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Multimodal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides complementary information for sub-region analysis of brain tumors. Plenty of methods have been proposed for automatic brain tumor segmentation using four common MRI modalities and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-10 Hong Liu , Dong Wei , Donghuan Lu , Jinghan Sun , Liansheng Wang , Yefeng Zheng

Multi-modal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is essential for providing complementary information about brain anatomy and pathology, leading to more accurate diagnoses. However, obtaining high-quality multi-modal MRI in a clinical setting…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Minjoo Lim , Bogyeong Kang , Tae-Eui Kam

Accurate medical image segmentation commonly requires effective learning of the complementary information from multimodal data. However, in clinical practice, we often encounter the problem of missing imaging modalities. We tackle this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Cheng Chen , Qi Dou , Yueming Jin , Hao Chen , Jing Qin , Pheng-Ann Heng

Combining images from multi-modalities is beneficial to explore various information in computer vision, especially in the medical domain. As an essential part of clinical diagnosis, multi-modal brain tumor segmentation aims to delineate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Zhongzhen Huang , Linda Wei , Shaoting Zhang , Xiaofan Zhang

Deep learning-based brain tumor segmentation (BTS) models for multi-modal MRI images have seen significant advancements in recent years. However, a common problem in practice is the unavailability of some modalities due to varying scanning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Weide Liu , Jingwen Hou , Xiaoyang Zhong , Huijing Zhan , Jun Cheng , Yuming Fang , Guanghui Yue

We present a foundation model for brain MRI that can work with different combinations of imaging sequences. The model uses one encoder with learnable modality embeddings, conditional layer normalization, and a masked autoencoding objective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Minh Sao Khue Luu , Bair N. Tuchinov

We present modality gap, an intriguing geometric phenomenon of the representation space of multi-modal models. Specifically, we show that different data modalities (e.g. images and text) are embedded at arm's length in their shared…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Weixin Liang , Yuhui Zhang , Yongchan Kwon , Serena Yeung , James Zou

Brain tumor represents one of the most fatal cancers around the world, and is very common in children and the elderly. Accurate identification of the type and grade of tumor in the early stages plays an important role in choosing a precise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Dunyuan Xu , Xi Wang , Jinyue Cai , Pheng-Ann Heng

Multi-modal magnetic resonance (MR) imaging provides great potential for diagnosing and analyzing brain gliomas. In clinical scenarios, common MR sequences such as T1, T2 and FLAIR can be obtained simultaneously in a single scanning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-10 Ziqi Huang , Li Lin , Pujin Cheng , Linkai Peng , Xiaoying Tang

The success of deep convolutional neural networks is partially attributed to the massive amount of annotated training data. However, in practice, medical data annotations are usually expensive and time-consuming to be obtained. Considering…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-06 Kang Li , Lequan Yu , Shujun Wang , Pheng-Ann Heng

Accurate brain tumor segmentation using multiparametric MRI is critical for effective treatment planning. However, in clinical settings, complete acquisition of all MRI sequences is not always possible. The absence of certain MRI modalities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Danish Ali , Ajmal Mian , Naveed Akhtar , Ghulam Mubashar Hassan

The accurate segmentation of brain tumors from multi-modal MRI is critical for clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. While integrating complementary information from various MRI sequences is a common practice, the frequent absence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Dongqing Xie , Yonghuang Wu , Zisheng Ai , Jun Min , Zhencun Jiang , Shaojin Geng , Lei Wang

Segmentation models are important tools for the detection and analysis of lesions in brain MRI. Depending on the type of brain pathology that is imaged, MRI scanners can acquire multiple, different image modalities (contrasts). Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Anthony P. Addison , Felix Wagner , Wentian Xu , Natalie Voets , Konstantinos Kamnitsas

Accurate segmentation of brain images typically requires the integration of complementary information from multiple image modalities. However, clinical data for all modalities may not be available for every patient, creating a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Haitao Li , Ziyu Li , Yiheng Mao , Zhengyao Ding , Zhengxing Huang

Brain tumor segmentation based on multi-modal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plays a pivotal role in assisting brain cancer diagnosis, treatment, and postoperative evaluations. Despite the achieved inspiring performance by existing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-16 Haoran Li , Cheng Li , Weijian Huang , Xiawu Zheng , Yan Xi , Shanshan Wang

The segmentation of brain tumors in multimodal MRIs is one of the most challenging tasks in medical image analysis. The recent state of the art algorithms solving this task is based on machine learning approaches and deep learning in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-11 Dmitrii Lachinov , Elena Shipunova , Vadim Turlapov

Multimodal MRI is essential for brain tumor segmentation, yet missing modalities in clinical practice cause existing methods to exhibit >40% performance variance across modality combinations, rendering them clinically unreliable. We propose…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Chengxiang Guo , Jian Wang , Junhua Fei , Xiao Li , Chunling Chen , Yun Jin

Multimodal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) constitutes the first line of investigation for clinicians in the care of brain tumors, providing crucial insights for surgery planning, treatment monitoring, and biomarker identification.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Lucas Robinet , Ahmad Berjaoui , Elizabeth Cohen-Jonathan Moyal

Liver cancer is one of the most common cancers worldwide. Due to inconspicuous texture changes of liver tumor, contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) imaging is effective for the diagnosis of liver cancer. In this paper, we focus on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-22 Yao Zhang , Jiawei Yang , Jiang Tian , Zhongchao Shi , Cheng Zhong , Yang Zhang , Zhiqiang He

Multi-modal MRIs are widely used in neuroimaging applications since different MR sequences provide complementary information about brain structures. Recent works have suggested that multi-modal deep learning analysis can benefit from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Jiahong Ouyang , Ehsan Adeli , Kilian M. Pohl , Qingyu Zhao , Greg Zaharchuk