English
Related papers

Related papers: Open-source tool for Airway Segmentation in Comput…

200 papers

In situ synchrotron X-ray computed tomography enables dynamic material studies. However, automated segmentation remains challenging due to complex imaging artefacts - like ring and cupping effects - and limited training data. We present a…

Detailed pulmonary airway segmentation is a clinically important task for endobronchial intervention and treatment of peripheral located lung cancer lesions. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are promising tools for medical image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Minghui Zhang , Guang-Zhong Yang , Yun Gu

Automated cell segmentation is crucial for various biological and medical applications, facilitating tasks like cell counting, morphology analysis, and drug discovery. However, manual segmentation is time-consuming and prone to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Aaron Rock Menezes , Bharath Ramsundar

Automatic and accurate segmentation of aortic vessel tree (AVT) in computed tomography (CT) scans is crucial for early detection, diagnosis and prognosis of aortic diseases, such as aneurysms, dissections and stenosis. However, this task…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-18 Shaofeng Yuan , Feng Yang

Airway segmentation is crucial for the examination, diagnosis, and prognosis of lung diseases, while its manual delineation is unduly burdensome. To alleviate this time-consuming and potentially subjective manual procedure, researchers have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-12 Yang Nan , Javier Del Ser , Zeyu Tang , Peng Tang , Xiaodan Xing , Yingying Fang , Francisco Herrera , Witold Pedrycz , Simon Walsh , Guang Yang

This is the technical report of the 9th place in the final result of PARSE2022 Challenge. We solve the segmentation problem of the pulmonary artery by using a two-stage method based on a 3D CNN network. The coarse model is used to locate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-15 ZeYu Liu , Yi Wang , Jing Wen , Yong Zhang , Hao Yin , Chao Guo , ZhongYu Wang

Discontinuity in the delineation of peripheral bronchioles hinders the potential clinical application of automated airway segmentation models. Moreover, the deployment of such models is limited by the data heterogeneity across different…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-24 Zeyu Tang , Nan Yang , Simon Walsh , Guang Yang

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely used for medical image segmentation. In most studies, only the output layer is exploited to compute the final segmentation results and the hidden representations of the deep learned…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-20 Sheng He , Yanfang Feng , P. Ellen Grant , Yangming Ou

Lung segmentation in computerized tomography (CT) images is an important procedure in various lung disease diagnosis. Most of the current lung segmentation approaches are performed through a series of procedures with manually empirical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Jiaxing Tan , Longlong Jing , Yumei Huo , Yingli Tian , Oguz Akin

The accurate segmentation of lesions in whole-body PET/CT imaging is es-sential for tumor characterization, treatment planning, and response assess-ment, yet current manual workflows are labor-intensive and prone to inter-observer…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Moona Mazher , Steven A Niederer , Abdul Qayyum

Accurately segmenting different organs from medical images is a critical prerequisite for computer-assisted diagnosis and intervention planning. This study proposes a deep learning-based approach for segmenting various organs from CT and…

Automated segmentation of Lungs plays a crucial role in the computer-aided diagnosis of chest X-Ray (CXR) images. Developing an efficient Lung segmentation model is challenging because of difficulties such as the presence of several edges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Jyoti Islam , Yanqing Zhang

Analyzing CT scans, MRIs and X-rays is pivotal in diagnosing and treating diseases. However, detecting and identifying abnormalities from such medical images is a time-intensive process that requires expert analysis and is prone to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-14 Daniel Syomichev , Padmini Gopinath , Guang-Lin Wei , Eric Chang , Ian Gordon , Amanuel Seifu , Rahul Pemmaraju , Neehar Peri , James Purtilo

Manual annotation of airway regions in computed tomography images is a time-consuming and expertise-dependent task. Automatic airway segmentation is therefore a prerequisite for enabling rapid bronchoscopic navigation and the clinical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-10 Qibiao Wu , Yagang Wang , Qian Zhang

The lung airway tree modeling is essential to work for the diagnosis of pulmonary diseases, especially for X-Ray computed tomography (CT). The airway tree modeling on CT images can provide the experts with 3-dimension measurements like wall…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Hsiang-Chin Chien , Ching-Ping Wang , Jung-Chih Chen , Chia-Yen Lee

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

Automated segmentation of cancerous lesions in PET/CT scans is a crucial first step in quantitative image analysis. However, training deep learning models for segmentation with high accuracy is particularly challenging due to the variations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Shadab Ahamed

Accurate segmentation of pulmonary vessels plays a very critical role in diagnosing and assessing various lung diseases. Currently, many automated algorithms are primarily targeted at CTPA (Computed Tomography Pulmonary Angiography) types…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Ying Ming , Shaoze Luo , Longfei Zhao , Ruijie Zhao , Bing Li , Qiqi Xu , Wei Song

Deep learning has led to state-of-the-art results for many medical imaging tasks, such as segmentation of different anatomical structures. With the increased numbers of deep learning publications and openly available code, the approach to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Tom van Sonsbeek , Veronika Cheplygina

Chest radiography is an effective screening tool for diagnosing pulmonary diseases. In computer-aided diagnosis, extracting the relevant region of interest, i.e., isolating the lung region of each radiography image, can be an essential step…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-23 Hilda Azimi , Jianxing Zhang , Pengcheng Xi , Hala Asad , Ashkan Ebadi , Stephane Tremblay , Alexander Wong