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The retinal vasculature provides important clues in the diagnosis and monitoring of systemic diseases including hypertension and diabetes. The microvascular system is of primary involvement in such conditions, and the retina is the only…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Ali Hatamizadeh , Hamid Hosseini , Niraj Patel , Jinseo Choi , Cameron C. Pole , Cory M. Hoeferlin , Steven D. Schwartz , Demetri Terzopoulos

Domain-generalized retinal vessel segmentation is critical for automated ophthalmic diagnosis, yet faces significant challenges from domain shift induced by non-uniform illumination and varying contrast, compounded by the difficulty of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Chanchan Wang , Yuanfang Wang , Qing Xu , Guanxin Chen

Current methods for medical image segmentation primarily focus on extracting contextual feature information from the perspective of the whole image. While these methods have shown effective performance, none of them take into account the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Jianjian Yin , Yi Chen , Chengyu Li , Zhichao Zheng , Yanhui Gu , Junsheng Zhou

Retinal artery/vein (A/V) classification plays a critical role in the clinical biomarker study of how various systemic and cardiovascular diseases affect the retinal vessels. Conventional methods of automated A/V classification are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Wenao Ma , Shuang Yu , Kai Ma , Jiexiang Wang , Xinghao Ding , Yefeng Zheng

Melanoma is caused by the abnormal growth of melanocytes in human skin. Like other cancers, this life-threatening skin cancer can be treated with early diagnosis. To support a diagnosis by automatic skin lesion segmentation, several Fully…

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Retinal lesions play a vital role in the accurate classification of retinal abnormalities. Many researchers have proposed deep lesion-aware screening systems that analyze and grade the progression of retinopathy. However, to the best of our…

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Renal tumors, especially renal cell carcinoma (RCC), show significant heterogeneity, posing challenges for diagnosis using radiology images such as MRI, echocardiograms, and CT scans. U-Net based deep learning techniques are emerging as a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Fnu Neha , Arvind K. Bansal

Ophthalmic images may contain identical-looking pathologies that can cause failure in automated techniques to distinguish different retinal degenerative diseases. Additionally, reliance on large annotated datasets and lack of knowledge…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-02 Sharif Amit Kamran , Khondker Fariha Hossain , Alireza Tavakkoli , Stewart Lee Zuckerbrod , Salah A. Baker

Vascular structures in the retina contain important information for the detection and analysis of ocular diseases, including age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma. Commonly used modalities in diagnosis of these…

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An improved model of medical image segmentation for brain tumor is discussed, which is a deep learning algorithm based on U-Net architecture. Based on the traditional U-Net, we introduce GSConv module and ECA attention mechanism to improve…

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Medical image segmentation is a critical task in computer vision, with UNet serving as a milestone architecture. The typical component of UNet family is the skip connection, however, their skip connections face two significant limitations:…

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The morphology of retinal blood vessels can indicate various diseases in the human body, and researchers have been working on automatic scanning and segmentation of retinal images to aid diagnosis. This project compares the performance of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-20 Ifeyinwa Linda Anene , Yongmin Li

Automatic blood vessel segmentation from retinal images plays an important role in the diagnosis of many systemic and eye diseases, including retinopathy of prematurity. Current state-of-the-art research in blood vessel segmentation from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Gorana Gojić , Veljko Petrović , Radovan Turović , Dinu Dragan , Ana Oros , Dušan Gajić , Nebojša Horvat

Learning structural information is critical for producing an ideal result in retinal image segmentation. Recently, convolutional neural networks have shown a powerful ability to extract effective representations. However, convolutional and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-24 Shihao Zhang , Huazhu Fu , Yuguang Yan , Yubing Zhang , Qingyao Wu , Ming Yang , Mingkui Tan , Yanwu Xu

Medical imaging plays a crucial role in modern healthcare by providing non-invasive visualisation of internal structures and abnormalities, enabling early disease detection, accurate diagnosis, and treatment planning. This study aims to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-25 Walid Ehab , Yongmin Li

Medical ultrasound (US) is widely used to evaluate and stage vascular diseases, in particular for the preliminary screening program, due to the advantage of being radiation-free. However, automatic segmentation of small tubular structures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Zhongliang Jiang , Felix Duelmer , Nassir Navab

Identifying biomarkers in medical images is vital for a wide range of biotech applications. However, recent Transformer and CNN based methods often struggle with variations in morphology and staining, which limits their feature extraction…

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Accurate segmentation of the liver is a prerequisite for the diagnosis of disease. Automated segmentation is an important application of computer-aided detection and diagnosis of liver disease. In recent years, automated processing of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-29 Zhiqi Lee , Sumin Qi , Chongchong Fan , Ziwei Xie

Automatic segmentation of retina vessels plays a pivotal role in clinical diagnosis of prevalent eye diseases, such as, Diabetic Retinopathy or Age-related Macular Degeneration. Due to the complex construction of blood vessels, with…

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