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Skin lesions segmentation is an important step in the process of automated diagnosis of the skin melanoma. However, the accuracy of segmenting melanomas skin lesions is quite a challenging task due to less data for training, irregular…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Sabari Nathan , Priya Kansal

Segmentation is a key stage in dermoscopic image processing, where the accuracy of the border line that defines skin lesions is of utmost importance for subsequent algorithms (e.g., classification) and computer-aided early diagnosis of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Pedro M. M. Pereira , Rui Fonseca-Pinto , Rui Pedro Paiva , Luis M. N. Tavora , Pedro A. A. Assuncao , Sergio M. M. de Faria

Segmenting healthy tissue structures alongside lesions in brain Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) remains a challenge for today's algorithms due to lesion-caused disruption of the anatomy and lack of jointly labeled training datasets, where…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-26 Meva Himmetoglu , Ilja Ciernik , Ender Konukoglu

The segmentation of substantial brain lesions is a significant and challenging task in the field of medical image segmentation. Substantial brain lesions in brain imaging exhibit high heterogeneity, with indistinct boundaries between lesion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Hongming Wang , Yifeng Wu , Huimin Huang , Hongtao Wu , Jia-Xuan Jiang , Xiaodong Zhang , Hao Zheng , Xian Wu , Yefeng Zheng , Jinping Xu , Jing Cheng

In this work, we present a comparison of a shallow and a deep learning architecture for the automated segmentation of white matter lesions in MR images of multiple sclerosis patients. In particular, we train and test both methods on early…

In this paper we describe and validate a longitudinal method for whole-brain segmentation of longitudinal MRI scans. It builds upon an existing whole-brain segmentation method that can handle multi-contrast data and robustly analyze images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Stefano Cerri , Douglas N. Greve , Andrew Hoopes , Henrik Lundell , Hartwig R. Siebner , Mark Mühlau , Koen Van Leemput

Biomedical image segmentation plays a significant role in computer-aided diagnosis. However, existing CNN based methods rely heavily on massive manual annotations, which are very expensive and require huge human resources. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Ruifei Zhang , Sishuo Liu , Yizhou Yu , Guanbin Li

Medical brain image analysis is a necessary step in Computer Assisted /Aided Diagnosis (CAD) systems. Advancements in both hardware and software in the past few years have led to improved segmentation and classification of various diseases.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-15 Darwin Castillo , Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan , Maria J. Rodriguez-Alvarez

White matter hyperintensity (WMH) is commonly found in elder individuals and appears to be associated with brain diseases. U-net is a convolutional network that has been widely used for biomedical image segmentation. Recently, U-net has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Yue Zhang , Wanli Chen , Yifan Chen , Xiaoying Tang

Diffusion-weighted MRI is increasingly used to study the normal and abnormal development of fetal brain in-utero. Recent studies have shown that dMRI can offer invaluable insights into the neurodevelopmental processes in the fetal stage.…

The black-box nature of deep learning models has raised concerns about their interpretability for successful deployment in real-world clinical applications. To address the concerns, eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) aims to provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Junlin Hou , Jilan Xu , Hao Chen

Segmentation has been a major task in neuroimaging. A large number of automated methods have been developed for segmenting healthy and diseased brain tissues. In recent years, deep learning techniques have attracted a lot of attention as a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-05 Jimit Doshi , Guray Erus , Mohamad Habes , Christos Davatzikos

Lesions that appear hyperintense in both Fluid Attenuated Inversion Recovery (FLAIR) and T2-weighted magnetic resonance images (MRIs) of the human brain are common in the brains of the elderly population and may be caused by ischemia or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-20 Hans E. Atlason , Askell Love , Sigurdur Sigurdsson , Vilmundur Gudnason , Lotta M. Ellingsen

In applied image segmentation tasks, the ability to provide numerous and precise labels for training is paramount to the accuracy of the model at inference time. However, this overhead is often neglected, and recently proposed segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Kuai Yu , Hakeem Frank , Daniel Wilson

Objective: Hydrocephalus is a medical condition in which there is an abnormal accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in the brain. Segmentation of brain imagery into brain tissue and CSF (before and after surgery, i.e. pre-op vs. postop)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-11 Venkateswararao Cherukuri , Peter Ssenyonga , Benjamin C. Warf , Abhaya V. Kulkarni , Vishal Monga , Steven J. Schiff

The accurate segmentation of multiple types of lesions from adjacent tissues in medical images is significant in clinical practice. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) based on the coarse-to-fine strategy have been widely used in this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-12 Xiangyu Zhao , Peng Zhang , Fan Song , Chenbin Ma , Guangda Fan , Yangyang Sun , Youdan Feng , Guanglei Zhang

Wound image segmentation is a critical component for the clinical diagnosis and in-time treatment of wounds. Recently, deep learning has become the mainstream methodology for wound image segmentation. However, the pre-processing of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-13 Honghui Liu , Changjian Wang , Kele Xu , Fangzhao Li , Ming Feng , Yuxing Peng , Hongjun He

Diffusion MRI tractography is an advanced imaging technique that enables in vivo mapping of the brain's white matter connections. White matter parcellation classifies tractography streamlines into clusters or anatomically meaningful tracts.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-25 Tengfei Xue , Fan Zhang , Chaoyi Zhang , Yuqian Chen , Yang Song , Alexandra J. Golby , Nikos Makris , Yogesh Rathi , Weidong Cai , Lauren J. O'Donnell

In the past few years, deep learning (DL) models have drawn great attention and shown superior performance on brain tumor and subregion segmentation tasks. However, the success is limited to segmentation of adult gliomas, where sufficient…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-01 Silu Zhang , Angela Edwards , Shubo Wang , Zoltan Patay , Asim Bag , Matthew A. Scoggins

Segmenting a structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan is an important pre-processing step for analytic procedures and subsequent inferences about longitudinal tissue changes. Manual segmentation defines the current gold standard in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Alex Fedorov , Jeremy Johnson , Eswar Damaraju , Alexei Ozerin , Vince Calhoun , Sergey Plis