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AI for cancer detection encounters the bottleneck of data scarcity, annotation difficulty, and low prevalence of early tumors. Tumor synthesis seeks to create artificial tumors in medical images, which can greatly diversify the data and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-08 Yuxiang Lai , Xiaoxi Chen , Angtian Wang , Alan Yuille , Zongwei Zhou

Automatic tumor segmentation is a crucial step in medical image analysis for computer-aided diagnosis. Although the existing methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved the state-of-the-art performance, many…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-11 Shuchao Pang , Anan Du , Mehmet A. Orgun , Yan Wang , Quanzheng Sheng , Shoujin Wang , Xiaoshui Huang , Zhemei Yu

Deep learning has made significant strides in automated brain tumor segmentation from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans in recent years. However, the reliability of these tools is hampered by the presence of poor-quality segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Peijie Qiu , Satrajit Chakrabarty , Phuc Nguyen , Soumyendu Sekhar Ghosh , Aristeidis Sotiras

KiTs19 challenge paves the way to haste the improvement of solid kidney tumor semantic segmentation methodologies. Accurate segmentation of kidney tumor in computer tomography (CT) images is a challenging task due to the non-uniform motion,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-12 D. Sabarinathan , M. Parisa Beham , S. M. Md. Mansoor Roomi

This paper proposes an efficient solution for tumor segmentation and classification in breast ultrasound (BUS) images. We propose to add an atrous convolution layer to the conditional generative adversarial network (cGAN) segmentation model…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Vivek Kumar Singh , Hatem A. Rashwan , Mohamed Abdel-Nasser , Md. Mostafa Kamal Sarker , Farhan Akram , Nidhi Pandey , Santiago Romani , Domenec Puig

The performance of existing supervised neuron segmentation methods is highly dependent on the number of accurate annotations, especially when applied to large scale electron microscopy (EM) data. By extracting semantic information from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Yinda Chen , Wei Huang , Shenglong Zhou , Qi Chen , Zhiwei Xiong

Automatic segmentation of an organ and its cystic region is a prerequisite of computer-aided diagnosis. In this paper, we focus on pancreatic cyst segmentation in abdominal CT scan. This task is important and very useful in clinical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Yuyin Zhou , Lingxi Xie , Elliot K. Fishman , Alan L. Yuille

Within this thesis we propose a platform for combining Augmented Reality (AR) hardware with machine learning in a user-oriented pipeline, offering to the medical staff an intuitive 3D visualization of volumetric Computed Tomography (CT) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Lucian Trestioreanu

Lung cancer ranks as one of the leading causes of cancer diagnosis and is the foremost cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide. The early detection of lung nodules plays a pivotal role in improving outcomes for patients, as it enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jiasen Zhang , Mingrui Yang , Weihong Guo , Brian A. Xavier , Michael Bolen , Xiaojuan Li

In this work we approach the brain tumor segmentation problem with a cascade of two CNNs inspired in the V-Net architecture \cite{VNet}, reformulating residual connections and making use of ROI masks to constrain the networks to train only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Adrià Casamitjana , Marcel Catà , Irina Sánchez , Marc Combalia , Verónica Vilaplana

Segmenting tumors in histological images is vital for cancer diagnosis. While fully supervised models excel with pixel-level annotations, creating such annotations is labor-intensive and costly. Accurate histopathology image segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yinsheng He , Xingyu Li , Roger J. Zemp

Accurate and automated tumor segmentation is highly desired since it has the great potential to increase the efficiency and reproducibility of computing more complete tumor measurements and imaging biomarkers, comparing to (often partial)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-26 Ling Zhang , Yu Shi , Jiawen Yao , Yun Bian , Kai Cao , Dakai Jin , Jing Xiao , Le Lu

In post-operative radiotherapy for prostate cancer, the cancerous prostate gland has been surgically removed, so the clinical target volume (CTV) to be irradiated encompasses the microscopic spread of tumor cells, which cannot be visualized…

Every year millions of people die due to disease of Cancer. Due to its invasive nature it is very complex to cure even in primary stages. Hence, only method to survive this disease completely is via forecasting by analyzing the early…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Shivam Singh , Stuti Pathak

Segmentation of mandibles in CT scans during virtual surgical planning is crucial for 3D surgical planning in order to obtain a detailed surface representation of the patients bone. Automatic segmentation of mandibles in CT scans is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Bingjiang Qiu , Jiapan Guo , J. Kraeima , R. J. H. Borra , M. J. H. Witjes , P. M. A. van Ooijen

This study explores the application of deep learning techniques in the automated detection and segmentation of brain tumors from MRI scans. We employ several machine learning models, including basic logistic regression, Convolutional Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Jack Krolik , Jake Lynn , John Henry Rudden , Dmytro Vremenko

Medical image segmentation is vital for modern healthcare and is a key element of computer-aided diagnosis. While recent advancements in computer vision have explored unsupervised segmentation using pre-trained models, these methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Mosong Ma , Tania Stathaki , Michalis Lazarou

Rectal cancer is one of the most common diseases and a major cause of mortality. For deciding rectal cancer treatment plans, T-staging is important. However, evaluating the index from preoperative MRI images requires high radiologists'…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-11 Saeko Sasuga , Akira Kudo , Yoshiro Kitamura , Satoshi Iizuka , Edgar Simo-Serra , Atsushi Hamabe , Masayuki Ishii , Ichiro Takemasa

Finding small lesions is very challenging due to lack of noticeable features, severe class imbalance, as well as the size itself. One approach to improve small lesion segmentation is to reduce the region of interest and inspect it at a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-01 Seung Yeon Shin , Thomas C. Shen , Stephen A. Wank , Ronald M. Summers

Tumor segmentation in whole-body PET/CT imaging is crucial for precise disease evaluation and treatment planning. However, it remains challenging due to variability in lesion size, contrast, and anatomical distribution. Relying on manual…

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