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We propose an optimized U-Net architecture for a brain tumor segmentation task in the BraTS21 challenge. To find the optimal model architecture and the learning schedule, we have run an extensive ablation study to test: deep supervision…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-28 Michał Futrega , Alexandre Milesi , Michal Marcinkiewicz , Pablo Ribalta

Accurate and automatic segmentation of brain tumors in multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI) is essential for quantitative measurements, which play an increasingly important role in clinical diagnosis and prognosis. The…

The diagnosis of brain cancer relies heavily on medical imaging techniques, with MRI being the most commonly used. It is necessary to perform automatic segmentation of brain tumors on MRI images. This project intends to build an MRI…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-28 Yuxiang Hu , Haowei Yang , Ting Xu , Shuyao He , Jiajie Yuan , Haozhang Deng

Automatic brain tumor segmentation from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) data plays an important role in assessing tumor response to therapy and personalized treatment stratification.Manual segmentation is tedious and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-29 Hadas Ben-Atya , Ori Rajchert , Liran Goshen , Moti Freiman

In the realm of medical diagnostics, rapid advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have significantly yielded remarkable improvements in brain tumor segmentation. Encoder-Decoder architectures, such as U-Net, have played a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Eyad Gad , Seif Soliman , M. Saeed Darweesh

Convolutional Neural Networks (ConvNets or CNNs) have been candidly deployed in the scope of computer vision and related fields. Nevertheless, the dynamics of training of these neural networks lie still elusive: it is hard and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Nguyen Huu Phong , Augusto Santos , Bernardete Ribeiro

Breast cancer is considered the most critical and frequently diagnosed cancer in women worldwide, leading to an increase in cancer-related mortality. Early and accurate detection is crucial as it can help mitigate possible threats while…

Real-time trajectory planning for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in dynamic environments remains a key challenge due to high computational demands and the need for fast, adaptive responses. Traditional Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Minze Li , Wei Zhao , Ran Chen , Mingqiang Wei

Accurate segmentation of brain tumors is vital for diagnosis, surgical planning, and treatment monitoring. Deep learning has advanced on benchmarks, but two issues limit clinical use: no uncertainty estimates for errors and no segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Andrew Zhou

With the rapid development of deep learning and computer vision technologies, medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in the early diagnosis of breast cancer. However, due to the characteristics of breast ultrasound images, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Jiajun Ding , Beiyao Zhu , Wenjie Wang , Shurong Zhang , Dian Zhua , Zhao Liua

Cancer of the brain is deadly and requires careful surgical segmentation. The brain tumors were segmented using U-Net using a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). When looking for overlaps of necrotic, edematous, growing, and healthy tissue,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 MD Abdullah Al Nasim , Abdullah Al Munem , Maksuda Islam , Md Aminul Haque Palash , MD. Mahim Anjum Haque , Faisal Muhammad Shah

Retinal vessel segmentation based on deep learning requires a lot of manual labeled data. That is time-consuming, laborious and professional. What is worse, the acquisition of abundant fundus images is difficult. These problems are more…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-13 Qiang Huo

Cancer remains one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide, and among its many forms, brain tumors are particularly notorious due to their aggressive nature and the critical challenges involved in early diagnosis. Recent advances in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-21 Mohammad Mahdi Danesh Pajouh

This paper proposes a new image thresholding segmentation approach using the heuristic method, Convergent Heterogeneous Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm. The proposed algorithm incorporates a new strategy of searching the problem space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Mohammad Hamed Mozaffari , Won-Sook Lee

Automatic segmentation of brain tumors is an essential but challenging step for extracting quantitative imaging biomarkers for accurate tumor detection, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment planning and assessment. Multimodal Brain Tumor…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-30 Yading Yuan

Accurate lesion segmentation in ultrasound images is essential for preventive screening and clinical diagnosis, yet remains challenging due to low contrast, blurry boundaries, and significant scale variations. Although existing deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Chen Wang , Yixin Zhu , Yongbin Zhu , Fengyuan Shi , Qi Li , Jun Wang , Zuozhu Liu , Keli Hu

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are one of the most effective deep learning methods to solve image classification problems, but the best architecture of a CNN to solve a specific problem can be extremely complicated and hard to design.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Bin Wang , Yanan Sun , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang

Accurate segmentation of different sub-regions of gliomas including peritumoral edema, necrotic core, enhancing and non-enhancing tumor core from multimodal MRI scans has important clinical relevance in diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Xue Feng , Nicholas Tustison , Craig Meyer

Past few years have witnessed the prevalence of deep learning in many application scenarios, among which is medical image processing. Diagnosis and treatment of brain tumors requires an accurate and reliable segmentation of brain tumors as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-26 Feifan Wang , Runzhou Jiang , Liqin Zheng , Chun Meng , Bharat Biswal

This paper proposes a 3D attention-based U-Net architecture for multi-region segmentation of brain tumors using a single stacked multi-modal volume created by combining three non-native MRI volumes. The attention mechanism added to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-11 Maryann M. Gitonga