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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is routinely used for brain tumor diagnosis, treatment planning, and post-treatment surveillance. Recently, various models based on deep neural networks have been proposed for the pixel-level segmentation of…

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Tumor volume segmentation on MRI is a challenging and time-consuming process that is performed manually in typical clinical settings. This work presents an approach to automated delineation of head and neck tumors on MRI scans, developed in…

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Machine learning has been widely adopted for medical image analysis in recent years given its promising performance in image segmentation and classification tasks. As a data-driven science, the success of machine learning, in particular…

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Brain tumors require an assessment to ensure timely diagnosis and effective patient treatment. Morphological factors such as size, location, texture, and variable appearance complicate tumor inspection. Medical imaging presents challenges,…

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Precise characterization of the kidney and kidney tumor characteristics is of outmost importance in the context of kidney cancer treatment, especially for nephron sparing surgery which requires a precise localization of the tissues to be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-03 Gianmarco Santini , Noémie Moreau , Mathieu Rubeaux

Automatic brain tumor segmentation method plays an extremely important role in the whole process of brain tumor diagnosis and treatment. In this paper, we propose a multi-step cascaded network which takes the hierarchical topology of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-26 Xiangyu Li , Gongning Luo , Kuanquan Wang

Brain tumor segmentation remains a significant challenge, particularly in the context of multi-modal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) where missing modality images are common in clinical settings, leading to reduced segmentation accuracy.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-14 Zhongao Sun , Jiameng Li , Yuhan Wang , Jiarong Cheng , Qing Zhou , Chun Li

Accurate lesion segmentation in ultrasound images is essential for preventive screening and clinical diagnosis, yet remains challenging due to low contrast, blurry boundaries, and significant scale variations. Although existing deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Chen Wang , Yixin Zhu , Yongbin Zhu , Fengyuan Shi , Qi Li , Jun Wang , Zuozhu Liu , Keli Hu

Automatic lymph node (LN) segmentation and detection for cancer staging are critical. In clinical practice, computed tomography (CT) and positron emission tomography (PET) imaging detect abnormal LNs. Despite its low contrast and variety in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-23 Al-Akhir Nayan , Boonserm Kijsirikul , Yuji Iwahori

Manual delineation of tumor regions from magnetic resonance (MR) images is time-consuming, requires an expert, and is prone to human error. In recent years, deep learning models have been the go-to approach for the segmentation of brain…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-03 Subin Sahayam , Umarani Jayaraman

This study proposes a deep learning model for the classification and segmentation of brain tumors from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans. The classification model is based on the EfficientNetB1 architecture and is trained to classify…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-27 Belal Amin , Romario Sameh Samir , Youssef Tarek , Mohammed Ahmed , Rana Ibrahim , Manar Ahmed , Mohamed Hassan

We present a joint graph convolution-image convolution neural network as our submission to the Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) 2021 challenge. We model each brain as a graph composed of distinct image regions, which is initially segmented…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-02 Camillo Saueressig , Adam Berkley , Reshma Munbodh , Ritambhara Singh

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…

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The brain is a complex organ controlling cognitive process and physical functions. Tumors in the brain are accelerated cell growths affecting the normal function and processes in the brain. MRI scans provides detailed images of the body…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-20 Miriam Zulema Jacobo , Jose Mejia

Brain tumor segmentation from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plays an important role in diagnostic radiology. To overcome the practical issues in manual approaches, there is a huge demand for building automatic tumor segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-14 Dhrumil Patel , Dhruv Patel , Rudra Saxena , Thangarajah Akilan

In this paper, we present a fully automatic brain tumor segmentation method based on Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). The proposed networks are tailored to glioblastomas (both low and high grade) pictured in MR images. By their very nature,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-23 Mohammad Havaei , Axel Davy , David Warde-Farley , Antoine Biard , Aaron Courville , Yoshua Bengio , Chris Pal , Pierre-Marc Jodoin , Hugo Larochelle

Brain tumor segmentation is essential for the diagnosis and prognosis of patients with gliomas. The brain tumor segmentation challenge has continued to provide a great source of data to develop automatic algorithms to perform the task. This…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-10 Huan Minh Luu , Sung-Hong Park

The uncontrolled and unstructured growth of brain cells is known as brain tumor, which has one of the highest mortality rates among diseases from all types of cancers. Due to limited diagnostic and treatment capabilities, they pose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 PoTsang B. Huang , Muhammad Rizwan , Mehboob Ali

State-of-the-art brain tumor segmentation is based on deep learning models applied to multi-modal MRIs. Currently, these models are trained on images after a preprocessing stage that involves registration, interpolation, brain extraction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-29 Bruno Machado Pacheco , Guilherme de Souza e Cassia , Danilo Silva

Computer-aided detection (CAD) of benign and malignant breast lesions becomes increasingly essential in breast ultrasound (US) imaging. The CAD systems rely on imaging features identified by the medical experts for their performance,…

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