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Lymph node (LN) assessment is an essential task in the routine radiology workflow, providing valuable insights for cancer staging, treatment planning and beyond. Identifying scatteredly-distributed and low-contrast LNs in 3D CT scans is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Qinji Yu , Yirui Wang , Ke Yan , Dandan Zheng , Dashan Ai , Dazhou Guo , Zhanghexuan Ji , Yanzhou Su , Yun Bian , Na Shen , Xiaowei Ding , Le Lu , Xianghua Ye , Dakai Jin

Objective: The clinical diagnosis of developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) typically involves manually measuring key radiological angles -- Center-Edge (CE), Tonnis, and Sharp angles -- from pelvic radiographs, a process that is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Yang Li , Leo Yan Li-Han , Hua Tian

Wounds, such as foot ulcers, pressure ulcers, leg ulcers, and infected wounds, come up with substantial problems for healthcare professionals. Prompt and accurate segmentation is crucial for effective treatment. However, contemporary…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-22 Md. Zihad Bin Jahangir , Sumaiya Akter , MD Abdullah Al Nasim , Kishor Datta Gupta , Roy George

Purpose: Automated distinct bone segmentation from CT scans is widely used in planning and navigation workflows. U-Net variants are known to provide excellent results in supervised semantic segmentation. However, in distinct bone…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-01 Eva Schnider , Julia Wolleb , Antal Huck , Mireille Toranelli , Georg Rauter , Magdalena Müller-Gerbl , Philippe C. Cattin

Kidney volume is greatly affected in several renal diseases. Precise and automatic segmentation of the kidney can help determine kidney size and evaluate renal function. Fully convolutional neural networks have been used to segment organs…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-02 Omid Bazgir , Kai Barck , Richard A. D. Carano , Robby M. Weimer , Luke Xie

Medical image segmentation has seen significant improvements with transformer models, which excel in grasping far-reaching contexts and global contextual information. However, the increasing computational demands of these models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Reza Azad , Leon Niggemeier , Michael Huttemann , Amirhossein Kazerouni , Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam , Yury Velichko , Ulas Bagci , Dorit Merhof

Objective: To demonstrate the effectiveness of using a deep learning-based approach for a fully automated slice-based measurement of muscle mass for assessing sarcopenia on CT scans of the abdomen without any case exclusion criteria.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-12 Fahdi Kanavati , Shah Islam , Zohaib Arain , Eric O. Aboagye , Andrea Rockall

Current deep learning-based models typically analyze medical images in either 2D or 3D albeit disregarding volumetric information or suffering sub-optimal performance due to the anisotropic resolution of MR data. Furthermore, providing an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Alex Ling Yu Hung , Haoxin Zheng , Kai Zhao , Kaifeng Pang , Demetri Terzopoulos , Kyunghyun Sung

Accurately predicting and detecting interstitial lung disease (ILD) patterns given any computed tomography (CT) slice without any pre-processing prerequisites, such as manually delineated regions of interest (ROIs), is a clinically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-23 Mingchen Gao , Ziyue Xu , Le Lu , Adam P. Harrison , Ronald M. Summers , Daniel J. Mollura

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is the third most common cause of cancer death in the United States. Predicting tumors like PDACs (including both classification and segmentation) from medical images by deep learning is becoming a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Yan Wang , Peng Tang , Yuyin Zhou , Wei Shen , Elliot K. Fishman , Alan L. Yuille

Incorporating human domain knowledge for breast tumor diagnosis is challenging, since shape, boundary, curvature, intensity, or other common medical priors vary significantly across patients and cannot be employed. This work proposes a new…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-03 Aleksandar Vakanski , Min Xian , Phoebe Freer

Purpose: Radiologists are tasked with visually scrutinizing large amounts of data produced by 3D volumetric imaging modalities. Small signals can go unnoticed during the 3d search because they are hard to detect in the visual periphery.…

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Detection faults in seismic data is a crucial step for seismic structural interpretation, reservoir characterization and well placement. Some recent works regard it as an image segmentation task. The task of image segmentation requires huge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 YiMin Dou , Kewen Li , Jianbing Zhu , Xiao Li , Yingjie Xi

In this paper we propose a novel deep learning-based algorithm for biomedical image segmentation which uses a sequential attention mechanism able to shift the focus of attention across the image in a selective way, allowing subareas which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Shohei Hayashi , Bisser Raytchev , Toru Tamaki , Kazufumi Kaneda

Background: Ultrasound imaging plays a pivotal role in diagnosing carotid atherosclerosis, a significant precursor to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and events. This non-invasive modality provides real-time, high-resolution…

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has led to a devastating effect on the global public health. Computed Tomography (CT) is an effective tool in the screening of COVID-19. It is of great importance to rapidly and accurately segment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Tongxue Zhou , Stéphane Canu , Su Ruan

In this paper, we propose a novel technique for sampling sequential images using a cylindrical transform in a cylindrical coordinate system for kidney semantic segmentation in abdominal computed tomography (CT). The images generated from a…

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Due to the fact that pancreas is an abdominal organ with very large variations in shape and size, automatic and accurate pancreas segmentation can be challenging for medical image analysis. In this work, we proposed a fully automated two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Ningning Zhao , Nuo Tong , Dan Ruan , Ke Sheng

Cardiac segmentation of atriums, ventricles, and myocardium in computed tomography (CT) images is an important first-line task for presymptomatic cardiovascular disease diagnosis. In several recent studies, deep learning models have shown…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-01 Sanguk Park , Minyoung Chung

Hippocampus segmentation plays a key role in diagnosing various brain disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, cancer, depression and others. Nowadays, segmentation is still mainly performed manually by…

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