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We propose a method for automatic segmentation of individual muscles from a clinical CT. The method uses Bayesian convolutional neural networks with the U-Net architecture, using Monte Carlo dropout that infers an uncertainty metric in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-10 Yuta Hiasa , Yoshito Otake , Masaki Takao , Takeshi Ogawa , Nobuhiko Sugano , Yoshinobu Sato

Precise thigh muscle volumes are crucial to monitor the motor functionality of patients with diseases that may result in various degrees of thigh muscle loss. T1-weighted MRI is the default surrogate to obtain thigh muscle masks due to its…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-28 Sheng Chen , Zihao Tang , Dongnan Liu , Ché Fornusek , Michael Barnett , Chenyu Wang , Mariano Cabezas , Weidong Cai

Segmentation is a fundamental task in medical image analysis. The clinical interest is often to measure the volume of a structure. To evaluate and compare segmentation methods, the similarity between a segmentation and a predefined ground…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-09 Jeroen Bertels , David Robben , Dirk Vandermeulen , Paul Suetens

Background: Segmentation of organs and structures in abdominal MRI is useful for many clinical applications, such as disease diagnosis and radiotherapy. Current approaches have focused on delineating a limited set of abdominal structures…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-07 Yan Zhuang , Tejas Sudharshan Mathai , Pritam Mukherjee , Brandon Khoury , Boah Kim , Benjamin Hou , Nusrat Rabbee , Abhinav Suri , Ronald M. Summers

Body tissue composition is a long-known biomarker with high diagnostic and prognostic value in cardiovascular, oncological and orthopaedic diseases, but also in rehabilitation medicine or drug dosage. In this study, the aim was to develop a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-22 Sven Koitka , Lennard Kroll , Eugen Malamutmann , Arzu Oezcelik , Felix Nensa

The complex ways in which humans utilize their bodies in sports and martial arts are remarkable, and human motion analysis is one of the most effective tools for robot body design and control. On the other hand, motion analysis is not easy,…

Automatic image segmentation becomes very crucial for tumor detection in medical image processing.In general, manual and semi automatic segmentation techniques require more time and knowledge. However these drawbacks had overcome by…

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Statistical shape modeling (SSM) is a valuable and powerful tool to generate a detailed representation of complex anatomy that enables quantitative analysis and the comparison of shapes and their variations. SSM applies mathematics,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-14 Krithika Iyer , Alan Morris , Brian Zenger , Karthik Karanth , Benjamin A Orkild , Oleksandre Korshak , Shireen Elhabian

Hybrid volumetric medical image segmentation models, combining the advantages of local convolution and global attention, have recently received considerable attention. While mainly focusing on architectural modifications, most existing…

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Management of vestibular schwannoma (VS) is based on tumour size as observed on T1 MRI scans with contrast agent injection. Current clinical practice is to measure the diameter of the tumour in its largest dimension. It has been shown that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-20 Hari McGrath , Peichao Li , Reuben Dorent , Robert Bradford , Shakeel Saeed , Sotirios Bisdas , Sebastien Ourselin , Jonathan Shapey , Tom Vercauteren

There are many approaches to weakly-supervised training of networks to segment 2D images. By contrast, existing approaches to segmenting volumetric images rely on full-supervision of a subset of 2D slices of the 3D volume. We propose an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Udaranga Wickramasinghe , Patrick M. Jensen , Mian Shah , Jiancheng Yang , Pascal Fua

Ultrasound imaging is generally employed for real-time investigation of internal anatomy of the human body for disease identification. Delineation of the anatomical boundary of organs and pathological lesions is quite challenging due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Sumanth Nandamuri , Debarghya China , Pabitra Mitra , Debdoot Sheet

Existing volumetric medical image segmentation models are typically task-specific, excelling at specific target but struggling to generalize across anatomical structures or modalities. This limitation restricts their broader clinical use.…

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In modern medical diagnostics, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an important technique that provides detailed insights into anatomical structures. In this paper, we present a comprehensive methodology focusing on streamlining the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-25 Siddharth Jha , Zichen Gui , Benjamin Delbos , Richard Moreau , Arnaud Leleve , Irene Cheng

Morphological and diagnostic evaluation of pediatric musculoskeletal system is crucial in clinical practice. However, most segmentation models do not perform well on scarce pediatric imaging data. We propose a new pre-trained regularized…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-21 Arnaud Boutillon , Bhushan Borotikar , Valérie Burdin , Pierre-Henri Conze

We propose a novel hands-free method to interactively segment 3D medical volumes. In our scenario, a human user progressively segments an organ by answering a series of questions of the form "Is this voxel inside the object to segment?". At…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-21 Florian Dubost , Loic Peter , Christian Rupprecht , Benjamin Gutierrez-Becker , Nassir Navab

Purpose AI-based methods for anatomy segmentation can help automate characterization of large imaging datasets. The growing number of similar in functionality models raises the challenge of evaluating them on datasets that do not contain…

Abdominal organ segmentation from CT and MRI is an essential prerequisite for surgical planning and computer-aided navigation systems. It is challenging due to the high variability in the shape, size, and position of abdominal organs.…

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This paper presents a new technique for the virtual reality (VR) visu-alization of complex volume images obtained from computer tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) by combining three-dimensional (3D) mesh processing and…

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