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Counterfactual generation offers a principled framework for simulating hypothetical changes in medical imaging, with potential applications in understanding disease mechanisms and generating physiologically plausible data. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-25 Pengwei Sun , Wei Peng , Lun Yu Li , Yixin Wang , Kilian M. Pohl

Medical image segmentation is particularly critical as a prerequisite for relevant quantitative analysis in the treatment of clinical diseases. For example, in clinical cervical cancer radiotherapy, after acquiring subabdominal MRI images,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-30 Yu Xiao , Xin Yang , Sijuan Huang , Lihua Guo

Although the preservation of shape continuity and physiological anatomy is a natural assumption in the segmentation of medical images, it is often neglected by deep learning methods that mostly aim for the statistical modeling of input data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Yousef Yeganeh , Azade Farshad , Goktug Guevercin , Amr Abu-zer , Rui Xiao , Yongjian Tang , Ehsan Adeli , Nassir Navab

Segmentation of anatomical regions of interest such as vessels or small lesions in medical images is still a difficult problem that is often tackled with manual input by an expert. One of the major challenges for this task is that the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-15 Tianyu Ma , Hang Zhang , Hanley Ong , Amar Vora , Thanh D. Nguyen , Ajay Gupta , Yi Wang , Mert Sabuncu

Medical image segmentation is a critical process in the field of medical imaging, playing a pivotal role in diagnosis, treatment, and research. It involves partitioning of an image into multiple regions, representing distinct anatomical or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Charulkumar Chodvadiya , Navyansh Mahla , Kinshuk Gaurav Singh , Kshitij Sharad Jadhav

Image segmentation, the process of partitioning an image into meaningful regions, plays a pivotal role in computer vision and medical imaging applications. Unsupervised segmentation, particularly in the absence of labeled data, remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Kovvuri Sai Gopal Reddy , Bodduluri Saran , A. Mudit Adityaja , Saurabh J. Shigwan , Nitin Kumar

Anatomical structures such as blood vessels in contrast-enhanced CT (ceCT) images can be challenging to segment due to the variability in contrast medium diffusion. The combined use of ceCT and contrast-free (CT) CT images can improve the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-05 Giammarco La Barbera , Haithem Boussaid , Francesco Maso , Sabine Sarnacki , Laurence Rouet , Pietro Gori , Isabelle Bloch

Pseudo healthy synthesis, i.e. the creation of a subject-specific `healthy' image from a pathological one, could be helpful in tasks such as anomaly detection, understanding changes induced by pathology and disease or even as data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Tian Xia , Agisilaos Chartsias , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

Cross-sectional imaging of human organ serves as a critical tool to provide diagnostic results of many diseases. Based on a unique body coordinate system, we present a method that we use to reconstruct any cross-sectional imaging of organ…

Convolution is an equivariant operation, and image position does not affect its result. A recent study shows that the zero-padding employed in convolutional layers of CNNs provides position information to the CNNs. The study further claims…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-08 Rito Murase , Masanori Suganuma , Takayuki Okatani

Medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in computer-aided diagnosis. However, existing methods heavily rely on fully supervised training, which requires a large amount of labeled data with time-consuming pixel-wise annotations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yunqi Gu , Tao Zhou , Yizhe Zhang , Yi Zhou , Kelei He , Chen Gong , Huazhu Fu

Deformable image registration is a fundamental problem in the field of medical image analysis. During the last years, we have witnessed the advent of deep learning-based image registration methods which achieve state-of-the-art performance,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-03 Lucas Mansilla , Diego H. Milone , Enzo Ferrante

Counterfactual image editing is an important task in generative AI, which asks how an image would look if certain features were different. The current literature on the topic focuses primarily on changing individual features while remaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Yushu Pan , Elias Bareinboim

In our comprehensive experiments and evaluations, we show that it is possible to generate multiple contrast (even all synthetically) and use synthetically generated images to train an image segmentation engine. We showed promising…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-07 Ismail Irmakci , Zeki Emre Unel , Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis , Ulas Bagci

Medical image segmentation plays an important role in computer-aided diagnosis. Existing methods mainly utilize spatial attention to highlight the region of interest. However, due to limitations of medical imaging devices, medical images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Jiaxuan Li , Qing Xu , Xiangjian He , Ziyu Liu , Daokun Zhang , Ruili Wang , Rong Qu , Guoping Qiu

Medical image segmentation is a relevant task as it serves as the first step for several diagnosis processes, thus it is indispensable in clinical usage. Whilst major success has been reported using supervised techniques, they assume a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Lihao Liu , Angelica I Aviles-Rivero , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Like other applications in computer vision, medical image segmentation has been most successfully addressed using deep learning models that rely on the convolution operation as their main building block. Convolutions enjoy important…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Davood Karimi , Serge Vasylechko , Ali Gholipour

Deep learning is dramatically transforming the field of medical imaging and radiology, enabling the identification of pathologies in medical images, including computed tomography (CT) and X-ray scans. However, the performance of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Dmytro Shvetsov , Joonas Ariva , Marharyta Domnich , Raul Vicente , Dmytro Fishman

This paper shows results of computer analysis of images in the purpose of finding differences between medical images in order of their classifications in terms of separation malign tissue from a normal and benign tissue. The diagnostics of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-08 Jelena Vasiljević , Ivica Milosavljević , Vladimir Krstić , Nataša Zivić , Lazar Berbakov , Luka Lopušina , Dhinaharan Nagamalai , Milutin Cerović

Foundation models like the Segment Anything Model (SAM) excel in zero-shot segmentation for natural images but struggle with medical image segmentation due to differences in texture, contrast, and noise. Annotating medical images is costly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-14 Sourya Sengupta , Satrajit Chakrabarty , Keerthi Sravan Ravi , Gopal Avinash , Ravi Soni