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On-line segmentation of the uterus can aid effective image-based guidance for precise delivery of dose to the target tissue (the uterocervix) during cervix cancer radiotherapy. 3D ultrasound (US) can be used to image the uterus, however,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-21 Bahareh Behboodi , Hassan Rivaz , Susan Lalondrelle , Emma Harris

Proper segmentation of organs-at-risk is important for radiation therapy, surgical planning, and diagnostic decision-making in medical image analysis. While deep learning-based segmentation architectures have made significant progress, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Riad Hassan , M. Rubaiyat Hossain Mondal , Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed , Fahad Mostafa , Md Mostafijur Rahman

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Zhengyong Huang , Ning Jiang , Xingwen Sun , Lihua Zhang , Peng Chen , Jens Domke , Yao Sui

Abdominal organ segmentation from CT and MRI is an essential prerequisite for surgical planning and computer-aided navigation systems. It is challenging due to the high variability in the shape, size, and position of abdominal organs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Fabian Bongratz , Anne-Marie Rickmann , Christian Wachinger

U-Net has been widely used for segmenting abdominal organs, achieving promising performance. However, when it is used for multi-organ segmentation, first, it may be limited in exploiting global long-range contextual information due to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Jin Yang , Daniel S. Marcus , Aristeidis Sotiras

Deep learning has shown great promise in the ability to automatically annotate organs in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, for example, of the brain. However, despite advancements in the field, the ability to accurately segment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Cosmin Ciausu , Deepa Krishnaswamy , Benjamin Billot , Steve Pieper , Ron Kikinis , Andrey Fedorov

Accurate segmentation of multiple organs of the head, neck, chest, and abdomen from medical images is an essential step in computer-aided diagnosis, surgical navigation, and radiation therapy. In the past few years, with a data-driven…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-03 Xiaoyu Liu , Linhao Qu , Ziyue Xie , Jiayue Zhao , Yonghong Shi , Zhijian Song

Segmentation of abdominal computed tomography(CT) provides spatial context, morphological properties, and a framework for tissue-specific radiomics to guide quantitative Radiological assessment. A 2015 MICCAI challenge spurred substantial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 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

Deep learning empowers the mainstream medical image segmentation methods. Nevertheless current deep segmentation approaches are not capable of efficiently and effectively adapting and updating the trained models when new incremental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Zhanghexuan Ji , Dazhou Guo , Puyang Wang , Ke Yan , Le Lu , Minfeng Xu , Jingren Zhou , Qifeng Wang , Jia Ge , Mingchen Gao , Xianghua Ye , Dakai Jin

The ability to dynamically extend a model to new data and classes is critical for multiple organ and tumor segmentation. However, due to privacy regulations, accessing previous data and annotations can be problematic in the medical domain.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-24 Yixiao Zhang , Xinyi Li , Huimiao Chen , Alan Yuille , Yaoyao Liu , Zongwei Zhou

Accurate and robust abdominal multi-organ segmentation from CT imaging of different modalities is a challenging task due to complex inter- and intra-organ shape and appearance variations among abdominal organs. In this paper, we propose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-03 Minfeng Xu , Heng Guo , Jianfeng Zhang , Ke Yan , Le Lu

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

The need for CT scan analysis is growing for pre-diagnosis and therapy of abdominal organs. Automatic organ segmentation of abdominal CT scan can help radiologists analyze the scans faster and segment organ images with fewer errors.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Shima Rafiei , Ebrahim Nasr-Esfahani , S. M. Reza Soroushmehr , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi , Kayvan Najarian

Purpose: Automated distinct bone segmentation from CT scans is widely used in planning and navigation workflows. U-Net variants are known to provide excellent results in supervised semantic segmentation. However, in distinct bone…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-01 Eva Schnider , Julia Wolleb , Antal Huck , Mireille Toranelli , Georg Rauter , Magdalena Müller-Gerbl , Philippe C. Cattin

Our understanding of organs at risk is progressing to include physical small tissues such as coronary arteries and the radiosensitivities of many small organs and tissues are high. Therefore, the accurate segmentation of small volumes in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-08 Jianxin Zhou , Kadishe Fejza , Massimiliano Salvatori , Daniele Della Latta , Gregory M. Hermann , Angela Di Fulvio

Segmentation in 3D scans is playing an increasingly important role in current clinical practice supporting diagnosis, tissue quantification, or treatment planning. The current 3D approaches based on convolutional neural networks usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Alexey Novikov , David Major , Maria Wimmer , Dimitrios Lenis , Katja Bühler

Organ at risk (OAR) segmentation is a crucial step for treatment planning and outcome determination in radiotherapy treatments of cancer patients. Several deep learning based segmentation algorithms have been developed in recent years,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-07 Ilkin Isler , Curtis Lisle , Justin Rineer , Patrick Kelly , Damla Turgut , Jacob Ricci , Ulas Bagci

Deep neural networks have demonstrated very promising performance on accurate segmentation of challenging organs (e.g., pancreas) in abdominal CT and MRI scans. The current deep learning approaches conduct pancreas segmentation by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Jinzheng Cai , Le Lu , Yuanpu Xie , Fuyong Xing , Lin Yang

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…

The task of labeling multiple organs for segmentation is a complex and time-consuming process, resulting in a scarcity of comprehensively labeled multi-organ datasets while the emergence of numerous partially labeled datasets. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Xiaoyu Liu , Linhao Qu , Ziyue Xie , Yonghong Shi , Zhijian Song