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Early detection of cancerous tissue is crucial for long-term patient survival. In the head and neck region, a typical diagnostic procedure is an endoscopic intervention where a medical expert manually assesses tissue using RGB camera…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-03 Marcel Bengs , Nils Gessert , Wiebke Laffers , Dennis Eggert , Stephan Westermann , Nina A. Mueller , Andreas O. H. Gerstner , Christian Betz , Alexander Schlaefer

A brain tumor consists of cells showing abnormal brain growth. The area of the brain tumor significantly affects choosing the type of treatment and following the course of the disease during the treatment. At the same time, pictures of…

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Accurate segmentation of brain tumors is vital for diagnosis, surgical planning, and treatment monitoring. Deep learning has advanced on benchmarks, but two issues limit clinical use: no uncertainty estimates for errors and no segmentation…

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Intracranial tumors are groups of cells that usually grow uncontrollably. One out of four cancer deaths is due to brain tumors. Early detection and evaluation of brain tumors is an essential preventive medical step that is performed by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-07 Zahra Sobhaninia , Safiyeh Rezaei , Nader Karimi , Ali Emami , Shadrokh Samavi

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common type of primary liver cancer in adults, and the most common cause of death of people suffering from cirrhosis. The segmentation of liver lesions in CT images allows assessment of tumor load,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Nadja Gruber , Stephan Antholzer , Werner Jaschke , Christian Kremser , Markus Haltmeier

Head and neck cancer (HNC) patients who undergo radiotherapy (RT) may experience anatomical changes during treatment, compromising the validity of the initial treatment plan, necessitating replanning. However, replanning disrupts clinical…

Liver cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer death. To assist doctors in hepatocellular carcinoma diagnosis and treatment planning, an accurate and automatic liver and tumor segmentation method is highly demanded in the clinical…

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The magnetic resonance (MR) analysis of brain tumors is widely used for diagnosis and examination of tumor subregions. The overlapping area among the intensity distribution of healthy, enhancing, non-enhancing, and edema regions makes the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-01 Mohammad Hamghalam , Baiying Lei , Tianfu Wang

Early detection of lung cancer is crucial for effective treatment and relies on accurate volumetric assessment of pulmonary nodules in CT scans. Traditional methods, such as consolidation-to-tumor ratio (CTR) and spherical approximation,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Yihan Zhou , Haocheng Huang , Yue Yu , Jianhui Shang

The diagnosis of brain cancer relies heavily on medical imaging techniques, with MRI being the most commonly used. It is necessary to perform automatic segmentation of brain tumors on MRI images. This project intends to build an MRI…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-28 Yuxiang Hu , Haowei Yang , Ting Xu , Shuyao He , Jiajie Yuan , Haozhang Deng

Purpose: Segmentation of organs-at-risk (OARs) is a bottleneck in current radiation oncology pipelines and is often time consuming and labor intensive. In this paper, we propose an atlas-based semi-supervised registration algorithm to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Charles Huang , Masoud Badiei , Hyunseok Seo , Ming Ma , Xiaokun Liang , Dante Capaldi , Michael Gensheimer , Lei Xing

Brain tumors analysis is important in timely diagnosis and effective treatment to cure patients. Tumor analysis is challenging because of tumor morphology like size, location, texture, and heteromorphic appearance in the medical images. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-14 Mirza Mumtaz Zahoor , Shahzad Ahmad Qureshi , Saddam Hussain Khan , Asifullah Khan

We introduce an innovative, simple, effective segmentation-free approach for outcome prediction in head \& neck cancer (HNC) patients. By harnessing deep learning-based feature extraction techniques and multi-angle maximum intensity…

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Automation of brain tumors in 3D magnetic resonance images (MRIs) is key to assess the diagnostic and treatment of the disease. In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown improved results in the task. However, high…

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Pancreatic cancer will soon be the second leading cause of cancer-related death in Western society. Imaging techniques such as CT, MRI and ultrasound typically help providing the initial diagnosis, but histopathological assessment is still…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-26 Pierpaolo Vendittelli , Esther M. M. Smeets , Geert Litjens

Purposes: This study aimed to develop a computed tomography (CT)-based multi-organ segmentation model for delineating organs-at-risk (OARs) in pediatric upper abdominal tumors and evaluate its robustness across multiple datasets. Materials…

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

The accurate automatic segmentation of gliomas and its intra-tumoral structures is important not only for treatment planning but also for follow-up evaluations. Several methods based on 2D and 3D Deep Neural Networks (DNN) have been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-28 Parth Natekar , Avinash Kori , Ganapathy Krishnamurthi

Automated medical image segmentation is a priority research area for computational methods. In particular, detection of cancerous tumors represents a current challenge in this area with potential for real-world impact. This paper describes…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-06 Jamie A. O'Reilly , Manas Sangworasil , Takenobu Matsuura

Head and neck cancers are the fifth most common cancer worldwide, and recently, analysis of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Computed Tomography (CT) images has been proposed to identify patients with a prognosis. Even though the…

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