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Organ at risk (OAR) segmentation in computed tomography (CT) imagery is a difficult task for automated segmentation methods and can be crucial for downstream radiation treatment planning. U-net has become a de-facto standard for medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-27 Abdullah Nazib , Riad Hassan , Zahidul Islam , Clinton Fookes

This paper presents a novel unsupervised segmentation method for 3D medical images. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have brought significant advances in image segmentation. However, most of the recent methods rely on supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Takayasu Moriya , Holger R. Roth , Shota Nakamura , Hirohisa Oda , Kai Nagara , Masahiro Oda , Kensaku Mori

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

Tumor segmentation in whole-body PET/CT imaging is crucial for precise disease evaluation and treatment planning. However, it remains challenging due to variability in lesion size, contrast, and anatomical distribution. Relying on manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Hussain Alasmawi

Accurate segmentation of the vertebra is an important prerequisite in various medical applications (E.g. tele surgery) to assist surgeons. Following the successful development of deep neural networks, recent studies have focused on the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-01 Simindokht Jahangard , Mahdi Bonyani , Abbas Khosravi

U-Nets have achieved tremendous success in medical image segmentation. Nevertheless, it may suffer limitations in global (long-range) contextual interactions and edge-detail preservation. In contrast, Transformer has an excellent ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Nan Wang , Shaohui Lin , Xiaoxiao Li , Ke Li , Yunhang Shen , Yue Gao , Lizhuang Ma

We propose a new residual block for convolutional neural networks and demonstrate its state-of-the-art performance in medical image segmentation. We combine attention mechanisms with group convolutions to create our group attention…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-09 Chaitanya Kaul , Nick Pears , Hang Dai , Roderick Murray-Smith , Suresh Manandhar

This study provides a comparative analysis of deep learning models including UNet, Res-UNet, Attention Res-UNet, and nnUNet, and evaluates their performance in brain tumour, polyp, and multi-class heart segmentation tasks. The analysis…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-08 Lina Huang , Alina Miron , Kate Hone , Yongmin Li

An accurate segmentation of lung nodules in computed tomography (CT) images is critical to lung cancer analysis and diagnosis. However, due to the variety of lung nodules and the similarity of visual characteristics between nodules and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Haichao Cao , Hong Liu , Enmin Song , Chih-Cheng Hung , Guangzhi Ma , Xiangyang Xu , Renchao Jin , Jianguo Lu

Automatic cell segmentation is an essential step in the pipeline of computer-aided diagnosis (CAD), such as the detection and grading of breast cancer. Accurate segmentation of cells can not only assist the pathologists to make a more…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Muyi Sun , Zeyi Yao , Guanhong Zhang

Pathological diagnosis is the gold standard for cancer diagnosis, but it is labor-intensive, in which tasks such as cell detection, classification, and counting are particularly prominent. A common solution for automating these tasks is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-27 Anyu Mao , Jialun Wu , Xinrui Bao , Zeyu Gao , Tieliang Gong , Chen Li

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.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Ebtihal J. Alwadee , Xianfang Sun , Yipeng Qin , Frank C. Langbein

Despite recent progress of automatic medical image segmentation techniques, fully automatic results usually fail to meet the clinical use and typically require further refinement. In this work, we propose a quality-aware memory network for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Tianfei Zhou , Liulei Li , Gustav Bredell , Jianwu Li , Ender Konukoglu

Automated and accurate 3D medical image segmentation plays an essential role in assisting medical professionals to evaluate disease progresses and make fast therapeutic schedules. Although deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-01 Jianpeng Zhang , Yutong Xie , Yan Wang , Yong Xia

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-31 Ovais Iqbal Shah , Danish Raza Rizvi , Aqib Nazir Mir

Multimodal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can reveal different patterns of human tissue and is crucial for clinical diagnosis. However, limited by cost, noise and manual labeling, obtaining diverse and reliable multimodal MR images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-11 Li Zhu , Jiawei Jiang , Lin Lu , Jin Li

Deep learning (DL) based semantic segmentation methods have been providing state-of-the-art performance in the last few years. More specifically, these techniques have been successfully applied to medical image classification, segmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Md Zahangir Alom , Mahmudul Hasan , Chris Yakopcic , Tarek M. Taha , Vijayan K. Asari

Semantic segmentation of remote sensing images plays an important role in a wide range of applications including land resource management, biosphere monitoring and urban planning. Although the accuracy of semantic segmentation in remote…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-21 Rui Li , Shunyi Zheng , Chenxi Duan , Ce Zhang , Jianlin Su , P. M. Atkinson

Medical image segmentation plays a vital role in various clinical applications, enabling accurate delineation and analysis of anatomical structures or pathological regions. Traditional CNNs have achieved remarkable success in this field.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-18 Seyed M. R. Modaresi , Aomar Osmani , Mohammadreza Razzazi , Abdelghani Chibani

In the field of Large Language Models (LLMs), Attention Residuals have recently demonstrated that learned, selective aggregation over all preceding layer outputs can outperform fixed residual connections. We propose Cross-Stage Attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Xinyu Liu , Qing Xu , Zhen Chen