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Accurate medical image segmentation is essential for diagnosis, surgical planning and many other applications. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have become the state-of-the-art automatic segmentation methods. However, fully automatic…

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Automatic tumor or lesion segmentation is a crucial step in medical image analysis for computer-aided diagnosis. Although the existing methods based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved the state-of-the-art performance,…

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Visual segmentation seeks to partition images, video frames, or point clouds into multiple segments or groups. This technique has numerous real-world applications, such as autonomous driving, image editing, robot sensing, and medical…

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Accurate medical image segmentation allows for the precise delineation of anatomical structures and pathological regions, which is essential for treatment planning, surgical navigation, and disease monitoring. Both CNN-based and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Libin Lan , Yanxin Li , Xiaojuan Liu , Juan Zhou , Jianxun Zhang , Nannan Huang , Yudong Zhang

Precise medical image segmentation is fundamental for enabling computer aided diagnosis and effective treatment planning. Traditional models that rely solely on visual features often struggle when confronted with ambiguous or low contrast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ashfak Yeafi , Parthaw Goswami , Md Khairul Islam , Ashifa Islam Shamme

Biomedical image segmentation is crucial for accurately diagnosing and analyzing various diseases. However, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Transformers, the most commonly used architectures for this task, struggle to effectively…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-09 Rong Zhou , Zhengqing Yuan , Zhiling Yan , Weixiang Sun , Kai Zhang , Yiwei Li , Yanfang Ye , Xiang Li , Lifang He , Lichao Sun

Automatic segmentation of multiple organs and tumors from 3D medical images such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) scans using deep learning methods can aid in diagnosing and treating cancer. However, organs…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-25 Hao Li , Yang Nan , Javier Del Ser , Guang Yang

Image segmentation plays an essential role in medicine for both diagnostic and interventional tasks. Segmentation approaches are either manual, semi-automated or fully-automated. Manual segmentation offers full control over the quality of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Tomas Sakinis , Fausto Milletari , Holger Roth , Panagiotis Korfiatis , Petro Kostandy , Kenneth Philbrick , Zeynettin Akkus , Ziyue Xu , Daguang Xu , Bradley J. Erickson

3D decomposition/segmentation still remains a challenge as large-scale 3D annotated data is not readily available. Contemporary approaches typically leverage 2D machine-generated segments, integrating them for 3D consistency. While the…

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Accurate segmentation of the heart is essential for personalized blood flow simulations and surgical intervention planning. Segmentations need to be accurate in every spatial dimension, which is not ensured by segmenting data slice by…

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In medical imaging, precise annotation of lesions or organs is often required. However, 3D volumetric images typically consist of hundreds or thousands of slices, making the annotation process extremely time-consuming and laborious.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Bingzhi Shen , Lufan Chang , Siqi Chen , Shuxiang Guo , Hao Liu

Accurate nuclei segmentation in histopathological images is crucial for cancer diagnosis. Automating this process offers valuable support to clinical experts, as manual annotation is time-consuming and prone to human errors. However,…

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Segmentation is one of the most significant steps in image processing. Segmenting an image is a technique that makes it possible to separate a digital image into various areas based on the different characteristics of pixels in the image.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-20 Sina Derakhshandeh , Ali Mahloojifar

Object segmentation and structure localization are important steps in automated image analysis pipelines for microscopy images. We present a convolution neural network (CNN) based deep learning architecture for segmentation of objects in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Shan E Ahmed Raza , Linda Cheung , Muhammad Shaban , Simon Graham , David Epstein , Stella Pelengaris , Michael Khan , Nasir M. Rajpoot

Medical image segmentation plays a pivotal role in disease diagnosis and treatment planning, particularly in resource-constrained clinical settings where lightweight and generalizable models are urgently needed. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Chengqi Dong , Fenghe Tang , Rongge Mao , Xinpei Gao , S. Kevin Zhou

U-Net has been the go-to architecture for medical image segmentation tasks, however computational challenges arise when extending the U-Net architecture to 3D images. We propose the Implicit U-Net architecture that adapts the efficient…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-01 Sergio Naval Marimont , Giacomo Tarroni

Liver cancer is one of the most common malignant diseases in the world. Segmentation and labeling of liver tumors and blood vessels in CT images can provide convenience for doctors in liver tumor diagnosis and surgical intervention. In the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-01 Xiangyu Meng , Xudong Zhang , Gan Wang , Ying Zhang , Xin Shi , Huanhuan Dai , Zixuan Wang , Xun Wang

Medical image segmentation involves identifying and separating object instances in a medical image to delineate various tissues and structures, a task complicated by the significant variations in size, shape, and density of these features.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Sina Ghorbani Kolahi , Seyed Kamal Chaharsooghi , Toktam Khatibi , Afshin Bozorgpour , Reza Azad , Moein Heidari , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Dorit Merhof

The development of efficient segmentation strategies for medical images has evolved from its initial dependence on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to the current investigation of hybrid models that combine CNNs with Vision Transformers…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-08 Pallabi Dutta , Soham Bose , Swalpa Kumar Roy , Sushmita Mitra

Segmentation is a fundamental task in medical image analysis. However, most existing methods focus on primary region extraction and ignore edge information, which is useful for obtaining accurate segmentation. In this paper, we propose a…

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