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Brain tumors, particularly gliomas, pose significant chall-enges due to their complex growth patterns, infiltrative nature, and the variability in brain structure across individuals, which makes accurate diagnosis and monitoring difficult.…

Automatic brain tumor segmentation plays an important role for diagnosis, surgical planning and treatment assessment of brain tumors. Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely used for this task. Due to the relatively small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Guotai Wang , Wenqi Li , Sebastien Ourselin , Tom Vercauteren

Class imbalance can often degrade predictive performance of supervised learning algorithms. Balanced classes can be obtained by oversampling exact copies, with noise, or interpolation between nearest neighbours (as in traditional SMOTE…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Emily Muller , Xu Zheng , Jer Hayes

The scarcity of annotated Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) tumor data presents a major obstacle to accurate and automated tumor segmentation. While existing data synthesis methods offer promising solutions, they often suffer from key…

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Data scarcity and class imbalance are two fundamental challenges in many machine learning applications to healthcare. Breast cancer classification in mammography exemplifies these challenges, with a malignancy rate of around 0.5% in a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Eric Wu , Kevin Wu , William Lotter

The diagnosis of brain cancer relies heavily on medical imaging techniques, with MRI being the most commonly used. It is necessary to perform automatic segmentation of brain tumors on MRI images. This project intends to build an MRI…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-28 Yuxiang Hu , Haowei Yang , Ting Xu , Shuyao He , Jiajie Yuan , Haozhang Deng

Automatic brain tumor segmentation from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) data plays an important role in assessing tumor response to therapy and personalized treatment stratification.Manual segmentation is tedious and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-29 Hadas Ben-Atya , Ori Rajchert , Liran Goshen , Moti Freiman

Analyzing medical data to find abnormalities is a time-consuming and costly task, particularly for rare abnormalities, requiring tremendous efforts from medical experts. Artificial intelligence has become a popular tool for the automatic…

Automated segmentation of distinct tumor regions is critical for accurate diagnosis and treatment planning in pediatric brain tumors. This study evaluates the efficacy of the Multi-Planner U-Net (MPUnet) approach in segmenting different…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-15 Sumit Pandey , Satyasaran Changdar , Mathias Perslev , Erik B Dam

Automated medical image analysis has a significant value in diagnosis and treatment of lesions. Brain tumors segmentation has a special importance and difficulty due to the difference in appearances and shapes of the different tumor regions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Mina Rezaei , Konstantin Harmuth , Willi Gierke , Thomas Kellermeier , Martin Fischer , Haojin Yang , Christoph Meinel

Generative augmentation is often proposed as a remedy for small medical-image datasets, but synthetic images are only useful when they improve downstream task performance. "Augmentation" here means synthetic supplementation: GAN-generated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 José Rafael Noriega Cedeño

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

Automation of brain tumor segmentation 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.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-01 Laura Mora Ballestar , Veronica Vilaplana

Accurate segmentation of brain tumors is vital for diagnosis, surgical planning, and treatment monitoring. Deep learning has advanced on benchmarks, but two issues limit clinical use: no uncertainty estimates for errors and no segmentation…

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Deep generative models and synthetic medical data have shown significant promise in addressing key challenges in healthcare, such as privacy concerns, data bias, and the scarcity of realistic datasets. While research in this area has grown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Krishan Agyakari Raja Babu , Supriti Mulay , Om Prabhu , Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam

Deep learning has demonstrated remarkable success in medical image segmentation and computer-aided diagnosis. In particular, numerous advanced methods have achieved state-of-the-art performance in brain tumor segmentation from MRI scans.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Xiaoyu Shi , Rahul Kumar Jain , Yinhao Li , Ruibo Hou , Jingliang Cheng , Jie Bai , Guohua Zhao , Lanfen Lin , Rui Xu , Yen-wei Chen

Brain tumors remain a critical global health challenge, necessitating advancements in diagnostic techniques and treatment methodologies. A tumor or its recurrence often needs to be identified in imaging studies and differentiated from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-18 Shashidhar Reddy Javaji , Sovesh Mohapatra , Advait Gosai , Gottfried Schlaug

In the realm of medical diagnostics, rapid advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have significantly yielded remarkable improvements in brain tumor segmentation. Encoder-Decoder architectures, such as U-Net, have played a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Eyad Gad , Seif Soliman , M. Saeed Darweesh

In order to achieve good performance and generalisability, medical image segmentation models should be trained on sizeable datasets with sufficient variability. Due to ethics and governance restrictions, and the costs associated with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Virginia Fernandez , Walter Hugo Lopez Pinaya , Pedro Borges , Petru-Daniel Tudosiu , Mark S Graham , Tom Vercauteren , M Jorge Cardoso

Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) provides valuable information to help with the identification and understanding of brain tumors, yet MRS is not a widely available medical imaging modality. Aiming to counter this issue, this research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Nathan J Olliverre , Guang Yang , Gregory Slabaugh , Constantino Carlos Reyes-Aldasoro , Eduardo Alonso