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Morphological methods play a crucial role in remote sensing image processing, due to their ability to capture and preserve small structural details. However, most of the existing deep learning models for semantic segmentation are based on…

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Image segmentation techniques are predominately based on parameter-laden optimization. The objective function typically involves weights for balancing competing image fidelity and segmentation regularization cost terms. Setting these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2009-06-24 Josna Rao , Ghassan Hamarneh , Rafeef Abugharbieh

Image segmentation is critically important in almost all medical image analysis for automatic interpretations and processing. However, it is often challenging to perform image segmentation due to data imbalance between intra- and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Zhhengyong Huang , Yao Sui

Segmenting both bone surface and the corresponding acoustic shadow are fundamental tasks in ultrasound (US) guided orthopedic procedures. However, these tasks are challenging due to minimal and blurred bone surface response in US images,…

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We propose a software platform that integrates methods and tools for multi-objective parameter auto- tuning in tissue image segmentation workflows. The goal of our work is to provide an approach for improving the accuracy of nucleus/cell…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Luis F. R. Taveira , Tahsin Kurc , Alba C. M. A. Melo , Jun Kong , Erich Bremer , Joel H. Saltz , George Teodoro

Image segmentation plays a central role in computer vision. However, widely used evaluation metrics, whether pixel-wise, region-based, or boundary-focused, often struggle to capture the structural and topological coherence of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Serena Grazia De Benedictis , Amedeo Altavilla , Nicoletta Del Buono

This paper focuses on the challenging task of learning 3D object surface reconstructions from single RGB images. Existing methods achieve varying degrees of success by using different geometric representations. However, they all have their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Jiapeng Tang , Xiaoguang Han , Junyi Pan , Kui Jia , Xin Tong

Existing research highlights the crucial role of topological priors in image segmentation, particularly in preserving essential structures such as connectivity and genus. Accurately capturing these topological features often requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Wenxiao Li , Xue-Cheng Tai , Jun Liu

Spine segmentation, based on ultrasound volume projection imaging (VPI), plays a vital role for intelligent scoliosis diagnosis in clinical applications. However, this task faces several significant challenges. Firstly, the global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Hao Xie , Zixun Huang , Yushen Zuo , Yakun Ju , Frank H. F. Leung , N. F. Law , Kin-Man Lam , Yong-Ping Zheng , Sai Ho Ling

Semantic segmentation stands as a pivotal research focus in computer vision. In the context of industrial image inspection, conventional semantic segmentation models fail to maintain the segmentation consistency of fixed components across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Guoxuan Mao , Ting Cao , Ziyang Li , Yuan Dong

Recently, there has been a panoptic segmentation task combining semantic and instance segmentation, in which the goal is to classify each pixel with the corresponding instance ID. In this work, we propose a solution to tackle the panoptic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Shuo-En Chang , Yi-Cheng Yang , En-Ting Lin , Pei-Yung Hsiao , Li-Chen Fu

We present an approach to inform the reconstruction of a surface from a point scan through topological priors. The reconstruction is based on basis functions which are optimized to provide a good fit to the point scan while satisfying…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Rickard Brüel-Gabrielsson , Vignesh Ganapathi-Subramanian , Primoz Skraba , Leonidas J. Guibas

Promoting the connectivity of curvilinear structures, such as neuronal processes in biomedical scans and blood vessels in CT images, remains a key challenge in semantic segmentation. Traditional pixel-wise loss functions, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Elyar Esmaeilzadeh , Ehsan Garaaghaji , Farzad Hallaji Azad , Doruk Oner

We present a novel method to explicitly incorporate topological prior knowledge into deep learning based segmentation, which is, to our knowledge, the first work to do so. Our method uses the concept of persistent homology, a tool from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-30 James R. Clough , Ilkay Oksuz , Nicholas Byrne , Julia A. Schnabel , Andrew P. King

Accurate medical image segmentation is of utmost importance for enabling automated clinical decision procedures. However, prevailing supervised deep learning approaches for medical image segmentation encounter significant challenges due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Sanaz Karimijafarbigloo , Reza Azad , Amirhossein Kazerouni , Yury Velichko , Ulas Bagci , Dorit Merhof

Radiologists use various imaging modalities to aid in different tasks like diagnosis of disease, lesion visualization, surgical planning and prognostic evaluation. Most of these tasks rely on the the accurate delineation of the anatomical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-22 Ronnie Rajan , Rachana Sathish , Debdoot Sheet

In clinical practice, regions of interest in medical imaging often need to be identified through a process of precise image segmentation. The quality of this image segmentation step critically affects the subsequent clinical assessment of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-23 João B. S. Carvalho , João A. Santinha , Đorđe Miladinović , Joachim M. Buhmann

This paper proposes a novel active boundary loss for semantic segmentation. It can progressively encourage the alignment between predicted boundaries and ground-truth boundaries during end-to-end training, which is not explicitly enforced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Chi Wang , Yunke Zhang , Miaomiao Cui , Peiran Ren , Yin Yang , Xuansong Xie , XianSheng Hua , Hujun Bao , Weiwei Xu

The fetal cortical plate (CP) undergoes drastic morphological changes during the in utero development. Therefore, CP growth and folding patterns are key indicator in the assessment of the brain development and maturation. Magnetic resonance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-17 Priscille de Dumast , Hamza Kebiri , Vincent Dunet , Mériam Koob , Meritxell Bach Cuadra