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Accurate segmentation of multiple organs of the head, neck, chest, and abdomen from medical images is an essential step in computer-aided diagnosis, surgical navigation, and radiation therapy. In the past few years, with a data-driven…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-03 Xiaoyu Liu , Linhao Qu , Ziyue Xie , Jiayue Zhao , Yonghong Shi , Zhijian Song

Supervised machine learning-based medical image computing applications necessitate expert label curation, while unlabelled image data might be relatively abundant. Active learning methods aim to prioritise a subset of available image data…

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

There exists a large number of datasets for organ segmentation, which are partially annotated and sequentially constructed. A typical dataset is constructed at a certain time by curating medical images and annotating the organs of interest.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-07 Pengbo Liu , Xia Wang , Mengsi Fan , Hongli Pan , Minmin Yin , Xiaohong Zhu , Dandan Du , Xiaoying Zhao , Li Xiao , Lian Ding , Xingwang Wu , S. Kevin Zhou

Segmentation is essential for medical image analysis tasks such as intervention planning, therapy guidance, diagnosis, treatment decisions. Deep learning is becoming increasingly prominent for segmentation, where the lack of annotations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Firat Ozdemir , Zixuan Peng , Christine Tanner , Philipp Fuernstahl , Orcun Goksel

Class imbalance and the difficulty imbalance are the two types of data imbalance that affect the performance of neural networks in medical segmentation tasks. In class imbalance the loss is dominated by the majority classes and in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Seyed Mohsen Hosseini

Medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in AI-assisted diagnostics, surgical planning, and treatment monitoring. Accurate and robust segmentation models are essential for enabling reliable, data-driven clinical decision making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Sachin Dudda Nagaraju , Ashkan Moradi , Bendik Skarre Abrahamsen , Mattijs Elschot

Segmentation of organs of interest in 3D medical images is necessary for accurate diagnosis and longitudinal studies. Though recent advances using deep learning have shown success for many segmentation tasks, large datasets are required for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Soopil Kim , Sion An , Philip Chikontwe , Sang Hyun Park

The objective of this paper is to significantly reduce the manual workload required from medical professionals in complex 3D segmentation tasks that cannot be yet fully automated. For instance, in radiotherapy planning, organs at risk must…

Class-imbalance is one of the major challenges in real world datasets, where a few classes (called majority classes) constitute much more data samples than the rest (called minority classes). Learning deep neural networks using such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Saptarshi Sinha , Hiroki Ohashi , Katsuyuki Nakamura

Deep learning has shown great promise in the ability to automatically annotate organs in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, for example, of the brain. However, despite advancements in the field, the ability to accurately segment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Cosmin Ciausu , Deepa Krishnaswamy , Benjamin Billot , Steve Pieper , Ron Kikinis , Andrey Fedorov

We propose a new loss formulation to further advance the multiclass segmentation of cluttered cells under weakly supervised conditions. We improve the separation of touching and immediate cells, obtaining sharp segmentation boundaries with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Fidel A. Guerrero Peña , Pedro D. Marrero Fernandez , Paul T. Tarr , Tsang Ing Ren , Elliot M. Meyerowitz , Alexandre Cunha

Image segmentation plays an essential role in medicine for both diagnostic and interventional tasks. Segmentation approaches are either manual, semi-automated or fully-automated. Manual segmentation offers full control over the quality of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Tomas Sakinis , Fausto Milletari , Holger Roth , Panagiotis Korfiatis , Petro Kostandy , Kenneth Philbrick , Zeynettin Akkus , Ziyue Xu , Daguang Xu , Bradley J. Erickson

Multi-modality is widely used in medical imaging, because it can provide multiinformation about a target (tumor, organ or tissue). Segmentation using multimodality consists of fusing multi-information to improve the segmentation. Recently,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-17 Tongxue Zhou , Su Ruan , Stéphane Canu

Segmentation of abdominal computed tomography(CT) provides spatial context, morphological properties, and a framework for tissue-specific radiomics to guide quantitative Radiological assessment. A 2015 MICCAI challenge spurred substantial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-12 Yuchen Xu , Olivia Tang , Yucheng Tang , Ho Hin Lee , Yunqiang Chen , Dashan Gao , Shizhong Han , Riqiang Gao , Michael R. Savona , Richard G. Abramson , Yuankai Huo , Bennett A. Landman

Transfer learning leverages pre-trained model features from a large dataset to save time and resources when training new models for various tasks, potentially enhancing performance. Due to the lack of large datasets in the medical imaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-10 Gabriel Efrain Humpire-Mamani , Colin Jacobs , Mathias Prokop , Bram van Ginneken , Nikolas Lessmann

Accurate and robust segmentation of small organs in whole-body MRI is difficult due to anatomical variation and class imbalance. Recent deep network based approaches have demonstrated promising performance on abdominal multi-organ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Vanya V. Valindria , Ioannis Lavdas , Juan Cerrolaza , Eric O. Aboagye , Andrea G. Rockall , Daniel Rueckert , Ben Glocker

Temporal action segmentation in untrimmed procedural videos aims to densely label frames into action classes. These videos inherently exhibit long-tailed distributions, where actions vary widely in frequency and duration. In temporal action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Zhanzhong Pang , Fadime Sener , Shrinivas Ramasubramanian , Angela Yao

While deep learning and deep reinforcement learning (RL) systems have demonstrated impressive results in domains such as image classification, game playing, and robotic control, data efficiency remains a major challenge. Multi-task learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Tianhe Yu , Saurabh Kumar , Abhishek Gupta , Sergey Levine , Karol Hausman , Chelsea Finn

The aim of Active Learning is to select the most informative samples from an unlabelled set of data. This is useful in cases where the amount of data is large and labelling is expensive, such as in machine vision or medical imaging. Two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Julien Combes , Alexandre Derville , Jean-François Coeurjolly