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A fully automatic technique for segmenting the liver and localizing its unhealthy tissues is a convenient tool in order to diagnose hepatic diseases and assess the response to the according treatments. In this work we propose a method to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-01 Miriam Bellver , Kevis-Kokitsi Maninis , Jordi Pont-Tuset , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto , Jordi Torres , Luc Van Gool

Lung cancer has been one of the major threats across the world with the highest mortalities. Computer-aided detection (CAD) can help in early detection and thus can help increase the survival rate. Accurate lung parenchyma segmentation (to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Muhammad Abdullah , Furqan Shaukat

Computer-aided segmentation methods can assist medical personnel in improving diagnostic outcomes. While recent advancements like UNet and its variants have shown promise, they face a critical challenge: balancing accuracy with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-03 Abhijit Das , Debesh Jha , Vandan Gorade , Koushik Biswas , Hongyi Pan , Zheyuan Zhang , Daniela P. Ladner , Yury Velichko , Amir Borhani , Ulas Bagci

Recently, the state-of-art models for medical image segmentation is U-Net and their variants. These networks, though succeeding in deriving notable results, ignore the practical problem hanging over the medical segmentation field:…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-07 Hao Ziang , Jingsi Zhang , Lixian Li

On-line segmentation of the uterus can aid effective image-based guidance for precise delivery of dose to the target tissue (the uterocervix) during cervix cancer radiotherapy. 3D ultrasound (US) can be used to image the uterus, however,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-21 Bahareh Behboodi , Hassan Rivaz , Susan Lalondrelle , Emma Harris

Purpose: Automated liver tumor segmentation from Computed Tomography (CT) images is a necessary prerequisite in the interventions of hepatic abnormalities and surgery planning. However, accurate liver tumor segmentation remains challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Yao Zhang , Jiawei Yang , Yang Liu , Jiang Tian , Siyun Wang , Cheng Zhong , Zhongchao Shi , Yang Zhang , Zhiqiang He

Early diagnosis and accurate segmentation of brain tumors are imperative for successful treatment. Unfortunately, manual segmentation is time consuming, costly and despite extensive human expertise often inaccurate. Here, we present an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-07 Markus Frey , Matthias Nau

Automatic segmentation of organs-at-risk (OAR) in computed tomography (CT) is an essential part of planning effective treatment strategies to combat lung and esophageal cancer. Accurate segmentation of organs surrounding tumours helps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Sulaiman Vesal , Nishant Ravikumar , Andreas Maier

Liver cancer has high morbidity and mortality rates in the world. Multi-phase CT is a main medical imaging modality for detecting/identifying and diagnosing liver tumors. Automatically detecting and classifying liver lesions in CT images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-29 Fakai Wang , Chi-Tung Cheng , Chien-Wei Peng , Ke Yan , Min Wu , Le Lu , Chien-Hung Liao , Ling Zhang

Accurate automatic liver and tumor segmentation plays a vital role in treatment planning and disease monitoring. Recently, deep convolutional neural network (DCNNs) has obtained tremendous success in 2D and 3D medical image segmentation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Ziyuan Zhao , Zeyu Ma , Yanjie Liu , Zeng Zeng , Pierce KH Chow

Most of the current state-of-the-art methods for tumor segmentation are based on machine learning models trained on manually segmented images. This type of training data is particularly costly, as manual delineation of tumors is not only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Pawel Mlynarski , Hervé Delingette , Antonio Criminisi , Nicholas Ayache

Deep learning has quickly become the weapon of choice for brain lesion segmentation. However, few existing algorithms pre-configure any biological context of their chosen segmentation tissues, and instead rely on the neural network's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Andrew Beers , Ken Chang , James Brown , Emmett Sartor , CP Mammen , Elizabeth Gerstner , Bruce Rosen , Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer

Accurately segmenting brain tumors from MRI scans is important for developing effective treatment plans and improving patient outcomes. This study introduces a new implementation of the Columbia-University-Net (CU-Net) architecture for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Qimin Zhang , Weiwei Qi , Huili Zheng , Xinyu Shen

The early detection, diagnosis and monitoring of liver cancer progression can be achieved with the precise delineation of metastatic tumours. However, accurate automated segmentation remains challenging due to the presence of noise,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-02 Samuel Kadoury , Eugene Vorontsov , An Tang

Purpose: This paper proposes a new network framework called EAR-U-Net, which leverages EfficientNetB4, attention gate, and residual learning techniques to achieve automatic and accurate liver segmentation. Methods: The proposed method is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-05 Jinke Wang , Xiangyang Zhang , Peiqing Lv , Lubiao Zhou , Haiying Wang

Automation of brain tumors in 3D magnetic resonance images (MRIs) is key to assess the diagnostic and treatment of the disease. In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown improved results in the task. However, high…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-28 Laura Mora Ballestar , Veronica Vilaplana

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-07 Fadillah Maani , Anees Ur Rehman Hashmi , Numan Saeed , Mohammad Yaqub

Automated detection and segmentation of surgical devices, such as catheters or wires, in X-ray fluoroscopic images have the potential to enhance image guidance in minimally invasive heart surgeries. In this paper, we present a convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Lin Xi , Yingliang Ma , Ethan Koland , Sandra Howell , Aldo Rinaldi , Kawal S. Rhode

Accurately segmenting different organs from medical images is a critical prerequisite for computer-assisted diagnosis and intervention planning. This study proposes a deep learning-based approach for segmenting various organs from CT and…

Segmentation of organs of interest in medical CT images is beneficial for diagnosis of diseases. Though recent methods based on Fully Convolutional Neural Networks (F-CNNs) have shown success in many segmentation tasks, fusing features from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Yanli Yuan , Bingbing Wang , Chuan Zhang , Jingyi Xu , Ximeng Liu , Liehuang Zhu