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A number of methods based on deep learning have been applied to medical image segmentation and have achieved state-of-the-art performance. Due to the importance of chest x-ray data in studying COVID-19, there is a demand for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-27 Lipei Zhang , Aozhi Liu , Jing Xiao , Paul Taylor

Organ at risk (OAR) segmentation in computed tomography (CT) imagery is a difficult task for automated segmentation methods and can be crucial for downstream radiation treatment planning. U-net has become a de-facto standard for medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-27 Abdullah Nazib , Riad Hassan , Zahidul Islam , Clinton Fookes

Breast ultrasound imaging is a valuable tool for early breast cancer detection, but automated tumor segmentation is challenging due to inherent noise, variations in scale of lesions, and fuzzy boundaries. To address these challenges, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Muhammad Azeem Aslam , Asim Naveed , Nisar Ahmed

The analysis of retinal images for the diagnosis of various diseases is one of the emerging areas of research. Recently, the research direction has been inclined towards investigating several changes in retinal blood vessels in subjects…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Mehwish Mehmood , Shahzaib Iqbal , Tariq Mahmood Khan , Ivor Spence , Muhammad Fahim

Renal tumors, especially renal cell carcinoma (RCC), show significant heterogeneity, posing challenges for diagnosis using radiology images such as MRI, echocardiograms, and CT scans. U-Net based deep learning techniques are emerging as a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Fnu Neha , Arvind K. Bansal

Objective: Diabetic macular edema (DME) is the leading cause of severe visual impairment in patients with diabetes. Quantification of retinal fluid, particularly intraretinal fluid (IRF) and subretinal fluid (SRF), plays a critical role in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-27 Zijun Lei , Zikang Xu , Liang Zhang , Ge Song , Hanyu Guo , Dan Cao , Yujia Zhou , Qianjin Feng

Purpose: Automatic and accurate segmentation of fundus vessel images has become an essential prerequisite for computer-aided diagnosis of ophthalmic diseases such as diabetes mellitus. The task of high-precision retinal vessel segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-06 Xiang Li , Mingsi Liu , Lixin Duan

Retinal vessel segmentation is a vital step for the diagnosis of many early eye-related diseases. In this work, we propose a new deep learning model, namely Channel Attention Residual U-Net (CAR-UNet), to accurately segment retinal vascular…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-22 Changlu Guo , Márton Szemenyei , Yangtao Hu , Wenle Wang , Wei Zhou , Yugen Yi

Vascular segmentation represents a crucial clinical task, yet its automation remains challenging. Because of the recent strides in deep learning, vesselness filters, which can significantly aid the learning process, have been overlooked.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Guillaume Garret , Antoine Vacavant , Carole Frindel

Accurate medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in overall diagnosis and is one of the most essential tasks in the diagnostic pipeline. CNN-based models, despite their extensive use, suffer from a local receptive field and fail to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-02 Zulkaif Sajjad , Furqan Shaukat , Junaid Mir

Traditional and deep learning-based fusion methods generated the intermediate decision map to obtain the fusion image through a series of post-processing procedures. However, the fusion results generated by these methods are easy to lose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Yongsheng Zang , Dongming Zhou , Changcheng Wang , Rencan Nie , Yanbu Guo

The state-of-the-art models for medical image segmentation are variants of U-Net and fully convolutional networks (FCN). Despite their success, these models have two limitations: (1) their optimal depth is apriori unknown, requiring…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-30 Zongwei Zhou , Md Mahfuzur Rahman Siddiquee , Nima Tajbakhsh , Jianming Liang

Retinal vessel segmentation is a crucial step in diagnosing and screening various diseases, including diabetes, ophthalmologic diseases, and cardiovascular diseases. In this paper, we propose an effective and efficient method for vessel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-24 Zhun Fan , Jiajie Mo , Benzhang Qiu , Wenji Li , Guijie Zhu , Chong Li , Jianye Hu , Yibiao Rong , Xinjian Chen

This study aims to address the problem of incomplete information in unimodal images for semantic segmentation and object detection tasks. Existing multimodal fusion methods suffer from limited capability in discriminative modeling of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yuchan Jie , Yushen Xu , Xiaosong Li , Huafeng Li , Haishu Tan , Feiping Nie

The vascular structure of blood vessels is important in diagnosing retinal conditions such as glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy. Accurate segmentation of these vessels can help in detecting retinal objects such as the optic disc and optic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-18 Abdullah Sarhan , Jon Rokne , Reda Alhajj , Andrew Crichton

Effective retinal vessel segmentation requires a sophisticated integration of global contextual awareness and local vessel continuity. To address this challenge, we propose the Graph Capsule Convolution Network (GCC-UNet), which merges…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-19 Xinxu Wei , Xi Lin , Haiyun Liu , Shixuan Zhao , Yongjie Li

Feature fusion, the combination of features from different layers or branches, is an omnipresent part of modern network architectures. It is often implemented via simple operations, such as summation or concatenation, but this might not be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Yimian Dai , Fabian Gieseke , Stefan Oehmcke , Yiquan Wu , Kobus Barnard

3D to 2D retinal vessel segmentation is a challenging problem in Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography (OCTA) images. Accurate retinal vessel segmentation is important for the diagnosis and prevention of ophthalmic diseases. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-17 Zhuojie Wu , Zijian Wang , Wenxuan Zou , Fan Ji , Hao Dang , Wanting Zhou , Muyi Sun

Accurate retinal vessel segmentation provides essential structural information for ophthalmic image analysis. However, existing methods struggle with challenges such as multi-scale vessel variability, complex curvatures, and ambiguous…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-21 Yihao Ouyang , Xunheng Kuang , Mengjia Xiong , Zhida Wang , Yuanquan Wang