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Glomeruli are histological structures of the kidney cortex formed by interwoven blood capillaries, and are responsible for blood filtration. Glomerular lesions impair kidney filtration capability, leading to protein loss and metabolic waste…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Paulo Chagas , Luiz Souza , Ikaro Araújo , Nayze Aldeman , Angelo Duarte , Michele Angelo , Washington LC dos-Santos , Luciano Oliveira

The automatic segmentation of kidney, kidney tumor and kidney cyst on Computed Tomography (CT) scans is a challenging task due to the indistinct lesion boundaries and fuzzy texture. Considering the large range and unbalanced distribution of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-28 Cancan Chen , RongguoZhang

Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) affects millions of people worldwide, yet its early detection remains challenging, especially in outpatient settings where laboratory-based renal biomarkers are often unavailable. In this work, we investigate…

To evaluate the translational capabilities of foundation models, we develop a pathological concept learning approach focused on kidney cancer. By leveraging TNM staging guidelines and pathology reports, we build comprehensive pathological…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Shangqi Gao , Sihan Wang , Yibo Gao , Boming Wang , Xiahai Zhuang , Anne Warren , Grant Stewart , James Jones , Mireia Crispin-Ortuzar

In the cancer diagnosis pipeline, digital pathology plays an instrumental role in the identification, staging, and grading of malignant areas on biopsy tissue specimens. High resolution histology images are subject to high variance in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-17 Vasileios Magoulianitis , Catherine A. Alexander , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Parkinson's Disease (PD) affects millions globally, impacting movement. Prior research utilized deep learning for PD prediction, primarily focusing on medical images, neglecting the data's underlying manifold structure. This work proposes a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Jun-En Ding , Chien-Chin Hsu , Feng Liu

Renal structure segmentation from computed tomography angiography~(CTA) is essential for many computer-assisted renal cancer treatment applications. Kidney PArsing~(KiPA 2022) Challenge aims to build a fine-grained multi-structure dataset…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Haoyu Wang , Ziyan Huang , Jin Ye , Can Tu , Yuncheng Yang , Shiyi Du , Zhongying Deng , Chenglong Ma , Jingqi Niu , Junjun He

This project aims to break down large pathology images into small tiles and then cluster those tiles into distinct groups without the knowledge of true labels, our analysis shows how difficult certain aspects of clustering tumorous and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Mostafa Ibrahim , Kevin Bryson

Segmentation of abdominal computed tomography(CT) provides spatial context, morphological properties, and a framework for tissue-specific radiomics to guide quantitative Radiological assessment. A 2015 MICCAI challenge spurred substantial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-12 Yuchen Xu , Olivia Tang , Yucheng Tang , Ho Hin Lee , Yunqiang Chen , Dashan Gao , Shizhong Han , Riqiang Gao , Michael R. Savona , Richard G. Abramson , Yuankai Huo , Bennett A. Landman

Liver lesion segmentation is an important step for liver cancer diagnosis, treatment planning and treatment evaluation. LiTS (Liver Tumor Segmentation Challenge) provides a common testbed for comparing different automatic liver lesion…

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Digital pathology offers a groundbreaking opportunity to transform clinical practice in histopathological image analysis, yet faces a significant hurdle: the substantial file sizes of pathological Whole Slide Images (WSI). While current…

Pancreas segmentation is challenging due to the small proportion and highly changeable anatomical structure. It motivates us to propose a novel segmentation framework, namely Curriculum Knowledge Switching (CKS) framework, which decomposes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Yumou Tang , Kun Zhan , Zhibo Tian , Mingxuan Zhang , Saisai Wang , Xueming Wen

This work addresses how to efficiently classify challenging histopathology images, such as gigapixel whole-slide images for cancer diagnostics with image-level annotation. We use images with annotated tumor regions to identify a set of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Mohammad Iqbal Nouyed , Mary-Anne Hartley , Gianfranco Doretto , Donald A. Adjeroh

Background: Parkinson's disease (PD) is a prevalent long-term neurodegenerative disease. Though the diagnostic criteria of PD are relatively well defined, the current medical imaging diagnostic procedures are expertise-demanding, and thus…

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Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) affects nearly 10\% of the global population and often progresses to end-stage renal failure. Accurate prognosis prediction is vital for timely interventions and resource optimization. We present a…

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Prostate cancer is the most prevalent cancer among men in Western countries, with 1.1 million new diagnoses every year. The gold standard for the diagnosis of prostate cancer is a pathologists' evaluation of prostate tissue. To potentially…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Hans Pinckaers , Wouter Bulten , Jeroen van der Laak , Geert Litjens

Renal pathology, as the gold standard of kidney disease diagnosis, requires doctors to analyze a series of tissue slices stained by H&E staining and special staining like Masson, PASM, and PAS, respectively. These special staining methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Tao Ma , Chao Zhang , Min Lu , Lin Luo

Early detection and assessment of polyps play a crucial role in the prevention and treatment of colorectal cancer (CRC). Polyp segmentation provides an effective solution to assist clinicians in accurately locating and segmenting polyp…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Jiaxin Mei , Tao Zhou , Kaiwen Huang , Yizhe Zhang , Yi Zhou , Ye Wu , Huazhu Fu

Size measurements of tumor manifestations on follow-up CT examinations are crucial for evaluating treatment outcomes in cancer patients. Efficient lesion segmentation can speed up these radiological workflows. While numerous benchmarks and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-24 M. J. J. de Grauw , E. Th. Scholten , E. J. Smit , M. J. C. M. Rutten , M. Prokop , B. van Ginneken , A. Hering

The kidney exchange problem (KEP) seeks to find possible exchanges among pairs of patients and their incompatible kidney donors while meeting specific optimization criteria such as maximizing the overall number of possible transplants.…

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