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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

We present PyTorch Connectomics (PyTC), an open-source deep-learning framework for the semantic and instance segmentation of volumetric microscopy images, built upon PyTorch. We demonstrate the effectiveness of PyTC in the field of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-14 Zudi Lin , Donglai Wei , Jeff Lichtman , Hanspeter Pfister

The accurate segmentation of retinal blood vessels plays a crucial role in the early diagnosis and treatment of various ophthalmic diseases. Designing a network model for this task requires meticulous tuning and extensive experimentation to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-19 Tingting Wu , Ruyi Min , Peixuan Song , Hengtao Guo , Tieyong Zeng , Feng-Lei Fan

Brain metastases (BMs) are the most frequently occurring brain tumors. The treatment of patients having multiple BMs with stereo tactic radiosurgery necessitates accurate localization of the metastases. Neural networks can assist in this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-05 Ayhan Can Erdur , Daniel Scholz , Josef A. Buchner , Stephanie E. Combs , Daniel Rueckert , Jan C. Peeken

Segmentation of white matter lesions and deep grey matter structures is an important task in the quantification of magnetic resonance imaging in multiple sclerosis. In this paper we explore segmentation solutions based on convolutional…

Reconstructing seeing images from fMRI recordings is an absorbing research area in neuroscience and provides a potential brain-reading technology. The challenge lies in that visual encoding in brain is highly complex and not fully revealed.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Tao Fang , Yu Qi , Gang Pan

Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) exploits the anisotropic diffusion of water molecules in the brain to enable the estimation of the brain's anatomical fiber tracts at a relatively high resolution. In particular, tractographic…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2016-09-14 Yu Jin , Joseph F. JaJa , Rong Chen , Edward H. Herskovits

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) and Transformer variants have emerged as the leading medical image segmentation backbones. Nonetheless, due to their limitations in either preserving global image context or efficiently processing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-26 Pengcheng Shi , Xutao Guo , Yanwu Yang , Chenfei Ye , Ting Ma

Neuroscientists are actively pursuing high-precision maps, or graphs, consisting of networks of neurons and connecting synapses in mammalian and non-mammalian brains. Such graphs, when coupled with physiological and behavioral data, are…

Large efforts are currently under way to systematically map functional connectivity between all pairs of millimeter-scale brain regions using big volumes of neuroimaging data. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) can produce these…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2014-09-24 Enzo Tagliazucchi , Helmut Laufs , Dante R. Chialvo

Assigning meaning to parts of image data is the goal of semantic image segmentation. Machine learning methods, specifically supervised learning is commonly used in a variety of tasks formulated as semantic segmentation. One of the major…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Lu Yin , Vlado Menkovski , Shiwei Liu , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Segmenting a structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan is an important pre-processing step for analytic procedures and subsequent inferences about longitudinal tissue changes. Manual segmentation defines the current gold standard in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Alex Fedorov , Jeremy Johnson , Eswar Damaraju , Alexei Ozerin , Vince Calhoun , Sergey Plis

Intra-operative ultrasound is an increasingly important imaging modality in neurosurgery. However, manual interaction with imaging data during the procedures, for example to select landmarks or perform segmentation, is difficult and can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Julia Rackerseder , Rüdiger Göbl , Nassir Navab , Christoph Hennersperger

Reconstructing neuronal circuits at the level of synapses is a central problem in neuroscience and becoming a focus of the emerging field of connectomics. To date, electron microscopy (EM) is the most proven technique for identifying and…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2014-12-05 Stephen M. Plaza , Toufiq Parag , Gary B. Huang , Donald J. Olbris , Mathew A. Saunders , Patricia K. Rivlin

Automated detection and segmentation of surgical devices, such as catheters or wires, in X-ray fluoroscopic images have the potential to enhance image guidance in minimally invasive heart surgeries. In this paper, we present a convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Lin Xi , Yingliang Ma , Ethan Koland , Sandra Howell , Aldo Rinaldi , Kawal S. Rhode

Neuropathological analyses benefit from spatially precise volumetric reconstructions that enhance anatomical delineation and improve morphometric accuracy. Our prior work has shown the feasibility of reconstructing 3D brain volumes from 2D…

Voxel is an important format to represent geometric data, which has been widely used for 3D deep learning in shape analysis due to its generalization ability and regular data format. However, fine-grained tasks like part segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Zongji Wang , Feng Lu

This paper presents an advanced tumor segmentation framework for real-time MRI-guided radiotherapy, designed for the TrackRAD2025 challenge. Our method leverages the XMem model, a memory-augmented architecture, to segment tumors across long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Pengchao Deng , Shengqi Chen

Defaults in vascular (VN) and neuronal networks of spinal cord are responsible for serious neurodegenerative pathologies. Because of inadequate investigation tools, the lacking knowledge of the complete fine structure of VN and neuronal…

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown promising results on several segmentation tasks in magnetic resonance (MR) images. However, the accuracy of CNNs may degrade severely when segmenting images acquired with different scanners…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-28 Neerav Karani , Krishna Chaitanya , Christian Baumgartner , Ender Konukoglu