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This paper proposes a novel framework for lung segmentation in chest X-rays. It consists of two key contributions, a criss-cross attention based segmentation network and radiorealistic chest X-ray image synthesis (i.e. a synthesized…

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Lung segmentation in chest X-ray images is of paramount importance as it plays a crucial role in the diagnosis and treatment of various lung diseases. This paper presents a novel approach for lung segmentation in chest X-ray images by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-08 Mohammad Ali Labbaf Khaniki , Mohammad Manthouri

Until now, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019, lung diseases, especially diseases such as lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), have become an urgent global health issue. In order to mitigate the goal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-24 Tianzuo Hu

The recent progress of computing, machine learning, and especially deep learning, for image recognition brings a meaningful effect for automatic detection of various diseases from chest X-ray images (CXRs). Here efficiency of lung…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Yu. Gordienko , Peng Gang , Jiang Hui , Wei Zeng , Yu. Kochura , O. Alienin , O. Rokovyi , S. Stirenko

Automated semantic image segmentation is an essential step in quantitative image analysis and disease diagnosis. This study investigates the performance of a deep learning-based model for lung segmentation from CT images for normal and…

Segmentation of lung tissue in computed tomography (CT) images is a precursor to most pulmonary image analysis applications. Semantic segmentation methods using deep learning have exhibited top-tier performance in recent years, however…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-27 Niloufar Delfan , Hamid Abrishami Moghaddam , Mohammadreza Modaresi , Kimia Afshari , Kasra Nezamabadi , Neda Pak , Omid Ghaemi , Mohamad Forouzanfar

Considering the increased workload in pathology laboratories today, automated tools such as artificial intelligence models can help pathologists with their tasks and ease the workload. In this paper, we are proposing a segmentation model…

Lung cancer is one of the prevalence diseases in the world which cause many deaths. Detecting early stages of lung cancer is so necessary. So, modeling and simulating some intelligent medical systems is an essential which can help…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-07 Ehsan Sadeghi Pour , Mahdi Esmaeili

Since, cancer is curable when diagnosed at an early stage, lung cancer screening plays an important role in preventive care. Although both low dose computed tomography (LDCT) and computed tomography (CT) scans provide more medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-28 Worawate Ausawalaithong , Sanparith Marukatat , Arjaree Thirach , Theerawit Wilaiprasitporn

X-ray is one of the prevalent image modalities for the detection and diagnosis of the human body. X-ray provides an actual anatomical structure of an organ present with disease or absence of disease. Segmentation of disease in chest X-ray…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-21 Nand Lal Yadav , Satyendra Singh , Rajesh Kumar , Sudhakar Singh

Pulmonary opacification is the inflammation in the lungs caused by many respiratory ailments, including the novel corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Chest X-rays (CXRs) with such opacifications render regions of lungs imperceptible,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-08 Raghavendra Selvan , Erik B. Dam , Nicki S. Detlefsen , Sofus Rischel , Kaining Sheng , Mads Nielsen , Akshay Pai

Image segmentation is a fundamental problem in medical image analysis. In recent years, deep neural networks achieve impressive performances on many medical image segmentation tasks by supervised learning on large manually annotated data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Ling Zhang , Vissagan Gopalakrishnan , Le Lu , Ronald M. Summers , Joel Moss , Jianhua Yao

Lung image segmentation plays an important role in computer-aid pulmonary diseases diagnosis and treatment. This paper proposed a lung image segmentation method by generative adversarial networks. We employed a variety of generative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-05 Jiaxin Cai , Hongfeng Zhu

COVID-19 frequently provokes pneumonia, which can be diagnosed using imaging exams. Chest X-ray (CXR) is often useful because it is cheap, fast, widespread, and uses less radiation. Here, we demonstrate the impact of lung segmentation in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-29 Lucas O. Teixeira , Rodolfo M. Pereira , Diego Bertolini , Luiz S. Oliveira , Loris Nanni , George D. C. Cavalcanti , Yandre M. G. Costa

Radiological imaging offers effective measurement of anatomy, which is useful in disease diagnosis and assessment. Previous study has shown that the left atrial wall remodeling can provide information to predict treatment outcome in atrial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Shuman Jia , Antoine Despinasse , Zihao Wang , Hervé Delingette , Xavier Pennec , Pierre Jaïs , Hubert Cochet , Maxime Sermesant

The success of deep convolutional neural networks on image classification and recognition tasks has led to new applications in very diversified contexts, including the field of medical imaging. In this paper we investigate and propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Alexey A. Novikov , Dimitrios Lenis , David Major , Jiri Hladůvka , Maria Wimmer , Katja Bühler

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 study investigates the effectiveness of U-Net architectures integrated with various convolutional neural network (CNN) backbones for automated lung cancer detection and segmentation in chest CT images, addressing the critical need for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Alireza Golkarieh , Kiana Kiashemshaki , Sajjad Rezvani Boroujeni , Nasibeh Asadi Isakan

Early diagnosis and analysis of lung cancer involve a precise and efficient lung nodule segmentation in computed tomography (CT) images. However, the anonymous shapes, visual features, and surroundings of the nodule in the CT image pose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-23 Nikhil Varma Keetha , Samson Anosh Babu P , Chandra Sekhara Rao Annavarapu

Chest radiography is the most common clinical examination type. To improve the quality of patient care and to reduce workload, methods for automatic pathology classification have been developed. In this contribution we investigate the…

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