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Medical image segmentation is a critical achievement in modern medical science, developed over decades of research. It allows for the exact delineation of anatomical and pathological features in two- or three-dimensional pictures by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-06 Chukwuemeka Arua Kalu , Adaobi Chiazor Emegoakor , Fortune Okafor , Augustine Okoh Uchenna , Chijioke Kelvin Ukpai , Godsent Erere Onyeugbo

Radiation therapy (RT) is essential in treating head and neck cancer (HNC), with magnetic resonance imaging(MRI)-guided RT offering superior soft tissue contrast and functional imaging. However, manual tumor segmentation is time-consuming…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-25 Nikoo Moradi , André Ferreira , Behrus Puladi , Jens Kleesiek , Emad Fatemizadeh , Gijs Luijten , Victor Alves , Jan Egger

Deep learning-based nuclei segmentation and classification in pathology images typically rely on large-scale pixel-level manual annotations, which are costly and difficult to obtain across diverse tissues and staining conditions. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Kazuya Nishimura , Ryoma Bise , Haruka Hirose , Yasuhiro Kojima

Automated medical image segmentation is a priority research area for computational methods. In particular, detection of cancerous tumors represents a current challenge in this area with potential for real-world impact. This paper describes…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-06 Jamie A. O'Reilly , Manas Sangworasil , Takenobu Matsuura

Detecting and segmenting brain metastases is a tedious and time-consuming task for many radiologists, particularly with the growing use of multi-sequence 3D imaging. This study demonstrates automated detection and segmentation of brain…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-30 Endre Grøvik , Darvin Yi , Michael Iv , Elisabeth Tong , Daniel L. Rubin , Greg Zaharchuk

Quantitative analysis of cell nuclei in microscopic images is an essential yet challenging source of biological and pathological information. The major challenge is accurate detection and segmentation of densely packed nuclei in images…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-11-14 Linqing Feng , Jun Ho Song , Jiwon Kim , Soomin Jeong , Jin Sung Park , Jinhyun Kim

We propose a fine-tuning algorithm for brain tumor segmentation that needs only a few data samples and helps networks not to forget the original tasks. Our approach is based on active learning and meta-learning. One of the difficulties in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-17 Seungyub Han , Yeongmo Kim , Seokhyeon Ha , Jungwoo Lee , Seunghong Choi

Accurate segmentation of 3-D cell nuclei in microscopy images is essential for the study of nuclear organization, gene expression, and cell morphodynamics. Current image segmentation methods are challenged by the complexity and variability…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-18 Sundaresh Ram , Jeffrey J. Rodriguez

Atlas-based methods are the standard approaches for automatic targeting of the Anterior Nucleus of the Thalamus (ANT) for Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS), but these are known to lack robustness when anatomic differences between atlases and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Han Liu , Can Cui , Dario J. Englot , Benoit M. Dawant

Automatic segmentation of microscopy images is an important task in medical image processing and analysis. Nucleus detection is an important example of this task. Mask-RCNN is a recently proposed state-of-the-art algorithm for object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Jeremiah W. Johnson

Large pre-trained models with their numerous model parameters and extensive training datasets have shown excellent performance in various tasks. Many publicly available medical image datasets do not have a sufficient amount of data so there…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-12 Jianhao Xie , Ziang Zhang , Guibo Luo , Yuesheng Zhu

Tumor segmentation from multi-modal brain MRI images is a challenging task due to the limited samples, high variance in shapes and uneven distribution of tumor morphology. The performance of automated medical image segmentation has been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-13 Tianyi Ren , Ethan Honey , Harshitha Rebala , Abhishek Sharma , Agamdeep Chopra , Mehmet Kurt

Segmentation of retinal vessels from retinal fundus images is the key step in the automatic retinal image analysis. In this paper, we propose a new unsupervised automatic method to segment the retinal vessels from retinal fundus images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Renoh Johnson Chalakkal , Waleed Abdulla

Computed tomography (CT) segmentation models often contain classes that are not currently supported by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) segmentation models. In this study, we show that a simple image inversion technique can significantly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-25 Hartmut Häntze , Lina Xu , Maximilian Rattunde , Leonhard Donle , Felix J. Dorfner , Alessa Hering , Lisa C. Adams , Keno K. Bressem

In brain tumor diagnosis and surgical planning, segmentation of tumor regions and accurate analysis of surrounding normal tissues are necessary for physicians. Pathological variability often renders difficulty to register a well-labeled…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-13 Zhongqiang Liu

The segmentation of lesions in Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury (msTBI) presents a significant challenge in neuroimaging due to the diverse characteristics of these lesions, which vary in size, shape, and distribution across brain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Constantin Ulrich , Tassilo Wald , Fabian Isensee , Klaus H. Maier-Hein

Accurate synthesis of a full 3D MR image containing tumours from available MRI (e.g. to replace an image that is currently unavailable or corrupted) would provide a clinician as well as downstream inference methods with important…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Raghav Mehta , Tal Arbel

Segmentation of nodules in thyroid ultrasound imaging plays a crucial role in the detection and treatment of thyroid cancer. However, owing to the diversity of scanner vendors and imaging protocols in different hospitals, the automatic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-23 Xuewei Li , Yaqiao Zhu , Jie Gao , Xi Wei , Ruixuan Zhang , Yuan Tian , ZhiQiang Liu

Segmenting medical images is critical to facilitating both patient diagnoses and quantitative research. A major limiting factor is the lack of labeled data, as obtaining expert annotations for each new set of imaging data and task can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Chen Liu , Matthew Amodio , Liangbo L. Shen , Feng Gao , Arman Avesta , Sanjay Aneja , Jay C. Wang , Lucian V. Del Priore , Smita Krishnaswamy

The goal of our research is to create a comprehensive and flexible library that is easy to use for medical imaging research, and capable of handling grayscale images, multiple inputs (both images and tabular data), and multi-label tasks. We…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-22 Toshimasa Matsumoto , Shannon L Walston , Yukio Miki , Daiju Ueda