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Instance segmentation aims to locate targets in the image and segment each target area at pixel level, which is one of the most important tasks in computer vision. Mask R-CNN is a classic method of instance segmentation, but we find that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Xiaolong Guo , Xiaosong Lan , Kunfeng Wang , Shuxiao Li

Quantitative measurement of crystals in high-resolution images allows for important insights into underlying material characteristics. Deep learning has shown great progress in vision-based automatic crystal size measurement, but current…

Dementia, a debilitating neurological condition affecting millions worldwide, presents significant diagnostic challenges. In this work, we introduce DEFORMISE, a novel DEep learning Framework for dementia diagnOsis of eldeRly patients using…

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Surgical image segmentation is highly challenging, primarily due to scarcity of annotated data. Generalist prompted segmentation models like the Segment-Anything Model (SAM) can help tackle this task, but because they require image-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Aditya Murali , Farahdiba Zarin , Adrien Meyer , Pietro Mascagni , Didier Mutter , Nicolas Padoy

Object detection and instance segmentation are two fundamental computer vision tasks. They are closely correlated but their relations have not yet been fully explored in most previous work. This paper presents RDSNet, a novel deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Shaoru Wang , Yongchao Gong , Junliang Xing , Lichao Huang , Chang Huang , Weiming Hu

Accurate segmentation of brain tumors in MRI scans is essential for reliable clinical diagnosis and effective treatment planning. Recently, diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in image generation and segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-31 Sara Yavari , Rahul Nitin Pandya , Jacob Furst

Objective: A new image instance segmentation method is proposed to segment individual glands (instances) in colon histology images. This process is challenging since the glands not only need to be segmented from a complex background, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Yan Xu , Yang Li , Yipei Wang , Mingyuan Liu , Yubo Fan , Maode Lai , Eric I-Chao Chang

In biomedical imaging reliable segmentation of objects (e.g. from small cells up to large organs) is of fundamental importance for automated medical diagnosis. New approaches for multi-scale segmentation can considerably improve performance…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-04 Leonie Zeune , Guus van Dalum , Leon W. M. M. Terstappen , S. A. van Gils , Christoph Brune

Precise instrument segmentation aid surgeons to navigate the body more easily and increase patient safety. While accurate tracking of surgical instruments in real-time plays a crucial role in minimally invasive computer-assisted surgeries,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-11 Juan Carlos Angeles-Ceron , Gilberto Ochoa-Ruiz , Leonardo Chang , Sharib Ali

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third cause of cancer death worldwide. Currently, the standard approach to reduce CRC-related mortality is to perform regular screening in search for polyps and colonoscopy is the screening tool of choice. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-05 David Vázquez , Jorge Bernal , F. Javier Sánchez , Gloria Fernández-Esparrach , Antonio M. López , Adriana Romero , Michal Drozdzal , Aaron Courville

Deep learning has become the state-of-the-art approach to medical tomographic imaging. A common approach is to feed the result of a simple inversion, for example the backprojection, to a multiscale convolutional neural network (CNN) which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 AmirEhsan Khorashadizadeh , Valentin Debarnot , Tianlin Liu , Ivan Dokmanić

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a powerful representation for neural scene reconstruction, offering high-quality novel view synthesis while maintaining computational efficiency. In this paper, we extend the capabilities of 3DGS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Jens Piekenbrinck , Christian Schmidt , Alexander Hermans , Narunas Vaskevicius , Timm Linder , Bastian Leibe

Object detection is a critical part of visual scene understanding. The representation of the object in the detection task has important implications on the efficiency and feasibility of annotation, robustness to occlusion, pose, lighting,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Li Ding , Lex Fridman

Nuclei instance segmentation in histopathological images is of great importance for biological analysis and cancer diagnosis but remains challenging for two reasons. (1) Similar visual presentation of intranuclear and extranuclear regions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Ye Zhang , Linghan Cai , Ziyue Wang , Yongbing Zhang

Transformer-based methods have improved hyperspectral image classification (HSIC) by modeling long-range spatial-spectral dependencies; however, their attention mechanisms typically rely on dot-product similarity, which mixes feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Muhammad Ahmad , Manuel Mazzara

We introduce an innovative method for incremental nonparametric probabilistic inference in high-dimensional state spaces. Our approach leverages \slices from high-dimensional surfaces to efficiently approximate posterior distributions of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Moshe Shienman , Ohad Levy-Or , Michael Kaess , Vadim Indelman

Sketch segmentation involves grouping pixels within a sketch that belong to the same object or instance. It serves as a valuable tool for sketch editing tasks, such as moving, scaling, or removing specific components. While image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Mia Tang , Yael Vinker , Chuan Yan , Lvmin Zhang , Maneesh Agrawala

Due to low tissue contrast, irregular object appearance, and unpredictable location variation, segmenting the objects from different medical imaging modalities (e.g., CT, MR) is considered as an important yet challenging task. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Jinquan Sun , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao , Lei Wang , Luping Zhou , Wanqi Yang , Dinggang Shen

We propose a novel approach to image segmentation based on combining implicit spline representations with deep convolutional neural networks. This is done by predicting the control points of a bivariate spline function whose zero-set…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-22 Oliver J. D. Barrowclough , Georg Muntingh , Varatharajan Nainamalai , Ivar Stangeby

Nuclear segmentation in histology images is a challenging task due to significant variations in the shape and appearance of nuclei. One of the main hurdles in nuclear instance segmentation is overlapping nuclei where a smart algorithm is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-28 Navid Alemi Koohbanani , Mostafa Jahanifar , Ali Gooya , Nasir Rajpoot