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Multi-modality is widely used in medical imaging, because it can provide multiinformation about a target (tumor, organ or tissue). Segmentation using multimodality consists of fusing multi-information to improve the segmentation. Recently,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-17 Tongxue Zhou , Su Ruan , Stéphane Canu

Cell detection and segmentation is fundamental for all downstream analysis of digital pathology images. However, obtaining the pixel-level ground truth for single cell segmentation is extremely labor intensive. To overcome this challenge,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Alireza Chamanzar , Yao Nie

Developing clinically useful cell-level analysis tools in digital pathology remains challenging due to limitations in dataset granularity, inconsistent annotations, high computational demands, and difficulties integrating new technologies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Nikita Shvetsov , Thomas K. Kilvaer , Masoud Tafavvoghi , Anders Sildnes , Kajsa Møllersen , Lill-Tove Rasmussen Busund , Lars Ailo Bongo

Cells are the fundamental unit of biological organization, and identifying them in imaging data - cell segmentation - is a critical task for various cellular imaging experiments. While deep learning methods have led to substantial progress…

Medical image segmentation is crucial for accurate clinical diagnoses, yet it faces challenges such as low contrast between lesions and normal tissues, unclear boundaries, and high variability across patients. Deep learning has improved…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-09 Houze Liu , Tong Zhou , Yanlin Xiang , Aoran Shen , Jiacheng Hu , Junliang Du

Semantic segmentation is an important task in computer vision that is often tackled with convolutional neural networks (CNNs). A CNN learns to produce pixel-level predictions through training on pairs of images and their corresponding…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-22 Tianyu Ma , Benjamin C. Lee , Mert R. Sabuncu

Medical image segmentation has advanced rapidly over the past two decades, largely driven by deep learning, which has enabled accurate and efficient delineation of cells, tissues, organs, and pathologies across diverse imaging modalities.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Guoping Xu , Jayaram K. Udupa , Jax Luo , Songlin Zhao , Yajun Yu , Scott B. Raymond , Hao Peng , Lipeng Ning , Yogesh Rathi , Wei Liu , You Zhang

Cell segmentation is a fundamental task in microscopy image analysis. Several foundation models for cell segmentation have been introduced, virtually all of them are extensions of Segment Anything Model (SAM), improving it for microscopy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Anwai Archit , Constantin Pape

The throughput of electron microscopes has increased significantly in recent years, enabling detailed analysis of cell morphology and ultrastructure. Analysis of neural circuits at single-synapse resolution remains the flagship target of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Constantin Pape , Alex Matskevych , Adrian Wolny , Julian Hennies , Giula Mizzon , Marion Louveaux , Jacob Musser , Alexis Maizel , Detlev Arendt , Anna Kreshuk

Medical image segmentation is an important analysis task in clinical practice and research. Deep learning has massively advanced the field, but current approaches are mostly based on models trained for a specific task. Training such models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-18 Anwai Archit , Luca Freckmann , Constantin Pape

Manual segmentation of medical images (e.g., segmenting tumors in CT scans) is a high-effort task that can be accelerated with machine learning techniques. However, selecting the right segmentation approach depends on the evaluation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Seyed M. R. Modaresi , Aomar Osmani , Mohammadreza Razzazi , Abdelghani Chibani

Deep learning for medical image classification faces three major challenges: 1) the number of annotated medical images for training are usually small; 2) regions of interest (ROIs) are relatively small with unclear boundaries in the whole…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Shaohua Li , Yong Liu , Xiuchao Sui , Cheng Chen , Gabriel Tjio , Daniel Shu Wei Ting , Rick Siow Mong Goh

The need for labour intensive pixel-wise annotation is a major limitation of many fully supervised learning methods for segmenting bioimages that can contain numerous object instances with thin separations. In this paper, we introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Rihuan Ke , Aurélie Bugeau , Nicolas Papadakis , Peter Schuetz , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

We tackle biomedical image segmentation in the scenario of only a few labeled brain MR images. This is an important and challenging task in medical applications, where manual annotations are time-consuming. Current multi-atlas based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Hyeon Woo Lee , Mert R. Sabuncu , Adrian V. Dalca

Cell nuclei segmentation is one of the most important tasks in the analysis of biomedical images. With ever-growing sizes and amounts of three-dimensional images to be processed, there is a need for better and faster segmentation methods.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-20 Julian Arz , Peter Sanders , Johannes Stegmaier , Ralf Mikut

Quantitative image analysis often depends on accurate classification of pixels through a segmentation process. However, imaging artifacts such as the partial volume effect and sensor noise complicate the classification process. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Brendan A. West , Taylor S. Hodgdon , Matthew D. Parno , Arnold J. Song

In this paper, we propose a new model to segment cells in phase contrast microscopy images. Cell images collected from the similar scenario share a similar background. Inspired by this, we separate cells from the background in images by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Lin Zhang

Two successful approaches for the segmentation of biomedical images are (1) the selection of segment candidates from a merge-tree, and (2) the clustering of small superpixels by solving a Multi-Cut problem. In this paper, we introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-05 Jan Funke , Chong Zhang , Tobias Pietzsch , Stephan Saalfeld

The accurate segmentation and tracking of cells in microscopy image sequences is an important task in biomedical research, e.g., for studying the development of tissues, organs or entire organisms. However, the segmentation of touching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Tim Scherr , Katharina Löffler , Moritz Böhland , Ralf Mikut

We consider the problem of accurately identifying cell boundaries and labeling individual cells in confocal microscopy images, specifically, 3D image stacks of cells with tagged cell membranes. Precise identification of cell boundaries,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Jiaxiang Jiang , Po-Yu Kao , Samuel A. Belteton , Daniel B. Szymanski , B. S. Manjunath