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3D lung segmentation is essential since it processes the volumetric information of the lungs, removes the unnecessary areas of the scan, and segments the actual area of the lungs in a 3D volume. Recently, the deep learning model, such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-07 Dhaval D. Kadia , Md Zahangir Alom , Ranga Burada , Tam V. Nguyen , Vijayan K. Asari

Retinal imaging serves as a valuable tool for diagnosis of various diseases. However, reading retinal images is a difficult and time-consuming task even for experienced specialists. The fundamental step towards automated retinal image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Liangzhi Li , Manisha Verma , Yuta Nakashima , Ryo Kawasaki , Hajime Nagahara

Analyzing the morphological attributes of blood vessels plays a critical role in the computer-aided diagnosis of many cardiovascular and ophthalmologic diseases. Although being extensively studied, segmentation of blood vessels,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-12 Yicheng Wu , Chengwei Pan , Shuqi Wang , Ming Zhang , Yong Xia , Yizhou Yu

Retinal vessel segmentation is of great interest for diagnosis of retinal vascular diseases. To further improve the performance of vessel segmentation, we propose IterNet, a new model based on UNet, with the ability to find obscured details…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-13 Liangzhi Li , Manisha Verma , Yuta Nakashima , Hajime Nagahara , Ryo Kawasaki

Recent advancements in AI have significantly transformed medical imaging, particularly in angiography, by enhancing diagnostic precision and patient care. However existing works are limited in analyzing the aorta and iliac arteries, above…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Vazgen Zohranyan , Vagner Navasardyan , Hayk Navasardyan , Jan Borggrefe , Shant Navasardyan

Retinal vessel segmentation plays an imaportant role in the field of retinal image analysis because changes in retinal vascular structure can aid in the diagnosis of diseases such as hypertension and diabetes. In recent research, numerous…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-09 Changlu Guo , Márton Szemenyei , Yugen Yi , Ying Xue , Wei Zhou , Yangyuan Li

In this paper, a novel framework for automated liver segmentation via a level set formulation is presented. A sparse representation of both global (region-based) and local (voxel-wise) image information is embedded in a level set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-06 Saif Dawood Salman Al-Shaikhli , Michael Ying Yang , Bodo Rosenhahn

Automatic liver segmentation in 3D medical images is essential in many clinical applications, such as pathological diagnosis of hepatic diseases, surgical planning, and postoperative assessment. However, it is still a very challenging task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Dong Yang , Daguang Xu , S. Kevin Zhou , Bogdan Georgescu , Mingqing Chen , Sasa Grbic , Dimitris Metaxas , Dorin Comaniciu

The analysis of retinal images for the diagnosis of various diseases is one of the emerging areas of research. Recently, the research direction has been inclined towards investigating several changes in retinal blood vessels in subjects…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Mehwish Mehmood , Shahzaib Iqbal , Tariq Mahmood Khan , Ivor Spence , Muhammad Fahim

Accurate segmentation of blood vessels is essential for various clinical assessments and postoperative analyses. However, the inherent challenges of vascular imaging, such as sparsity, fine granularity, low contrast, data distribution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Dongning Song , Weijian Huang , Jiarun Liu , Md Jahidul Islam , Hao Yang , Shanshan Wang

Biomedical image segmentation is one of the fastest growing fields which has seen extensive automation through the use of Artificial Intelligence. This has enabled widespread adoption of accurate techniques to expedite the screening and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-12 Shashank Shekhar , Ritika Nandi , H Srikanth Kamath

This work explores the use of computer vision for image segmentation and classification of medical fluid samples in transparent containers (for example, tubes, syringes, infusion bags). Handling fluids such as infusion fluids, blood, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Sagi Eppel , Haoping Xu , Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Blood vessel networks in the brain play a crucial role in stroke research, where understanding their topology is essential for analyzing blood flow dynamics. However, extracting detailed topological vessel network information from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Joël Mathys , Andreas Plesner , Jorel Elmiger , Roger Wattenhofer

Semantic image segmentation plays an important role in modeling patient-specific anatomy. We propose a convolution neural network, called Kid-Net, along with a training schema to segment kidney vessels: artery, vein and collecting system.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Ahmed Taha , Pechin Lo , Junning Li , Tao Zhao

The segmentation of the retinal vasculature from eye fundus images represents one of the most fundamental tasks in retinal image analysis. Over recent years, increasingly complex approaches based on sophisticated Convolutional Neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-07 Adrian Galdran , André Anjos , José Dolz , Hadi Chakor , Hervé Lombaert , Ismail Ben Ayed

The preoperative planning of liver surgery relies on Couinaud segmentation from computed tomography (CT) images, to reduce the risk of bleeding and guide the resection procedure. Using 3D point-based representations, rather than voxelizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Xiaotong Zhang , Alexander Broersen , Gonnie CM van Erp , Silvia L. Pintea , Jouke Dijkstra

We propose an encoder-decoder framework for the segmentation of blood vessels in retinal images that relies on the extraction of large-scale patches at multiple image-scales during training. Experiments on three fundus image datasets…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-26 Björn Browatzki , Jörn-Philipp Lies , Christian Wallraven

Background and objective: In this paper, a modified U-Net based framework is presented, which leverages techniques from Squeeze-and-Excitation (SE) block, Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling (ASPP) and residual learning for accurate and robust…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-20 Jinke Wang , Peiqing Lv , Haiying Wang , Changfa Shi

Vasculature is known to be of key biological significance, especially in the study of cancer. As such, considerable effort has been focused on the automated measurement and analysis of vasculature in medical and pre-clinical images. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-29 Russell Bates , Benjamin Irving , Bostjan Markelc , Jakob Kaeppler , Ruth Muschel , Vicente Grau , Julia A. Schnabel

Accurate segmentation of 3D medical scans is crucial for clinical diagnostics and treatment planning, yet existing methods often fail to achieve both high accuracy and computational efficiency across diverse anatomies and imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Chenxin Yuan , Shoupeng Chen , Haojiang Ye , Yiming Miao , Limei Peng , Pin-Han Ho