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Segment Anything Model (SAM), a new AI model from Meta AI released in April 2023, is an ambitious tool designed to identify and separate individual objects within a given image through semantic interpretation. The advanced capabilities of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-06 Gabriel Bellon de Carvalho , Jurandy Almeida

Image segmentation some of the challenging issues on brain magnetic resonance image tumor segmentation caused by the weak correlation between magnetic resonance imaging intensity and anatomical meaning.With the objective of utilizing more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-03-25 Narkhede Sachin G. , Vaishali Khairnar , Sujata Kadu

Various structures in human physiology follow a treelike morphology, which often expresses complexity at very fine scales. Examples of such structures are intrathoracic airways, retinal blood vessels, and hepatic blood vessels. Large…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-23 Hao Li , Zeyu Tang , Yang Nan , Guang Yang

The claustrum is a thin gray matter structure in each brain hemisphere, characterized by exceptionally high connectivity with nearly all brain regions. Despite extensive animal studies on its anatomy and function and growing evidence of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-16 Steven Seung-Suk Kang , Joseph Bodenheimer , Kayley Morris , Tracey Butler

Whole brain segmentation is an important neuroimaging task that segments the whole brain volume into anatomically labeled regions-of-interest. Convolutional neural networks have demonstrated good performance in this task. Existing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-01 Yeshu Li , Jonathan Cui , Yilun Sheng , Xiao Liang , Jingdong Wang , Eric I-Chao Chang , Yan Xu

Automatic segmentation of brain MR images into white matter (WM), gray matter (GM), and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is critical for tissue volumetric analysis and cortical surface reconstruction. Due to dramatic structural and appearance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-05 Xiaoyang Chen , Jinjian Wu , Wenjiao Lyu , Yicheng Zou , Kim-Han Thung , Siyuan Liu , Ye Wu , Sahar Ahmad , Pew-Thian Yap

This paper presents an annotated dataset of brain MRI images designed to advance the field of brain symmetry study. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has gained interest in analyzing brain symmetry in neonatal infants, and challenges remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Arnaud Gucciardi , Safouane El Ghazouali , Francesca Venturini , Vida Groznik , Umberto Michelucci

We present a novel approach to automatically segment magnetic resonance (MR) images of the human brain into anatomical regions. Our methodology is based on a deep artificial neural network that assigns each voxel in an MR image of the brain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-26 Alexandre de Brebisson , Giovanni Montana

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

Semantic segmentation of eyes has long been a vital pre-processing step in many biometric applications. Majority of the works focus only on high resolution eye images, while little has been done to segment the eyes from low quality images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Bingnan Luo , Jie Shen , Shiyang Cheng , Yujiang Wang , Maja Pantic

Deep learning models trained with large amounts of data have become a recent and effective approach to predictive problem solving -- these have become known as "foundation models" as they can be used as fundamental tools for other…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-17 José Guilherme de Almeida , Nuno M. Rodrigues , Sara Silva , Nickolas Papanikolaou

Planning of radiotherapy involves accurate segmentation of a large number of organs at risk, i.e. organs for which irradiation doses should be minimized to avoid important side effects of the therapy. We propose a deep learning method for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-04 Pawel Mlynarski , Hervé Delingette , Hamza Alghamdi , Pierre-Yves Bondiau , Nicholas Ayache

Objective: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been widely used for the analysis and diagnosis of brain diseases. Accurate and automatic brain tumor segmentation is of paramount importance for radiation treatment. However, low tissue…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-18 Jiangyun Li , Hong Yu , Chen Chen , Meng Ding , Sen Zha

Skull stripping magnetic resonance images (MRI) of the human brain is an important process in many image processing techniques, such as automatic segmentation of brain structures. Numerous methods have been developed to perform this task,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-16 Hjalti Thrastarson , Lotta M. Ellingsen

The segmentation foundation model, e.g., Segment Anything Model (SAM), has attracted increasing interest in the medical image community. Early pioneering studies primarily concentrated on assessing and improving SAM's performance from the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-19 Qin Li , Yizhe Zhang , Yan Li , Jun Lyu , Meng Liu , Longyu Sun , Mengting Sun , Qirong Li , Wenyue Mao , Xinran Wu , Yajing Zhang , Yinghua Chu , Shuo Wang , Chengyan Wang

Many functional and structural neuroimaging studies call for accurate morphometric segmentation of different brain structures starting from image intensity values of MRI scans. Current automatic (multi-) atlas-based segmentation strategies…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-27 Dennis Bontempi , Sergio Benini , Alberto Signoroni , Michele Svanera , Lars Muckli

Five different threshold segmentation based approaches have been reviewed and compared over here to extract the tumor from set of brain images. This research focuses on the analysis of image segmentation methods, a comparison of five…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-10 Muhammad Ali Qadar , Yan Zhaowen

Precise segmentation of brain structures in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is essential for reliable neuroimaging analysis, yet voxel-wise deep models often yield anatomically inconsistent results that diverge from expert-defined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ahmed Rekik , R. Jarrett Rushmore , Sylvain Bouix , Linda Marrakchi-Kacem

Segmentation of brain structures on MRI is the primary step for further quantitative analysis of brain diseases. Manual segmentation is still considered the gold standard in terms of accuracy; however, such data is extremely time-consuming…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-16 Mengyu Li , Magnus Magnusson , Thilo van Eimeren , Lotta M. Ellingsen

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has drawn significant attention from researchers who work on medical image segmentation because of its generalizability. However, researchers have found that SAM may have limited performance on medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Yihao Liu , Jiaming Zhang , Andres Diaz-Pinto , Haowei Li , Alejandro Martin-Gomez , Amir Kheradmand , Mehran Armand