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Medical image segmentation has advanced rapidly over the past two decades, largely driven by deep learning, which has enabled accurate and efficient delineation of cells, tissues, organs, and pathologies across diverse imaging modalities.…

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The successful adaptation of foundation models to multi-modal medical imaging is a critical yet unresolved challenge. Existing models often struggle to effectively fuse information from multiple sources and adapt to the heterogeneous nature…

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Automatic brain tumor segmentation from multi-modality Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) using deep learning methods plays an important role in assisting the diagnosis and treatment of brain tumor. However, previous methods mostly ignore the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-01 Yixin Wang , Yao Zhang , Feng Hou , Yang Liu , Jiang Tian , Cheng Zhong , Yang Zhang , Zhiqiang He

This study addresses critical gaps in automated lymphoma segmentation from PET/CT images, focusing on issues often overlooked in existing literature. While deep learning has been applied for lymphoma lesion segmentation, few studies…

Accurate brain lesion segmentation in MRI is vital for effective clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. Due to high annotation costs and strict data privacy regulations, universal models require employing Continual Learning (CL) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Qianqian Chen , Anglin Liu , Jingyang Zhang , Yudong Zhang

Automatic segmentation of diverse heterogeneous brain lesions using multi-modal MRI is a challenging problem in clinical neuroimaging, mainly because of the lack of generalizability and high prediction variance of pathology-specific deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Md. Mehedi Hassan , Shafqat Alam , Shahriar Ahmed Seam , Maruf Ahmed

Brain tumor segmentation is often based on multiple magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). However, in clinical practice, certain modalities of MRI may be missing, which presents a more difficult scenario. To cope with this challenge, Knowledge…

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Foundation models for medical image segmentation have achieved remarkable performance. Adaptive fine-tuning of natural image segmentation foundation models is crucial for medical image segmentation tasks. However, some limitations exist in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Xinwei Zhang , Hu Chen , Zhe Yuan , Sukun Tian , Peng Feng

The accurate segmentation of multiple types of lesions from adjacent tissues in medical images is significant in clinical practice. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) based on the coarse-to-fine strategy have been widely used in this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-12 Xiangyu Zhao , Peng Zhang , Fan Song , Chenbin Ma , Guangda Fan , Yangyang Sun , Youdan Feng , Guanglei Zhang

In clinical practice, medical segmentation datasets are often limited and heterogeneous, with variations in modalities, protocols, and anatomical targets across institutions. Existing deep learning models struggle to jointly learn from such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Weiwei Ma , Xiaobing Yu , Peijie Qiu , Jin Yang , Pan Xiao , Xiaoqi Zhao , Xiaofeng Liu , Tomo Miyazaki , Shinichiro Omachi , Yongsong Huang

Diffusion models have shown impressive performance for generative modelling of images. In this paper, we present a novel semantic segmentation method based on diffusion models. By modifying the training and sampling scheme, we show that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Julia Wolleb , Robin Sandkühler , Florentin Bieder , Philippe Valmaggia , Philippe C. Cattin

Background: Brain tumor segmentation has a significant impact on the diagnosis and treatment of brain tumors. Accurate brain tumor segmentation remains challenging due to their irregular shapes, vague boundaries, and high variability.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Zhanyuan Jia , Ni Yao , Danyang Sun , Chuang Han , Yanting Li , Jiaofen Nan , Fubao Zhu , Chen Zhao , Weihua Zhou

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Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-21 Atif Shah , Maged S. Al-Shaibani , Moataz Ahmad , Reem Bunyan

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…

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Automated segmentation is a fundamental medical image analysis task, which enjoys significant advances due to the advent of deep learning. While foundation models have been useful in natural language processing and some vision tasks for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Hanxue Gu , Haoyu Dong , Jichen Yang , Maciej A. Mazurowski

Combining images from multi-modalities is beneficial to explore various information in computer vision, especially in the medical domain. As an essential part of clinical diagnosis, multi-modal brain tumor segmentation aims to delineate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Zhongzhen Huang , Linda Wei , Shaoting Zhang , Xiaofan Zhang

Recently, segmentation methods based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) showed promising performance in automatic Multiple Sclerosis (MS) lesions segmentation. These techniques have even outperformed human experts in controlled…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-26 Reda Abdellah Kamraoui , Vinh-Thong Ta , Thomas Tourdias , Boris Mansencal , José V Manjon , Pierrick Coupé

Missing data is a common problem in machine learning and in retrospective imaging research it is often encountered in the form of missing imaging modalities. We propose to take into account missing modalities in the design and training of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Karin van Garderen , Marion Smits , Stefan Klein

The task of medical image segmentation commonly involves an image reconstruction step to convert acquired raw data to images before any analysis. However, noises, artifacts and loss of information due to the reconstruction process are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Qiaoying Huang , Xiao Chen , Dimitris Metaxas , Mariappan S. Nadar

Medical image segmentation being a substantial component of image processing plays a significant role to analyze gross anatomy, to locate an infirmity and to plan the surgical procedures. Segmentation of brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging…

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