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Standard deep learning models for image segmentation cannot guarantee topology accuracy, failing to preserve the correct number of connected components or structures. This, in turn, affects the quality of the segmentations and compromises…

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Blood vessel segmentation is one of the most studied topics in computer vision, due to its relevance in daily clinical practice. Despite the evolution the field has been facing, especially after the dawn of deep learning, important…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-02 R. J. Araújo , J. S. Cardoso , H. P. Oliveira

We introduce a method for training neural networks to perform image or volume segmentation in which prior knowledge about the topology of the segmented object can be explicitly provided and then incorporated into the training process. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-21 James R. Clough , Nicholas Byrne , Ilkay Oksuz , Veronika A. Zimmer , Julia A. Schnabel , Andrew P. King

Understanding how segmentation performance scales with training data is fundamental for developing data-efficient medical AI systems. In this study, we systematically revisit data scaling behavior across 15 anatomical segmentation tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yuetan Chu , Zhongyi Han , Gongning Luo , Xin Gao

Capturing the global topology of an image is essential for proposing an accurate segmentation of its domain. However, most of existing segmentation methods do not preserve the initial topology of the given input, which is detrimental for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Minh On Vu Ngoc , Yizi Chen , Nicolas Boutry , Jonathan Fabrizio , Clement Mallet

Accurate segmentation of tubular and curvilinear structures, such as blood vessels, neurons, and road networks, is crucial in various applications. A key challenge is ensuring topological correctness while maintaining computational…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-21 Siyi Wu , Leyi Zhao , Haotian Ma , Xinyuan Song

In natural images, object skeletons are used to represent geometric shapes. However, even slight variations in pose or movement can cause noticeable changes in skeleton structure, increasing the difficulty of detecting the skeleton and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Daoyong Fu , Xiang Zhang , Zhaohuan Zhan , Fan Yang , Ke Yang

Semantic segmentation is a core task in computer vision with applications in biomedical imaging, remote sensing, and autonomous driving. While standard loss functions such as cross-entropy and Dice loss perform well in general cases, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Renhao Lu

Skeletonization extracts thin representations from images that compactly encode their geometry and topology. These representations have become an important topological prior for preserving connectivity in curvilinear structures, aiding…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Luis D. Reyes Vargas , Martin J. Menten , Johannes C. Paetzold , Nassir Navab , Mohammad Farid Azampour

Image segmentation is an important and widely performed task in computer vision. Accomplishing effective image segmentation in diverse settings often requires custom model architectures and loss functions. A set of models that specialize in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Devansh Arora , Nitin Kumar , Sukrit Gupta

Segmenting curvilinear structures in medical images is essential for analyzing morphological patterns in clinical applications. Integrating topological properties, such as connectivity, improves segmentation accuracy and consistency.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Zhuangzhi Gao , Feixiang Zhou , He Zhao , Xiuju Chen , Xiaoxin Li , Qinkai Yu , Yitian Zhao , Alena Shantsila , Gregory Y. H. Lip , Eduard Shantsila , Yalin Zheng

In response to the growing importance of geospatial data, its analysis including semantic segmentation becomes an increasingly popular task in computer vision today. Convolutional neural networks are powerful visual models that yield…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Alexey Bokhovkin , Evgeny Burnaev

Accurate segmentation of tubular topological structures (e.g., fissures and vasculature) is critical in various fields to guarantee dependable downstream quantitative analysis and modeling. However, in dense prediction tasks such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yiqi Chen , Ganghai Huang , Sheng Zhang , Jianglin Dai

Quantifying the accuracy of segmentation and manual delineation of organs, tissue types and tumors in medical images is a necessary measurement that suffers from multiple problems. One major shortcoming of all accuracy measures is that they…

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Reconstructing 3D objects from 2D images is both challenging for our brains and machine learning algorithms. To support this spatial reasoning task, contextual information about the overall shape of an object is critical. However, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Dominik J. E. Waibel , Scott Atwell , Matthias Meier , Carsten Marr , Bastian Rieck

In image segmentation, preserving the topology of segmented structures like vessels, membranes, or roads is crucial. For instance, topological errors on road networks can significantly impact navigation. Recently proposed solutions are loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Benedict Schacht , Imke Greving , Simone Frintrop , Berit Zeller-Plumhoff , Christian Wilms

Automatic segmentation of neuronal topology is critical for handling large scale neuroimaging data, as it can greatly accelerate neuron annotation and analysis. However, the intricate morphology of neuronal branches and the occlusions among…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-01 Huayu Fu , Jiamin Li , Haozhi Qu , Xiaolin Hu , Zengcai Guo

Existing semantic segmentation approaches either aim to improve the object's inner consistency by modeling the global context, or refine objects detail along their boundaries by multi-scale feature fusion. In this paper, a new paradigm for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Xiangtai Li , Xia Li , Li Zhang , Guangliang Cheng , Jianping Shi , Zhouchen Lin , Shaohua Tan , Yunhai Tong

Image segmentation is a critical step in computational biomedical image analysis, typically evaluated using metrics like the Dice coefficient during training and validation. However, in clinical settings without manual annotations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Sikha O K , Meritxell Riera-Marín , Adrian Galdran , Javier García Lopez , Julia Rodríguez-Comas , Gemma Piella , Miguel A. González Ballester

Object segmentation plays an important role in the modern medical image analysis, which benefits clinical study, disease diagnosis, and surgery planning. Given the various modalities of medical images, the automated or semi-automated…

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