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For compression fracture detection and evaluation, an automatic X-ray image segmentation technique that combines deep-learning and level-set methods is proposed. Automatic segmentation is much more difficult for X-ray images than for CT or…

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Automated segmentation of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR) plays a pivotal role in efficiently assessing cardiac function, offering rapid clinical evaluations that benefit both healthcare practitioners and patients. While recent research…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-14 Abdul Qayyum , Hao Xu , Brian P. Halliday , Cristobal Rodero , Christopher W. Lanyon , Richard D. Wilkinson , Steven Alexander Niederer

Medical image segmentation is vital to the area of medical imaging because it enables professionals to more accurately examine and understand the information offered by different imaging modalities. The technique of splitting a medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-01 Aitik Gupta , Joydip Dhar

Modern deep neural networks have shown remarkable performance in medical image classification. However, such networks either emphasize pixel-intensity features instead of fundamental anatomical structures (e.g., those encoded by topological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Pengfei Gu , Huimin Li , Haoteng Tang , Dongkuan , Xu , Erik Enriquez , DongChul Kim , Bin Fu , Danny Z. Chen

The morphology of blood vessels in retinal fundus images is an important indicator of diseases like glaucoma, hypertension and diabetic retinopathy. The accuracy of retinal blood vessels segmentation affects the quality of retinal image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-02 A. M. R. R. Bandara , P. W. G. R. M. P. B. Giragama

Retinal imaging serves as a valuable tool for diagnosis of various diseases. However, reading retinal images is a difficult and time-consuming task even for experienced specialists. The fundamental step towards automated retinal image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Liangzhi Li , Manisha Verma , Yuta Nakashima , Ryo Kawasaki , Hajime Nagahara

Automatic blood vessel extraction from 3D medical images is crucial for vascular disease diagnoses. Existing methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) may suffer from discontinuities of extracted vessels when segmenting such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-15 Jiafa He , Chengwei Pan , Can Yang , Ming Zhang , Yang Wang , Xiaowei Zhou , Yizhou Yu

Accurate liver segmentation from CT scans is essential for effective diagnosis and treatment planning. Computer-aided diagnosis systems promise to improve the precision of liver disease diagnosis, disease progression, and treatment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-23 Debesh Jha , Nikhil Kumar Tomar , Koushik Biswas , Gorkem Durak , Alpay Medetalibeyoglu , Matthew Antalek , Yury Velichko , Daniela Ladner , Amir Borhani , Ulas Bagci

A novel topological segmentation of retinal images represents blood vessels as connected regions in the continuous image plane, having shape-related analytic and geometric properties. This paper presents topological segmentation results…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-08-05 Martin Brooks

Methods for automated retinal vessel segmentation play an important role in the treatment and diagnosis of many eye and systemic diseases. With the fast development of deep learning methods, more and more retinal vessel segmentation methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-13 Gorana Gojić , Ognjen Kundačina , Dragiša Mišković , Dinu Dragan

Automatic and accurate whole-heart and great vessel segmentation from 3D cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) images plays an important role in the computer-assisted diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease. However, this task is very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Lequan Yu , Jie-Zhi Cheng , Qi Dou , Xin Yang , Hao Chen , Jing Qin , Pheng-Ann Heng

Current state-of-the-art deep learning segmentation methods have not yet made a broad entrance into the clinical setting in spite of high demand for such automatic methods. One important reason is the lack of reliability caused by models…

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Image segmentation is a key topic in image processing and computer vision with applications such as scene understanding, medical image analysis, robotic perception, video surveillance, augmented reality, and image compression, among many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Shervin Minaee , Yuri Boykov , Fatih Porikli , Antonio Plaza , Nasser Kehtarnavaz , Demetri Terzopoulos

Automatic and accurate segmentation of aortic vessel tree (AVT) in computed tomography (CT) scans is crucial for early detection, diagnosis and prognosis of aortic diseases, such as aneurysms, dissections and stenosis. However, this task…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-18 Shaofeng Yuan , Feng Yang

On-line segmentation of the uterus can aid effective image-based guidance for precise delivery of dose to the target tissue (the uterocervix) during cervix cancer radiotherapy. 3D ultrasound (US) can be used to image the uterus, however,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-21 Bahareh Behboodi , Hassan Rivaz , Susan Lalondrelle , Emma Harris

Segmentation is a prerequisite yet challenging task for medical image analysis. In this paper, we introduce a novel deeply supervised active learning approach for finger bones segmentation. The proposed architecture is fine-tuned in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Ziyuan Zhao , Xiaoyan Yang , Bharadwaj Veeravalli , Zeng Zeng

Objective: Herein, a neural network-based liver segmentation algorithm is proposed, and its performance was evaluated using abdominal computed tomography (CT) images. Methods: A fully convolutional network was developed to overcome the…

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

We present a novel automated method to segment the myocardium of both left and right ventricles in MRI volumes. The segmentation is consistent in 3D across the slices such that it can be directly used for mesh generation. Two specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Qiao Zheng , Hervé Delingette , Nicolas Duchateau , Nicholas Ayache

Wound image segmentation is a critical component for the clinical diagnosis and in-time treatment of wounds. Recently, deep learning has become the mainstream methodology for wound image segmentation. However, the pre-processing of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-13 Honghui Liu , Changjian Wang , Kele Xu , Fangzhao Li , Ming Feng , Yuxing Peng , Hongjun He

Intracoronary Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) enables high-resolution visualization of coronary vessel anatomy but presents challenges due to noise, imaging artifacts, and complex tissue structures. This paper proposes a fully automated…

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