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Training computer-vision related algorithms on medical images for disease diagnosis or image segmentation is difficult due to the lack of training data, labeled samples, and privacy concerns. For this reason, a robust generative method to…

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This paper is a contribution to the "BraTS 2023 Local Synthesis of Healthy Brain Tissue via Inpainting Challenge". The task of this challenge is to transform tumor tissue into healthy tissue in brain magnetic resonance (MR) images. This…

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Liver segmentation from abdominal CT images is an essential step for liver cancer computer-aided diagnosis and surgical planning. However, both the accuracy and robustness of existing liver segmentation methods cannot meet the requirements…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-20 Changfa Shi , Min Xian , Xiancheng Zhou , Haotian Wang , Heng-Da Cheng

The clinical management of breast cancer depends on an accurate understanding of the tumor and its anatomical context to adjacent tissues and landmark structures. This context may be provided by semantic segmentation methods; however,…

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Clinical diagnostic and treatment decisions rely upon the integration of patient-specific data with clinical reasoning. Cancer presents a unique context that influence treatment decisions, given its diverse forms of disease evolution.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-23 K. Ruwani M. Fernando , Chris P. Tsokos

Late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) imaging is the clinical standard for myocardial scar assessment, but limited annotated datasets hinder the development of automated segmentation methods. We propose a novel framework that synthesises both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Soufiane Ben Haddou , Laura Alvarez-Florez , Erik J. Bekkers , Fleur V. Y. Tjong , Ahmad S. Amin , Connie R. Bezzina , Ivana Išgum

Accurately identifying oocytes that progress to the blastocyst stage is crucial in reproductive medicine, but the limited availability of annotated high-quality embryo images presents challenges for developing automated diagnostic tools. To…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-18 Alejandro Golfe , Natalia P. García-de-la-puente , Adrián Colomer , Valery Naranjo

Long-tailed class distributions are pervasive in multi-class medical datasets and pose significant challenges for deep learning models which typically underperform on tail classes with limited samples. This limitation is particularly…

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With the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI), AI-assisted medical imaging analysis demonstrates remarkable performance in early lung cancer screening. However, the costly annotation process and privacy concerns limit the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-14 Yifan Jiang , Yannick Lemaréchal , Sophie Plante , Josée Bafaro , Jessica Abi-Rjeile , Philippe Joubert , Philippe Després , Venkata Manem

Medical image segmentation suffers from data scarcity, particularly in polyp detection where annotation requires specialized expertise. We present SynDiff, a framework combining text-guided synthetic data generation with efficient…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Muhammad Aqeel , Maham Nazir , Zanxi Ruan , Francesco Setti

Nuclei segmentation and classification is a significant process in pathology image analysis. Deep learning-based approaches have greatly contributed to the higher accuracy of this task. However, those approaches suffer from the imbalanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Hyun-Jic Oh , Won-Ki Jeong

Medical semantic-mask synthesis boosts data augmentation and analysis, yet most GAN-based approaches still produce one-to-one images and lack spatial consistency in complex scans. To address this, we propose AnatoMaskGAN, a novel synthesis…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-18 Zonglin Wu , Yule Xue , Qianxiang Hu , Yaoyao Feng , Yuqi Ma , Shanxiong Chen

One of the main challenges in current research on segmentation in cardiac ultrasound is the lack of large and varied labeled datasets and the differences in annotation conventions between datasets. This makes it difficult to design robust…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-28 Gilles Van De Vyver , Aksel Try Lenz , Erik Smistad , Sindre Hellum Olaisen , Bjørnar Grenne , Espen Holte , Håavard Dalen , Lasse Løvstakken

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Cheng Chen , Qi Dou , Yueming Jin , Hao Chen , Jing Qin , Pheng-Ann Heng

Segmentation in 3D scans is playing an increasingly important role in current clinical practice supporting diagnosis, tissue quantification, or treatment planning. The current 3D approaches based on convolutional neural networks usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Alexey Novikov , David Major , Maria Wimmer , Dimitrios Lenis , Katja Bühler

Nuclei Segmentation from histology images is a fundamental task in digital pathology analysis. However, deep-learning-based nuclei segmentation methods often suffer from limited annotations. This paper proposes a realistic data augmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-01 Yi Lin , Zeyu Wang , Kwang-Ting Cheng , Hao Chen

Small object segmentation, like tumor segmentation, is a difficult and critical task in the field of medical image analysis. Although deep learning based methods have achieved promising performance, they are restricted to the use of binary…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-17 Huiyu Li , Xiabi Liu , Said Boumaraf , Xiaopeng Gong , Donghai Liao , Xiaohong Ma

Skin lesion segmentation is a vital task in skin cancer diagnosis and further treatment. Although deep learning based approaches have significantly improved the segmentation accuracy, these algorithms are still reliant on having a large…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-16 Kumar Abhishek , Ghassan Hamarneh

In data-scarce scenarios, deep learning models often overfit to noise and irrelevant patterns, which limits their ability to generalize to unseen samples. To address these challenges in medical image segmentation, we introduce Diff-UMamba,…

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Automatic segmentation of anatomical landmarks from ultrasound (US) plays an important role in the management of preterm neonates with a very low birth weight due to the increased risk of developing intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-19 Jeya Maria Jose V. , Rajeev Yasarla , Puyang Wang , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Vishal M. Patel