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It is necessary for clinicians to comprehensively analyze patient information from different sources. Medical image fusion is a promising approach to providing overall information from medical images of different modalities. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-12 Fanda Fan , Yunyou Huang , Lei Wang , Xingwang Xiong , Zihan Jiang , Zhifei Zhang , Jianfeng Zhan

Accurate segmentation of tubular structures in medical images, such as vessels and airway trees, is crucial for computer-aided diagnosis, radiotherapy, and surgical planning. However, significant challenges exist in algorithm design when…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-11 Yi Huang , Ke Zhang , Wei Liu , Yuanyuan Wang , Vishal M. Patel , Le Lu , Xu Han , Dakai Jin , Ke Yan

Accurate brain tumor segmentation is crucial for neuro-oncology diagnosis and treatment planning. Deep learning methods have made significant progress, but automatic segmentation still faces challenges, including tumor morphological…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Mingda Zhang

Medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in computer-aided diagnosis. However, existing methods heavily rely on fully supervised training, which requires a large amount of labeled data with time-consuming pixel-wise annotations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yunqi Gu , Tao Zhou , Yizhe Zhang , Yi Zhou , Kelei He , Chen Gong , Huazhu Fu

Current multi-modal image fusion methods typically rely on task-specific models, leading to high training costs and limited scalability. While generative methods provide a unified modeling perspective, they often suffer from slow inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Huayi Zhu , Xiu Shu , Youqiang Xiong , Qiao Liu , Rui Chen , Di Yuan , Xiaojun Chang , Zhenyu He

Multimodal image fusion aims to combine relevant information from images acquired with different sensors. In medical imaging, fused images play an essential role in both standard and automated diagnosis. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Farshad G. Veshki , Nora Ouzir , Sergiy A. Vorobyov , Esa Ollila

Manual segmentation of medical images (e.g., segmenting tumors in CT scans) is a high-effort task that can be accelerated with machine learning techniques. However, selecting the right segmentation approach depends on the evaluation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Seyed M. R. Modaresi , Aomar Osmani , Mohammadreza Razzazi , Abdelghani Chibani

Brain tumor segmentation requires accurate identification of hierarchical regions including whole tumor (WT), tumor core (TC), and enhancing tumor (ET) from multi-sequence magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images. Due to tumor tissue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Mingda Zhang , Yuyang Zheng , Ruixiang Tang , Jingru Qiu , Haiyan Ding

When diagnosing the brain tumor, doctors usually make a diagnosis by observing multimodal brain images from the axial view, the coronal view and the sagittal view, respectively. And then they make a comprehensive decision to confirm the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-22 Yi Ding , Wei Zheng , Guozheng Wu , Ji Geng , Mingsheng Cao , Zhiguang Qin

Image semantic segmentation aims at the pixel-level classification of images, which has requirements for both accuracy and speed in practical application. Existing semantic segmentation methods mainly rely on the high-resolution input to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Tianjiao Jiang , Yi Jin , Tengfei Liang , Xu Wang , Yidong Li

With the rapid progression of deep learning technologies, multi-modality image fusion has become increasingly prevalent in object detection tasks. Despite its popularity, the inherent disparities in how different sources depict scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Xingyuan Li , Yang Zou , Jinyuan Liu , Zhiying Jiang , Long Ma , Xin Fan , Risheng Liu

In the diverse field of medical imaging, automatic segmentation has numerous applications and must handle a wide variety of input domains, such as different types of Computed Tomography (CT) scans and Magnetic Resonance (MR) images. This…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Chengyin Li , Hui Zhu , Rafi Ibn Sultan , Hassan Bagher Ebadian , Prashant Khanduri , Chetty Indrin , Kundan Thind , Dongxiao Zhu

Due to the lack of a definitive ground truth for the image fusion problem, the loss functions are structured based on evaluation metrics, such as the structural similarity index measure (SSIM). However, in doing so, a bias is introduced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Aytekin Erdogan , Erdem Akagündüz

3D point clouds are rich in geometric structure information, while 2D images contain important and continuous texture information. Combining 2D information to achieve better 3D semantic segmentation has become mainstream in 3D scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Chaolong Yang , Yuyao Yan , Weiguang Zhao , Jianan Ye , Xi Yang , Amir Hussain , Kaizhu Huang

Medical image segmentation is a critical task in computer vision, with UNet serving as a milestone architecture. The typical component of UNet family is the skip connection, however, their skip connections face two significant limitations:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Quansong He , Xiangde Min , Kaishen Wang , Tao He

Medical image segmentation is a critical process in the field of medical imaging, playing a pivotal role in diagnosis, treatment, and research. It involves partitioning of an image into multiple regions, representing distinct anatomical or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Charulkumar Chodvadiya , Navyansh Mahla , Kinshuk Gaurav Singh , Kshitij Sharad Jadhav

Medical image segmentation, a crucial task in computer vision, facilitates the automated delineation of anatomical structures and pathologies, supporting clinicians in diagnosis, treatment planning, and disease monitoring. Notably,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Fuchen Zheng , Xinyi Chen , Xuhang Chen , Haolun Li , Xiaojiao Guo , Weihuang Liu , Chi-Man Pun , Shoujun Zhou

In medical image analysis, achieving fast, efficient, and accurate segmentation is essential for automated diagnosis and treatment. Although recent advancements in deep learning have significantly improved segmentation accuracy, current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Zhi Li , Kai Zhao , Yaqi Wang , Shuai Wang

Image fusion helps in merging two or more images to construct a more informative single fused image. Recently, unsupervised learning based convolutional neural networks (CNN) have been utilized for different types of image fusion tasks such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Nishant Kumar , Stefan Gumhold

Biomedical image segmentation is a critical task in medical diagnosis and treatment planning, enabling precise delineation of anatomical structures and pathological regions. Despite significant advancements, challenges persist due to the…

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