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Segmentation of tumors in brain MRI images is a challenging task, where most recent methods demand large volumes of data with pixel-level annotations, which are generally costly to obtain. In contrast, image-level annotations, where only…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-07 Sergey Pavlov , Alexey Artemov , Maksim Sharaev , Alexander Bernstein , Evgeny Burnaev

Each year, there are about 400'000 new cases of kidney cancer worldwide causing around 175'000 deaths. For clinical decision making it is important to understand the morphometry of the tumor, which involves the time-consuming task of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-26 Iwan Paolucci

Timely brain tumor diagnosis remains challenging in low-resource clinical environments where expert neuroradiology interpretation, high-end MRI hardware, and invasive biopsy procedures may be limited. Although deep learning has achieved…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Areeb Ehsan

Brain tumor segmentation intends to delineate tumor tissues from healthy brain tissues. The tumor tissues include necrosis, peritumoral edema, and active tumor. In contrast, healthy brain tissues include white matter, gray matter, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-03 Snehal Rajput , Mehul S Raval

Tumor segmentation in CT scans is key for diagnosis, surgery, and prognosis, yet segmentation masks are scarce because their creation requires time and expertise. Public abdominal CT datasets have from dozens to a couple thousand tumor…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-09 Pedro R. A. S. Bassi , Wenxuan Li , Jieneng Chen , Zheren Zhu , Tianyu Lin , Sergio Decherchi , Andrea Cavalli , Kang Wang , Yang Yang , Alan L. Yuille , Zongwei Zhou

Recently deep learning methods, in particular, convolutional neural networks (CNNs), have led to a massive breakthrough in the range of computer vision. Also, the large-scale annotated dataset is the essential key to a successful training…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-17 Chang Qi , Junyang Chen , Guizhi Xu , Zhenghua Xu , Thomas Lukasiewicz , Yang Liu

Brain tumors are a complex and potentially life-threatening medical condition that requires accurate diagnosis and timely treatment. In this paper, we present a machine learning-based system designed to assist healthcare professionals in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-18 Belal Badawy , Romario Sameh Samir , Youssef Tarek , Mohammed Ahmed , Rana Ibrahim , Manar Ahmed , Mohamed Hassan

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is an important diagnostic tool for precise detection of various pathologies. Magnetic Resonance (MR) is more preferred than Computed Tomography (CT) due to the high resolution in MR images which help in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Pranay Manocha , Snehal Bhasme , Tanvi Gupta , BK Panigrahi , Tapan K. Gandhi

Generative AI models hold great potential in creating synthetic brain MRIs that advance neuroimaging studies by, for example, enriching data diversity. However, the mainstay of AI research only focuses on optimizing the visual quality (such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Wei Peng , Tomas Bosschieter , Jiahong Ouyang , Robert Paul , Ehsan Adeli , Qingyu Zhao , Kilian M. Pohl

Deep learning methods, and in particular convolutional neural networks (CNNs), have led to an enormous breakthrough in a wide range of computer vision tasks, primarily by using large-scale annotated datasets. However, obtaining such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Maayan Frid-Adar , Idit Diamant , Eyal Klang , Michal Amitai , Jacob Goldberger , Hayit Greenspan

Automatic brain tumor segmentation plays an important role for diagnosis, surgical planning and treatment assessment of brain tumors. Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely used for this task. Due to the relatively small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Guotai Wang , Wenqi Li , Sebastien Ourselin , Tom Vercauteren

Medical imaging phantoms are widely used for validation and verification of imaging systems and algorithms in surgical guidance and radiation oncology procedures. Especially, for the performance evaluation of new algorithms in the field of…

We introduce the concept of deceptive diffusion -- training a generative AI model to produce adversarial images. Whereas a traditional adversarial attack algorithm aims to perturb an existing image to induce a misclassificaton, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Lucas Beerens , Catherine F. Higham , Desmond J. Higham

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have gained significant attention in several computer vision tasks for generating high-quality synthetic data. Various medical applications including diagnostic imaging and radiation therapy can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-25 Sanaz Mohammadjafari , Mucahit Cevik , Ayse Basar

Primary brain tumors including gliomas continue to pose significant management challenges to clinicians. While the presentation, the pathology, and the clinical course of these lesions are variable, the initial investigations are usually…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-13 Weina Jin , Mostafa Fatehi , Kumar Abhishek , Mayur Mallya , Brian Toyota , Ghassan Hamarneh

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-16 Monika Górka , Daniel Jaworek , Marek Wodzinski

Limited data availability is a challenging problem in the latent fingerprint domain. Synthetically generated fingerprints are vital for training data-hungry neural network-based algorithms. Conventional methods distort clean fingerprints to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Amol S. Joshi , Ali Dabouei , Nasser Nasrabadi , Jeremy Dawson

Recent advancements in generative AI have made it possible to create synthetic datasets that can be as accurate as real-world data for training AI models, powering statistical insights, and fostering collaboration with sensitive datasets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Amy Steier , Lipika Ramaswamy , Andre Manoel , Alexa Haushalter

In this paper we present an alternative approach to symbolic segmentation; instead of implementing a new method we approach symbolic segmentation as an algorithm selection problem. That is, let there be $n$ available algorithms for symbolic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-01 Martin Lukac , Kamila Abdiyeva , Michitaka Kameyama

We propose a fine-tuning algorithm for brain tumor segmentation that needs only a few data samples and helps networks not to forget the original tasks. Our approach is based on active learning and meta-learning. One of the difficulties in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-17 Seungyub Han , Yeongmo Kim , Seokhyeon Ha , Jungwoo Lee , Seunghong Choi