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Automatic segmentation of diverse heterogeneous brain lesions using multi-modal MRI is a challenging problem in clinical neuroimaging, mainly because of the lack of generalizability and high prediction variance of pathology-specific deep…

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Accurate and reliable tumor segmentation is essential in medical imaging analysis for improving diagnosis, treatment planning, and monitoring. However, existing segmentation models often lack robust mechanisms for quantifying the…

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Accurate medical image segmentation is crucial for diagnosis and analysis. However, the models without calibrated uncertainty estimates might lead to errors in downstream analysis and exhibit low levels of robustness. Estimating the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-16 Yanwu Yang , Xutao Guo , Yiwei Pan , Pengcheng Shi , Haiyan Lv , Ting Ma

Uncertainty maps highlight unreliable regions in segmentation predictions. However, most uncertainty evaluation metrics treat voxels independently, ignoring spatial context and anatomical structure. As a result, they may assign identical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Tal Zeevi , Eléonore V. Lieffrig , Lawrence H. Staib , John A. Onofrey

Deep neural networks are increasingly being used for the analysis of medical images. However, most works neglect the uncertainty in the model's prediction. We propose an uncertainty-aware deep kernel learning model which permits the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Zhiliang Wu , Yinchong Yang , Jindong Gu , Volker Tresp

Automating classification and segmentation process of abnormal regions in different body organs has a crucial role in most of medical imaging applications such as funduscopy, endoscopy, and dermoscopy. Detecting multiple abnormalities in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Mohsen Hajabdollahi , Reza Esfandiarpoor , Elyas Sabeti , Nader Karimi , Kayvan Najarian , S. M. Reza Soroushmehr , Shadrokh Samavi

Automatic segmentation of fine-grained brain structures remains a challenging task. Current segmentation methods mainly utilize 2D and 3D deep neural networks. The 2D networks take image slices as input to produce coarse segmentation in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Yuemeng Li , Hangfan Liu , Hongming Li , Yong Fan

We present a deep learning framework for probabilistic pixel-wise semantic segmentation, which we term Bayesian SegNet. Semantic segmentation is an important tool for visual scene understanding and a meaningful measure of uncertainty is…

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The ambiguity at the boundaries of different semantic classes in point cloud semantic segmentation often leads to incorrect decisions in intelligent perception systems, such as autonomous driving. Hence, accurate delineation of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Jiale Chen , Fei Xia , Jianliang Mao , Haoping Wang , Chuanlin Zhang

Super-resolution ultrasound imaging (SRUS) is an active area of research as it brings up to a ten-fold improvement in the resolution of microvascular structures. The limitations to the clinical adoption of SRUS include long acquisition…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-05 Arthur David Redfern , Katherine G. Brown

In recent years, convolutional neural networks for semantic segmentation of breast ultrasound (BUS) images have shown great success; however, two major challenges still exist. 1) Most current approaches inherently lack the ability to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Kyle Lucke , Aleksandar Vakanski , Min Xian

The computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems can highly improve the reliability and efficiency of melanoma recognition. As a crucial step of CAD, skin lesion segmentation has the unsatisfactory accuracy in existing methods due to large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Yujiao Tang , Feng Yang , Shaofeng Yuan , Chang'an Zhan

Segmentation of organs of interest in medical CT images is beneficial for diagnosis of diseases. Though recent methods based on Fully Convolutional Neural Networks (F-CNNs) have shown success in many segmentation tasks, fusing features from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Yanli Yuan , Bingbing Wang , Chuan Zhang , Jingyi Xu , Ximeng Liu , Liehuang Zhu

Breast histology image classification is a crucial step in the early diagnosis of breast cancer. In breast pathological diagnosis, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have demonstrated great success using digitized histology slides.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Zakaria Senousy , Mohammed M. Abdelsamea , Mohamed Medhat Gaber , Moloud Abdar , U Rajendra Acharya , Abbas Khosravi , Saeid Nahavandi

Deep learning (DL) networks have recently been shown to outperform other segmentation methods on various public, medical-image challenge datasets [3,11,16], especially for large pathologies. However, in the context of diseases such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Tanya Nair , Doina Precup , Douglas L. Arnold , Tal Arbel

Medical image segmentation is of great significance in analysis of illness. The use of deep neural networks in medical image segmentation can help doctors extract regions of interest from complex medical images, thereby improving diagnostic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Zhuoyi Fang , Kexuan Shi , Jiajia Liu , Qiang Han

Accurate skin lesion segmentation is vital for dermoscopic Computer-Aided Diagnosis. However, visual ambiguity and morphological irregularity often defeat spatial modeling, necessitating multi-domain architectures. Existing paradigms…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Duwei Dai , Caixia Dong , Guowei Dai , Qingsen Yan , Qin Zhang , Fan Liu , Pengyu Ren , Guangyao Kong , Wei Zeng

The use of deep learning for medical imaging has seen tremendous growth in the research community. One reason for the slow uptake of these systems in the clinical setting is that they are complex, opaque and tend to fail silently. Outside…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Terrance DeVries , Graham W. Taylor

Semi-supervised segmentation remains challenging in medical imaging since the amount of annotated medical data is often scarce and there are many blurred pixels near the adhesive edges or in the low-contrast regions. To address the issues,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-29 Yicheng Wu , Zhonghua Wu , Qianyi Wu , Zongyuan Ge , Jianfei Cai

The irregular and challenging characteristics of lung adenocarcinoma nodules in computed tomography (CT) images complicate staging diagnosis, making accurate segmentation critical for clinicians to extract detailed lesion information. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-20 Yuke Wu , Xiang Liu , Yunyu Shi , Xinyi Chen , Zhenglei Wang , YuQing Xu , Shuo Hong Wang