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The magnetic resonance (MR) analysis of brain tumors is widely used for diagnosis and examination of tumor subregions. The overlapping area among the intensity distribution of healthy, enhancing, non-enhancing, and edema regions makes the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-01 Mohammad Hamghalam , Baiying Lei , Tianfu Wang

Brain tumor segmentation is a fundamental step in assessing a patient's cancer progression. However, manual segmentation demands significant expert time to identify tumors in 3D multimodal brain MRI scans accurately. This reliance on manual…

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A cascade of fully convolutional neural networks is proposed to segment multi-modal Magnetic Resonance (MR) images with brain tumor into background and three hierarchical regions: whole tumor, tumor core and enhancing tumor core. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Guotai Wang , Wenqi Li , Sebastien Ourselin , Tom Vercauteren

We propose a segmentation framework that uses deep neural networks and introduce two innovations. First, we describe a biophysics-based domain adaptation method. Second, we propose an automatic method to segment white and gray matter, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Amir Gholami , Shashank Subramanian , Varun Shenoy , Naveen Himthani , Xiangyu Yue , Sicheng Zhao , Peter Jin , George Biros , Kurt Keutzer

Brain tumor segmentation is a critical pre-processing step in the medical image analysis pipeline that involves precise delineation of tumor regions from healthy brain tissue in medical imaging data, particularly MRI scans. An efficient and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 GodsGift Uzor , Tania-Amanda Nkoyo Fredrick Eneye , Chukwuebuka Ijezue

In this paper, we present a novel approach for segmenting pediatric brain tumors using a deep learning architecture, inspired by expert radiologists' segmentation strategies. Our model delineates four distinct tumor labels and is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Max Bengtsson , Elif Keles , Gorkem Durak , Syed Anwar , Yuri S. Velichko , Marius G. Linguraru , Angela J. Waanders , Ulas Bagci

Motivated by the need for advanced solutions in the segmentation and inpainting of glioma-affected brain regions in multi-modal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), this study presents an integrated approach leveraging the strengths of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Ramy A. Zeineldin , Franziska Mathis-Ullrich

In the past few years, deep learning (DL) models have drawn great attention and shown superior performance on brain tumor and subregion segmentation tasks. However, the success is limited to segmentation of adult gliomas, where sufficient…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-01 Silu Zhang , Angela Edwards , Shubo Wang , Zoltan Patay , Asim Bag , Matthew A. Scoggins

Biomedical image segmentation plays a significant role in computer-aided diagnosis. However, existing CNN based methods rely heavily on massive manual annotations, which are very expensive and require huge human resources. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Ruifei Zhang , Sishuo Liu , Yizhou Yu , Guanbin Li

Brain tumors are one of the deadliest forms of cancer with a mortality rate of over 80%. A quick and accurate diagnosis is crucial to increase the chance of survival. However, in medical analysis, the manual annotation and segmentation of a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-18 Zachary Schwehr , Sriman Achanta

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

Brain tumors are a challenging problem in neuro-oncology, where early and precise diagnosis is important for successful treatment. Deep learning-based brain tumor classification methods often rely on heavy data augmentation which can limit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Saraf Anzum Shreya , MD. Abu Ismail Siddique , Sharaf Tasnim

This work introduces a novel framework for brain tumor segmentation leveraging pre-trained GANs and Unet architectures. By combining a global anomaly detection module with a refined mask generation network, the proposed model accurately…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-27 Qifei Cui , Xinyu Lu

Accurate brain tumor segmentation is essential for preoperative evaluation and personalized treatment. Multi-modal MRI is widely used due to its ability to capture complementary tumor features across different sequences. However, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Shenghao Zhu , Yifei Chen , Weihong Chen , Shuo Jiang , Guanyu Zhou , Yuanhan Wang , Feiwei Qin , Changmiao Wang , Qiyuan Tian

Federated learning enables hospitals to collaboratively train segmentation models without sharing patient data. However, current evaluation protocols report only average performance across clients, masking failures at individual sites. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Kiran Naseer , Naveed Anwer Butt

Accurate brain tumor segmentation using multiparametric MRI is critical for effective treatment planning. However, in clinical settings, complete acquisition of all MRI sequences is not always possible. The absence of certain MRI modalities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Danish Ali , Ajmal Mian , Naveed Akhtar , Ghulam Mubashar Hassan

One of the main requirements of tumor extraction is the annotation and segmentation of tumor boundaries correctly. For this purpose, we present a threefold deep learning architecture. First classifiers are implemented with a deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Shanaka Ramesh Gunasekara , H. N. T. K. Kaldera , Maheshi B. Dissanayake

Breast ultrasound (BUS) image segmentation plays a vital role in assisting clinical diagnosis and early tumor screening. However, challenges such as speckle noise, imaging artifacts, irregular lesion morphology, and blurred boundaries…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Guoping Cai , Houjin Chen , Yanfeng Li , Jia Sun , Ziwei Chen , Qingzi Geng

Brain tumors are serious health problems that require early diagnosis due to their high mortality rates. Diagnosing tumors by examining Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) images is a process that requires expertise and is prone to error.…

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Reliable tumor segmentation in thoracic computed tomography (CT) remains challenging due to boundary ambiguity, class imbalance, and anatomical variability. We propose an uncertainty-guided, coarse-to-fine segmentation framework that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Ilkin Sevgi Isler , David Mohaisen , Curtis Lisle , Damla Turgut , Ulas Bagci