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Segmentation of brain tumors is a critical step in treatment planning, yet manual segmentation is both time-consuming and subjective, relying heavily on the expertise of radiologists. In Sub-Saharan Africa, this challenge is magnified by…

This paper proposes a 3D attention-based U-Net architecture for multi-region segmentation of brain tumors using a single stacked multi-modal volume created by combining three non-native MRI volumes. The attention mechanism added to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-11 Maryann M. Gitonga

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

Segmentation is one of the most significant steps in image processing. Segmenting an image is a technique that makes it possible to separate a digital image into various areas based on the different characteristics of pixels in the image.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-20 Sina Derakhshandeh , Ali Mahloojifar

Deep learning has quickly become the weapon of choice for brain lesion segmentation. However, few existing algorithms pre-configure any biological context of their chosen segmentation tissues, and instead rely on the neural network's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Andrew Beers , Ken Chang , James Brown , Emmett Sartor , CP Mammen , Elizabeth Gerstner , Bruce Rosen , Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer

Accurate segmentation of brain tumors is vital for diagnosis, surgical planning, and treatment monitoring. Deep learning has advanced on benchmarks, but two issues limit clinical use: no uncertainty estimates for errors and no segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Andrew Zhou

Cancer is an abnormal growth with potential to invade locally and metastasize to distant organs. Accurate auto-segmentation of the tumor and surrounding normal tissues is required for radiotherapy treatment plan optimization. Recent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-31 Syed Haider Ali , Asrar Ahmad , Muhammad Ali , Asifullah Khan , Nadeem Shaukat

The diagnosis of brain cancer relies heavily on medical imaging techniques, with MRI being the most commonly used. It is necessary to perform automatic segmentation of brain tumors on MRI images. This project intends to build an MRI…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-28 Yuxiang Hu , Haowei Yang , Ting Xu , Shuyao He , Jiajie Yuan , Haozhang Deng

Accurate medical imaging segmentation is critical for precise and effective medical interventions. However, despite the success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in medical image segmentation, they still face challenges in handling…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-14 Adrian Celaya , Beatrice Riviere , David Fuentes

An automatic segmentation algorithm for delineation of the gross tumour volume and pathologic lymph nodes of head and neck cancers in PET/CT images is described. The proposed algorithm is based on a convolutional neural network using the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-05 Yngve Mardal Moe , Aurora Rosvoll Groendahl , Martine Mulstad , Oliver Tomic , Ulf Indahl , Einar Dale , Eirik Malinen , Cecilia Marie Futsaether

3D medical image processing with deep learning greatly suffers from a lack of data. Thus, studies carried out in this field are limited compared to works related to 2D natural image analysis, where very large datasets exist. As a result,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Hicham Messaoudi , Ahror Belaid , Mohamed Lamine Allaoui , Ahcene Zetout , Mohand Said Allili , Souhil Tliba , Douraied Ben Salem , Pierre-Henri Conze

Automatic segmentation is essential for the brain tumor diagnosis, disease prognosis, and follow-up therapy of patients with gliomas. Still, accurate detection of gliomas and their sub-regions in multimodal MRI is very challenging due to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-20 Ramy A. Zeineldin , Mohamed E. Karar , Oliver Burgert , Franziska Mathis-Ullrich

Brain tumor segmentation is crucial for diagnosis and treatment planning, yet challenges such as class imbalance and limited model generalization continue to hinder progress. This work presents a reproducible evaluation of U-Net…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Saumya B

Medical image segmentation, particularly for brain tumor analysis, demands precise and computationally efficient models due to the complexity of multimodal MRI datasets and diverse tumor morphologies. This study introduces PSO-UNet, which…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Shoffan Saifullah , Rafał Dreżewski

Automatic brain tumor segmentation method plays an extremely important role in the whole process of brain tumor diagnosis and treatment. In this paper, we propose a multi-step cascaded network which takes the hierarchical topology of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-26 Xiangyu Li , Gongning Luo , Kuanquan Wang

Deep learning algorithms have accounted for the rapid acceleration of research in artificial intelligence in medical image analysis, interpretation, and segmentation with many potential applications across various sub disciplines in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-23 Shanaka Ramesh Gunasekara , HNTK Kaldera , Maheshi B. Dissanayake

Deep convolutional neural network (CNN) achieves remarkable performance for medical image analysis. UNet is the primary source in the performance of 3D CNN architectures for medical imaging tasks, including brain tumor segmentation. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-30 Parvez Ahmad , Saqib Qamar , Linlin Shen , Adnan Saeed

The high cure rate of cancer is inextricably linked to physicians' accuracy in diagnosis and treatment, therefore a model that can accomplish high-precision tumor segmentation has become a necessity in many applications of the medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-26 Zeqiu. Yu , Shuo. Han , Ziheng. Song

Brain tumors remain a critical global health challenge, necessitating advancements in diagnostic techniques and treatment methodologies. A tumor or its recurrence often needs to be identified in imaging studies and differentiated from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-18 Shashidhar Reddy Javaji , Sovesh Mohapatra , Advait Gosai , Gottfried Schlaug

Segmentation of brain structures on MRI is the primary step for further quantitative analysis of brain diseases. Manual segmentation is still considered the gold standard in terms of accuracy; however, such data is extremely time-consuming…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-16 Mengyu Li , Magnus Magnusson , Thilo van Eimeren , Lotta M. Ellingsen