation, obtaining segmentation results with highly accurate boundaries and fine structures is still a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Xuebin Qin , Deng-Ping Fan , Chenyang Huang , Cyril Diagne , Zichen Zhang , Adrià Cabeza Sant'Anna , Albert Suàrez , Martin Jagersand , Ling Shao

Multi-organ segmentation in abdominal Computed Tomography (CT) images is of great importance for diagnosis of abdominal lesions and subsequent treatment planning. Though deep learning based methods have attained high performance, they rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Meng Han , Xiangde Luo , Wenjun Liao , Shichuan Zhang , Shaoting Zhang , Guotai Wang

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

Abdominal multi-organ segmentation of computed tomography (CT) images has been the subject of extensive research interest. It presents a substantial challenge in medical image processing, as the shape and distribution of abdominal organs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Yuchen Xu , Olivia Tang , Yucheng Tang , Ho Hin Lee , Yunqiang Chen , Dashan Gao , Shizhong Han , Riqiang Gao , Michael R. Savona , Richard G. Abramson , Yuankai Huo , Bennett A. Landman

In this paper, we propose an end-to-end deep neural network for solving the problem of imbalanced large and small organ segmentation in head and neck (HaN) CT images. To conduct radiotherapy planning for nasopharyngeal cancer, more than 10…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-30 Yunhe Gao , Rui Huang , Ming Chen , Zhe Wang , Jincheng Deng , Yuanyuan Chen , Yiwei Yang , Jie Zhang , Chanjuan Tao , Hongsheng Li

Automatic segmentation of breast tumors from the ultrasound images is essential for the subsequent clinical diagnosis and treatment plan. Although the existing deep learning-based methods have achieved significant progress in automatic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-24 Xing Yang , Jian Zhang , Qijian Chen , Li Wang , Lihui Wang

Accurate and robust segmentation of abdominal organs on CT is essential for many clinical applications such as computer-aided diagnosis and computer-aided surgery. But this task is challenging due to the weak boundaries of organs, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Yan Wang , Yuyin Zhou , Wei Shen , Seyoun Park , Elliot K. Fishman , Alan L. Yuille

Automated segmentation of kidneys and kidney tumors is an important step in quantifying the tumor's morphometrical details to monitor the progression of the disease and accurately compare decisions regarding the kidney tumor treatment.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-17 Andriy Myronenko , Ali Hatamizadeh

Automatic segmentation is essential for the brain tumor diagnosis, disease prognosis, and follow-up therapy of patients with gliomas. Still, accurate detection of gliomas and their sub-regions in multimodal MRI is very challenging due to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-20 Ramy A. Zeineldin , Mohamed E. Karar , Oliver Burgert , Franziska Mathis-Ullrich