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CBCT images suffer from acute shading artifacts primarily due to scatter. Numerous image-domain correction algorithms have been proposed in the literature that use patient-specific planning CT images to estimate shading contributions in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Awais Ashfaq , Jonas Adler

Fully automatic X-ray to CT registration requires a solid initialization to provide an initial alignment within the capture range of existing intensity-based registrations. This work adresses that need by providing a novel automatic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-16 Matthias Grimm , Javier Esteban , Mathias Unberath , Nassir Navab

Accurate automatic segmentation of brain anatomy from $T_1$-weighted~($T_1$-w) magnetic resonance images~(MRI) has been a computationally intensive bottleneck in neuroimaging pipelines, with state-of-the-art results obtained by unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Amod Jog , Bruce Fischl

During the last decades, anatomy has become an interesting topic in education---even for laymen or schoolchildren. As medical imaging techniques become increasingly sophisticated, virtual anatomical education applications have emerged.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Renata G. Raidou , M. Eduard Gröller , Hsiang-Yun Wu

Vertebral body compression fractures are early signs of osteoporosis. Though these fractures are visible on Computed Tomography (CT) images, they are frequently missed by radiologists in clinical settings. Prior research on automatic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Alexey Zakharov , Maxim Pisov , Alim Bukharaev , Alexey Petraikin , Sergey Morozov , Victor Gombolevskiy , Mikhail Belyaev

Deep learning has shown great promise in the ability to automatically annotate organs in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, for example, of the brain. However, despite advancements in the field, the ability to accurately segment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Cosmin Ciausu , Deepa Krishnaswamy , Benjamin Billot , Steve Pieper , Ron Kikinis , Andrey Fedorov

The skeletal region is one of the common sites of metastatic spread of cancer in the breast and prostate. CT is routinely used to measure the size of lesions in the bones. However, they can be difficult to spot due to the wide variations in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-02 Tao Sheng , Tejas Sudharshan Mathai , Alexander Shieh , Ronald M. Summers

Visual saliency detection aims at identifying the most visually distinctive parts in an image, and serves as a pre-processing step for a variety of computer vision and image processing tasks. To this end, the saliency detection procedure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Xuanyang Xi , Yongkang Luo , Fengfu Li , Peng Wang , Hong Qiao

Late gadolinium enhancement magnetic resonance imaging (LGE MRI) appears to be a promising alternative for scar assessment in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). Automating the quantification and analysis of atrial scars can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Lei Li , Fuping Wu , Guang Yang , Lingchao Xu , Tom Wong , Raad Mohiaddin , David Firmin , Jennifer Keegan , Xiahai Zhuang

Calisthenics skill classification is the computer vision task of inferring the skill performed by an athlete from images, enabling automatic performance assessment and personalized analytics. Traditional methods for calisthenics skill…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Antonio Finocchiaro , Giovanni Maria Farinella , Antonino Furnari

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

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

Despite the tremendous success of deep neural networks in medical image segmentation, they typically require a large amount of costly, expert-level annotated data. Few-shot segmentation approaches address this issue by learning to transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Qinji Yu , Kang Dang , Nima Tajbakhsh , Demetri Terzopoulos , Xiaowei Ding

Legal age estimation plays a critical role in forensic and medico-legal contexts, where decisions must be supported by accurate, robust, and reproducible methods with explicit uncertainty quantification. While prior artificial intelligence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Javier Venema , Stefano De Luca , Pablo Mesejo , Óscar Ibáñez

In this work it is proposed a medical image segmentation pipeline for accurate bone segmentation from CT imaging. It is a two-step methodology, with a pre-segmentation step and a segmentation refinement step. First, the user performs a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Manuel Pinheiro , J. L. Alves

We present an efficient neural network method for locating anatomical landmarks in 3D medical CT scans, using atlas location autocontext in order to learn long-range spatial context. Location predictions are made by regression to Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Alison Q O'Neil , Antanas Kascenas , Joseph Henry , Daniel Wyeth , Matthew Shepherd , Erin Beveridge , Lauren Clunie , Carrie Sansom , Evelina Šeduikytė , Keith Muir , Ian Poole

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is pivotal in radiology, offering non-invasive and high-quality insights into the human body. Precise segmentation of MRIs into different organs and tissues would be highly beneficial since it would allow…

To enable a deep learning-based system to be used in the medical domain as a computer-aided diagnosis system, it is essential to not only classify diseases but also present the locations of the diseases. However, collecting instance-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Hyun-Woo Kim , Hong-Gyu Jung , Seong-Whan Lee

We consider detecting objects in an image by iteratively selecting from a set of arbitrarily shaped candidate regions. Our generic approach, which we term visual chunking, reasons about the locations of multiple object instances in an image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Nicholas Rhinehart , Jiaji Zhou , Martial Hebert , J. Andrew Bagnell

One of the greatest challenges in the medical imaging domain is to successfully transfer deep learning models into clinical practice. Since models are often trained on a specific body region, a robust transfer into the clinic necessitates…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-19 Sarah Schuhegger