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Three-dimensional (3D) integrated renal structures (IRS) segmentation is important in clinical practice. With the advancement of deep learning techniques, many powerful frameworks focusing on medical image segmentation are proposed. In this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-08 Kangqing Ye , Peng Liu , Xiaoyang Zou , Qin Zhou , Guoyan Zheng

Breast density estimation is one of the key tasks in recognizing individuals predisposed to breast cancer. It is often challenging because of low contrast and fluctuations in mammograms' fatty tissue background. Most of the time, the breast…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-11 Vikash Gupta , Mutlu Demirer , Robert W. Maxwell , Richard D. White , Barbaros Selnur Erdal

Early diagnosis of breast cancer is crucial, enabling the establishment of appropriate treatment plans and markedly enhancing patient prognosis. While direct magnetic resonance imaging-guided biopsy demonstrates promising performance in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Kyunghyun Lee , Yong-Min Shin , Minwoo Shin , Jihun Kim , Sunghwan Lim , Won-Yong Shin , Kyungho Yoon

Considering the increased workload in pathology laboratories today, automated tools such as artificial intelligence models can help pathologists with their tasks and ease the workload. In this paper, we are proposing a segmentation model…

Automated segmentation of individual calf muscle compartments from 3D magnetic resonance (MR) images is essential for developing quantitative biomarkers for muscular disease progression and its prediction. Achieving clinically acceptable…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-23 Zhihui Guo , Honghai Zhang , Zhi Chen , Ellen van der Plas , Laurie Gutmann , Daniel Thedens , Peggy Nopoulos , Milan Sonka

Mammogram inspection in search of breast tumors is a tough assignment that radiologists must carry out frequently. Therefore, image analysis methods are needed for the detection and delineation of breast masses, which portray crucial…

Cancer is an abnormal growth with potential to invade locally and metastasize to distant organs. Accurate auto-segmentation of the tumor and surrounding normal tissues is required for radiotherapy treatment plan optimization. Recent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-31 Syed Haider Ali , Asrar Ahmad , Muhammad Ali , Asifullah Khan , Nadeem Shaukat

Objective: In this work, we perform margin assessment of human breast tissue from optical coherence tomography (OCT) images using deep neural networks (DNNs). This work simulates an intraoperative setting for breast cancer lumpectomy.…

Neurofibromatosis Type 1 is a genetic disorder characterized by the development of neurofibromas (NFs), which exhibit significant variability in size, morphology, and anatomical location. Accurate and automated segmentation of these tumors…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Georgii Kolokolnikov , Marie-Lena Schmalhofer , Lennart Well , Said Farschtschi , Victor-Felix Mautner , Inka Ristow , Rene Werner

The segmentation of the breast from the chest wall is an important first step in the analysis of breast magnetic resonance images. 3D U-nets have been shown to obtain high segmentation accuracy and appear to generalize well when trained on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-09 Linde S. Hesse , Grey Kuling , Mitko Veta , Anne L. Martel

For 3D medical image (e.g. CT and MRI) segmentation, the difficulty of segmenting each slice in a clinical case varies greatly. Previous research on volumetric medical image segmentation in a slice-by-slice manner conventionally use the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Wenxuan Wang , Chen Chen , Jing Wang , Sen Zha , Yan Zhang , Jiangyun Li

The integration of machine learning in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), specifically in neuroimaging, is proving to be incredibly effective, leading to better diagnostic accuracy, accelerated image analysis, and data-driven insights, which…

Automatic segmentation of head and neck cancer (HNC) tumors and lymph nodes plays a crucial role in the optimization treatment strategy and prognosis analysis. This study aims to employ nnU-Net for automatic segmentation and radiomics for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-21 Hui Xu , Yihao Li , Wei Zhao , Gwenolé Quellec , Lijun Lu , Mathieu Hatt

Inter-and intra-observer variation in delineating regions of interest (ROIs) occurs because of differences in expertise level and preferences of the radiation oncologists. We evaluated the accuracy of a segmentation model using the U-Net…

Automated breast tumor segmentation on the basis of dynamic contrast-enhancement magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) has shown great promise in clinical practice, particularly for identifying the presence of breast disease. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-13 Lei Zhou , Yuzhong Zhang , Jiadong Zhang , Xuejun Qian , Chen Gong , Kun Sun , Zhongxiang Ding , Xing Wang , Zhenhui Li , Zaiyi Liu , Dinggang Shen

Purpose: To assess whether breast lesion segmentation can be learned directly from acquired MRI k-space, and whether doing so improves robustness when data are accelerated or noisy. Materials and Methods: This retrospective study used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Lukas T. Rotkopf , Marco Schlimbach , Julius C. Holzschuh , Heinz-Peter Schlemmer , Jens Kleesiek , Moritz Rempe

While modern segmentation models often prioritize performance over practicality, we advocate a design philosophy prioritizing simplicity and efficiency, and attempted high performance segmentation model design. This paper presents…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Xiang Yu , Yayan Chen , Guannan He , Qing Zeng , Yue Qin , Meiling Liang , Dandan Luo , Yimei Liao , Zeyu Ren , Cheng Kang , Delong Yang , Bocheng Liang , Bin Pu , Ying Yuan , Shengli Li

This paper proposes an efficient solution for tumor segmentation and classification in breast ultrasound (BUS) images. We propose to add an atrous convolution layer to the conditional generative adversarial network (cGAN) segmentation model…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Vivek Kumar Singh , Hatem A. Rashwan , Mohamed Abdel-Nasser , Md. Mostafa Kamal Sarker , Farhan Akram , Nidhi Pandey , Santiago Romani , Domenec Puig

Accurate segmentation of breast lesions is a crucial step in evaluating the characteristics of tumors. However, this is a challenging task, since breast lesions have sophisticated shape, topological structure, and variation in the intensity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Sulaiman Vesal , Nishant Ravikumar , Stephan Ellman , Andreas Maier

Accurate automatic brain tumor segmentation in Low and Middle-Income (LMIC) countries is challenging due to the lack of defined national imaging protocols, diverse imaging data, extensive use of low-field Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)…