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Interactive segmentation is a crucial research area in medical image analysis aiming to boost the efficiency of costly annotations by incorporating human feedback. This feedback takes the form of clicks, scribbles, or masks and allows for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Zdravko Marinov , Paul F. Jäger , Jan Egger , Jens Kleesiek , Rainer Stiefelhagen

The rapid increase of computed tomography (CT) scans and their time-consuming manual analysis have created an urgent need for robust automated analysis techniques in clinical settings. These aim to assist radiologists and help them managing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Theo Di Piazza , Carole Lazarus , Olivier Nempont , Loic Boussel

Automatic radiology report generation can alleviate the workload for physicians and minimize regional disparities in medical resources, therefore becoming an important topic in the medical image analysis field. It is a challenging task, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Xinyi Wang , Grazziela Figueredo , Ruizhe Li , Wei Emma Zhang , Weitong Chen , Xin Chen

We propose a dual pathway, 11-layers deep, three-dimensional Convolutional Neural Network for the challenging task of brain lesion segmentation. The devised architecture is the result of an in-depth analysis of the limitations of current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Konstantinos Kamnitsas , Christian Ledig , Virginia F. J. Newcombe , Joanna P. Simpson , Andrew D. Kane , David K. Menon , Daniel Rueckert , Ben Glocker

Medical image interpretation is central to most clinical applications such as disease diagnosis, treatment planning, and prognostication. In clinical practice, radiologists examine medical images and manually compile their findings into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Nurbanu Aksoy , Nishant Ravikumar , Alejandro F Frangi

For robot-assisted surgery, an accurate surgical report reflects clinical operations during surgery and helps document entry tasks, post-operative analysis and follow-up treatment. It is a challenging task due to many complex and diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Hongqiu Wang , Yueming Jin , Lei Zhu

Analyzing CT scans, MRIs and X-rays is pivotal in diagnosing and treating diseases. However, detecting and identifying abnormalities from such medical images is a time-intensive process that requires expert analysis and is prone to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-14 Daniel Syomichev , Padmini Gopinath , Guang-Lin Wei , Eric Chang , Ian Gordon , Amanuel Seifu , Rahul Pemmaraju , Neehar Peri , James Purtilo

Generating automated reports for 3D positron emission tomography (PET) is an important and challenging task in medical imaging. PET plays a vital role in oncology, but automating report generation is difficult due to the complexity of…

Accurate medical image segmentation is essential for diagnosis, surgical planning and many other applications. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have become the state-of-the-art automatic segmentation methods. However, fully automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Guotai Wang , Maria A. Zuluaga , Wenqi Li , Rosalind Pratt , Premal A. Patel , Michael Aertsen , Tom Doel , Anna L. David , Jan Deprest , Sebastien Ourselin , Tom Vercauteren

Semantic segmentation of medical images is pivotal in applications like disease diagnosis and treatment planning. While deep learning has excelled in automating this task, a major hurdle is the need for numerous annotated segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-02 Li Zhang , Basu Jindal , Ahmed Alaa , Robert Weinreb , David Wilson , Eran Segal , James Zou , Pengtao Xie

Interactive segmentation allows efficient label generation by leveraging user-provided clicks to progressively refine predictions, which is critical when fully supervised labels are costly or generalization to unseen classes is needed.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xueyang Kang , Zijian Yu , Kourosh Khoshelham , Liangliang Nan

When delineating lesions from medical images, a human expert can always keep in mind the anatomical structure behind the voxels. However, although high-quality (though not perfect) anatomical information can be retrieved from computed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-04 Rongzhao Zhang , Zhian Bai , Ruoying Yu , Wenrao Pang , Lingyun Wang , Lifeng Zhu , Xiaofan Zhang , Huan Zhang , Weiguo Hu

Building a large-scale training dataset is an essential problem in the development of medical image recognition systems. Visual grounding techniques, which automatically associate objects in images with corresponding descriptions, can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Akimichi Ichinose , Taro Hatsutani , Keigo Nakamura , Yoshiro Kitamura , Satoshi Iizuka , Edgar Simo-Serra , Shoji Kido , Noriyuki Tomiyama

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance for automatic medical image segmentation. However, they have not demonstrated sufficiently accurate and robust results for clinical use. In addition, they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Guotai Wang , Wenqi Li , Maria A. Zuluaga , Rosalind Pratt , Premal A. Patel , Michael Aertsen , Tom Doel , Anna L. David , Jan Deprest , Sebastien Ourselin , Tom Vercauteren

Diffusion models have shown impressive performance for generative modelling of images. In this paper, we present a novel semantic segmentation method based on diffusion models. By modifying the training and sampling scheme, we show that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Julia Wolleb , Robin Sandkühler , Florentin Bieder , Philippe Valmaggia , Philippe C. Cattin

PET imaging is an invaluable tool in clinical settings as it captures the functional activity of both healthy anatomy and cancerous lesions. Developing automatic lesion segmentation methods for PET images is crucial since manual lesion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Tanya Gatsak , Kumar Abhishek , Hanene Ben Yedder , Saeid Asgari Taghanaki , Ghassan Hamarneh

Recent advances in deep learning have enabled researchers to explore tasks at the intersection of computer vision and natural language processing, such as image captioning, visual question answering, visual dialogue, and visual language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Sonit Singh

The goal of automatic report generation is to generate a clinically accurate and coherent phrase from a single given X-ray image, which could alleviate the workload of traditional radiology reporting. However, in a real-world scenario,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Tiancheng Gu , Dongnan Liu , Zhiyuan Li , Weidong Cai

This paper introduces an innovative methodology for producing high-quality 3D lung CT images guided by textual information. While diffusion-based generative models are increasingly used in medical imaging, current state-of-the-art…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-16 Yanwu Xu , Li Sun , Wei Peng , Shuyue Jia , Katelyn Morrison , Adam Perer , Afrooz Zandifar , Shyam Visweswaran , Motahhare Eslami , Kayhan Batmanghelich

The increasing availability of digital 3D environments, whether through image-based 3D reconstruction, generation, or scans obtained by robots, is driving innovation across various applications. These come with a significant demand for 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Andrea Simonelli , Norman Müller , Peter Kontschieder