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The intricate morphology of brain vessels poses significant challenges for automatic segmentation models, which usually focus on a single imaging modality. However, accurately treating brain-related conditions requires a comprehensive…

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Existing volumetric medical image segmentation models are typically task-specific, excelling at specific target but struggling to generalize across anatomical structures or modalities. This limitation restricts their broader clinical use.…

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Whole-heart segmentation from CT and MRI scans is crucial for cardiovascular disease analysis, yet existing methods struggle with modality-specific biases and the need for extensive labeled datasets. To address these challenges, we propose…

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Image-based modeling is essential for understanding cardiovascular hemodynamics and advancing the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Constructing patient-specific vascular models remains labor-intensive, error-prone, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Pan Du , Delin An , Chaoli Wang , Jian-Xun Wang

Medical image segmentation is essential for clinical diagnosis, surgical planning, and treatment monitoring. Traditional approaches typically strive to tackle all medical image segmentation scenarios via one-time learning. However, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Zhaori Liu , Mengyang Li , Hu Han , Enli Zhang , Shiguang Shan , Zhiming Zhao

Segmentation of blood vessels in murine cerebral 3D OCTA images is foundational for in vivo quantitative analysis of the effects of neurovascular disorders, such as stroke or Alzheimer's, on the vascular network. However, to accurately…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-13 Bastian Wittmann , Lukas Glandorf , Johannes C. Paetzold , Tamaz Amiranashvili , Thomas Wälchli , Daniel Razansky , Bjoern Menze

Recent advancements in foundation models have shown significant potential in medical image analysis. However, there is still a gap in models specifically designed for medical image localization. To address this, we introduce MedLAM, a 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Wenhui Lei , Xu Wei , Xiaofan Zhang , Kang Li , Shaoting Zhang

Deep learning underlies most modern approaches and tools in computer vision, including biomedical imaging. However, for interactive semantic segmentation (often called pixel classification in this context) and interactive object-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Carolin Teuber , Anwai Archit , Tobias Boothe , Peter Ditte , Jochen Rink , Constantin Pape

Positron emission tomography (PET) is a key nuclear medicine imaging modality that visualizes radiotracer distributions to quantify in vivo physiological and metabolic processes, playing an irreplaceable role in disease management. Despite…

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Creating a dataset for training supervised machine learning algorithms can be a demanding task. This is especially true for medical image segmentation since one or more specialists are usually required for image annotation, and creating…

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Recent advancements in vision foundation models (VFMs) have opened up new possibilities for versatile and efficient visual perception. In this work, we introduce Seal, a novel framework that harnesses VFMs for segmenting diverse automotive…

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Accurate coronary artery segmentation is critical for computeraided diagnosis of coronary artery disease (CAD), yet it remains challenging due to the small size, complex morphology, and low contrast with surrounding tissues. To address…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-18 Caixia Dong , Duwei Dai , Xinyi Han , Fan Liu , Xu Yang , Zongfang Li , Songhua Xu

3D part segmentation is a crucial and challenging task in 3D perception, playing a vital role in applications such as robotics, 3D generation, and 3D editing. Recent methods harness the powerful Vision Language Models (VLMs) for 2D-to-3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Yunhan Yang , Yukun Huang , Yuan-Chen Guo , Liangjun Lu , Xiaoyang Wu , Edmund Y. Lam , Yan-Pei Cao , Xihui Liu

Foundation models (FMs) have shown transformative potential in radiology by performing diverse, complex tasks across imaging modalities. Here, we developed CT-FM, a large-scale 3D image-based pre-trained model designed explicitly for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-27 Suraj Pai , Ibrahim Hadzic , Dennis Bontempi , Keno Bressem , Benjamin H. Kann , Andriy Fedorov , Raymond H. Mak , Hugo J. W. L. Aerts

Deep learning techniques for 3D brain vessel image segmentation have not been as successful as in the segmentation of other organs and tissues. This can be explained by two factors. First, deep learning techniques tend to show poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Vien Ngoc Dang , Francesco Galati , Rosa Cortese , Giuseppe Di Giacomo , Viola Marconetto , Prateek Mathur , Karim Lekadir , Marco Lorenzi , Ferran Prados , Maria A. Zuluaga

Automated blood vessel segmentation is vital for biomedical imaging, as vessel changes indicate many pathologies. Still, precise segmentation is difficult due to the complexity of vascular structures, anatomical variations across patients,…

Segmentation of 3D medical images is a critical task for accurate diagnosis and treatment planning. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have dominated the field, achieving significant success in 3D medical image segmentation. However, CNNs…

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Cardio-cerebrovascular diseases are the leading causes of mortality worldwide, whose accurate blood vessel segmentation is significant for both scientific research and clinical usage. However, segmenting cardio-cerebrovascular structures…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-03 Nazik Elsayed , Yousuf Babiker M. Osman , Cheng Li , Jiong Zhang , Shanshan Wang

Blood vessels of the brain provide the human brain with the required nutrients and oxygen. As a vulnerable part of the cerebral blood supply, pathology of small vessels can cause serious problems such as Cerebral Small Vessel Diseases…