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Purpose: Segmentation of the breast region in dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) is essential for the automatic measurement of breast density and the quantitative analysis of imaging findings. This study aims to…

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Automated segmentation proves to be a valuable tool in precisely detecting tumors within medical images. The accurate identification and segmentation of tumor types hold paramount importance in diagnosing, monitoring, and treating highly…

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Cancer is an abnormal growth with potential to invade locally and metastasize to distant organs. Accurate auto-segmentation of the tumor and surrounding normal tissues is required for radiotherapy treatment plan optimization. Recent…

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Automating classification and segmentation process of abnormal regions in different body organs has a crucial role in most of medical imaging applications such as funduscopy, endoscopy, and dermoscopy. Detecting multiple abnormalities in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Mohsen Hajabdollahi , Reza Esfandiarpoor , Elyas Sabeti , Nader Karimi , Kayvan Najarian , S. M. Reza Soroushmehr , Shadrokh Samavi

Ultrasound imaging is a prevalent diagnostic tool known for its simplicity and non-invasiveness. However, its inherent characteristics often introduce substantial noise, posing considerable challenges for automated lesion or organ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Ling Zhou , Runtian Yuan , Yi Liu , Yuejie Zhang , Rui Feng , Shang Gao

Background. Breast cancer screening programs using mammography have led to significant mortality reduction in high-income countries. However, many low- and middle-income countries lack resources for mammographic screening. Handheld breast…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-13 Arianna Bunnell , Dustin Valdez , Fredrik Strand , Yannik Glaser , Peter Sadowski , John A. Shepherd

Understanding the morphological structure of medical images and precisely segmenting the region of interest or abnormality is an important task that can assist in diagnosis. However, the unique properties of medical imaging make clear…

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Accurate segmentation of nodules in both 2D breast ultrasound (BUS) and 3D automated breast ultrasound (ABUS) is crucial for clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. Therefore, developing an automated system for nodule segmentation can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yuhao Huang , Ao Chang , Haoran Dou , Xing Tao , Xinrui Zhou , Yan Cao , Ruobing Huang , Alejandro F Frangi , Lingyun Bao , Xin Yang , Dong Ni

Models based on U-like structures have improved the performance of medical image segmentation. However, the single-layer decoder structure of U-Net is too "thin" to exploit enough information, resulting in large semantic differences between…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-08 Haoyuan Chen , Yufei Han , Pin Xu , Yanyi Li , Kuan Li , Jianping Yin

Accurate medical image segmentation commonly requires effective learning of the complementary information from multimodal data. However, in clinical practice, we often encounter the problem of missing imaging modalities. We tackle this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Cheng Chen , Qi Dou , Yueming Jin , Hao Chen , Jing Qin , Pheng-Ann Heng

In brain tumor diagnosis and surgical planning, segmentation of tumor regions and accurate analysis of surrounding normal tissues are necessary for physicians. Pathological variability often renders difficulty to register a well-labeled…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-13 Zhongqiang Liu

It is a challenge to segment the location and size of rectal cancer tumours through deep learning. In this paper, in order to improve the ability of extracting suffi-cient feature information in rectal tumour segmentation, attention…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-28 Hongwei Wu , Junlin Wang , Xin Wang , Hui Nan , Yaxin Wang , Haonan Jing , Kaixuan Shi

Reliable classification of benign and malignant lesions in breast ultrasound images can provide an effective and relatively low cost method for early diagnosis of breast cancer. The accuracy of the diagnosis is however highly dependent on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-24 Elham Yousef Kalaf , Ata Jodeiri , Seyed Kamaledin Setarehdan , Ng Wei Lin , Kartini Binti Rahman , Nur Aishah Taib , Sarinder Kaur Dhillon

In recent years, significant progress has been made in developing more accurate and efficient machine learning algorithms for segmentation of medical and natural images. In this review article, we highlight the imperative role of machine…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-07 Hyunseok Seo , Masoud Badiei Khuzani , Varun Vasudevan , Charles Huang , Hongyi Ren , Ruoxiu Xiao , Xiao Jia , Lei Xing

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been recently employed to solve problems from both the computer vision and medical image analysis fields. Despite their popularity, most approaches are only able to process 2D images while most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-16 Fausto Milletari , Nassir Navab , Seyed-Ahmad Ahmadi

Accurate classification of breast ultrasound images into benign, malignant, and normal categories is a critical clinical task complicated by speckle noise, acoustic shadowing, and inter-class visual ambiguity. Existing deep learning methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Chinedu Emmanuel Mbonu , Blessing Nwamaka Iduh , Joseph Ikechukwu Odo , Doris Chinedu Asogwa

Purpose Automated segmentation of anatomical structures in medical image analysis is a prerequisite for autonomous diagnosis as well as various computer and robot aided interventions. Recent methods based on deep convolutional neural…

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The morphology of glands has been used routinely by pathologists to assess the malignancy degree of adenocarcinomas. Accurate segmentation of glands from histology images is a crucial step to obtain reliable morphological statistics for…

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We propose a Transformer architecture for volumetric segmentation, a challenging task that requires keeping a complex balance in encoding local and global spatial cues, and preserving information along all axes of the volume. Encoder of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-04 Himashi Peiris , Munawar Hayat , Zhaolin Chen , Gary Egan , Mehrtash Harandi

Anatomical consistency in biomarker segmentation is crucial for many medical image analysis tasks. A promising paradigm for achieving anatomically consistent segmentation via deep networks is incorporating pixel connectivity, a basic…

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