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Cancer is one of the leading causes of death globally, and early diagnosis is crucial for patient survival. Deep learning algorithms have great potential for automatic cancer analysis. Artificial intelligence has achieved high performance…

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Automated segmentation proves to be a valuable tool in precisely detecting tumors within medical images. The accurate identification and segmentation of tumor types hold paramount importance in diagnosing, monitoring, and treating highly…

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An automatic segmentation algorithm for delineation of the gross tumour volume and pathologic lymph nodes of head and neck cancers in PET/CT images is described. The proposed algorithm is based on a convolutional neural network using the…

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Automating tissue segmentation and tumor detection in histopathology images of colorectal cancer (CRC) is an enabler for faster diagnostic pathology workflows. At the same time it is a challenging task due to low availability of public…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-07 Lydia A. Schoenpflug , Maxime W. Lafarge , Anja L. Frei , Viktor H. Koelzer

Automatic segmentation of tumor lesions is a critical initial processing step for quantitative PET/CT analysis. However, numerous tumor lesion with different shapes, sizes, and uptake intensity may be distributed in different anatomical…

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Automatic segmentation of hepatic lesions in computed tomography (CT) images is a challenging task to perform due to heterogeneous, diffusive shape of tumors and complex background. To address the problem more and more researchers rely on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-18 Dina B. Efremova , Dmitry A. Konovalov , Thanongchai Siriapisith , Worapan Kusakunniran , Peter Haddawy

Ischemic Stroke Lesion Segmentation challenge (ISLES 2022) offers a platform for researchers to compare their solutions to 3D segmentation of ischemic stroke regions from 3D MRIs. In this work, we describe our solution to ISLES 2022…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-22 Md Mahfuzur Rahman Siddique , Dong Yang , Yufan He , Daguang Xu , Andriy Myronenko

Another year of the multimodal brain tumor segmentation challenge (BraTS) 2021 provides an even larger dataset to facilitate collaboration and research of brain tumor segmentation methods, which are necessary for disease analysis and…

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The superior soft tissue differentiation provided by MRI may enable more accurate tumor segmentation compared to CT and PET, potentially enhancing adaptive radiotherapy treatment planning. The Head and Neck Tumor Segmentation for MR-Guided…

Deep learning presents novel opportunities for the auto-segmentation of gross tumor volume (GTV) in head and neck cancer (HNC), yet fully automatic methods usually necessitate significant manual refinement. This study investigates the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Jintao Ren , Mathis Rasmussen , Jasper Nijkamp , Jesper Grau Eriksen , Stine Korreman

Radiation therapy (RT) is widely employed in the clinic for the treatment of head and neck (HaN) cancers. An essential step of RT planning is the accurate segmentation of various organs-at-risks (OARs) in HaN CT images. Nevertheless,…

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Brain tumor segmentation is a fundamental step in assessing a patient's cancer progression. However, manual segmentation demands significant expert time to identify tumors in 3D multimodal brain MRI scans accurately. This reliance on manual…

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Accurate prognosis of a tumor can help doctors provide a proper course of treatment and, therefore, save the lives of many. Traditional machine learning algorithms have been eminently useful in crafting prognostic models in the last few…

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Outcome prediction is crucial for head and neck cancer patients as it can provide prognostic information for early treatment planning. Radiomics methods have been widely used for outcome prediction from medical images. However, these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Mingyuan Meng , Lei Bi , Dagan Feng , Jinman Kim

Purpose: To present a high-performing, robust, and flexible deep learning pipeline for automatic segmentation of 30 organs-at-risk (OARs) in head and neck (H&N) cancer patients, using MRI, CT, or both. Method: We trained a segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-08 Sébastien Quetin , Andrew Heschl , Mauricio Murillo , Rohit Murali , Piotr Pater , George Shenouda , Shirin A. Enger , Farhad Maleki

Tumor segmentation in whole-body PET/CT imaging is crucial for precise disease evaluation and treatment planning. However, it remains challenging due to variability in lesion size, contrast, and anatomical distribution. Relying on manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Hussain Alasmawi

Automatic segmentation of tumor lesions is a critical initial processing step for quantitative PET/CT analysis. However, numerous tumor lesions with different shapes, sizes, and uptake intensity may be distributed in different anatomical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-20 Zhantao Liu , Shaonan Zhong , Junyang Mo

Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma (NPC) is a leading form of Head-and-Neck (HAN) cancer in the Arctic, China, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East/North Africa. Accurate segmentation of Organs-at-Risk (OAR) from Computed Tomography (CT) images with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-04 Wenhui Lei , Haochen Mei , Zhengwentai Sun , Shan Ye , Ran Gu , Huan Wang , Rui Huang , Shichuan Zhang , Shaoting Zhang , Guotai Wang

Accurate segmentation of prostate and surrounding organs at risk is important for prostate cancer radiotherapy treatment planning. We present a fully automated workflow for male pelvic CT image segmentation using deep learning. The…

Background: A crucial initial processing step for quantitative PET/CT analysis is the segmentation of tumor lesions enabling accurate feature ex-traction, tumor characterization, oncologic staging, and image-based therapy response…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Ludovic Sibille , Xinrui Zhan , Lei Xiang