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The task of parsing subcutaneous vessels in clinical images is often hindered by the high cost and limited availability of ground truth data, as well as the challenge of low contrast and noisy vessel appearances across different patients…

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Semi-supervised multi-organ medical image segmentation aids physicians in improving disease diagnosis and treatment planning and reduces the time and effort required for organ annotation.Existing state-of-the-art methods train the labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Haochen Zhao , Hui Meng , Deqian Yang , Xiaozheng Xie , Xiaoze Wu , Qingfeng Li , Jianwei Niu

Extracting hepatic vessels from abdominal images is of high interest for clinicians since it allows to divide the liver into functionally-independent Couinaud segments. In this respect, an automated liver blood vessel extraction is widely…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-20 Amine Sadikine , Bogdan Badic , Jean-Pierre Tasu , Vincent Noblet , Pascal Ballet , Dimitris Visvikis , Pierre-Henri Conze

Blood vessel networks in the brain play a crucial role in stroke research, where understanding their topology is essential for analyzing blood flow dynamics. However, extracting detailed topological vessel network information from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Joël Mathys , Andreas Plesner , Jorel Elmiger , Roger Wattenhofer

Accurate fine-grained segmentation of the renal vasculature is critical for nephrological analysis, yet it faces challenges due to diverse and insufficiently annotated images. Existing methods struggle to accurately segment intricate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Yitian Long , Zhongze Wu , Xiu Su , Lining Yu , Ruining Deng , Haichun Yang , Yuankai Huo

Segmenting blood vessels in fundus imaging plays an important role in medical diagnosis. Many algorithms have been proposed. While deep Neural Networks have been attracting enormous attention from computer vision community recent years and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Yongliang Chen

We tackle biomedical image segmentation in the scenario of only a few labeled brain MR images. This is an important and challenging task in medical applications, where manual annotations are time-consuming. Current multi-atlas based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Hyeon Woo Lee , Mert R. Sabuncu , Adrian V. Dalca

Automated blood vessel segmentation is vital for biomedical imaging, as vessel changes indicate many pathologies. Still, precise segmentation is difficult due to the complexity of vascular structures, anatomical variations across patients,…

Deep learning has shown great promise in the ability to automatically annotate organs in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, for example, of the brain. However, despite advancements in the field, the ability to accurately segment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Cosmin Ciausu , Deepa Krishnaswamy , Benjamin Billot , Steve Pieper , Ron Kikinis , Andrey Fedorov

Semantic image segmentation plays an important role in modeling patient-specific anatomy. We propose a convolution neural network, called Kid-Net, along with a training schema to segment kidney vessels: artery, vein and collecting system.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Ahmed Taha , Pechin Lo , Junning Li , Tao Zhao

Ventricular volume and its progression are known to be linked to several brain diseases such as dementia and schizophrenia. Therefore accurate measurement of ventricle volume is vital for longitudinal studies on these disorders, making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Mohsen Ghafoorian , Jonas Teuwen , Rashindra Manniesing , Frank-Erik de Leeuw , Bram van Ginneken , Nico Karssemeijer , Bram Platel

The precise delineation of blood vessels in medical images is critical for many clinical applications, including pathology detection and surgical planning. However, fully-automated vascular segmentation is challenging because of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-20 Amine Sadikine , Bogdan Badic , Enzo Ferrante , Vincent Noblet , Pascal Ballet , Dimitris Visvikis , Pierre-Henri Conze

Segmentation of cerebral blood vessels from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is an open problem that could be solved with deep learning (DL). However, annotated data for training is often scarce. Due to the absence of open-source tools, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-10 Georgia Kenyon , Stephan Lau , Michael A. Chappell , Mark Jenkinson

Blood vessel networks, represented as 3D graphs, help predict disease biomarkers, simulate blood flow, and aid in synthetic image generation, relevant in both clinical and pre-clinical settings. However, generating realistic vessel graphs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Chinmay Prabhakar , Suprosanna Shit , Fabio Musio , Kaiyuan Yang , Tamaz Amiranashvili , Johannes C. Paetzold , Hongwei Bran Li , Bjoern Menze

Segmentation of microvascular structures, such as arterioles, venules, and capillaries, from human kidney whole slide images (WSI) has become a focal point in renal pathology. Current manual segmentation techniques are time-consuming and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-14 Franklin Hu , Ruining Deng , Shunxing Bao , Haichun Yang , Yuankai Huo

The reliable segmentation of retinal vasculature can provide the means to diagnose and monitor the progression of a variety of diseases affecting the blood vessel network, including diabetes and hypertension. We leverage the power of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-23 Ali Hatamizadeh , Hamid Hosseini , Zhengyuan Liu , Steven D. Schwartz , Demetri Terzopoulos

In this study, we present a method for generating automated anatomy segmentation datasets using a sequential process that involves nnU-Net-based pseudo-labeling and anatomy-guided pseudo-label refinement. By combining various fragmented…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-26 Alexander Jaus , Constantin Seibold , Kelsey Hermann , Alexandra Walter , Kristina Giske , Johannes Haubold , Jens Kleesiek , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Current 3D semi-supervised segmentation methods face significant challenges such as limited consideration of contextual information and the inability to generate reliable pseudo-labels for effective unsupervised data use. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Sanaz Karimijafarbigloo , Reza Azad , Yury Velichko , Ulas Bagci , Dorit Merhof

Recent research has shown the potential of deep learning in multi-parametric MRI-based visual pathway (VP) segmentation. However, obtaining labeled data for training is laborious and time-consuming. Therefore, it is crucial to develop…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-04 Alou Diakite , Cheng Li , Lei Xie , Yuanjing Feng , Hua Han , Shanshan Wang

Vessel segmentation of retinal images is a key diagnostic capability in ophthalmology. This problem faces several challenges including low contrast, variable vessel size and thickness, and presence of interfering pathology such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Venkateswararao Cherukuri , Vijay Kumar BG , Raja Bala , Vishal Monga