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Imaging assays of cellular function, especially those using fluorescent stains, are ubiquitous in the biological and medical sciences. Despite advances in computer vision, such images are often analyzed using only manual or rudimentary…

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Multi-organ segmentation of 3D medical images is fundamental with meaningful applications in various clinical automation pipelines. Although deep learning has achieved superior performance, the time and memory consumption of segmenting the…

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Volume electron microscopy is the method of choice for the in-situ interrogation of cellular ultrastructure at the nanometer scale. Recent technical advances have led to a rapid increase in large raw image datasets that require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Andreas Müller , Deborah Schmidt , Lucas Rieckert , Michele Solimena , Martin Weigert

High-throughput screening using automated microscopes is a key driver in biopharma drug discovery, enabling the parallel evaluation of thousands of drug candidates for diseases such as cancer. Traditional image analysis and deep learning…

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Results: We present an application that enables the quantitative analysis of multichannel 5-D (x, y, z, t, channel) and large montage confocal fluorescence microscopy images. The image sequences show stem cells together with blood vessels,…

Deep learning has revolutionized medical and biological imaging, particularly in segmentation tasks. However, segmenting biological cells remains challenging due to the high variability and complexity of cell shapes. Addressing this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Tianhao Zhang , Heather J. McCourty , Berardo M. Sanchez-Tafolla , Anton Nikolaev , Lyudmila S. Mihaylova

Fluorescence microscopy has become a widely used tool for studying various biological structures of in vivo tissue or cells. However, quantitative analysis of these biological structures remains a challenge due to their complexity which is…

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Automatic lesion detection and segmentation from [${}^{18}$F]FDG PET/CT scans is a challenging task, due to the diversity of shapes, sizes, FDG uptake and location they may present, besides the fact that physiological uptake is also present…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Yamila Rotstein Habarnau , Mauro Namías

Surgical planning and training based on machine learning requires a large amount of 3D anatomical models reconstructed from medical imaging, which is currently one of the major bottlenecks. Obtaining these data from real patients and during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Ann-Sophia Müller , Moonkwang Jeong , Meng Zhang , Jiyuan Tian , Arkadiusz Miernik , Stefanie Speidel , Tian Qiu

We share our recent findings in an attempt to train a universal segmentation network for various cell types and imaging modalities. Our method was built on the generalized U-Net architecture, which allows the evaluation of each component…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Tianqi Guo , Yin Wang , Luis Solorio , Jan P. Allebach

Constructing of molecular structural models from Cryo-Electron Microscopy (Cryo-EM) density volumes is the critical last step of structure determination by Cryo-EM technologies. Methods have evolved from manual construction by structural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Kui Xu , Zhe Wang , Jiangping Shi , Hongsheng Li , Qiangfeng Cliff Zhang

This paper presents a fully automatic and end-to-end optimised airway segmentation method for thoracic computed tomography, based on the U-Net architecture. We use a simple and low-memory 3D U-Net as backbone, which allows the method to…

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Purpose: To develop a deep network architecture that would achieve fully automated radiologist-level segmentation of cancers at breast MRI. Materials and Methods: In this retrospective study, 38229 examinations (composed of 64063 individual…

In medical imaging analysis, deep learning has shown promising results. We frequently rely on volumetric data to segment medical images, necessitating the use of 3D architectures, which are commended for their capacity to capture interslice…

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We present an approach for fully automatic urinary bladder segmentation in CT images with artificial neural networks in this study. Automatic medical image analysis has become an invaluable tool in the different treatment stages of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Christina Gsaxner , Peter M. Roth , Jürgen Wallner , Jan Egger

Cell counting is a ubiquitous, yet tedious task that would greatly benefit from automation. From basic biological questions to clinical trials, cell counts provide key quantitative feedback that drive research. Unfortunately, cell counting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Carlos X. Hernández , Mohammad M. Sultan , Vijay S. Pande

3D cell segmentation methods are often hindered by \emph{oversegmentation}, where a single cell is incorrectly split into multiple fragments. This degrades the final segmentation quality and is notoriously difficult to resolve, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Peter Chen , Bryan Chang , Olivia A Creasey , Julie Beth Sneddon , Zev J Gartner , Yining Liu

Cell segmentation and tracking in microscopy images are of great significance to new discoveries in biology and medicine. In this study, we propose a novel approach to combine cell segmentation and cell tracking into a unified end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Yuqian Chen , Yang Song , Chaoyi Zhang , Fan Zhang , Lauren O'Donnell , Wojciech Chrzanowski , Weidong Cai

For 3D medical image (e.g. CT and MRI) segmentation, the difficulty of segmenting each slice in a clinical case varies greatly. Previous research on volumetric medical image segmentation in a slice-by-slice manner conventionally use the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Wenxuan Wang , Chen Chen , Jing Wang , Sen Zha , Yan Zhang , Jiangyun Li

Automatic 3D neuron reconstruction is critical for analysing the morphology and functionality of neurons in brain circuit activities. However, the performance of existing tracing algorithms is hinged by the low image quality. Recently, a…

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