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Multi-phase computed tomography (CT) scans use contrast agents to highlight different anatomical structures within the body to improve the probability of identifying and detecting anatomical structures of interest and abnormalities such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-18 Abdullah F. Al-Battal , Soan T. M. Duong , Van Ha Tang , Quang Duc Tran , Steven Q. H. Truong , Chien Phan , Truong Q. Nguyen , Cheolhong An

We propose a computationally efficient architecture that learns to segment lesions from CT images of the liver. The proposed architecture uses bilinear interpolation with sub-pixel convolution at the last layer to upscale the course feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Ram Krishna Pandey , Aswin Vasan , A G Ramakrishnan

Liver tumor segmentation in CT images is a critical step in the diagnosis, surgical planning and postoperative evaluation of liver disease. An automatic liver and tumor segmentation method can greatly relieve physicians of the heavy…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-16 Jiahao Cui , Ruoxin Xiao , Shiyuan Fang , Minnan Pei , Yixuan Yu

To extract liver from medical images is a challenging task due to similar intensity values of liver with adjacent organs, various contrast levels, various noise associated with medical images and irregular shape of liver. To address these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-29 Muhammad Islam , Kaleem Nawaz Khan , Muhammad Salman Khan

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common type of primary liver cancer in adults, and the most common cause of death of people suffering from cirrhosis. The segmentation of liver lesions in CT images allows assessment of tumor load,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Nadja Gruber , Stephan Antholzer , Werner Jaschke , Christian Kremser , Markus Haltmeier

Brain tumor segmentation is a critical task in medical image analysis, aiding in the diagnosis and treatment planning of brain tumor patients. The importance of automated and accurate brain tumor segmentation cannot be overstated. It…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-24 Muhammad Ansab Butt , Absaar Ul Jabbar

Deep learning-based segmentation of the liver and hepatic lesions therein steadily gains relevance in clinical practice due to the increasing incidence of liver cancer each year. Whereas various network variants with overall promising…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-23 Georg Hille , Shubham Agrawal , Pavan Tummala , Christian Wybranski , Maciej Pech , Alexey Surov , Sylvia Saalfeld

Accurate segmentation of kidneys and kidney tumors is an essential step for radiomic analysis as well as developing advanced surgical planning techniques. In clinical analysis, the segmentation is currently performed by clinicians from the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-05 Wenshuai Zhao , Dihong Jiang , Jorge Peña Queralta , Tomi Westerlund

Tumor detection in biomedical imaging is a time-consuming process for medical professionals and is not without errors. Thus in recent decades, researchers have developed algorithmic techniques for image processing using a wide variety of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Laramie Paxton , Yufeng Cao , Kevin R. Vixie , Yuan Wang , Brian Hobbs , Chaan Ng

We propose a novel procedure to improve liver and lesion segmentation from CT scans for U-Net based models. Our method extends standard segmentation pipelines to focus on higher target recall or reduction of noisy false-positive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-13 Karsten Roth , Jürgen Hesser , Tomasz Konopczyński

In drug discovery, accurate lung tumor segmentation is an important step for assessing tumor size and its progression using \textit{in-vivo} imaging such as MRI. While deep learning models have been developed to automate this process, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-11 Piotr Kaniewski , Fariba Yousefi , Yeman Brhane Hagos , Talha Qaiser , Nikolay Burlutskiy

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Hussain Alasmawi

In this paper we propose a fully automatic 2-stage cascaded approach for segmentation of liver and its tumors in CT (Computed Tomography) images using densely connected fully convolutional neural network (DenseNet). We independently train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Krishna Chaitanya Kaluva , Mahendra Khened , Avinash Kori , Ganapathy Krishnamurthi

In this study, the main objective is to develop an algorithm capable of identifying and delineating tumor regions in breast ultrasound (BUS) and mammographic images. The technique employs two advanced deep learning architectures, namely…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-14 Mohsen Ahmadi , Masoumeh Farhadi Nia , Sara Asgarian , Kasra Danesh , Elyas Irankhah , Ahmad Gholizadeh Lonbar , Abbas Sharifi

Organ at risk (OAR) segmentation is a crucial step for treatment planning and outcome determination in radiotherapy treatments of cancer patients. Several deep learning based segmentation algorithms have been developed in recent years,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-07 Ilkin Isler , Curtis Lisle , Justin Rineer , Patrick Kelly , Damla Turgut , Jacob Ricci , Ulas Bagci

Liver tumor segmentation and classification are important tasks in computer aided diagnosis. We aim to address three problems: liver tumor screening and preliminary diagnosis in non-contrast computed tomography (CT), and differential…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-24 Ke Yan , Xiaoli Yin , Yingda Xia , Fakai Wang , Shu Wang , Yuan Gao , Jiawen Yao , Chunli Li , Xiaoyu Bai , Jingren Zhou , Ling Zhang , Le Lu , Yu Shi

Cancer is an abnormal growth with potential to invade locally and metastasize to distant organs. Accurate auto-segmentation of the tumor and surrounding normal tissues is required for radiotherapy treatment plan optimization. Recent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-31 Syed Haider Ali , Asrar Ahmad , Muhammad Ali , Asifullah Khan , Nadeem Shaukat

Ultrasound (US) is the most commonly used liver imaging modality worldwide. It plays an important role in follow-up of cancer patients with liver metastases. We present an interactive segmentation approach for liver tumors in US…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-29 Jan Egger , Philip Voglreiter , Mark Dokter , Michael Hofmann , Xiaojun Chen , Wolfram G. Zoller , Dieter Schmalstieg , Alexander Hann

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

We present an automatic method for joint liver lesion segmentation and classification using a hierarchical fine-tuning framework. Our dataset is small, containing 332 2-D CT examinations with lesion annotated into 3 lesion types: cysts,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-01 Michal Heker , Avi Ben-Cohen , Hayit Greenspan