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Background: Automated analysis of CT scans for abdominal organ measurement is crucial for improving diagnostic efficiency and reducing inter-observer variability. Manual segmentation and measurement of organs such as the kidneys, liver,…

Precise segmentation of organs and tumors plays a crucial role in clinical applications. It is a challenging task due to the irregular shapes and various sizes of organs and tumors as well as the significant class imbalance between the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-03 Ziqiang Li , Hong Pan , Yaping Zhu , A. K. Qin

The segmentation of ultra-high resolution images poses challenges such as loss of spatial information or computational inefficiency. In this work, a novel approach that combines encoder-decoder architectures with domain decomposition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Corné Verburg , Alexander Heinlein , Eric C. Cyr

Machine Learning has considerably improved medical image analysis in the past years. Although data-driven approaches are intrinsically adaptive and thus, generic, they often do not perform the same way on data from different imaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-02 Marie Kloenne , Sebastian Niehaus , Leonie Lampe , Alberto Merola , Janis Reinelt , Ingo Roeder , Nico Scherf

The application of 3D ViTs to medical image segmentation has seen remarkable strides, somewhat overshadowing the budding advancements in Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based models. Large kernel depthwise convolution has emerged as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Ho Hin Lee , Quan Liu , Qi Yang , Xin Yu , Shunxing Bao , Yuankai Huo , Bennett A. Landman

Multi-organ segmentation in abdominal Computed Tomography (CT) images is of great importance for diagnosis of abdominal lesions and subsequent treatment planning. Though deep learning based methods have attained high performance, they rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Meng Han , Xiangde Luo , Wenjun Liao , Shichuan Zhang , Shaoting Zhang , Guotai Wang

Organ at risk (OAR) segmentation is a crucial step for treatment planning and outcome determination in radiotherapy treatments of cancer patients. Several deep learning based segmentation algorithms have been developed in recent years,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-07 Ilkin Isler , Curtis Lisle , Justin Rineer , Patrick Kelly , Damla Turgut , Jacob Ricci , Ulas Bagci

Various deep learning methods have been proposed to segment breast lesion from ultrasound images. However, similar intensity distributions, variable tumor morphology and blurred boundaries present challenges for breast lesions segmentation,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-23 Gongping Chen , Yu Dai , Jianxun Zhang , Moi Hoon Yap

Segmentation of livers and liver tumors is one of the most important steps in radiation therapy of hepatocellular carcinoma. The segmentation task is often done manually, making it tedious, labor intensive, and subject to intra-/inter-…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-04 Hyunseok Seo , Charles Huang , Maxime Bassenne , Ruoxiu Xiao , Lei Xing

Purpose: An approach for the automated segmentation of visceral adipose tissue (VAT) and subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) in multicenter water-fat MRI scans of the abdomen was investigated, using two different neural network architectures.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Taro Langner , Anders Hedström , Katharina Mörwald , Daniel Weghuber , Anders Forslund , Peter Bergsten , Håkan Ahlström , Joel Kullberg

Multi-organ segmentation in medical imaging remains challenging due to large anatomical variability, complex inter-organ dependencies, and diverse organ scales and shapes. Conventional encoder-decoder architectures often struggle to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Zhuoyi Fang

Accurate abdominal multi-organ segmentation is critical for clinical applications. Although numerous deep learning-based automatic segmentation methods have been developed, they still struggle to segment small, irregular, or anatomically…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-22 Fang Lu , Jingyu Xu , Qinxiu Sun , Qiong Lou

Segmentation of the sigmoid colon is a crucial aspect of treating diverticulitis. It enables accurate identification and localisation of inflammation, which in turn helps healthcare professionals make informed decisions about the most…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Md Akizur Rahman , Sonit Singh , Kuruparan Shanmugalingam , Sankaran Iyer , Alan Blair , Praveen Ravindran , Arcot Sowmya

Most methods for medical image segmentation use U-Net or its variants as they have been successful in most of the applications. After a detailed analysis of these "traditional" encoder-decoder based approaches, we observed that they perform…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-18 Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu , Vishwanath A. Sindagi , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Vishal M. Patel

Biomedical image segmentation plays a central role in quantitative analysis, clinical diagnosis, and medical intervention. In the light of the fully convolutional networks (FCN) and U-Net, deep convolutional networks (DNNs) have made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Jiawei Zhang , Yuzhen Jin , Jilan Xu , Xiaowei Xu , Yanchun Zhang

Medical image segmentation plays a vital role in various clinical applications, enabling accurate delineation and analysis of anatomical structures or pathological regions. Traditional CNNs have achieved remarkable success in this field.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-18 Seyed M. R. Modaresi , Aomar Osmani , Mohammadreza Razzazi , Abdelghani Chibani

U-net is an image segmentation technique developed primarily for medical image analysis that can precisely segment images using a scarce amount of training data. These traits provide U-net with a very high utility within the medical imaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-10 Nahian Siddique , Paheding Sidike , Colin Elkin , Vijay Devabhaktuni

Automatic segmentation of organs-at-risk (OAR) in computed tomography (CT) is an essential part of planning effective treatment strategies to combat lung and esophageal cancer. Accurate segmentation of organs surrounding tumours helps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Sulaiman Vesal , Nishant Ravikumar , Andreas Maier

Automatic segmentation of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) facilitates efficient and accurate volume measurement in clinical applications. However, due to anisotropic resolution and ambiguous border (e.g., right ventricular…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-14 Shunjie Dong , Jinlong Zhao , Maojun Zhang , Zhengxue Shi , Jianing Deng , Yiyu Shi , Mei Tian , Cheng Zhuo

A two-step concept for 3D segmentation on 5 abdominal organs inside volumetric CT images is presented. First each relevant organ's volume of interest is extracted as bounding box. The extracted volume acts as input for a second stage,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-12 Nico Zettler , Andre Mastmeyer