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Purpose: Lesion segmentation in medical imaging is key to evaluating treatment response. We have recently shown that reinforcement learning can be applied to radiological images for lesion localization. Furthermore, we demonstrated that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Joseph Stember , Hrithwik Shalu

Accurate brain tissue segmentation in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has attracted the attention of medical doctors and researchers since variations in tissue volume help in diagnosing and monitoring neurological diseases. Several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Jose Bernal , Kaisar Kushibar , Mariano Cabezas , Sergi Valverde , Arnau Oliver , Xavier Lladó

Image segmentation is a fundamental and challenging problem in computer vision with applications spanning multiple areas, such as medical imaging, remote sensing, and autonomous vehicles. Recently, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Ali Hatamizadeh

Gliomas are aggressive brain tumors that require accurate imaging-based diagnosis, with segmentation playing a critical role in evaluating morphology and treatment decisions. Manual delineation of gliomas is time-consuming and prone to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Cecilia Diana-Albelda , Roberto Alcover-Couso , Álvaro García-Martín , Jesus Bescos , Marcos Escudero-Viñolo

Deep learning has been widely used for medical image segmentation and a large number of papers has been presented recording the success of deep learning in the field. In this paper, we present a comprehensive thematic survey on medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Risheng Wang , Tao Lei , Ruixia Cui , Bingtao Zhang , Hongying Meng , Asoke K. Nandi

We present a novel method for quantifying the microscopic structure of brain tissue. It is based on the automated recognition of interpretable features obtained by analyzing the shapes of cells. This contrasts with prevailing methods of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Kui Qian , Litao Qiao , Beth Friedman , Edward O'Donnell , David Kleinfeld , Yoav Freund

Skull stripping magnetic resonance images (MRI) of the human brain is an important process in many image processing techniques, such as automatic segmentation of brain structures. Numerous methods have been developed to perform this task,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-16 Hjalti Thrastarson , Lotta M. Ellingsen

Reliable segmentation of anatomical tissues of human head is a major step in several clinical applications such as brain mapping, surgery planning and associated computational simulation studies. Segmentation is based on identifying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Essam A. Rashed , Mohammad al-Shatouri , Ilkka Laakso , Akimasa Hirata

Automatic segmentation of magnetic resonance (MR) images is crucial for morphological evaluation of the pediatric musculoskeletal system in clinical practice. However, the accuracy and generalization performance of individual segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Arnaud Boutillon , Pierre-Henri Conze , Christelle Pons , Valérie Burdin , Bhushan Borotikar

Recent advancements in medical image segmentation techniques have achieved compelling results. However, most of the widely used approaches do not take into account any prior knowledge about the shape of the biomedical structures being…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-18 Zhou He , Siqi Bao , Albert Chung

In this paper, we propose a novel learning based method for automated segmentation of brain tumor in multimodal MRI images, which incorporates two sets of machine -learned and hand crafted features. Fully convolutional networks (FCN) forms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Mohammadreza Soltaninejad , Lei Zhang , Tryphon Lambrou , Guang Yang , Nigel Allinson , Xujiong Ye

State-of-the-art brain tumor segmentation is based on deep learning models applied to multi-modal MRIs. Currently, these models are trained on images after a preprocessing stage that involves registration, interpolation, brain extraction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-29 Bruno Machado Pacheco , Guilherme de Souza e Cassia , Danilo Silva

The brain age has been proven to be a phenotype of relevance to cognitive performance and brain disease. Achieving accurate brain age prediction is an essential prerequisite for optimizing the predicted brain-age difference as a biomarker.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-20 Yanwu Yang , Xutao Guo , Zhikai Chang , Chenfei Ye , Yang Xiang , Haiyan Lv , Ting Ma

Brain Age (BA) estimation via Deep Learning has become a strong and reliable bio-marker for brain health, but the black-box nature of Neural Networks does not easily allow insight into the features of brain ageing.We trained a ResNet model…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-07-26 Daniel Taylor , Jonathan Shock , Deshendran Moodley , Jonathan Ipser , Matthias Treder

Today, over 700,000 people are living with brain tumors in the United States. Brain tumors can spread very quickly to other parts of the brain and the spinal cord unless necessary preventive action is taken. Thus, the survival rate for this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Sahithi Ankireddy

The accurate quantification of brain age from MRI has emerged as an important biomarker of brain health. However, existing approaches are often restricted to narrow age ranges and single-modality MRI data, limiting their capacity to capture…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Dingyi Zhang , Ruiying Liu , Yun Wang

Brain aging is a widely studied longitudinal process throughout which the brain undergoes considerable morphological changes and various machine learning approaches have been proposed to analyze it. Within this context, brain age prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Matthias Wilms , Jordan J. Bannister , Pauline Mouches , M. Ethan MacDonald , Deepthi Rajashekar , Sönke Langner , Nils D. Forkert

Segmentation of thigh tissues (muscle, fat, inter-muscular adipose tissue (IMAT), bone, and bone marrow) from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans is useful for clinical and research investigations in various conditions such as aging,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-30 Syed Muhammad Anwar , Ismail Irmakci , Drew A. Torigian , Sachin Jambawalikar , Georgios Z. Papadakis , Can Akgun , Mehmet Akcakaya , Ulas Bagci

Though performed almost effortlessly by humans, segmenting 2D gray-scale or color images into respective regions of interest (e.g.~background, objects, or portions of objects) constitutes one of the greatest challenges in science and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Alexandre Benatti , Luciano da F. Costa

Ultrasound imaging is challenging to interpret due to non-uniform intensities, low contrast, and inherent artifacts, necessitating extensive training for non-specialists. Advanced representation with clear tissue structure separation could…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Oleksandra Tmenova , Yordanka Velikova , Mahdi Saleh , Nassir Navab