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Semantic image segmentation is one of the most important tasks in medical image analysis. Most state-of-the-art deep learning methods require a large number of accurately annotated examples for model training. However, accurate annotation…

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Segmentation of certain hollow organs, such as the bladder, is especially hard to automate due to their complex geometry, vague intensity gradients in the soft tissues, and a tedious manual process of the data annotation routine. Yet,…

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To help address the occlusion problem in panoptic segmentation and image understanding, this paper proposes a new large-scale dataset named COCO-OLAC (COCO Occlusion Labels for All Computer Vision Tasks), which is derived from the COCO…

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The remarkable performance of large multimodal models (LMMs) has attracted significant interest from the image segmentation community. To align with the next-token-prediction paradigm, current LMM-driven segmentation methods either use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Tao Wang , Changxu Cheng , Lingfeng Wang , Senda Chen , Wuyue Zhao

Retinal optical coherence tomography (OCT) images provide crucial insights into the health of the posterior ocular segment. Therefore, the advancement of automated image analysis methods is imperative to equip clinicians and researchers…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-16 Jiahao Wang , Hong Peng , Shengchao Chen , Sufen Ren

Accurate segmentation of tubular topological structures (e.g., fissures and vasculature) is critical in various fields to guarantee dependable downstream quantitative analysis and modeling. However, in dense prediction tasks such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yiqi Chen , Ganghai Huang , Sheng Zhang , Jianglin Dai

Segmentation of histopathology sections is an ubiquitous requirement in digital pathology and due to the large variability of biological tissue, machine learning techniques have shown superior performance over standard image processing…

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Automatic evaluation of the retinal fundus image is emerging as one of the most important tools for early detection and treatment of progressive eye diseases like Glaucoma. Glaucoma results to a progressive degeneration of vision and is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-13 Sneha Dasgupta , Rishav Mukherjee , Kaushik Dutta , Anindya Sen

The reliable segmentation of retinal vasculature can provide the means to diagnose and monitor the progression of a variety of diseases affecting the blood vessel network, including diabetes and hypertension. We leverage the power of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-23 Ali Hatamizadeh , Hamid Hosseini , Zhengyuan Liu , Steven D. Schwartz , Demetri Terzopoulos

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) helps ophthalmologists assess macular edema, accumulation of fluids, and lesions at microscopic resolution. Quantification of retinal fluids is necessary for OCT-guided treatment management, which relies…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-15 Reza Rasti , Armin Biglari , Mohammad Rezapourian , Ziyun Yang , Sina Farsiu

Purpose: (1) To develop a deep learning algorithm to automatically segment structures of the optic nerve head (ONH) and macula in 3D wide-field optical coherence tomography (OCT) scans; (2) To assess whether 3D macula or ONH structures (or…

Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) enables material-specific imaging through acquisitions at two different X-ray energy spectra. Material decomposition from DECT data is an ill-posed inverse problem that is highly sensitive to noise…

Minimally invasive surgery is a surgical intervention used to examine the organs inside the abdomen and has been widely used due to its effectiveness over open surgery. Due to the hardware improvements such as high definition cameras, this…

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Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown excellent performance in object recognition tasks and dense classification problems such as semantic segmentation. However, training deep neural networks on large and sparse datasets is…

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Tracking the pose of instruments is a central problem in image-guided surgery. For microscopic scenarios, optical coherence tomography (OCT) is increasingly used as an imaging modality. OCT is suitable for accurate pose estimation due to…

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Thalamic alterations are relevant to many neurological disorders including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis. Routine interventions to improve symptom severity in movement disorders, for example, often consist…

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Biomedical image segmentation plays a vital role in diagnosis of diseases across various organs. Deep learning-based object detection methods are commonly used for such segmentation. There exists an extensive research in this topic.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-30 Fazli Wahid , Yingliang Ma , Dawar Khan , Muhammad Aamir , Syed U. K. Bukhari

Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma (NPC) is a leading form of Head-and-Neck (HAN) cancer in the Arctic, China, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East/North Africa. Accurate segmentation of Organs-at-Risk (OAR) from Computed Tomography (CT) images with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-04 Wenhui Lei , Haochen Mei , Zhengwentai Sun , Shan Ye , Ran Gu , Huan Wang , Rui Huang , Shichuan Zhang , Shaoting Zhang , Guotai Wang

Given the capacity of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) imaging to display symptoms of a wide variety of eye diseases and neurological disorders, the need for OCT image segmentation and the corresponding data interpretation is latterly…

Corneal endothelial cell segmentation plays a vital role inquantifying clinical indicators such as cell density, coefficient of variation,and hexagonality. However, the corneal endothelium's uneven reflectionand the subject's tremor and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Yinglin Zhang , Risa Higashita , Huazhu Fu , Yanwu Xu , Yang Zhang , Haofeng Liu , Jian Zhang , Jiang Liu