English
Related papers

Related papers: CU-Net: a U-Net architecture for efficient brain-t…

200 papers

Accurate medical image segmentation is essential for diagnosis and treatment planning of diseases. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance for automatic medical image segmentation. However, they are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Ran Gu , Guotai Wang , Tao Song , Rui Huang , Michael Aertsen , Jan Deprest , Sébastien Ourselin , Tom Vercauteren , Shaoting Zhang

Brain plays a crucial role in regulating body functions and cognitive processes, with brain tumors posing significant risks to human health. Precise and prompt detection is a key factor in proper treatment and better patient outcomes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Roham Maiti , Debasmita Bhoumik

Medical image segmentation is pivotal in healthcare, enhancing diagnostic accuracy, informing treatment strategies, and tracking disease progression. This process allows clinicians to extract critical information from visual data, enabling…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-31 Ovais Iqbal Shah , Danish Raza Rizvi , Aqib Nazir Mir

Detection of brain tumor using a segmentation based approach is critical in cases, where survival of a subject depends on an accurate and timely clinical diagnosis. Gliomas are the most commonly found tumors having irregular shape and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-16 Saddam Hussain , Syed Muhammad Anwar , Muhammad Majid

Accurate segmentation is crucial for clinical applications, but existing models often assume fixed, high-resolution inputs and degrade significantly when faced with lower-resolution data in real-world scenarios. To address this limitation,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Simon Winther Albertsen , Hjalte Svaneborg Bjørnstrup , Mostafa Mehdipour Ghazi

In this paper, we propose a bottleneck supervised (BS) U-Net model for liver and tumor segmentation. Our main contributions are: first, we propose a variation of the original U-Net that incorporates dense modules, inception modules and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Song Li , Geoffrey Kwok Fai Tso

Identification of tumor margins is essential for surgical decision-making for glioblastoma patients and provides reliable assistance for neurosurgeons. Despite improvements in deep learning architectures for tumor segmentation over the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-11 Tianyi Ren , Abhishek Sharma , Juampablo Heras Rivera , Harshitha Rebala , Ethan Honey , Agamdeep Chopra , Jacob Ruzevick , Mehmet Kurt

The potential for augmenting the segmentation of brain tumors through the use of few-shot learning is vast. Although several deep learning networks (DNNs) demonstrate promising results in terms of segmentation, they require a substantial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-11 Ahmed Ayman

Multimodal brain tumor segmentation challenge (BraTS) brings together researchers to improve automated methods for 3D MRI brain tumor segmentation. Tumor segmentation is one of the fundamental vision tasks necessary for diagnosis and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Andriy Myronenko , Ali Hatamizadeh

Brain tumors are among the deadliest cancers worldwide, with particularly devastating impact in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) where limited access to medical imaging infrastructure and expertise often delays diagnosis and treatment planning.…

Precise and accurate segmentation of the most common head-and-neck tumor, nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), in MRI sheds light on treatment and regulatory decisions making. However, the large variations in the lesion size and shape of NPC,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-22 Pin Tang , Chen Zu , Mei Hong , Rui Yan , Xingchen Peng , Jianghong Xiao , Xi Wu , Jiliu Zhou , Luping Zhou , Yan Wang

U-Net has achieved huge success in various medical image segmentation challenges. Kinds of new architectures with bells and whistles might succeed in certain dataset when employed with optimal hyper-parameter, but their generalization…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-14 Wenshuai Zhao , Zengfeng Zeng

This study systematically investigates the impact of image enhancement techniques on Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based Brain Tumor Segmentation, focusing on Histogram Equalization (HE), Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-09 Shoffan Saifullah , Andri Pranolo , Rafał Dreżewski

Uncontrolled cell division in the brain is what gives rise to brain tumors. If the tumor size increases by more than half, there is little hope for the patient's recovery. This emphasizes the need of rapid and precise brain tumor diagnosis.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Plabon Paul , Md. Nazmul Islam , Fazle Rafsani , Pegah Khorasani , Shovito Barua Soumma

In this paper, we propose a Hybrid High-resolution and Non-local Feature Network (H2NF-Net) to segment brain tumor in multimodal MR images. Our H2NF-Net uses the single and cascaded HNF-Nets to segment different brain tumor sub-regions and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-01 Haozhe Jia , Weidong Cai , Heng Huang , Yong Xia

Accurate brain tumor segmentation from multi-modal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a prerequisite for precise radiotherapy planning and surgical navigation. While recent Transformer-based models such as Swin UNETR have achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yan Zhou , Zhen Huang , Yingqiu Li , Yue Ouyang , Suncheng Xiang , Zehua Wang

Brain tumors are abnormal cell growths in the central nervous system (CNS), and their timely detection is critical for improving patient outcomes. This paper proposes an automatic and efficient deep-learning framework for brain tumor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Ahta-Shamul Hoque Emran , Hafija Akter , Abdullah Al Shiam , Abu Saleh Musa Miah , Anichur Rahman , Fahmid Al Farid , Hezerul Abdul Karim

Purpose: Manual medical image segmentation is an exhausting and time-consuming task along with high inter-observer variability. In this study, our objective is to improve the multi-resolution image segmentation performance of U-Net…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-20 Simindokht Jahangard , Mohammad Hossein Zangooei , Maysam Shahedi

Automation of brain tumors in 3D magnetic resonance images (MRIs) is key to assess the diagnostic and treatment of the disease. In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown improved results in the task. However, high…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-28 Laura Mora Ballestar , Veronica Vilaplana

Brain tumor diagnosis is a challenging task for clinicians in the modern world. Among the major reasons for cancer-related death is the brain tumor. Gliomas, a category of central nervous system (CNS) tumors, encompass diverse subregions.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Kiranmayee Janardhan , Christy Bobby T