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In this study, an automated three dimensional (3D) deep segmentation approach for detecting gliomas in 3D pre-operative MRI scans is proposed. Then, a classi-fication algorithm based on random forests, for survival prediction is presented.…

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Gliomas are one of the most prevalent types of primary brain tumours, accounting for more than 30\% of all cases and they develop from the glial stem or progenitor cells. In theory, the majority of brain tumours could well be identified…

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Brain tumor is considered as one of the deadliest and most common form of cancer both in children and in adults. Consequently, determining the correct type of brain tumor in early stages is of significant importance to devise a precise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Parnian Afshar , Arash Mohammadi , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

Organ at risk (OAR) segmentation is a crucial step for treatment planning and outcome determination in radiotherapy treatments of cancer patients. Several deep learning based segmentation algorithms have been developed in recent years,…

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Accurate segmentation of pediatric brain tumors in multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI) is critical for diagnosis, treatment planning, and monitoring, yet faces unique challenges due to limited data, high anatomical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Xiaolong Li , Zhi-Qin John Xu , Yan Ren , Tianming Qiu , Xiaowen Wang

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

Medical image segmentation, particularly tumor segmentation, is a critical task in medical imaging, with U-Net being a widely adopted convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture for this purpose. However, U-Net's high computational and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-13 Christiaan Boerkamp , Akhil John Thomas

Segmentation of colorectal cancerous regions from 3D Magnetic Resonance (MR) images is a crucial procedure for radiotherapy which conventionally requires accurate delineation of tumour boundaries at an expense of labor, time and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Yi-Jie Huang , Qi Dou , Zi-Xian Wang , Li-Zhi Liu , Ying Jin , Chao-Feng Li , Lisheng Wang , Hao Chen , Rui-Hua Xu

Precision medicine in the quantitative management of chronic diseases and oncology would be greatly improved if the Computed Tomography (CT) scan of any patient could be segmented, parsed and analyzed in a precise and detailed way. However,…

Deep convolutional neural networks have been proven to be very effective in image related analysis and tasks, such as image segmentation, image classification, image generation, etc. Recently many sophisticated CNN based architectures have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-12 Eshal Zahra , Bostan Ali , Wajahat Siddique

Brain tumors require an assessment to ensure timely diagnosis and effective patient treatment. Morphological factors such as size, location, texture, and variable appearance complicate tumor inspection. Medical imaging presents challenges,…

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This study addresses the essential task of medical image segmentation, which involves the automatic identification and delineation of anatomical structures and pathological regions in medical images. Accurate segmentation is crucial in…

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The retroperitoneum hosts a variety of tumors, including rare benign and malignant types, which pose diagnostic and treatment challenges due to their infrequency and proximity to vital structures. Estimating tumor volume is difficult due to…

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Segmentation of livers and liver tumors is one of the most important steps in radiation therapy of hepatocellular carcinoma. The segmentation task is often done manually, making it tedious, labor intensive, and subject to intra-/inter-…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-04 Hyunseok Seo , Charles Huang , Maxime Bassenne , Ruoxiu Xiao , Lei Xing

Glioblastomas are the most aggressive fast-growing primary brain cancer which originate in the glial cells of the brain. Accurate identification of the malignant brain tumor and its sub-regions is still one of the most challenging problems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Ramy A. Zeineldin , Mohamed E. Karar , Franziska Mathis-Ullrich , Oliver Burgert

Automated segmentation proves to be a valuable tool in precisely detecting tumors within medical images. The accurate identification and segmentation of tumor types hold paramount importance in diagnosing, monitoring, and treating highly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-15 Fadillah Maani , Anees Ur Rehman Hashmi , Mariam Aljuboory , Numan Saeed , Ikboljon Sobirov , Mohammad Yaqub

Brain tumor segmentation is essential for diagnosis and treatment planning, yet many CNN and U-Net based approaches produce noisy boundaries in regions of tumor infiltration. We introduce UAMSA-UNet, an Uncertainty-Aware Multi-Scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Satyaki Roy Chowdhury , Golrokh Mirzaei

Image segmentation is a fundamental task in image analysis and clinical practice. The current state-of-the-art techniques are based on U-shape type encoder-decoder networks with skip connections, called U-Net. Despite the powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Chun-Wun Cheng , Christina Runkel , Lihao Liu , Raymond H Chan , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Angelica I Aviles-Rivero

Despite recent improvements in the accuracy of brain tumor segmentation, the results still exhibit low levels of confidence and robustness. Uncertainty estimation is one effective way to change this situation, as it provides a measure of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-29 Ke Zou , Xuedong Yuan , Xiaojing Shen , Meng Wang , Huazhu Fu

Accurate segmentation of brain tumors in MRI scans is essential for reliable clinical diagnosis and effective treatment planning. Recently, diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in image generation and segmentation…

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