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Medical image segmentation is an increasingly popular area of research in medical imaging processing and analysis. However, many researchers who are new to the field struggle with basic concepts. This tutorial paper aims to provide an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-13 Diedre Carmo , Gustavo Pinheiro , Lívia Rodrigues , Thays Abreu , Roberto Lotufo , Letícia Rittner

Automatic localization and segmentation of organs-at-risk (OAR) in CT are essential pre-processing steps in medical image analysis tasks, such as radiation therapy planning. For instance, the segmentation of OAR surrounding tumors enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Fernando Navarro , Guido Sasahara , Suprosanna Shit , Ivan Ezhov , Jan C. Peeken , Stephanie E. Combs , Bjoern H. Menze

Mammography is a vital screening technique for early revealing and identification of breast cancer in order to assist to decrease mortality rate. Practical applications of mammograms are not limited to breast cancer revealing,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-08 Aparna Bhale , Manish Joshi

Computed tomography (CT) is a widely used imaging modality for medical diagnosis and treatment. In electroencephalography (EEG), CT imaging is necessary for co-registering with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and for creating more accurate…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Andreas D. Lauritzen , Xenophon Papademetris , Sergei Turovets , John A. Onofrey

Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) is a valuable imaging method in dental diagnostics that provides information not available in traditional 2D imaging. However, interpretation of CBCT images is a time-consuming process that requires a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Adel Zakirov , Matvey Ezhov , Maxim Gusarev , Vladimir Alexandrovsky , Evgeny Shumilov

The use of computed tomography (CT) imaging has become of increasing interest to academic areas outside of the field of medical imaging and industrial inspection, e.g., to biology and cultural heritage research. The pecularities of these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-16 Florian Schiffers , Thomas Bochynek , Andre Aichert , Tobias Würfl , Michael Rubenstein , Oliver Cossairt

Registration is widely used in image-guided therapy and image-guided surgery to estimate spatial correspondences between organs of interest between planning and treatment images. However, while high-quality computed tomography (CT) images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-11 Lin Tian , Connor Puett , Peirong Liu , Zhengyang Shen , Stephen R. Aylward , Yueh Z. Lee , Marc Niethammer

Surgical automation requires precise guidance and understanding of the scene. Current methods in the literature rely on bulky depth cameras to create maps of the anatomy, however this does not translate well to space-limited clinical…

Machine learning-based interatomic potentials and force fields depend critically on accurate atomic structures, yet such data are scarce due to the limited availability of experimentally resolved crystals. Although atomic-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Yaotian Yang , Yiwen Tang , Yizhe Chen , Xiao Chen , Jiangjie Qiu , Hao Xiong , Haoyu Yin , Zhiyao Luo , Yifei Zhang , Sijia Tao , Wentao Li , Qinghua Zhang , Yuqiang Li , Wanli Ouyang , Bin Zhao , Xiaonan Wang , Fei Wei

Medical image analysis tasks often focus on regions or structures located in a particular location within the patient's body. Often large parts of the image may not be of interest for the image analysis task. When using deep-learning based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Thomas Buddenkotte , Roland Opfer , Julia Krüger , Alessa Hering , Mireia Crispin-Ortuzar

Efficiently acquired and precisely reconstructed imaging are crucial to the success of modern radiation therapy (RT). Computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are two common modalities for providing RT treatment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Di Xu

Most deep learning models in medical imaging are trained on adult data with unclear performance on pediatric images. In this work, we aim to address this challenge in the context of automated anatomy segmentation in whole-body Computed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-23 Chih-Ying Liu , Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu , Camila Gonzalez , Curtis Langlotz , Andrew Ng , Sergios Gatidis

Automatic segmentation of anatomical structures is critical in medical image analysis, aiding diagnostics and treatment planning. Skin segmentation plays a key role in registering and visualising multimodal imaging data. 3D skin…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-16 Martina Paccini , Giuseppe Patanè

We introduce SAM3D, a new approach to semi-automatic zero-shot segmentation of 3D images building on the existing Segment Anything Model. We achieve fast and accurate segmentations in 3D images with a four-step strategy involving: user…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-09 Trevor J. Chan , Aarush Sahni , Yijin Fang , Jie Li , Alisha Luthra , Alison Pouch , Chamith S. Rajapakse

Three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of head Computed Tomography (CT) images elucidates the intricate spatial relationships of tissue structures, thereby assisting in accurate diagnosis. Nonetheless, securing an optimal head CT scan…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Bowen Zheng , Chenxi Huang , Yuemei Luo

Automated interpretation of CT images-particularly localizing and describing abnormal findings across multi-plane and whole-body scans-remains a significant challenge in clinical radiology. This work aims to address this challenge through…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Ziheng Zhao , Lisong Dai , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang , Weidi Xie

Computed Tomography (CT) based precise prostate segmentation for treatment planning is challenging due to (1) the unclear boundary of the prostate derived from CT's poor soft tissue contrast and (2) the limitation of convolutional neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-20 Chengyin Li , Yao Qiang , Rafi Ibn Sultan , Hassan Bagher-Ebadian , Prashant Khanduri , Indrin J. Chetty , Dongxiao Zhu

Computed tomography (CT) is a central to three-dimensional medical imaging, yet CT-based artificial intelligence remains fragmented across task-specific models for segmentation, classification, registration, and report analysis. Here we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Yuheng Li , Yuan Gao , Haoyu Dong , Yuxiang Lai , Shansong Wang , Mojtaba Safari , James E. Baciak , Xiaofeng Yang

Background: Automated analysis of CT scans for abdominal organ measurement is crucial for improving diagnostic efficiency and reducing inter-observer variability. Manual segmentation and measurement of organs such as the kidneys, liver,…

Recent research in computational imaging largely focuses on developing machine learning (ML) techniques for image reconstruction, which requires large-scale training datasets consisting of measurement data and ground-truth images. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Maximilian B. Kiss , Sophia B. Coban , K. Joost Batenburg , Tristan van Leeuwen , Felix Lucka