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Medical Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Fereshteh Yousefirizi , Abhinav K. Jha , Julia Brosch-Lenz , Babak Saboury , Arman Rahmim

Spinal surgery planning necessitates automatic segmentation of vertebrae in cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT), an intraoperative imaging modality that is widely used in intervention. However, CBCT images are of low-quality and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-10 Yuanyuan Lyu , Haofu Liao , Heqin Zhu , S. Kevin Zhou

We propose a novel 3D fully convolutional deep network for automated pancreas segmentation from both MRI and CT scans. More specifically, the proposed model consists of a 3D encoder that learns to extract volume features at different…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-29 Federica Proietto Salanitri , Giovanni Bellitto , Ismail Irmakci , Simone Palazzo , Ulas Bagci , Concetto Spampinato

This paper proposes a high-precision semantic segmentation method based on an improved TransUNet architecture to address the challenges of complex lesion structures, blurred boundaries, and significant scale variations in skin lesion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-21 Xin Wang , Xiaopei Zhang , Xingang Wang

Building a unified model with a single set of parameters to efficiently handle diverse types of medical lesion segmentation has become a crucial objective for AI-assisted diagnosis. Existing unified segmentation approaches typically rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Jiawei Xu , Qiangqiang Zhou , Dandan Zhu , Yong Chen , Yugen Yi , Xiaoqi Zhao

Manual or automatic delineation of the esophageal tumor in CT images is known to be very challenging. This is due to the low contrast between the tumor and adjacent tissues, the anatomical variation of the esophagus, as well as the…

Despite the recent success of deep learning methods at achieving new state-of-the-art accuracy for medical image segmentation, some major limitations are still restricting their deployment into clinics. One major limitation of deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-30 Lucas Fidon

Multi-organ segmentation is one of most successful applications of deep learning in medical image analysis. Deep convolutional neural nets (CNNs) have shown great promise in achieving clinically applicable image segmentation performance on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-18 Hao Tang , Xingwei Liu , Kun Han , Shanlin Sun , Narisu Bai , Xuming Chen , Huang Qian , Yong Liu , Xiaohui Xie

Deep learning architecture with convolutional neural network (CNN) achieves outstanding success in the field of computer vision. Where U-Net, an encoder-decoder architecture structured by CNN, makes a great breakthrough in biomedical image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-13 Qing Xu , Zhicheng Ma , Na HE , Wenting Duan

Reliable cell segmentation and classification from biomedical images is a crucial step for both scientific research and clinical practice. A major challenge for more robust segmentation and classification methods is the large variations in…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2017-10-31 Mo Zhang , Xiang Li , Mengjia Xu , Quanzheng Li

This paper presents a method for automatic segmentation, localization, and identification of vertebrae in arbitrary 3D CT images. Many previous works do not perform the three tasks simultaneously even though requiring a priori knowledge of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-01 Naoto Masuzawa , Yoshiro Kitamura , Keigo Nakamura , Satoshi Iizuka , Edgar Simo-Serra

Models based on U-like structures have improved the performance of medical image segmentation. However, the single-layer decoder structure of U-Net is too "thin" to exploit enough information, resulting in large semantic differences between…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-08 Haoyuan Chen , Yufei Han , Pin Xu , Yanyi Li , Kuan Li , Jianping Yin

Medical image segmentation plays an essential role in developing computer-assisted diagnosis and therapy systems, yet still faces many challenges. In the past few years, the popular encoder-decoder architectures based on CNNs (e.g., U-Net)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Guoping Xu , Xingrong Wu , Xuan Zhang , Xinwei He

Automatic segmentation of pathological shoulder muscles in patients with musculo-skeletal diseases is a challenging task due to the huge variability in muscle shape, size, location, texture and injury. A reliable fully-automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Pierre-Henri Conze , Sylvain Brochard , Valérie Burdin , Frances T. Sheehan , Christelle Pons

Applying machine learning technologies, especially deep learning, into medical image segmentation is being widely studied because of its state-of-the-art performance and results. It can be a key step to provide a reliable basis for clinical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-08 Ziyang Wang

Training data is the key component in designing algorithms for medical image analysis and in many cases it is the main bottleneck in achieving good results. Recent progress in image generation has enabled the training of neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Avi Ben-Cohen , Roey Mechrez , Noa Yedidia , Hayit Greenspan

Due to the fact that pancreas is an abdominal organ with very large variations in shape and size, automatic and accurate pancreas segmentation can be challenging for medical image analysis. In this work, we proposed a fully automated two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Ningning Zhao , Nuo Tong , Dan Ruan , Ke Sheng

Deep convolutional neural networks have achieved remarkable progress on a variety of medical image computing tasks. A common problem when applying supervised deep learning methods to medical images is the lack of labeled data, which is very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Xiaomeng Li , Lequan Yu , Hao Chen , Chi-Wing Fu , Lei Xing , Pheng-Ann Heng

Segmentation maps of medical images annotated by medical experts contain rich spatial information. In this paper, we propose to decompose annotation maps to learn disentangled and richer feature transforms for segmentation problems in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-10 Yizhe Zhang , Michael T. C. Ying , Danny Z. Chen

In recent years, more and more attention has been paid to the learning of 3D human representation. However, the complexity of lots of hand-defined human body constraints and the absence of supervision data limit that the existing works…

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