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Brain tumors are abnormalities that can severely impact a patient's health, leading to life-threatening conditions such as cancer. These can result in various debilitating effects, including neurological issues, cognitive impairment, motor…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Pandiyaraju V , Shravan Venkatraman , Abeshek A , Pavan Kumar S , Aravintakshan S A

Deep learning methods for brain tumor segmentation are typically trained in an ad hoc fashion on all available data. Brain tumors are tremendously heterogeneous in image appearance and labeled training data is limited. We argue that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-31 Raphael Meier , Michael Rebsamen , Urspeter Knecht , Mauricio Reyes , Roland Wiest , Richard McKinley

Brain tumor segmentation is an active research area due to the difficulty in delineating highly complex shaped and textured tumors as well as the failure of the commonly used U-Net architectures. The combination of different neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-02 Lanhong Yao , Zheyuan Zhang , Ulas Bagci

Brain tumor segmentation from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plays an important role in diagnostic radiology. To overcome the practical issues in manual approaches, there is a huge demand for building automatic tumor segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-14 Dhrumil Patel , Dhruv Patel , Rudra Saxena , Thangarajah Akilan

Uncontrolled cell division in the brain is what gives rise to brain tumors. If the tumor size increases by more than half, there is little hope for the patient's recovery. This emphasizes the need of rapid and precise brain tumor diagnosis.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Plabon Paul , Md. Nazmul Islam , Fazle Rafsani , Pegah Khorasani , Shovito Barua Soumma

Brain tumor segmentation is important for diagnosis of the tumor, and current deep-learning methods rely on a large set of annotated images for training, with high annotation costs. Unsupervised segmentation is promising to avoid human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Xiaochuan Ma , Jia Fu , Wenjun Liao , Shichuan Zhang , Guotai Wang

Brain tumors pose a serious health threat due to their rapid growth and potential for metastasis. While medical imaging has advanced significantly, accurately identifying and characterizing these tumors remains a challenge. This study…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Mahin Mohammadi , Saman Jamshidi

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

Meningiomas represent the most prevalent form of primary brain tumors, comprising nearly one-third of all diagnosed cases. Accurate delineation of these tumors from MRI scans is crucial for guiding treatment strategies, yet remains a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-27 Mohammad Mahdi Danesh Pajouh , Sara Saeedi

Background: Glioma is the most common brain malignant tumor, with a high morbidity rate and a mortality rate of more than three percent, which seriously endangers human health. The main method of acquiring brain tumors in the clinic is MRI.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Xi Guan , Guang Yang , Jianming Ye , Weiji Yang , Xiaomei Xu , Weiwei Jiang , Xiaobo Lai

Brain tumor segmentation is highly contributive in diagnosing and treatment planning. The manual brain tumor delineation is a time-consuming and tedious task and varies depending on the radiologists skill. Automated brain tumor segmentation…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-03-08 Farzaneh Dehghani , Alireza Karimian , Hossein Arabi

Segmentation is one of the most significant steps in image processing. Segmenting an image is a technique that makes it possible to separate a digital image into various areas based on the different characteristics of pixels in the image.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-20 Sina Derakhshandeh , Ali Mahloojifar

Accurate brain tumor segmentation from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is desirable to joint learning of multimodal images. However, in clinical practice, it is not always possible to acquire a complete set of MRIs, and the problem of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-05 Yao Zhang , Nanjun He , Jiawei Yang , Yuexiang Li , Dong Wei , Yawen Huang , Yang Zhang , Zhiqiang He , Yefeng Zheng

Multimodal MRI offers complementary information for brain tumor segmentation, but clinical scans often lack one or more modalities, which degrades segmentation performance. In this paper, we propose UniME (Uni-Encoder Meets Multi-Encoders),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Peibo Song , Xiaotian Xue , Jinshuo Zhang , Zihao Wang , Jinhua Liu , Shujun Fu , Fangxun Bao , Si Yong Yeo

Background: A crucial initial processing step for quantitative PET/CT analysis is the segmentation of tumor lesions enabling accurate feature ex-traction, tumor characterization, oncologic staging, and image-based therapy response…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Ludovic Sibille , Xinrui Zhan , Lei Xiang

Gliomas are among the most aggressive and deadly brain tumors. This paper details the proposed Deep Neural Network architecture for brain tumor segmentation from Magnetic Resonance Images. The architecture consists of a cascade of three…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-05 Carlos A. Silva , Adriano Pinto , Sérgio Pereira , Ana Lopes

Accurate segmentation of pediatric brain tumors in multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI) is critical for diagnosis, treatment planning, and monitoring, yet faces unique challenges due to limited data, high anatomical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Xiaolong Li , Zhi-Qin John Xu , Yan Ren , Tianming Qiu , Xiaowen Wang

An improved model of medical image segmentation for brain tumor is discussed, which is a deep learning algorithm based on U-Net architecture. Based on the traditional U-Net, we introduce GSConv module and ECA attention mechanism to improve…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Qiyuan Tian , Zhuoyue Wang , Xiaoling Cui

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

Spinal cord tumors lead to neurological morbidity and mortality. Being able to obtain morphometric quantification (size, location, growth rate) of the tumor, edema, and cavity can result in improved monitoring and treatment planning. Such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-31 Andreanne Lemay , Charley Gros , Zhizheng Zhuo , Jie Zhang , Yunyun Duan , Julien Cohen-Adad , Yaou Liu