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Image segmentation is pivotal in medical image analysis, facilitating clinical diagnosis, treatment planning, and disease evaluation. Deep learning has significantly advanced automatic segmentation methodologies by providing superior…

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Diabetic foot ulcers (DFU) are one of the serious complications of diabetes that can lead to amputations and high healthcare costs. Regular monitoring and early diagnosis are critical for reducing the clinical burden and the risk of…

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In medical imaging, efficient segmentation of colon polyps plays a pivotal role in minimally invasive solutions for colorectal cancer. This study introduces a novel approach employing two parallel encoder branches within a network for polyp…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-04 Malik Abdul Manan , Feng Jinchao , Shahzad Ahmed , Abdul Raheem

Segmenting polyps in colonoscopy images is essential for the early identification and diagnosis of colorectal cancer, a significant cause of worldwide cancer deaths. Prior deep learning based models such as Attention based variation, UNet…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-30 Al Mohimanul Islam , Sadia Shakiba Bhuiyan , Mysun Mashira , Md. Rayhan Ahmed , Salekul Islam , Swakkhar Shatabda

Colorectal polyps are generally benign alterations that, if not identified promptly and managed successfully, can progress to cancer and cause affectations on the colon mucosa, known as adenocarcinoma. Today advances in Deep Learning have…

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Colorectal polyps are structural abnormalities of the gastrointestinal tract that can potentially become cancerous in some cases. The study introduces a novel framework for colorectal polyp segmentation named the Multi-Scale and Multi-Path…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-04 Malik Abdul Manan , Feng Jinchao , Muhammad Yaqub , Shahzad Ahmed , Syed Muhammad Ali Imran , Imran Shabir Chuhan , Haroon Ahmed Khan

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Excision of polyps during colonoscopy helps reduce mortality and morbidity for CRC. Powered by deep learning, computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-26 Nikhil Kumar Tomar , Debesh Jha , Ulas Bagci

Delineating infarcted tissue in ischemic stroke lesions is crucial to determine the extend of damage and optimal treatment for this life-threatening condition. However, this problem remains challenging due to high variability of ischemic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Jose Dolz , Ismail Ben Ayed , Christian Desrosiers

Multi-atlas segmentation approach is one of the most widely-used image segmentation techniques in biomedical applications. There are two major challenges in this category of methods, i.e., atlas selection and label fusion. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Heran Yang , Jian Sun , Huibin Li , Lisheng Wang , Zongben Xu

Chronic wounds significantly impact quality of life. If not properly managed, they can severely deteriorate. Image-based wound analysis could aid in objectively assessing the wound status by quantifying important features that are related…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Gaetano Scebba , Jia Zhang , Sabrina Catanzaro , Carina Mihai , Oliver Distler , Martin Berli , Walter Karlen

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

The rapid increment of morbidity of brain stroke in the last few years have been a driving force towards fast and accurate segmentation of stroke lesions from brain MRI images. With the recent development of deep-learning, computer-aided…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-25 Hritam Basak , Rukhshanda Hussain , Ajay Rana

High resolution is crucial for precise segmentation in fundus images, yet handling high-resolution inputs incurs considerable GPU memory costs, with diminishing performance gains as overhead increases. To address this issue while tackling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Ziyuan Ding , Yixiong Liang , Shichao Kan , Qing Liu

At present, the ubiquity method to diagnose the severity of diabetic feet (DF) depends on professional podiatrists. However, in most cases, professional podiatrists have a heavy workload, especially in underdeveloped and developing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Aifu Han , Yongze Zhang , Ajuan Li , Changjin Li , Fengying Zhao , Qiujie Dong , Qin Liu , Yanting Liu , Ximei Shen , Sunjie Yan , Shengzong Zhou

In this study, we introduce a deep learning approach for segmenting kidney parenchyma and kidney abnormalities to support clinicians in identifying and quantifying renal abnormalities such as cysts, lesions, masses, metastases, and primary…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-08 Gabriel Efrain Humpire Mamani , Nikolas Lessmann , Ernst Th. Scholten , Mathias Prokop , Colin Jacobs , Bram van Ginneken

Polyp segmentation is crucial for preventing colorectal cancer a common type of cancer. Deep learning has been used to segment polyps automatically, which reduces the risk of misdiagnosis. Localizing small polyps in colonoscopy images is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-11 Ju-Hyeon Nam , Seo-Hyeong Park , Nur Suriza Syazwany , Yerim Jung , Yu-Han Im , Sang-Chul Lee

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common causes of cancer and cancer-related mortality worldwide. Performing colon cancer screening in a timely fashion is the key to early detection. Colonoscopy is the primary modality used to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Nikhil Kumar Tomar , Annie Shergill , Brandon Rieders , Ulas Bagci , Debesh Jha

Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is a complication of long-standing, unchecked diabetes and one of the leading causes of blindness in the world. This paper focuses on improved and robust methods to extract some of the features of DR, viz. Blood…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Soham Basu , Sayantan Mukherjee , Ankit Bhattacharya , Anindya Sen

Diabetic Foot Ulcer (DFU) is a serious skin wound requiring specialized care. However, real DFU datasets are limited, hindering clinical training and research activities. In recent years, generative adversarial networks and diffusion models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-01 Reza Basiri , Karim Manji , Francois Harton , Alisha Poonja , Milos R. Popovic , Shehroz S. Khan