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The construction of large-scale, high-quality datasets is a fundamental prerequisite for developing robust and generalizable foundation models in motor imagery (MI)-based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). However, EEG signals collected from…

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The hippocampus is a seminal structure in the most common surgically-treated form of epilepsy. Accurate segmentation of the hippocampus aids in establishing asymmetry regarding size and signal characteristics in order to disclose the likely…

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Medical image segmentation being a substantial component of image processing plays a significant role to analyze gross anatomy, to locate an infirmity and to plan the surgical procedures. Segmentation of brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging…

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High-quality labeled data is essential to successfully train supervised machine learning models. Although a large amount of unlabeled data is present in the medical domain, labeling poses a major challenge: medical professionals who can…

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Topological features play an essential role in ensuring geometric plausibility and structural consistency in image analysis tasks such as segmentation and skeletonization. However, integrating topology-preserving learning based on simple…

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The performance of image segmentation models has historically been constrained by the high cost of collecting large-scale annotated data. The Segment Anything Model (SAM) alleviates this original problem through a promptable,…

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We propose the Topology-Preserving Segmentation Network, a deformation-based model that can extract objects in an image while maintaining their topological properties. This network generates segmentation masks that have the same topology as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Han Zhang , Lok Ming Lui

Reconstructing the intricate local morphology of neurons and their long-range projecting axons can address many connectivity related questions in neuroscience. The main bottleneck in connectomics pipelines is correcting topological errors,…

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Segmentation of cerebral blood vessels from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is an open problem that could be solved with deep learning (DL). However, annotated data for training is often scarce. Due to the absence of open-source tools, we…

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We present a novel topological framework for analyzing functional brain signals using time-frequency analysis. By integrating persistent homology with time-frequency representations, we capture multi-scale topological features that…

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Although existing medical image segmentation methods provide impressive pixel-wise accuracy, they often neglect topological correctness, making their segmentations unusable for many downstream tasks. One option is to retrain such models…

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This study introduces SEFI (SEgmentation-Free Integration), a novel method for integrating morphological features of cell nuclei with spatial transcriptomics data. Cell segmentation poses a significant challenge in the analysis of spatial…

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Spinal cord tumors lead to neurological morbidity and mortality. Being able to obtain morphometric quantification (size, location, growth rate) of the tumor, edema, and cavity can result in improved monitoring and treatment planning. Such…

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Multimodal MRI provides critical complementary information for accurate brain tumor segmentation. However, conventional methods struggle when certain modalities are missing due to issues such as image quality, protocol inconsistencies,…

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We present an investigation of the applicability of topological data analysis (TDA) to the study of high-resolution confocal microscopy images of fibrin network structures from patients with oesophageal cancer undergoing intended curative…

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Most existing approaches to train a unified multi-organ segmentation model from several single-organ datasets require simultaneously access multiple datasets during training. In the real scenarios, due to privacy and ethics concerns, the…

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One of the most important tasks in medical image processing is the brain's whole tumor segmentation. It assists in quicker clinical assessment and early detection of brain tumors, which is crucial for lifesaving treatment procedures of…

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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…

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