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Brain tumor segmentation is a challenging problem in medical image analysis. The endpoint is to generate the salient masks that accurately identify brain tumor regions in an fMRI screening. In this paper, we propose a novel attention gate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-08 Tim Cvetko

Segmentation is one of the most significant steps in image processing. Segmenting an image is a technique that makes it possible to separate a digital image into various areas based on the different characteristics of pixels in the image.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-20 Sina Derakhshandeh , Ali Mahloojifar

Proper segmentation of organs-at-risk is important for radiation therapy, surgical planning, and diagnostic decision-making in medical image analysis. While deep learning-based segmentation architectures have made significant progress, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Riad Hassan , M. Rubaiyat Hossain Mondal , Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed , Fahad Mostafa , Md Mostafijur Rahman

Accurate visualization of liver tumors and their surrounding blood vessels is essential for noninvasive diagnosis and prognosis prediction of tumors. In medical image segmentation, there is still a lack of in-depth research on the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-21 Haopeng Kuang , Dingkang Yang , Shunli Wang , Xiaoying Wang , Lihua Zhang

Computer-aided segmentation methods can assist medical personnel in improving diagnostic outcomes. While recent advancements like UNet and its variants have shown promise, they face a critical challenge: balancing accuracy with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-03 Abhijit Das , Debesh Jha , Vandan Gorade , Koushik Biswas , Hongyi Pan , Zheyuan Zhang , Daniela P. Ladner , Yury Velichko , Amir Borhani , Ulas Bagci

Meningiomas are the most common type of primary brain tumor, accounting for approximately 30% of all brain tumors. A substantial number of these tumors are never surgically removed but rather monitored over time. Automatic and precise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-20 David Bouget , André Pedersen , Sayied Abdol Mohieb Hosainey , Ole Solheim , Ingerid Reinertsen

This paper proposes a novel cascaded U-Net for brain tumor segmentation. Inspired by the distinct hierarchical structure of brain tumor, we design a cascaded deep network framework, in which the whole tumor is segmented firstly and then the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-19 Hongying Liu , Xiongjie Shen , Fanhua Shang , Fei Wang

We propose combining memory saving techniques with traditional U-Net architectures to increase the complexity of the models on the Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) challenge. The BraTS challenge consists of a 3D segmentation of a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-22 Mihir Pendse , Vithursan Thangarasa , Vitaliy Chiley , Ryan Holmdahl , Joel Hestness , Dennis DeCoste

This study focuses on comparing deep learning methods for the segmentation and quantification of uncertainty in prostate segmentation from MRI images. The aim is to improve the workflow of prostate cancer detection and diagnosis. Seven…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-10 Pablo Cesar Quihui-Rubio , Daniel Flores-Araiza , Gilberto Ochoa-Ruiz , Miguel Gonzalez-Mendoza , Christian Mata

Incorporating human domain knowledge for breast tumor diagnosis is challenging, since shape, boundary, curvature, intensity, or other common medical priors vary significantly across patients and cannot be employed. This work proposes a new…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-03 Aleksandar Vakanski , Min Xian , Phoebe Freer

Previously, image interpretation in radiology relied heavily on manual methods. However, manual classification of brain tumor medical images is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Even with shallow convolutional neural network models, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Yufeng Li , Wenchao Zhao , Bo Dang , Weimin Wang

The accurate automatic segmentation of gliomas and its intra-tumoral structures is important not only for treatment planning but also for follow-up evaluations. Several methods based on 2D and 3D Deep Neural Networks (DNN) have been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-28 Parth Natekar , Avinash Kori , Ganapathy Krishnamurthi

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

In medical images, various types of lesions often manifest significant differences in their shape and texture. Accurate medical image segmentation demands deep learning models with robust capabilities in multi-scale and boundary feature…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-20 Zhenhuan Zhou , Along He , Yanlin Wu , Rui Yao , Xueshuo Xie , Tao Li

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been used quite successfully for semantic segmentation of brain tumors. However, current CNNs and attention mechanisms are stochastic in nature and neglect the morphological indicators used by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-12 Andrea Liew , Chun Cheng Lee , Boon Leong Lan , Maxine Tan

The advancements in deep learning technologies have produced immense contributions to biomedical image analysis applications. With breast cancer being the common deadliest disease among women, early detection is the key means to improve…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-04 Narinder Singh Punn , Sonali Agarwal

Medical image segmentation plays a pivotal role in automated diagnostic and treatment planning systems. In this work, we present DAUNet, a novel lightweight UNet variant that integrates Deformable V2 Convolutions and Parameter-Free…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Adnan Munir , Muhammad Shahid Jabbar , Shujaat Khan

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and vision transformers (ViTs) are widely employed for medical image segmentation, but they are still challenged by their intrinsic characteristics. CNNs are limited from capturing varying-scaled…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Jin Yang , Daniel S. Marcus , Aristeidis Sotiras

Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) plays a critical role in clinical diagnosis, treatment planning, and monitoring the progression of brain tumors. However, due to the variability in tumor appearance, size, and intensity across different MRI…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-19 Hongjun Zhu , Jiaohang Huang , Kuo Chen , Xuehui Ying , Ying Qian

Despite the growing success of Convolution neural networks (CNN) in the recent past in the task of scene segmentation, the standard models lack some of the important features that might result in sub-optimal segmentation outputs. The widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Soham Chattopadhyay , Hritam Basak