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Accurate brain tumour segmentation is a crucial step towards improving disease diagnosis and proper treatment planning. In this paper, we propose a deep-learning based method to segment a brain tumour into its subregions: whole tumour,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-17 Mina Ghaffari , Arcot Sowmya , Ruth Oliver

Medical image segmentation plays an important role in various clinical applications; however, existing deep learning models face trade-offs between efficiency and accuracy. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) capture local details well but…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-20 Saqib Qamar , Mohd Fazil , Parvez Ahmad , Shakir Khan , Abu Taha Zamani

The U-Net was presented in 2015. With its straight-forward and successful architecture it quickly evolved to a commonly used benchmark in medical image segmentation. The adaptation of the U-Net to novel problems, however, comprises several…

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

Precise segmentation of organs and tumors plays a crucial role in clinical applications. It is a challenging task due to the irregular shapes and various sizes of organs and tumors as well as the significant class imbalance between the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-03 Ziqiang Li , Hong Pan , Yaping Zhu , A. K. Qin

Models based on U-like structures have improved the performance of medical image segmentation. However, the single-layer decoder structure of U-Net is too "thin" to exploit enough information, resulting in large semantic differences between…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-08 Haoyuan Chen , Yufei Han , Pin Xu , Yanyi Li , Kuan Li , Jianping Yin

Brain tumor segmentation is crucial for diagnosis and treatment planning, yet challenges such as class imbalance and limited model generalization continue to hinder progress. This work presents a reproducible evaluation of U-Net…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Saumya B

Brain tumor segmentation is an active research area due to the difficulty in delineating highly complex shaped and textured tumors as well as the failure of the commonly used U-Net architectures. The combination of different neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-02 Lanhong Yao , Zheyuan Zhang , Ulas Bagci

Organ at risk (OAR) segmentation is a crucial step for treatment planning and outcome determination in radiotherapy treatments of cancer patients. Several deep learning based segmentation algorithms have been developed in recent years,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-07 Ilkin Isler , Curtis Lisle , Justin Rineer , Patrick Kelly , Damla Turgut , Jacob Ricci , Ulas Bagci

Current medical image segmentation approaches have limitations in deeply exploring multi-scale information and effectively combining local detail textures with global contextual semantic information. This results in over-segmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Zhenkun Lu , Chaoyin She , Wei Wang , Qinghua Huang

Automated cervical nucleus segmentation based on deep learning can effectively improve the quantitative analysis of cervical cancer. However, accurate nuclei segmentation is still challenging. The classic U-net has not achieved satisfactory…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-13 Jie Zhao , Lei Dai , Mo Zhang , Fei Yu , Meng Li , Hongfeng Li , Wenjia Wang , Li Zhang

3D medical image processing with deep learning greatly suffers from a lack of data. Thus, studies carried out in this field are limited compared to works related to 2D natural image analysis, where very large datasets exist. As a result,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Hicham Messaoudi , Ahror Belaid , Mohamed Lamine Allaoui , Ahcene Zetout , Mohand Said Allili , Souhil Tliba , Douraied Ben Salem , Pierre-Henri Conze

Image segmentation is pivotal in medical image analysis, facilitating clinical diagnosis, treatment planning, and disease evaluation. Deep learning has significantly advanced automatic segmentation methodologies by providing superior…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Zhengyong Huang , Ning Jiang , Xingwen Sun , Lihua Zhang , Peng Chen , Jens Domke , Yao Sui

Multi-modal 3D medical image segmentation aims to accurately identify tumor regions across different modalities, facing challenges from variations in image intensity and tumor morphology. Traditional convolutional neural network (CNN)-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Zexin Ji , Beiji Zou , Xiaoyan Kui , Hua Li , Pierre Vera , Su Ruan

Recent advances in transformer-based models have drawn attention to exploring these techniques in medical image segmentation, especially in conjunction with the U-Net model (or its variants), which has shown great success in medical image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-22 Xiangyi Yan , Hao Tang , Shanlin Sun , Haoyu Ma , Deying Kong , Xiaohui Xie

U-Net has achieved huge success in various medical image segmentation challenges. Kinds of new architectures with bells and whistles might succeed in certain dataset when employed with optimal hyper-parameter, but their generalization…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-14 Wenshuai Zhao , Zengfeng Zeng

Accurate detection of oral cancer is crucial for improving patient outcomes. However, the field faces two key challenges: the scarcity of deep learning-based image segmentation research specifically targeting oral cancer and the lack of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-05 Ahmed Albishri , Syed Jawad Hussain Shah , Yugyung Lee , Rong Wang

The advancements in deep learning technologies have produced immense contributions to biomedical image analysis applications. With breast cancer being the common deadliest disease among women, early detection is the key means to improve…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-04 Narinder Singh Punn , Sonali Agarwal

Accurate medical image segmentation allows for the precise delineation of anatomical structures and pathological regions, which is essential for treatment planning, surgical navigation, and disease monitoring. Both CNN-based and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Libin Lan , Yanxin Li , Xiaojuan Liu , Juan Zhou , Jianxun Zhang , Nannan Huang , Yudong Zhang

Accurate medical image segmentation is critical for early medical diagnosis. Most existing methods are based on U-shape structure and use element-wise addition or concatenation to fuse different level features progressively in decoder.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xiaoqi Zhao , Hongpeng Jia , Youwei Pang , Long Lv , Feng Tian , Lihe Zhang , Weibing Sun , Huchuan Lu