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Accurate liver and lesion segmentation from computed tomography (CT) images are highly demanded in clinical practice for assisting the diagnosis and assessment of hepatic tumor disease. However, automatic liver and lesion segmentation from…

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This study addresses critical gaps in automated lymphoma segmentation from PET/CT images, focusing on issues often overlooked in existing literature. While deep learning has been applied for lymphoma lesion segmentation, few studies…

Automated surface segmentation is important and challenging in many medical image analysis applications. Recent deep learning based methods have been developed for various object segmentation tasks. Most of them are a classification based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-03 Leixin Zhou , Xiaodong Wu

Automated segmentation tools often encounter accuracy and adaptability issues when applied to images of different pathology. The purpose of this study is to explore the feasibility of building a workflow to efficiently route images to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-06 Peilong Wang , Timothy L. Kline , Andy D. Missert , Cole J. Cook , Matthew R. Callstrom , Alex Chan , Robert P. Hartman , Zachary S. Kelm , Panagiotis Korfiatis

Automatic segmentation of lesions in FDG-18 Whole Body (WB) PET/CT scans using deep learning models is instrumental for determining treatment response, optimizing dosimetry, and advancing theranostic applications in oncology. However, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-06 Gowtham Krishnan Murugesan , Diana McCrumb , Eric Brunner , Jithendra Kumar , Rahul Soni , Vasily Grigorash , Stephen Moore , Jeff Van Oss

Accurate automatic liver and tumor segmentation plays a vital role in treatment planning and disease monitoring. Recently, deep convolutional neural network (DCNNs) has obtained tremendous success in 2D and 3D medical image segmentation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Ziyuan Zhao , Zeyu Ma , Yanjie Liu , Zeng Zeng , Pierce KH Chow

Liver tumor segmentation and classification are important tasks in computer aided diagnosis. We aim to address three problems: liver tumor screening and preliminary diagnosis in non-contrast computed tomography (CT), and differential…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-24 Ke Yan , Xiaoli Yin , Yingda Xia , Fakai Wang , Shu Wang , Yuan Gao , Jiawen Yao , Chunli Li , Xiaoyu Bai , Jingren Zhou , Ling Zhang , Le Lu , Yu Shi

This paper addresses the problem of liver cancer segmentation in Whole Slide Image (WSI). We propose a multi-scale image processing method based on automatic end-to-end deep neural network algorithm for segmentation of cancer area. A…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-29 Yanbo Feng , Adel Hafiane , Hélène Laurent

Accurate nuclei segmentation in microscopy whole slide images (WSIs) remains challenging due to variability in staining, imaging conditions, and tissue morphology. We propose CellGenNet, a knowledge distillation framework for robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Srijan Ray , Bikesh K. Nirala , Jason T. Yustein , Sundaresh Ram

$\bf{Purpose:}$ The goal of this study was (i) to use artificial intelligence to automate the traditionally labor-intensive process of manual segmentation of tumor regions in pathology slides performed by a pathologist and (ii) to validate…

Brain tumor segmentation is one of the most challenging problems in medical image analysis. The goal of brain tumor segmentation is to generate accurate delineation of brain tumor regions. In recent years, deep learning methods have shown…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-18 Zhihua Liu , Lei Tong , Zheheng Jiang , Long Chen , Feixiang Zhou , Qianni Zhang , Xiangrong Zhang , Yaochu Jin , Huiyu Zhou

In the last few years, deep learning classifiers have shown promising results in image-based medical diagnosis. However, interpreting the outputs of these models remains a challenge. In cancer diagnosis, interpretability can be achieved by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Kangning Liu , Yiqiu Shen , Nan Wu , Jakub Chłędowski , Carlos Fernandez-Granda , Krzysztof J. Geras

Liver diseases are a serious health concern in the world, which requires precise and timely diagnosis to enhance the survival chances of patients. The current literature implemented numerous machine learning and deep learning models to…

We propose a novel procedure to improve liver and lesion segmentation from CT scans for U-Net based models. Our method extends standard segmentation pipelines to focus on higher target recall or reduction of noisy false-positive…

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Cervical cancer, the fourth leading cause of cancer in women globally, requires early detection through Pap smear tests to identify precancerous changes and prevent disease progression. In this study, we performed a focused analysis by…

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Liver landmarks provide crucial anatomical guidance to the surgeon during laparoscopic liver surgery to minimize surgical risk. However, the tubular structural properties of landmarks and dynamic intraoperative deformations pose significant…

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Precise segmentation of the liver is critical for computer-aided diagnosis such as pre-evaluation of the liver for living donor-based transplantation surgery. This task is challenging due to the weak boundaries of organs, countless…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-06 Supriti Mulay , Deepika G , Jeevakala S , Keerthi Ram , Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam

We demonstrate that AI models can accurately segment liver tumors without the need for manual annotation by using synthetic tumors in CT scans. Our synthetic tumors have two intriguing advantages: (I) realistic in shape and texture, which…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-28 Qixin Hu , Yixiong Chen , Junfei Xiao , Shuwen Sun , Jieneng Chen , Alan Yuille , Zongwei Zhou

Computer-assisted quantitative analysis on Giga-pixel pathology images has provided a new avenue in histology examination. The innovations have been largely focused on cancer pathology (i.e., tumor segmentation and characterization). In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-24 Ruining Deng , Quan Liu , Can Cui , Zuhayr Asad , Haichun Yang , Yuankai Huo

Non-invasive radiological-based lesion characterization and identification, e.g., to differentiate cancer subtypes, has long been a major aim to enhance oncological diagnosis and treatment procedures. Here we study a specific population of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Yuankai Huo , Jinzheng Cai , Chi-Tung Cheng , Ashwin Raju , Ke Yan , Bennett A. Landman , Jing Xiao , Le Lu , Chien-Hung Liao , Adam P. Harrison