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Segment Anything Model (SAM), a new AI model from Meta AI released in April 2023, is an ambitious tool designed to identify and separate individual objects within a given image through semantic interpretation. The advanced capabilities of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-06 Gabriel Bellon de Carvalho , Jurandy Almeida

Lung cancer ranks as one of the leading causes of cancer diagnosis and is the foremost cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide. The early detection of lung nodules plays a pivotal role in improving outcomes for patients, as it enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jiasen Zhang , Mingrui Yang , Weihong Guo , Brian A. Xavier , Michael Bolen , Xiaojuan Li

Recent research on COVID-19 suggests that CT imaging provides useful information to assess disease progression and assist diagnosis, in addition to help understanding the disease. There is an increasing number of studies that propose to use…

We present a novel deep learning approach to categorical segmentation of lung CTs of COVID-19 patients. Specifically, we partition the scans into healthy lung tissues, non-lung regions, and two different, yet visually similar, pathological…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-07 Tal Ben-Haim , Ron Moshe Sofer , Gal Ben-Arie , Ilan Shelef , Tammy Riklin-Raviv

Chest X-ray examination plays an important role in lung disease detection. The more accuracy of this task, the more experienced radiologists are required. After ChestX-ray14 dataset containing over 100,000 frontal-view X-ray images of 14…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-14 Minh-Chuong Huynh , Trung-Hieu Nguyen , Minh-Triet Tran

Computer vision has shown promising results in medical image processing. Pneumothorax is a deadly condition and if not diagnosed and treated at time then it causes death. It can be diagnosed with chest X-ray images. We need an expert and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Karan Jakhar , Avneet Kaur , Meenu Gupta

Fetal lung maturity is a critical indicator for predicting neonatal outcomes and the need for post-natal intervention, especially for pregnancies affected by fetal growth restriction. Intra-voxel incoherent motion analysis has shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Zhennan Xiao , Katharine Brudkiewicz , Zhen Yuan , Rosalind Aughwane , Magdalena Sokolska , Joanna Chappell , Trevor Gaunt , Anna L. David , Andrew P. King , Andrew Melbourne

Lung mask creation lacks well-defined criteria and standardized guidelines, leading to a high degree of subjectivity between annotators. In this study, we assess the underestimation of lung regions on chest X-ray segmentation masks created…

Pneumothorax, the abnormal accumulation of air in the pleural space, can be life-threatening if undetected. Chest X-rays are the first-line diagnostic tool, but small cases may be subtle. We propose an automated deep-learning pipeline using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Alvaro Aranibar Roque , Helga Sebastian

Accurate lung tumor segmentation is crucial for improving diagnosis, treatment planning, and patient outcomes in oncology. However, the complexity of tumor morphology, size, and location poses significant challenges for automated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-16 Elena Mulero Ayllón , Massimiliano Mantegna , Linlin Shen , Paolo Soda , Valerio Guarrasi , Matteo Tortora

In this work we present a method for lung nodules segmentation, their texture classification and subsequent follow-up recommendation from the CT image of lung. Our method consists of neural network model based on popular U-Net architecture…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-29 Alexandr G. Rassadin

In clinical practice, regions of interest in medical imaging often need to be identified through a process of precise image segmentation. The quality of this image segmentation step critically affects the subsequent clinical assessment of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-23 João B. S. Carvalho , João A. Santinha , Đorđe Miladinović , Joachim M. Buhmann

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…

Segmentation of biomedical images can assist radiologists to make a better diagnosis and take decisions faster by helping in the detection of abnormalities, such as tumors. Manual or semi-automated segmentation, however, can be a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-11 Dhanunjaya Mitta , Soumick Chatterjee , Oliver Speck , Andreas Nürnberger

Accurate delineation of pathological lungs from computed tomography (CT) images remains mostly unsolved because available methods fail to provide a reliable generic solution due to high variability of abnormality appearance. Local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Awais Mansoor , Ulas Bagci , Daniel J. Mollura

Purpose: we evaluated the generalization capability of deep neural networks (DNNs), trained to classify chest X-rays as Covid-19, normal or pneumonia, using a relatively small and mixed dataset. Methods: we proposed a DNN to perform lung…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-03 Pedro R. A. S. Bassi , Romis Attux

Purpose: Rapid and reliable diagnostic tools are crucial for managing respiratory diseases like COVID-19, where chest X-ray analysis coupled with artificial intelligence techniques has proven invaluable. However, most existing works on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Aman Swaraj , Arnav Agarwal , Hitendra Singh Bhadouria , Sandeep Kumar , Karan Verma

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

Analysis of cancer and other pathological diseases, like the interstitial lung diseases (ILDs), is usually possible through Computed Tomography (CT) scans. To aid this, a preprocessing step of segmentation is performed to reduce the area to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Jeovane Honório Alves , Pedro Martins Moreira Neto , Lucas Ferrari de Oliveira

Many people die from lung-related diseases every year. X-ray is an effective way to test if one is diagnosed with a lung-related disease or not. This study concentrates on categorizing three distinct types of lung X-rays: those depicting…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-26 Xiaoyi Liu , Zhou Yu , Lianghao Tan