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Electron tomography (ET) allows high-resolution reconstructions of macromolecular complexes at nearnative state. Cellular structures segmentation in the reconstruction data from electron tomographic images is often required for analyzing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Enze Zhang , Fa Zhang , Zhiyong Liu , Xiaohua Wan , Lifa Zhu

We present a conceptually simple framework for object instance segmentation called Contour Proposal Network (CPN), which detects possibly overlapping objects in an image while simultaneously fitting closed object contours using an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Eric Upschulte , Stefan Harmeling , Katrin Amunts , Timo Dickscheid

Deep learning in gastrointestinal endoscopy can assist to improve clinical performance and be helpful to assess lesions more accurately. To this extent, semantic segmentation methods that can perform automated real-time delineation of a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-23 Debesh Jha , Nikhil Kumar Tomar , Sharib Ali , Michael A. Riegler , Håvard D. Johansen , Dag Johansen , Thomas de Lange , Pål Halvorsen

Deep learning-based segmentation methods are widely utilized for detecting lesions in ultrasound images. Throughout the imaging procedure, the attenuation and scattering of ultrasound waves cause contour blurring and the formation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-22 Ruiguo Yu , Yiyang Zhang , Yuan Tian , Zhiqiang Liu , Xuewei Li , Jie Gao

The realm of medical image diagnosis has advanced significantly with the integration of computer-aided diagnosis and surgical systems. However, challenges persist, particularly in achieving precise image segmentation. While deep learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-24 Mutyyba Asghar , Ahmad Raza Shahid , Akhtar Jamil , Kiran Aftab , Syed Ather Enam

X-Ray image enhancement, along with many other medical image processing applications, requires the segmentation of images into bone, soft tissue, and open beam regions. We apply a machine learning approach to this problem, presenting an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Joseph Bullock , Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro , Arnau Quera-Bofarull

In this paper, we present a fully automatic brain tumor segmentation method based on Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). The proposed networks are tailored to glioblastomas (both low and high grade) pictured in MR images. By their very nature,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-23 Mohammad Havaei , Axel Davy , David Warde-Farley , Antoine Biard , Aaron Courville , Yoshua Bengio , Chris Pal , Pierre-Marc Jodoin , Hugo Larochelle

We introduce CellSegmenter, a structured deep generative model and an amortized inference framework for unsupervised representation learning and instance segmentation tasks. The proposed inference algorithm is convolutional and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Luca D'Alessio , Mehrtash Babadi

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a kind of malignant tumor. Accurate and automatic segmentation of organs at risk (OAR) of computed tomography (CT) images is clinically significant. In recent years, deep learning models represented by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-30 Zexi Huang , Lihua Guo , Xin Yang , Sijuan Huang

Medical image segmentation, particularly in multi-domain scenarios, requires precise preservation of anatomical structures across diverse representations. While deep learning has advanced this field, existing models often struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Afshin Bozorgpour , Sina Ghorbani Kolahi , Reza Azad , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Dorit Merhof

Medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in clinical diagnosis and treatment planning, where accurate boundary delineation is essential for precise lesion localization, organ identification, and quantitative assessment. In recent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Peiting Tian , Xi Chen , Haixia Bi , Fan Li

Purpose Automated segmentation of anatomical structures in medical image analysis is a prerequisite for autonomous diagnosis as well as various computer and robot aided interventions. Recent methods based on deep convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Max-Heinrich Laves , Jens Bicker , Lüder A. Kahrs , Tobias Ortmaier

We consider the problem of accurately identifying cell boundaries and labeling individual cells in confocal microscopy images, specifically, 3D image stacks of cells with tagged cell membranes. Precise identification of cell boundaries,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Jiaxiang Jiang , Po-Yu Kao , Samuel A. Belteton , Daniel B. Szymanski , B. S. Manjunath

Single cell segmentation is critical and challenging in live cell imaging data analysis. Traditional image processing methods and tools require time-consuming and labor-intensive efforts of manually fine-tuning parameters. Slight variations…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-04-24 Weikang Wang , David A. Taft , Yi-Jiun Chen , Jingyu Zhang , Callen T. Wallace , Min Xu , Simon C. Watkins , Jianhua Xing

In this paper we present a methodology that uses convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for segmentation by iteratively growing predicted mask regions in each coordinate direction. The CNN is used to predict class probability scores in a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-25 John Lagergren , Erica Rutter , Kevin Flores

Individual tooth segmentation from cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) images is an essential prerequisite for an anatomical understanding of orthodontic structures in several applications, such as tooth reformation planning and implant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Minyoung Chung , Minkyung Lee , Jioh Hong , Sanguk Park , Jusang Lee , Jingyu Lee , Jeongjin Lee , Yeong-Gil Shin

The ability to automatically detect certain types of cells or cellular subunits in microscopy images is of significant interest to a wide range of biomedical research and clinical practices. Cell detection methods have evolved from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-22 Yao Xue , Nilanjan Ray

Automated cell detection and localization from microscopy images are significant tasks in biomedical research and clinical practice. In this paper, we design a new cell detection and localization algorithm that combines deep convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Yao Xue , Gilbert Bigras , Judith Hugh , Nilanjan Ray

Contemporary approaches to instance segmentation in cell science use 2D or 3D convolutional networks depending on the experiment and data structures. However, limitations in microscopy systems or efforts to prevent phototoxicity commonly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Christopher Z. Eddy , Austin Naylor , Bo Sun

It has been shown that for automated PAP-smear image classification, nucleus features can be very informative. Therefore, the primary step for automated screening can be cell-nuclei detection followed by segmentation of nuclei in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Srishti Gautam , Harinarayan K. K. , Nirmal Jith , Anil K. Sao , Arnav Bhavsar , Adarsh Natarajan