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Automatic segmentation of abdominal organs in computed tomography (CT) images can support radiation therapy and image-guided surgery workflows. Developing of such automatic solutions remains challenging mainly owing to complex organ…

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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…

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Accurate segmentation of 3D medical scans is crucial for clinical diagnostics and treatment planning, yet existing methods often fail to achieve both high accuracy and computational efficiency across diverse anatomies and imaging…

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Vascular structure segmentation plays a crucial role in medical analysis and clinical applications. The practical adoption of fully supervised segmentation models is impeded by the intricacy and time-consuming nature of annotating vessels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Zhanqiang Guo , Zimeng Tan , Jianjiang Feng , Jie Zhou

Recent advances have been made in applying convolutional neural networks to achieve more precise prediction results for medical image segmentation problems. However, the success of existing methods has highly relied on huge computational…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-24 Dian Qin , Jiajun Bu , Zhe Liu , Xin Shen , Sheng Zhou , Jingjun Gu , Zhijua Wang , Lei Wu , Huifen Dai

Retinal blood vessel segmentation can extract clinically relevant information from fundus images. As manual tracing is cumbersome, algorithms based on Convolution Neural Networks have been developed. Such studies have used small publicly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-24 Jeremiah Fadugba , Patrick Köhler , Lisa Koch , Petru Manescu , Philipp Berens

Liver cancer has a high incidence rate, but primary healthcare settings often lack experienced doctors. Advances in large models and AI technologies offer potential assistance. This work aims to address limitations in liver cancer diagnosis…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-06-27 Xuzhou Wu , Guangxin Li , Xing Wang , Zeyu Xu , Yingni Wang , Jianming Xian , Xueyu Wang , Gong Li , Kehong Yuan

We present a novel methodology that combines graph and dense segmentation techniques by jointly learning both point and pixel contour representations, thereby leveraging the benefits of each approach. This addresses deficiencies in typical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Kit Mills Bransby , Greg Slabaugh , Christos Bourantas , Qianni Zhang

Intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) is one of the most common modalities for treating cancer patients. One of the biggest challenges is precise treatment delivery that accounts for varying motion patterns originating from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Matej Gazda , Peter Drotar , Liset Vazquez Romaguera , Samuel Kadoury

Accurate segmentation of retinal vessels is a basic step in Diabetic retinopathy(DR) detection. Most methods based on deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) have small receptive fields, and hence they are unable to capture global context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Yun Jiang , Ning Tan , Tingting Peng , Hai Zhang

Accurate segmentation and measurement of lithography scanning electron microscope (SEM) images are crucial for ensuring precise process control, optimizing device performance, and advancing semiconductor manufacturing yield. Lithography…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Xinyu He , Botong Zhao , Bingbing Li , Shujing Lyu , Jiwei Shen , Yue Lu

Accurate segmentation of tubular structures in medical images, such as vessels and airway trees, is crucial for computer-aided diagnosis, radiotherapy, and surgical planning. However, significant challenges exist in algorithm design when…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-11 Yi Huang , Ke Zhang , Wei Liu , Yuanyuan Wang , Vishal M. Patel , Le Lu , Xu Han , Dakai Jin , Ke Yan

Abdominal organ segmentation from CT and MRI is an essential prerequisite for surgical planning and computer-aided navigation systems. It is challenging due to the high variability in the shape, size, and position of abdominal organs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Fabian Bongratz , Anne-Marie Rickmann , Christian Wachinger

Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is a complication of long-standing, unchecked diabetes and one of the leading causes of blindness in the world. This paper focuses on improved and robust methods to extract some of the features of DR, viz. Blood…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Soham Basu , Sayantan Mukherjee , Ankit Bhattacharya , Anindya Sen

Retinal vessel segmentation is critical for the early diagnosis of vision-threatening and systemic diseases, especially in real-world clinical settings with limited computational resources. Although significant improvements have been made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Mehwish Mehmood , Shahzaib Iqbal , Tariq Mahmood Khan , Ivor Spence , Muhammad Fahim

Segmenting the retinal vasculature entails a trade-off between how much of the overall vascular structure we identify vs. how precisely we segment individual vessels. In particular, state-of-the-art methods tend to under-segment faint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Aashis Khanal , Rolando Estrada

This study proposes an automatic technique for liver segmentation in computed tomography (CT) images. Localization of the liver volume is based on the correlation with an optimized set of liver templates developed by the authors that allows…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-01 N. S. Kulberg , A. B. Elizarov , V. P. Novik , V. A. Gombolevsky , A. P. Gonchar , A. L. Alliua , V. Yu. Bosin , A. V. Vladzymyrsky , S. P. Morozov

Segmentation of the coronary artery is an important task for the quantitative analysis of coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) images and is being stimulated by the field of deep learning. However, the complex structures with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-09 Xiaoyu Yang , Lijian Xu , Simon Yu , Qing Xia , Hongsheng Li , Shaoting Zhang

The identification of vascular networks is an important topic in the medical image analysis community. While most methods focus on single vessel tracking, the few solutions that exist for tracking complete vascular networks are usually…

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Automatic liver segmentation plays an important role in computer-aided diagnosis and treatment. Manual segmentation of organs is a difficult and tedious task and so prone to human errors. In this paper, we propose an adaptive 3D region…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Shima Rafiei , Nader Karimi , Behzad Mirmahboub , S. M. Reza Soroushmehr , Banafsheh Felfelian , Shadrokh Samavi , Kayvan Najarian