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Scarcity of annotated images hampers the building of automated solution for reliable COVID-19 diagnosis and evaluation from CT. To alleviate the burden of data annotation, we herein present a label-free approach for segmenting COVID-19…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-15 Qingsong Yao , Li Xiao , Peihang Liu , S. Kevin Zhou

Current vision-language models (VLMs) in medicine are primarily designed for categorical question answering (e.g., "Is this normal or abnormal?") or qualitative descriptive tasks. However, clinical decision-making often relies on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yongcheng Yao , Yongshuo Zong , Raman Dutt , Yongxin Yang , Sotirios A Tsaftaris , Timothy Hospedales

With the growing volume of CT examinations, there is an increasing demand for automated tools such as organ segmentation, abnormality detection, and report generation to support radiologists in managing their clinical workload. Multi-label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Theo Di Piazza , Carole Lazarus , Olivier Nempont , Loic Boussel

We introduce the largest abdominal CT dataset (termed AbdomenAtlas) of 20,460 three-dimensional CT volumes sourced from 112 hospitals across diverse populations, geographies, and facilities. AbdomenAtlas provides 673K high-quality masks of…

In this work we present a method for the detection of radiological findings, their location and differential diagnoses from chest x-rays. Unlike prior works that focus on the detection of few pathologies, we use a hierarchical taxonomy…

The field of medical diagnostics contains a wealth of challenges which closely resemble classical machine learning problems; practical constraints, however, complicate the translation of these endpoints naively into classical architectures.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Li Yao , Eric Poblenz , Dmitry Dagunts , Ben Covington , Devon Bernard , Kevin Lyman

Medical report generation has achieved remarkable advancements yet has still been faced with several challenges. First, the inherent imbalance in the distribution of normal and abnormal cases may lead models to exhibit a biased focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Zhixuan Chen , Luyang Luo , Yequan Bie , Hao Chen

Vision-language pretraining has advanced image-text alignment, yet progress in radiology remains constrained by the heterogeneity of clinical reports, including abbreviations, impression-only notes, and stylistic variability. Unlike…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Hanbin Ko , Gihun Cho , Inhyeok Baek , Donguk Kim , Joonbeom Koo , Changi Kim , Dongheon Lee , Chang Min Park

Modern machine learning pipelines, in particular those based on deep learning (DL) models, require large amounts of labeled data. For classification problems, the most common learning paradigm consists of presenting labeled examples during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Jacopo Teneggi , Paul H. Yi , Jeremias Sulam

Purpose: Interpreting chest radiographs (CXR) remains challenging due to the ambiguity of overlapping structures such as the lungs, heart, and bones. To address this issue, we propose a novel method for extracting fine-grained anatomical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-08 Constantin Seibold , Alexander Jaus , Matthias A. Fink , Moon Kim , Simon Reiß , Ken Herrmann , Jens Kleesiek , Rainer Stiefelhagen

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

Finding abnormal lymph nodes in radiological images is highly important for various medical tasks such as cancer metastasis staging and radiotherapy planning. Lymph nodes (LNs) are small glands scattered throughout the body. They are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Ke Yan , Dakai Jin , Dazhou Guo , Minfeng Xu , Na Shen , Xian-Sheng Hua , Xianghua Ye , Le Lu

Whole abdominal organ segmentation is important in diagnosing abdomen lesions, radiotherapy, and follow-up. However, oncologists' delineating all abdominal organs from 3D volumes is time-consuming and very expensive. Deep learning-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-14 Xiangde Luo , Wenjun Liao , Jianghong Xiao , Jieneng Chen , Tao Song , Xiaofan Zhang , Kang Li , Dimitris N. Metaxas , Guotai Wang , Shaoting Zhang

With the increasing number of CT scan examinations, there is a need for automated methods such as organ segmentation, anomaly detection and report generation to assist radiologists in managing their increasing workload. Multi-label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Theo Di Piazza , Carole Lazarus , Olivier Nempont , Loic Boussel

Medical image analysis is essential in modern healthcare. Deep learning has redirected research focus toward complex medical multimodal tasks, including report generation and visual question answering. Traditional task-specific models often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Yiming Shi , Shaoshuai Yang , Xun Zhu , Haoyu Wang , Xiangling Fu , Miao Li , Ji Wu

This paper presents a novel approach for detection of liver abnormalities in an automated manner using ultrasound images. For this purpose, we have implemented a machine learning model that can not only generate labels (normal and abnormal)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Kanza Hamid , Amina Asif , Wajid Abbasi , Durre Sabih , Fayyaz Minhas

Artificial intelligence (AI) shows great potential in assisting radiologists to improve the efficiency and accuracy of medical image interpretation and diagnosis. However, a versatile AI model requires large-scale data and comprehensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Zhongyi Shui , Jianpeng Zhang , Weiwei Cao , Sinuo Wang , Ruizhe Guo , Le Lu , Lin Yang , Xianghua Ye , Tingbo Liang , Qi Zhang , Ling Zhang

While large language models (LLMs) have advanced CT report generation, existing methods typically encode 3D volumes holistically, failing to distinguish informative cues from redundant anatomical background. Inspired by radiological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Yuhe Tian , Kun Zhang , Haoran Ma , Rui Yan , Yingtai Li , Rongsheng Wang , Shaohua Kevin Zhou

Radiology report generation, as a key step in medical image analysis, is critical to the quantitative analysis of clinically informed decision-making levels. However, complex and diverse radiology reports with cross-source heterogeneity…