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Automatically segmenting lesion area in breast ultrasound (BUS) images is a challenging one due to its noise, speckle and artifacts. Edge-map of BUS images also does not help because in most cases the edge-map gives no information…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-26 Rasheed Abid , S. Kaisar Alam

Mammography images are widely used to detect non-palpable breast lesions or nodules, preventing cancer and providing the opportunity to plan interventions when necessary. The identification of some structures of interest is essential to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-21 Cesar A. Sierra-Franco , Jan Hurtado , Victor de A. Thomaz , Leonardo C. da Cruz , Santiago V. Silva , Alberto B. Raposo

Accurate and reliable image segmentation is an essential part of biomedical image analysis. In this paper, we consider the problem of biomedical image segmentation using deep convolutional neural networks. We propose a new end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Amirhossein Dadashzadeh , Alireza Tavakoli Targhi

It remains challenging to automatically segment kidneys in clinical ultrasound images due to the kidneys' varied shapes and image intensity distributions, although semi-automatic methods have achieved promising performance. In this study,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Shi Yin , Zhengqiang Zhang , Hongming Li , Qinmu Peng , Xinge You , Susan L. Furth , Gregory E. Tasian , Yong Fan

Precise segmentation of the liver is critical for computer-aided diagnosis such as pre-evaluation of the liver for living donor-based transplantation surgery. This task is challenging due to the weak boundaries of organs, countless…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-06 Supriti Mulay , Deepika G , Jeevakala S , Keerthi Ram , Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam

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

Histopathology images contain essential information for medical diagnosis and prognosis of cancerous disease. Segmentation of glands in histopathology images is a primary step for analysis and diagnosis of an unhealthy patient. Due to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-04 Safiyeh Rezaei , Ali Emami , Hamidreza Zarrabi , Shima Rafiei , Kayvan Najarian , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi , S. M. Reza Soroushmehr

This work introduces DyABD, a novel and complex benchmark dataset of dynamic abdominal MRIs from patients with abdominal hernias and associated high quality abdominal muscle annotations. DyABD is the first-of-its-kind in four key ways; (1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Niamh Belton , Victoria Joppin , Aonghus Lawlor , Catherine Masson , Thierry Bege , David Bendahan , Kathleen M. Curran

Vascular segmentation extracts blood vessels from images and serves as the basis for diagnosing various diseases, like ophthalmic diseases. Ophthalmologists often require high-resolution segmentation results for analysis, which leads to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-29 Yan Hu , Zhongxi Qiu , Dan Zeng , Li Jiang , Chen Lin , Jiang Liu

Kidney volume is greatly affected in several renal diseases. Precise and automatic segmentation of the kidney can help determine kidney size and evaluate renal function. Fully convolutional neural networks have been used to segment organs…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-02 Omid Bazgir , Kai Barck , Richard A. D. Carano , Robby M. Weimer , Luke Xie

The National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Human Biomolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP) aims to create a comprehensive high-resolution atlas of all the cells in the healthy human body. Multiple laboratories across the United States are…

It remains challenging to automatically segment kidneys in clinical ultrasound (US) images due to the kidneys' varied shapes and image intensity distributions, although semi-automatic methods have achieved promising performance. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Shi Yin , Qinmu Peng , Hongming Li , Zhengqiang Zhang , Xinge You , Susan L. Furth , Gregory E. Tasian , Yong Fan

The automatic segmentation of blood vessels in fundus images can help analyze the condition of retinal vasculature, which is crucial for identifying various systemic diseases like hypertension, diabetes, etc. Despite the success of Deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-26 Ashish Kumar , R. K. Agrawal , Leve Joseph

Automatic segmentation of hepatic lesions in computed tomography (CT) images is a challenging task to perform due to heterogeneous, diffusive shape of tumors and complex background. To address the problem more and more researchers rely on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-18 Dina B. Efremova , Dmitry A. Konovalov , Thanongchai Siriapisith , Worapan Kusakunniran , Peter Haddawy

Medical image segmentation is particularly critical as a prerequisite for relevant quantitative analysis in the treatment of clinical diseases. For example, in clinical cervical cancer radiotherapy, after acquiring subabdominal MRI images,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-30 Yu Xiao , Xin Yang , Sijuan Huang , Lihua Guo

Despite the success of convolutional neural networks for 3D medical-image segmentation, the architectures currently used are still not robust enough to the protocols of different scanners, and the variety of image properties they produce.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-31 Shrajan Bhandary , Zahra Babaiee , Dejan Kostyszyn , Tobias Fechter , Constantinos Zamboglou , Anca-Ligia Grosu , Radu Grosu

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 main contribution of this paper is to propose an iterative procedure for tubular structure segmentation of 2D images, which combines tight frame of Curvelet transforms with a SURE technique thresholding which is based on principle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Nasser Aghazadeh , Ladan Sharafyan Cigaroudy

Panoramic image segmentation in computational pathology presents a remarkable challenge due to the morphologically complex and variably scaled anatomy. For instance, the intricate organization in kidney pathology spans multiple layers, from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Ruining Deng , Quan Liu , Can Cui , Tianyuan Yao , Juming Xiong , Shunxing Bao , Hao Li , Mengmeng Yin , Yu Wang , Shilin Zhao , Yucheng Tang , Haichun Yang , Yuankai Huo

Purpose: To improve kidney segmentation in clinical ultrasound (US) images, we develop a new graph cuts based method to segment kidney US images by integrating original image intensity information and texture feature maps extracted using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Qiang Zheng , Steven Warner , Gregory Tasian , Yong Fan