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Recent medical image reconstruction techniques focus on generating high-quality medical images suitable for clinical use at the lowest possible cost and with the fewest possible adverse effects on patients. Recent works have shown…

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In this work it is proposed a medical image segmentation pipeline for accurate bone segmentation from CT imaging. It is a two-step methodology, with a pre-segmentation step and a segmentation refinement step. First, the user performs a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Manuel Pinheiro , J. L. Alves

In medical image analysis, automated segmentation of multi-component anatomical structures, which often have a spectrum of potential anomalies and pathologies, is a challenging task. In this work, we develop a multi-step approach using…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-02 Boyeong Woo , Craig Engstrom , William Baresic , Jurgen Fripp , Stuart Crozier , Shekhar S. Chandra

Detection of pulmonary nodules by CT is used for screening lung cancer in early stages.omputer aided diagnosis (CAD) based on deep-learning method can identify the suspected areas of pulmonary nodules in CT images, thus improving the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-24 Yang Liu , Yue-Jie Hou , Chen-Xin Qin , Xin-Hui Li , Si-Jing Li , Bin Wang , Chi-Chun Zhou

Radiographic knee alignment (KA) measurement is important for predicting joint health and surgical outcomes after total knee replacement. Traditional methods for KA measurements are manual, time-consuming and require long-leg radiographs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Zhisen Hu , Dominic Cullen , Peter Thompson , David Johnson , Chang Bian , Aleksei Tiulpin , Timothy Cootes , Claudia Lindner

Purpose: Inversion recovery prepared ultra-short echo time (IR-UTE)-based MRI enables radiation-free visualization of osseous tissue. However, sufficient signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) can only be obtained with long acquisition times. This…

Model-based human pose estimation is currently approached through two different paradigms. Optimization-based methods fit a parametric body model to 2D observations in an iterative manner, leading to accurate image-model alignments, but are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Nikos Kolotouros , Georgios Pavlakos , Michael J. Black , Kostas Daniilidis

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is renowned for its exceptional soft tissue contrast and high spatial resolution, making it a pivotal tool in medical imaging. The integration of deep learning algorithms offers significant potential for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-06 Wanyu Bian

Effective preoperative planning requires accurate algorithms for segmenting anatomical structures across diverse datasets, but traditional models struggle with generalization. This study presents a novel machine learning methodology to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Mustafa Khanbhai , Giulia Di Nardo , Jun Ma , Vivienne Freitas , Caterina Masino , Ali Dolatabadi , Zhaoxun "Lorenz" Liu , Wey Leong , Wagner H. Souza , Amin Madani

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a crucial medical imaging modality. However, long acquisition times remain a significant challenge, leading to increased costs, and reduced patient comfort. Recent studies have shown the potential of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Amirmohammad Shamaei , Alexander Stebner , Salome , Bosshart , Johanna Ospel , Gouri Ginde , Mariana Bento , Roberto Souza

We propose a novel multi-dimensional integration algorithm using a machine learning (ML) technique. After training a ML regression model to mimic a target integrand, the regression model is used to evaluate an approximation of the integral.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-10-14 Boram Yoon

This preliminary study focuses on the development of a medical image segmentation algorithm based on artificial intelligence for calculating bone growth in contact with metallic implants. %as a result of the problem of estimating the growth…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-25 Fernando García-Torres , Carmen Mínguez-Porter , Julia Tomás-Chenoll , Sofía Iranzo-Egea , Juan-Manuel Belda-Lois

Vertebral morphological measurements are important across various disciplines, including spinal biomechanics and clinical applications, pre- and post-operatively. These measurements also play a crucial role in anthropological longitudinal…

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Automated construction of surface geometries of cardiac structures from volumetric medical images is important for a number of clinical applications. While deep-learning-based approaches have demonstrated promising reconstruction precision,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-15 Fanwei Kong , Nathan Wilson , Shawn C. Shadden

This study presents an advanced approach to lumbar spine segmentation using deep learning techniques, focusing on addressing key challenges such as class imbalance and data preprocessing. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of patients…

We propose Deep-Motion-Net: an end-to-end graph neural network (GNN) architecture that enables 3D (volumetric) organ shape reconstruction from a single in-treatment kV planar X-ray image acquired at any arbitrary projection angle.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Isuru Wijesinghe , Michael Nix , Arezoo Zakeri , Alireza Hokmabadi , Bashar Al-Qaisieh , Ali Gooya , Zeike A. Taylor

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

Segmentation of medical images is critical for making several processes of analysis and classification more reliable. With the growing number of people presenting back pain and related problems, the semi-automatic segmentation and 3D…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-10 Jonathan S. Ramos , Mirela T. Cazzolato , Bruno S. Faiçal , Marcello H. Nogueira-Barbosa , Caetano Traina , Agma J. M. Traina

In this paper, we present a deep-learning based method for estimating the 3D structure of a bone from a pair of 2D X-ray images. Our triplet loss-trained neural network selects the most closely matching 3D bone shape from a predefined set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Jana Čavojská , Julian Petrasch , Nicolas J. Lehmann , Agnès Voisard , Peter Böttcher

Machine learning (ML) is increasingly being used in image retrieval systems for medical decision making. One application of ML is to retrieve visually similar medical images from past patients (e.g. tissue from biopsies) to reference when…