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Early-stage 3D brain tumor segmentation from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans is crucial for prompt and effective treatment. However, this process faces the challenge of precise delineation due to the tumors' complex heterogeneity.…

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The state-of-the-art models for medical image segmentation are variants of U-Net and fully convolutional networks (FCN). Despite their success, these models have two limitations: (1) their optimal depth is apriori unknown, requiring…

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Brain tumor represents one of the most fatal cancers around the world, and is very common in children and the elderly. Accurate identification of the type and grade of tumor in the early stages plays an important role in choosing a precise…

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Medical image segmentation is pivotal in healthcare, enhancing diagnostic accuracy, informing treatment strategies, and tracking disease progression. This process allows clinicians to extract critical information from visual data, enabling…

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Recent studies suggest that combined analysis of Magnetic resonance imaging~(MRI) that measures brain atrophy and positron emission tomography~(PET) that quantifies hypo-metabolism provides improved accuracy in diagnosing Alzheimer's…

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Manual segmentation of medical images (e.g., segmenting tumors in CT scans) is a high-effort task that can be accelerated with machine learning techniques. However, selecting the right segmentation approach depends on the evaluation…

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Automatic brain tumor segmentation from multi-modal MRI remains challenging because volumetric models often incur substantial computational cost. This paper presents DALight-3D, a compact 3D U-Net variant that combines depthwise separable…

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Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is an important molecular imaging tool widely used in medicine. Traditional PET systems rely on complete detector rings for full angular coverage and reliable data collection. However, incomplete-ring PET…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yeqi Fang , Rong Zhou

Transfer learning (TL) for medical image segmentation helps deep learning models achieve more accurate performances when there are scarce medical images. This study focuses on completing segmentation of the ribs from lung ultrasound images…

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Multimodal image fusion aims to combine relevant information from images acquired with different sensors. In medical imaging, fused images play an essential role in both standard and automated diagnosis. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Farshad G. Veshki , Nora Ouzir , Sergiy A. Vorobyov , Esa Ollila

Most state-of-the-art methods for medical image segmentation adopt the encoder-decoder architecture. However, this U-shaped framework still has limitations in capturing the non-local multi-scale information with a simple skip connection. To…

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Early and accurate diagnosis and lesion localization of bone infections are crucial for clinical treatment. PET-CT integrates anatomical information from CT with metabolic information from PET, making it an important imaging modality for…

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Deep neural networks exhibit limited generalizability across images with different entangled domain features and categorical features. Learning generalizable features that can form universal categorical decision boundaries across domains is…

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Ultrasound imaging is widely used in clinical practice due to its cost-effectiveness, mobility, and safety. However, current AI research often treats disease prediction and tissue segmentation as two separate tasks and their model requires…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Zhi Chen , Le Zhang

Purpose: Automated distinct bone segmentation from CT scans is widely used in planning and navigation workflows. U-Net variants are known to provide excellent results in supervised semantic segmentation. However, in distinct bone…

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Identifying biomarkers in medical images is vital for a wide range of biotech applications. However, recent Transformer and CNN based methods often struggle with variations in morphology and staining, which limits their feature extraction…

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Medical image segmentation, a crucial task in computer vision, facilitates the automated delineation of anatomical structures and pathologies, supporting clinicians in diagnosis, treatment planning, and disease monitoring. Notably,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Fuchen Zheng , Xinyi Chen , Xuhang Chen , Haolun Li , Xiaojiao Guo , Weihuang Liu , Chi-Man Pun , Shoujun Zhou

For multi-modal magnetic resonance (MR) brain tumor image segmentation, current methods usually directly extract the discriminative features from input images for tumor sub-region category determination and localization. However, the impact…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Yafei Zhang , Zhiyuan Li , Huafeng Li , Dapeng Tao

Segmentation is one of the most significant steps in image processing. Segmenting an image is a technique that makes it possible to separate a digital image into various areas based on the different characteristics of pixels in the image.…

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This study explores the application of deep learning techniques in the automated detection and segmentation of brain tumors from MRI scans. We employ several machine learning models, including basic logistic regression, Convolutional Neural…

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