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Subcortical segmentation remains challenging despite its important applications in quantitative structural analysis of brain MRI scans. The most accurate method, manual segmentation, is highly labor intensive, so automated tools like…

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Purposes: This study aimed to develop a computed tomography (CT)-based multi-organ segmentation model for delineating organs-at-risk (OARs) in pediatric upper abdominal tumors and evaluate its robustness across multiple datasets. Materials…

Nowadays, cardiac diagnosis largely depends on left ventricular function assessment. With the help of the segmentation deep learning model, the assessment of the left ventricle becomes more accessible and accurate. However, deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Hang Duong Thi Thuy , Tuan Nguyen Minh , Phi Nguyen Van , Long Tran Quoc

Liver cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer death. To assist doctors in hepatocellular carcinoma diagnosis and treatment planning, an accurate and automatic liver and tumor segmentation method is highly demanded in the clinical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Xiaomeng Li , Hao Chen , Xiaojuan Qi , Qi Dou , Chi-Wing Fu , Pheng Ann Heng

We present a deep learning segmentation model that can automatically and robustly segment all major anatomical structures in body CT images. In this retrospective study, 1204 CT examinations (from the years 2012, 2016, and 2020) were used…

Deep learning has shown great promise in the ability to automatically annotate organs in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, for example, of the brain. However, despite advancements in the field, the ability to accurately segment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Cosmin Ciausu , Deepa Krishnaswamy , Benjamin Billot , Steve Pieper , Ron Kikinis , Andrey Fedorov

Colon polyps are considered important precursors for colorectal cancer. Automatic segmentation of colon polyps can significantly reduce the misdiagnosis of colon cancer and improve physician annotation efficiency. While many methods have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-02 Yuheng Li , Mingzhe Hu , Xiaofeng Yang

Polyps are well-known cancer precursors identified by colonoscopy. However, variability in their size, location, and surface largely affect identification, localisation, and characterisation. Moreover, colonoscopic surveillance and removal…

Colorectal cancer from the appearance of polyps that can be benign or malignant is one of the most fatal diseases in the world. To find these polyps in patients, colonoscopy is performed, which is a very efficient technique in this case.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-30 Marcus V. L. Branch , Adriele S. Carvalho

In this work, we propose to resolve the issue existing in current deep learning based organ segmentation systems that they often produce results that do not capture the overall shape of the target organ and often lack smoothness. Since…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Yuan Xue , Hui Tang , Zhi Qiao , Guanzhong Gong , Yong Yin , Zhen Qian , Chao Huang , Wei Fan , Xiaolei Huang

Detection of colon polyps has become a trending topic in the intersecting fields of machine learning and gastrointestinal endoscopy. The focus has mainly been on per-frame classification. More recently, polyp segmentation has gained…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-02 Vajira Thambawita , Steven A. Hicks , Pål Halvorsen , Michael A. Riegler

The wide range of research in deep learning-based medical image segmentation pushed the boundaries in a multitude of applications. A clinically relevant problem that received less attention is the handling of scans with irregular anatomy,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Anne-Marie Rickmann , Murong Xu , Tom Nuno Wolf , Oksana Kovalenko , Christian Wachinger

Automated segmentation tools often encounter accuracy and adaptability issues when applied to images of different pathology. The purpose of this study is to explore the feasibility of building a workflow to efficiently route images to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-06 Peilong Wang , Timothy L. Kline , Andy D. Missert , Cole J. Cook , Matthew R. Callstrom , Alex Chan , Robert P. Hartman , Zachary S. Kelm , Panagiotis Korfiatis

There has been a significant increase from 2010 to 2016 in the number of people suffering from spine problems. The automatic image segmentation of the spine obtained from a computed tomography (CT) image is important for diagnosing spine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Malinda Vania , Dawit Mureja , Deukhee Lee

In medical imaging, accurate image segmentation is crucial for quantifying diseases, assessing prognosis, and evaluating treatment outcomes. However, existing methods lack an in-depth integration of global and local features, failing to pay…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-15 Yizhi Pan , Junyi Xin , Tianhua Yang , Teeradaj Racharak , Le-Minh Nguyen , Guanqun Sun

Biomedical image segmentation is a very important part in disease diagnosis. The term "colonic polyps" refers to polypoid lesions that occur on the surface of the colonic mucosa within the intestinal lumen. In clinical practice, early…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Chen Peng , Zhiqin Qian , Kunyu Wang , Qi Luo , Zhuming Bi , Wenjun Zhang

Recent advances in 3D fully convolutional networks (FCN) have made it feasible to produce dense voxel-wise predictions of full volumetric images. In this work, we show that a multi-class 3D FCN trained on manually labeled CT scans of seven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Holger R. Roth , Hirohisa Oda , Yuichiro Hayashi , Masahiro Oda , Natsuki Shimizu , Michitaka Fujiwara , Kazunari Misawa , Kensaku Mori

Automatic segmentation of lesions in FDG-18 Whole Body (WB) PET/CT scans using deep learning models is instrumental for determining treatment response, optimizing dosimetry, and advancing theranostic applications in oncology. However, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-06 Gowtham Krishnan Murugesan , Diana McCrumb , Eric Brunner , Jithendra Kumar , Rahul Soni , Vasily Grigorash , Stephen Moore , Jeff Van Oss

Quantifying axon and myelin properties (e.g., axon diameter, myelin thickness, g-ratio) in histology images can provide useful information about microstructural changes caused by neurodegenerative diseases. Automatic tissue segmentation is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-19 Armand Collin , Arthur Boschet , Mathieu Boudreau , Julien Cohen-Adad

Tooth image segmentation is a cornerstone of dental digitization. However, traditional image encoders relying on fixed-resolution feature maps often lead to discontinuous segmentation and poor discrimination between target regions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Xinxin Zhao , Jian Jiang , Yan Tian , Liqin Wu , Zhaocheng Xu , Teddy Yang , Yunuo Zou , Xun Wang