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Accurate medical image segmentation is critical for disease quantification and treatment evaluation. While traditional Unet architectures and their transformer-integrated variants excel in automated segmentation tasks. However, they lack…

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Automatic segmentation of skin lesion is considered a crucial step in Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) for melanoma diagnosis. Despite its significance, skin lesion segmentation remains a challenging task due to their diverse color, texture,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-27 Md. Kamrul Hasan , Lavsen Dahal , Prasad N. Samarakoon , Fakrul Islam Tushar , Robert Marti Marly

We apply an ensemble of modified TransBTS, nnU-Net, and a combination of both for the segmentation task of the BraTS 2021 challenge. In fact, we change the original architecture of the TransBTS model by adding Squeeze-and-Excitation blocks,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-18 Mariia Dobko , Danylo-Ivan Kolinko , Ostap Viniavskyi , Yurii Yelisieiev

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

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

Early cancer detection is crucial for improving patient outcomes, and 18F FDG PET/CT imaging plays a vital role by combining metabolic and anatomical information. Accurate lesion detection remains challenging due to the need to identify…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Simone Bendazzoli , Antonios Tzortzakakis , Andreas Abrahamsson , Björn Engelbrekt Wahlin , Örjan Smedby , Maria Holstensson , Rodrigo Moreno

Biomedical imaging is a driver of scientific discovery and core component of medical care, currently stimulated by the field of deep learning. While semantic segmentation algorithms enable 3D image analysis and quantification in many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Fabian Isensee , Paul F. Jäger , Simon A. A. Kohl , Jens Petersen , Klaus H. Maier-Hein

Automated segmentation of distinct tumor regions is critical for accurate diagnosis and treatment planning in pediatric brain tumors. This study evaluates the efficacy of the Multi-Planner U-Net (MPUnet) approach in segmenting different…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-15 Sumit Pandey , Satyasaran Changdar , Mathias Perslev , Erik B Dam

Accurate segmentation of lesions in pancreatic endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) images is crucial for effective diagnosis and treatment. However, the collection of enough crisp EUS images for effective diagnosis is arduous. Recently, domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 ZhiChao Yan , Hui Xue , Yi Zhu , Bin Xiao , Hao Yuan

Accurate segmentation of lesions in longitudinal whole-body CT is essential for monitoring disease progression and treatment response. While automated methods benefit from incorporating longitudinal information, they remain limited in their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Yannick Kirchhoff , Maximilian Rokuss , Fabian Isensee , Klaus H. Maier-Hein

Automated segmentation of multiple sclerosis (MS) lesions using multicontrast magnetic resonance (MR) images improves efficiency and reproducibility compared to manual delineation, with deep learning (DL) methods achieving state-of-the-art…

Recent advances in 3D fully convolutional networks (FCN) have made it feasible to produce dense voxel-wise predictions of volumetric images. In this work, we show that a multi-class 3D FCN trained on manually labeled CT scans of several…

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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

Multi-organ segmentation is one of most successful applications of deep learning in medical image analysis. Deep convolutional neural nets (CNNs) have shown great promise in achieving clinically applicable image segmentation performance on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-18 Hao Tang , Xingwei Liu , Kun Han , Shanlin Sun , Narisu Bai , Xuming Chen , Huang Qian , Yong Liu , Xiaohui Xie

Automatic segmentation of head and neck cancer (HNC) tumors and lymph nodes plays a crucial role in the optimization treatment strategy and prognosis analysis. This study aims to employ nnU-Net for automatic segmentation and radiomics for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-21 Hui Xu , Yihao Li , Wei Zhao , Gwenolé Quellec , Lijun Lu , Mathieu Hatt

Medical imaging plays a crucial role in modern healthcare by providing non-invasive visualisation of internal structures and abnormalities, enabling early disease detection, accurate diagnosis, and treatment planning. This study aims to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-25 Walid Ehab , Yongmin Li

An improved model of medical image segmentation for brain tumor is discussed, which is a deep learning algorithm based on U-Net architecture. Based on the traditional U-Net, we introduce GSConv module and ECA attention mechanism to improve…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Qiyuan Tian , Zhuoyue Wang , Xiaoling Cui

Biomedical image segmentation plays a significant role in computer-aided diagnosis. However, existing CNN based methods rely heavily on massive manual annotations, which are very expensive and require huge human resources. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Ruifei Zhang , Sishuo Liu , Yizhou Yu , Guanbin Li

Inspired by the recent success of Transformers for Natural Language Processing and vision Transformer for Computer Vision, many researchers in the medical imaging community have flocked to Transformer-based networks for various main stream…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-22 Ye Li , Junyu Chen , Se-in Jang , Kuang Gong , Quanzheng Li

In drug discovery, accurate lung tumor segmentation is an important step for assessing tumor size and its progression using \textit{in-vivo} imaging such as MRI. While deep learning models have been developed to automate this process, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-11 Piotr Kaniewski , Fariba Yousefi , Yeman Brhane Hagos , Talha Qaiser , Nikolay Burlutskiy