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Segmenting healthy tissue structures alongside lesions in brain Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) remains a challenge for today's algorithms due to lesion-caused disruption of the anatomy and lack of jointly labeled training datasets, where…

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Retinal image segmentation plays an important role in automatic disease diagnosis. This task is very challenging because the complex structure and texture information are mixed in a retinal image, and distinguishing the information is…

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Mammography stands as the main screening method for detecting breast cancer early, enhancing treatment success rates. The segmentation of landmark structures in mammography images can aid the medical assessment in the evaluation of cancer…

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As recent advances in AI are causing the decline of conventional diagnostic methods, the realization of end-to-end diagnosis is fast approaching. Ultrasound image segmentation is an important step in the diagnostic process. An accurate and…

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Even though convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are driving progress in medical image segmentation, standard models still have some drawbacks. First, the use of multi-scale approaches, i.e., encoder-decoder architectures, leads to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Ashish Sinha , Jose Dolz

One of the most common tasks in medical imaging is semantic segmentation. Achieving this segmentation automatically has been an active area of research, but the task has been proven very challenging due to the large variation of anatomy…

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In recent years, deep learning based methods have shown success in essential medical image analysis tasks such as segmentation. Post-processing and refining the results of segmentation is a common practice to decrease the misclassifications…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-29 Ufuk Demir , Atahan Ozer , Yusuf H. Sahin , Gozde Unal

In this work, we propose to resolve the issue existing in current deep learning based organ segmentation systems that they often produce results that do not capture the overall shape of the target organ and often lack smoothness. Since…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Yuan Xue , Hui Tang , Zhi Qiao , Guanzhong Gong , Yong Yin , Zhen Qian , Chao Huang , Wei Fan , Xiaolei Huang

Image segmentation, the process of partitioning an image into meaningful regions, plays a pivotal role in computer vision and medical imaging applications. Unsupervised segmentation, particularly in the absence of labeled data, remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Kovvuri Sai Gopal Reddy , Bodduluri Saran , A. Mudit Adityaja , Saurabh J. Shigwan , Nitin Kumar

Fully supervised segmentation methods require a large training cohort of already segmented images, providing information at the pixel level of each image. We present a method to automatically segment and model pathologies in medical images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Simon Andermatt , Antal Horváth , Simon Pezold , Philippe Cattin

Segmenting of clinically important retinal blood vessels into arteries and veins is a prerequisite for retinal vessel analysis. Such analysis can provide potential insights and bio-markers for identifying and diagnosing various retinal eye…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Sharan SK , Subin Sahayam , Umarani Jayaraman , Lakshmi Priya A

Compression is a standard procedure for making convolutional neural networks (CNNs) adhere to some specific computing resource constraints. However, searching for a compressed architecture typically involves a series of time-consuming…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-08 Suraj Mishra , Danny Z. Chen , X. Sharon Hu

Segmentation is essential for medical image analysis tasks such as intervention planning, therapy guidance, diagnosis, treatment decisions. Deep learning is becoming increasingly prominent for segmentation, where the lack of annotations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Firat Ozdemir , Zixuan Peng , Christine Tanner , Philipp Fuernstahl , Orcun Goksel

Motion artifacts caused by prolonged acquisition time are a significant challenge in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), hindering accurate tissue segmentation. These artifacts appear as blurred images that mimic tissue-like appearances,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-06 Sunyoung Jung , Yoonseok Choi , Mohammed A. Al-masni , Minyoung Jung , Dong-Hyun Kim

Cardiac segmentation of atriums, ventricles, and myocardium in computed tomography (CT) images is an important first-line task for presymptomatic cardiovascular disease diagnosis. In several recent studies, deep learning models have shown…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-01 Sanguk Park , Minyoung Chung

Medical imaging refers to the technologies and methods utilized to view the human body and its inside, in order to diagnose, monitor, or even treat medical disorders. This paper aims to explore the application of deep learning techniques in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-08 Ketan Suhaas Saichandran

Robust segmentation for non-elongated tissues in medical images is hard to realize due to the large variation of the shape, size, and appearance of these tissues in different patients. In this paper, we present an end-to-end trainable deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-06 Qian Yu , Yinghuan Shi , Yefeng Zheng , Yang Gao , Jianbing Zhu , Yakang Dai

Automated detection of curvilinear structures, e.g., blood vessels or nerve fibres, from medical and biomedical images is a crucial early step in automatic image interpretation associated to the management of many diseases. Precise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-20 Lei Mou , Yitian Zhao , Huazhu Fu , Yonghuai Liu , Jun Cheng , Yalin Zheng , Pan Su , Jianlong Yang , Li Chen , Alejandro F Frang , Masahiro Akiba , Jiang Liu

Continual learning (CL) is essential for deploying medical image segmentation models in clinical environments where imaging domains, anatomical targets, and diagnostic tasks evolve over time. However, continual segmentation still faces…

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The morphology of retinal blood vessels can indicate various diseases in the human body, and researchers have been working on automatic scanning and segmentation of retinal images to aid diagnosis. This project compares the performance of…

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