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Cardiac segmentation from late gadolinium enhancement MRI is an important task in clinics to identify and evaluate the infarction of myocardium. The automatic segmentation is however still challenging, due to the heterogeneous intensity…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-26 Qian Yue , Xinzhe Luo , Qing Ye , Lingchao Xu , Xiahai Zhuang

The fully convolutional network (FCN) with an encoder-decoder architecture has been the standard paradigm for semantic segmentation. The encoder-decoder architecture utilizes an encoder to capture multilevel feature maps, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Libo Wang , Rui Li , Chenxi Duan , Ce Zhang , Xiaoliang Meng , Shenghui Fang

As one kind of architecture from the deep learning family, deep semantic segmentation network (DSSN) achieves a certain degree of success on the semantic segmentation task and obviously outperforms the traditional methods based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Yansheng Li , Song Ouyang , Yongjun Zhang

Medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in clinical diagnosis and treatment planning, where accurate boundary delineation is essential for precise lesion localization, organ identification, and quantitative assessment. In recent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Peiting Tian , Xi Chen , Haixia Bi , Fan Li

The Dice score is widely used for binary segmentation due to its robustness to class imbalance. Soft generalisations of the Dice score allow it to be used as a loss function for training convolutional neural networks (CNN). Although CNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Lucas Fidon , Wenqi Li , Luis C. Garcia-Peraza-Herrera , Jinendra Ekanayake , Neil Kitchen , Sebastien Ourselin , Tom Vercauteren

Precise and accurate predictions over boundary areas are essential for semantic segmentation. However, the commonly-used convolutional operators tend to smooth and blur local detail cues, making it difficult for deep models to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Haoru Tan , Sitong Wu , Jimin Pi

Heart disease remains a leading cause of mortality worldwide. Auscultation, the process of listening to heart sounds, can be enhanced through computer-aided analysis using Phonocardiogram (PCG) signals. This paper presents a novel approach…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Manas Madine

Recently deep learning has been playing a major role in the field of computer vision. One of its applications is the reduction of human judgment in the diagnosis of diseases. Especially, brain tumor diagnosis requires high accuracy, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Zahra Sobhaninia , Safiyeh Rezaei , Alireza Noroozi , Mehdi Ahmadi , Hamidreza Zarrabi , Nader Karimi , Ali Emami , Shadrokh Samavi

Deep fully convolutional neural network (FCN) based architectures have shown great potential in medical image segmentation. However, such architectures usually have millions of parameters and inadequate number of training samples leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Mahendra Khened , Varghese Alex Kollerathu , Ganapathy Krishnamurthi

Medical image segmentation is a critical task in clinical workflows, particularly for the detection and delineation of pathological regions. While convolutional architectures like U-Net have become standard for such tasks, their limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Morteza Kiani Haftlang , Mohammadhossein Malmir , Foroutan Parand , Umberto Michelucci , Safouane El Ghazouali

The anatomical location of imaging features is of crucial importance for accurate diagnosis in many medical tasks. Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have had huge successes in computer vision, but they lack the natural ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Mohsen Ghafoorian , Nico Karssemeijer , Tom Heskes , Inge van Uden , Clara Sanchez , Geert Litjens , Frank-Erik de Leeuw , Bram van Ginneken , Elena Marchiori , Bram Platel

In this work, we implement a fully convolutional segmenter featuring both a learned group structure and a regularized weight-pruner to reduce the high computational cost in volumetric image segmentation. We validated our framework on the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-24 S. M. Kamrul Hasan , Cristian A. Linte

Nowadays, pre-trained encoders are widely used in medical image segmentation due to their strong capability in extracting rich and generalized feature representations. However, existing methods often fail to fully leverage these features,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Xiaolin Gou , Chuanlin Liao , Jizhe Zhou , Fengshuo Ye , Yi Lin

The precise categorization of white blood cell (WBC) is crucial for diagnosing blood-related disorders. However, manual analysis in clinical settings is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and prone to errors. Numerous studies have employed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yuzhuo Chen , Zetong Chen , Yunuo An , Chenyang Lu , Xu Qiao

Objective: To propose novel SSVEP classification methodologies using deep neural networks (DNNs) and improve performances in single-channel and user-independent brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) with small data lengths. Approach: We propose…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Pedro R. A. S. Bassi , Romis Attux

Monocular depth prediction is an important task in scene understanding. It aims to predict the dense depth of a single RGB image. With the development of deep learning, the performance of this task has made great improvements. However, two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Feng Xue , Junfeng Cao , Yu Zhou , Fei Sheng , Yankai Wang , Anlong Ming

In this paper we propose a novel deep learning-based algorithm for biomedical image segmentation which uses a sequential attention mechanism able to shift the focus of attention across the image in a selective way, allowing subareas which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Shohei Hayashi , Bisser Raytchev , Toru Tamaki , Kazufumi Kaneda

Brain image segmentation is used for visualizing and quantifying anatomical structures of the brain. We present an automated ap-proach using 2D deep residual dilated networks which captures rich context information of different tissues for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Hongwei Li , Andrii Zhygallo , Bjoern Menze

Recent progress in semantic segmentation has been driven by improving the spatial resolution under Fully Convolutional Networks (FCNs). To address this problem, we propose a Stacked Deconvolutional Network (SDN) for semantic segmentation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Jun Fu , Jing Liu , Yuhang Wang , Hanqing Lu

Attention Branch Networks (ABNs) have been shown to simultaneously provide visual explanation and improve the performance of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In this work, we introduce Multi-Scale Attention Branch Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Ankit Gupta , Ida-Maria Sintorn