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We introduce a novel data-driven approach aimed at designing high-quality shape deformations based on a coarse localized input signal. Unlike previous data-driven methods that require a global shape encoding, we observe that…
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MRI quantification of cranial nerves such as anterior visual pathway (AVP) in MRI is challenging due to their thin small size, structural variation along its path, and adjacent anatomic structures. Segmentation of pathologically abnormal…
Variational Level Set (VLS) has been a widely used method in medical segmentation. However, segmentation accuracy in the VLS method dramatically decreases when dealing with intervening factors such as lighting, shadows, colors, etc.…
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