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Deep learning-based cardiac segmentation has seen significant advancements over the years. Many studies have tackled the challenge of anatomically incorrect segmentation predictions by introducing auxiliary modules. These modules either…

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Current Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) methods mainly depend on medical images. The clinical information, which usually needs to be considered in practical clinical diagnosis, has not been fully employed in CAD. In this paper, we propose a…

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Deformable medical image registration is a fundamental task in medical image analysis with applications in disease diagnosis, treatment planning, and image-guided interventions. Despite significant advances in deep learning based…

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Cardiac motion estimation is critical to the assessment of cardiac function. Myocardium feature tracking (FT) can directly estimate cardiac motion from cine MRI, which requires no special scanning procedure. However, current deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-19 Pingjun Chen , Xiao Chen , Eric Z. Chen , Hanchao Yu , Terrence Chen , Shanhui Sun

Image registration has traditionally been done using two distinct approaches: learning based methods, relying on robust deep neural networks, and optimization-based methods, applying complex mathematical transformations to warp images…

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Electronic health record (EHR) data is collected by individual institutions and often stored across locations in silos. Getting access to these data is difficult and slow due to security, privacy, regulatory, and operational issues. We…

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Deformable medical image registration is an essential task in computer-assisted interventions. This problem is particularly relevant to oncological treatments, where precise image alignment is necessary for tracking tumor growth, assessing…

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Breast ultrasound (US) is an effective imaging modality for breast cancer detection and diagnosis. US computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems have been developed for decades and have employed either conventional hand-crafted features or…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-03-12 Erlei Zhang , Stephen Seiler , Mingli Chen , Weiguo Lu , Xuejun Gu

Deep Learning (DL) in neuroimaging has become increasingly relevant for detecting neurological conditions and neurodegenerative disorders. One of the most predominant biomarkers in neuroimaging is represented by brain age, which has been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-20 Carlo Alberto Barbano , Matteo Brunello , Benoit Dufumier , Marco Grangetto

Cardiac ultrasound (US) scanning is a commonly used techniques in cardiology to diagnose the health of the heart and its proper functioning. Therefore, it is necessary to consider ways to automate these tasks and assist medical…

The goal of this work is to identify the best optimizers for deep learning in the context of cardiac image segmentation and to provide guidance on how to design segmentation networks with effective optimization strategies. Adaptive learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-07 Aliasghar Mortazi , Vedat Cicek , Elif Keles , Ulas Bagci

Deformable image registration is a fundamental problem in the field of medical image analysis. During the last years, we have witnessed the advent of deep learning-based image registration methods which achieve state-of-the-art performance,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-03 Lucas Mansilla , Diego H. Milone , Enzo Ferrante

Long-term fetal heart rate (FHR) monitoring during the antepartum period, increasingly popularized by electronic FHR monitoring, represents a growing approach in FHR monitoring. This kind of continuous monitoring, in contrast to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Zenghui Lin , Xintong Liu , Nan Wang , Ruichen Li , Qingao Liu , Jingying Ma , Liwei Wang , Yan Wang , Shenda Hong

Deep Learning (DL) methods have been used for electrocardiogram (ECG) processing in a wide variety of tasks, demonstrating good performance compared with traditional signal processing algorithms. These methods offer an efficient framework…

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Developing advanced medical imaging retrieval systems is challenging due to the varying definitions of `similar images' across different medical contexts. This challenge is compounded by the lack of large-scale, high-quality medical imaging…

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Many existing learning-based deformable image registration methods impose constraints on deformation fields to ensure they are globally smooth and continuous. However, this assumption does not hold in cardiac image registration, where…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-12 Hang Zhang , Xiang Chen , Renjiu Hu , Dongdong Liu , Gaolei Li , Rongguang Wang

Current deep learning approaches in medical image registration usually face the challenges of distribution shift and data collection, hindering real-world deployment. In contrast, universal medical image registration aims to perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Bomin Wang , Xinzhe Luo , Xiahai Zhuang

This paper aims to create a deep learning framework that can estimate the deformation vector field (DVF) for directly registering abdominal MRI-CT images. The proposed method assumed a diffeomorphic deformation. By using topology-preserved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Yang Lei , Luke A. Matkovic , Justin Roper , Tonghe Wang , Jun Zhou , Beth Ghavidel , Mark McDonald , Pretesh Patel , Xiaofeng Yang

We present a fast learning-based algorithm for deformable, pairwise 3D medical image registration. Current registration methods optimize an objective function independently for each pair of images, which can be time-consuming for large…

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Background & Aims: Hepatic steatosis is a major cause of chronic liver disease. 2D ultrasound is the most widely used non-invasive tool for screening and monitoring, but associated diagnoses are highly subjective. We developed a scalable…

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