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Segmentation of retinal vessel images is critical to the diagnosis of retinopathy. Recently, convolutional neural networks have shown significant ability to extract the blood vessel structure. However, it remains challenging to refined…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Geng-Xin Xu , Chuan-Xian Ren

Image segmentation is a primary task in many medical applications. Recently, many deep networks derived from U-Net have been extensively used in various medical image segmentation tasks. However, in most of the cases, networks similar to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Balamurali Murugesan , Kaushik Sarveswaran , Sharath M Shankaranarayana , Keerthi Ram , Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam

Despite the growing success of Convolution neural networks (CNN) in the recent past in the task of scene segmentation, the standard models lack some of the important features that might result in sub-optimal segmentation outputs. The widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Soham Chattopadhyay , Hritam Basak

CT-based bronchial tree analysis plays an important role in the computer-aided diagnosis for respiratory diseases, as it could provide structured information for clinicians. The basis of airway analysis is bronchial tree reconstruction,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-25 Wenhao Huang , Haifan Gong , Huan Zhang , Yu Wang , Haofeng Li , Guanbin Li , Hong Shen

Objective: Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated promise in automated cardiac magnetic resonance image segmentation. However, when using CNNs in a large real-world dataset, it is important to quantify segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-02 Matthew Ng , Fumin Guo , Labonny Biswas , Steffen E. Petersen , Stefan K. Piechnik , Stefan Neubauer , Graham Wright

Biomedical image segmentation is critical for accurate identification and analysis of anatomical structures in medical imaging, particularly in cardiac MRI. Manual segmentation is labor-intensive, time-consuming, and prone to errors,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-28 Ting Yu Tsai , Li Lin , Shu Hu , Ming-Ching Chang , Hongtu Zhu , Xin Wang

State Space Models (SSMs) have recently demonstrated outstanding performance in long-sequence modeling, particularly in natural language processing. However, their direct application to medical image segmentation poses several challenges.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Bin Xie , Yan Yan , Gady Agam

The production of thematic maps depicting land cover is one of the most common applications of remote sensing. To this end, several semantic segmentation approaches, based on deep learning, have been proposed in the literature, but land…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Guillem Pascual , Santi Seguí , Jordi Vitrià

Diabetic retinopathy is the most important complication of diabetes. Early diagnosis of retinal lesions helps to avoid visual loss or blindness. Due to high-resolution and small-size lesion regions, applying existing methods, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Zizheng Yan , Xiaoguang Han , Changmiao Wang , Yuda Qiu , Zixiang Xiong , Shuguang Cui

Text-guided Medical Image Segmentation has shown considerable promise for medical image segmentation, with rich clinical text serving as an effective supplement for scarce data. However, current methods have two key bottlenecks. On one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Linglin Liao , Qichuan Geng , Yu Liu

Purpose: Manual medical image segmentation is an exhausting and time-consuming task along with high inter-observer variability. In this study, our objective is to improve the multi-resolution image segmentation performance of U-Net…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-20 Simindokht Jahangard , Mohammad Hossein Zangooei , Maysam Shahedi

Accurate medical image segmentation is essential for diagnosis and treatment planning of diseases. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance for automatic medical image segmentation. However, they are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Ran Gu , Guotai Wang , Tao Song , Rui Huang , Michael Aertsen , Jan Deprest , Sébastien Ourselin , Tom Vercauteren , Shaoting Zhang

We address the selection and evaluation of uncertain segmentation methods in medical imaging and present two case studies: prostate segmentation, illustrating that for minimal annotator variation simple deterministic models can suffice, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Kilian Zepf , Jes Frellsen , Aasa Feragen

Epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) is a type of visceral fat that can secrete large amounts of adipokines to affect the myocardium and coronary arteries. EAT volume and density can be used as independent risk markers measurement of volume by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-26 Kai Zhao , Zhiming Liu , Jiaqi Liu , Jingbiao Zhou , Bihong Liao , Huifang Tang , Qiuyu Wang , Chunquan Li

Our research focuses on the critical field of early diagnosis of disease by examining retinal blood vessels in fundus images. While automatic segmentation of retinal blood vessels holds promise for early detection, accurate analysis remains…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-14 Fatema Tuj Johora Faria , Mukaffi Bin Moin , Pronay Debnath , Asif Iftekher Fahim , Faisal Muhammad Shah

Accurate retinal vessel segmentation is a critical prerequisite for quantitative analysis of retinal images and computer-aided diagnosis of vascular diseases such as diabetic retinopathy. However, the elongated morphology, wide scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Ruiqi Song , Lei Liu , Ya-Nan Zhang , Chao Wang , Xiaoning Li , Nan Mu

Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anesthesia (UGRA) has been gaining importance in the last few years, offering numerous advantages over alternative methods of nerve localization (neurostimulation or paraesthesia). However, nerve detection is one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Adel Hafiane , Pierre Vieyres , Alain Delbos

From diagnosing neovascular diseases to detecting white matter lesions, accurate tiny vessel segmentation in fundus images is critical. Promising results for accurate vessel segmentation have been known. However, their effectiveness in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Suraj Mishra , Danny Z. Chen , X. Sharon Hu

Accurate segmentation of medical images is challenging due to unclear lesion boundaries and mask variability. We introduce \emph{Segmentation Sch\"{o}dinger Bridge (SSB)}, the first application of Sch\"{o}dinger Bridge for ambiguous medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Lalith Bharadwaj Baru , Kamalaker Dadi , Tapabrata Chakraborti , Raju S. Bapi

Deep learning models have achieved significant success in segmenting cardiovascular structures, but there is a growing need to improve their generalization and robustness. Current methods often face challenges such as overfitting and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Ting Yu Tsai , Liangqiao Gui , Yineng Chen , Li Lin , Shu Hu , Connie W. Tsao , Xin Li , Shao Lin , Ming-Ching Chang , Hongtu Zhu , Xin Wang