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Medical image segmentation, which aims to automatically extract anatomical or pathological structures, plays a key role in computer-aided diagnosis and disease analysis. Despite the problem has been widely studied, existing methods are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-01 Han Zhang , Lok Ming Lui

Segmentation of brain structures in a large dataset of magnetic resonance images (MRI) necessitates automatic segmentation instead of manual tracing. Automatic segmentation methods provide a much-needed alternative to manual segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Mohammad-Parsa Hosseini , Esmaeil Davoodi , Evangelia Bouzos , Kost Elisevich , Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh

Automated volumetric segmentation of the pancreas on cross-sectional imaging is needed for diagnosis and follow-up of pancreatic diseases. While CT-based pancreatic segmentation is more established, MRI-based segmentation methods are…

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance for automatic medical image segmentation. However, they have not demonstrated sufficiently accurate and robust results for clinical use. In addition, they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Guotai Wang , Wenqi Li , Maria A. Zuluaga , Rosalind Pratt , Premal A. Patel , Michael Aertsen , Tom Doel , Anna L. David , Jan Deprest , Sebastien Ourselin , Tom Vercauteren

The tracing of neural pathways through large volumes of image data is an incredibly tedious and time-consuming process that significantly encumbers progress in neuroscience. We are exploring deep learning's potential to automate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Ishtar Nyawira , Kristi Bushman , Iris Qian , Annie Zhang

Electron microscopic connectomics is an ambitious research direction with the goal of studying comprehensive brain connectivity maps by using high-throughput, nano-scale microscopy. One of the main challenges in connectomics research is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Tran Minh Quan , David G. C. Hildebrand , Won-Ki Jeong

Purpose: Mechanical thrombectomy (MT) improves stroke outcomes, but is limited by a lack of local treatment access. Widespread distribution of reinforcement learning (RL)-based robotic systems can be used to alleviate this challenge through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Harry Robertshaw , Yanghe Hao , Weiyuan Deng , Benjamin Jackson , S. M. Hadi Sadati , Nikola Fischer , Tom Vercauteren , Alejandro Granados , Thomas C. Booth

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

Advances in image registration and machine learning have recently enabled volumetric analysis of postmortem brain tissue from conventional photographs of coronal slabs, which are routinely collected in brain banks and neuropathology…

Deep learning techniques for 3D brain vessel image segmentation have not been as successful as in the segmentation of other organs and tissues. This can be explained by two factors. First, deep learning techniques tend to show poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Vien Ngoc Dang , Francesco Galati , Rosa Cortese , Giuseppe Di Giacomo , Viola Marconetto , Prateek Mathur , Karim Lekadir , Marco Lorenzi , Ferran Prados , Maria A. Zuluaga

In recent years, analyzing task-based fMRI (tfMRI) data has become an essential tool for understanding brain function and networks. However, due to the sheer size of tfMRI data, its intrinsic complex structure, and lack of ground truth of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Milad Makkie , Heng Huang , Yu Zhao , Athanasios V. Vasilakos , Tianming Liu

Maps of brain microarchitecture are important for understanding neurological function and behavior, including alterations caused by chronic conditions such as neurodegenerative disease. Techniques such as knife-edge scanning microscopy…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-06 Leila Saadatifard , Aryan Mobiny , Pavel Govyadinov , Hien Nguyen , David Mayerich

Accurate and efficient brain tumor segmentation remains a critical challenge in neuroimaging due to the heterogeneous nature of tumor subregions and the high computational cost of volumetric inference. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Fatemeh Ziaeetabar

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) is a crucial non-invasive technique for exploring the microstructure of the living human brain. Traditional hand-crafted and model-based tissue microstructure reconstruction methods often require…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-26 Xinrui Ma , Jian Cheng , Wenxin Fan , Ruoyou Wu , Yongquan Ye , Shanshan Wang

This paper introduces a novel multimodal and high-resolution human brain cerebellum lobule segmentation method. Unlike current tools that operate at standard resolution ($1 \text{ mm}^{3}$) or using mono-modal data, the proposed method…

In radiotherapy planning, manual contouring is labor-intensive and time-consuming. Accurate and robust automated segmentation models improve the efficiency and treatment outcome. We aim to develop a novel hybrid deep learning approach,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Zhuangzhuang Zhang , Tianyu Zhao , Hiram Gay , Weixiong Zhang , Baozhou Sun

Deep learning has made significant strides in automated brain tumor segmentation from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans in recent years. However, the reliability of these tools is hampered by the presence of poor-quality segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Peijie Qiu , Satrajit Chakrabarty , Phuc Nguyen , Soumyendu Sekhar Ghosh , Aristeidis Sotiras

In recent years, transformer-based methods have achieved remarkable progress in medical image segmentation due to their superior ability to capture long-range dependencies. However, these methods typically suffer from two major limitations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Zunhui Xia , Hongxing Li , Libin Lan

Tabular data poses unique challenges for deep learning due to its heterogeneous feature types, lack of spatial structure, and often limited sample sizes. We propose TabNSA, a novel deep learning framework that integrates Native Sparse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Ali Eslamian , Qiang Cheng

Brain tumor segmentation is one of the most challenging problems in medical image analysis. The goal of brain tumor segmentation is to generate accurate delineation of brain tumor regions. In recent years, deep learning methods have shown…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-18 Zhihua Liu , Lei Tong , Zheheng Jiang , Long Chen , Feixiang Zhou , Qianni Zhang , Xiangrong Zhang , Yaochu Jin , Huiyu Zhou