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Medical image segmentation plays an important role in computer-aided diagnosis. Attention mechanisms that distinguish important parts from irrelevant parts have been widely used in medical image segmentation tasks. This paper systematically…

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Manual segmentation of medical images (e.g., segmenting tumors in CT scans) is a high-effort task that can be accelerated with machine learning techniques. However, selecting the right segmentation approach depends on the evaluation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Seyed M. R. Modaresi , Aomar Osmani , Mohammadreza Razzazi , Abdelghani Chibani

Deep neural networks enable highly accurate image segmentation, but require large amounts of manually annotated data for supervised training. Few-shot learning aims to address this shortcoming by learning a new class from a few annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Abhijit Guha Roy , Shayan Siddiqui , Sebastian Pölsterl , Nassir Navab , Christian Wachinger

Segmentation of brain magnetic resonance images (MRI) is crucial for the analysis of the human brain and diagnosis of various brain disorders. The drawbacks of time-consuming and error-prone manual delineation procedures are aimed to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Can Taylan Sari , Sila Kurugol , Onur Afacan , Simon K. Warfield

Medical image segmentation is routinely performed to isolate regions of interest, such as organs and lesions. Currently, deep learning is the state of the art for automatic segmentation, but is usually limited by the need for supervised…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-05 Umaseh Sivanesan , Luis H. Braga , Ranil R. Sonnadara , Kiret Dhindsa

A major limitation of minimally invasive surgery is the difficulty in accurately locating the internal anatomical structures of the target organ due to the lack of tactile feedback and transparency. Augmented reality (AR) offers a promising…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Jingwei Song , Ray Zhang , Wenwei Zhang , Hao Zhou , Maani Ghaffari

Sub-cortical brain structure segmentation in Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) has attracted the interest of the research community for a long time because morphological changes in these structures are related to different neurodegenerative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Kaisar Kushibar , Sergi Valverde , Sandra Gonzalez-Villa , Jose Bernal , Mariano Cabezas , Arnau Oliver , Xavier Llado

Quantitative assessment of the abdominal region from clinically acquired CT scans requires the simultaneous segmentation of abdominal organs. Thanks to the availability of high-performance computational resources, deep learning-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-11 Samra Irshad , Douglas P. S. Gomes , Seong Tae Kim

Morphological and diagnostic evaluation of pediatric musculoskeletal system is crucial in clinical practice. However, most segmentation models do not perform well on scarce pediatric imaging data. We propose a new pre-trained regularized…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-21 Arnaud Boutillon , Bhushan Borotikar , Valérie Burdin , Pierre-Henri Conze

Automated patient positioning can improve radiology workflow efficiency by reducing the time required for manual table adjustments and scout-based scan planning. We propose a learning-based framework that predicts 3D organ locations and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Eytan Kats , Kai Geissler , Daniel Mensing , Julien Senegas , Jochen G. Hirsch , Stefan Heldman , Mattias P. Heinrich

The annotation of patient organs is a crucial part of various diagnostic and treatment procedures, such as radiotherapy planning. Manual annotation is extremely time-consuming, while its automation using modern image analysis techniques has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Leila Khaertdinova , Ilya Pershin , Tatiana Shmykova , Bulat Ibragimov

Disentangling pathological changes from physiological aging in 3D medical shapes is crucial for developing interpretable biomarkers and patient stratification. However, this separation is challenging when diagnosis labels are limited or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Jakaria Rabbi , Nilanjan Ray , Dana Cobzas

In this paper, we present a practical approach to improve anatomical shape accuracy in whole-body medical segmentation. Our analysis shows that a shape-focused toolkit can enhance segmentation performance by over 8%, without the need for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Junqi Liu , Dongli He , Wenxuan Li , Ningyu Wang , Alan L. Yuille , Zongwei Zhou

Organ at risk (OAR) segmentation is a critical process in radiotherapy treatment planning such as head and neck tumors. Nevertheless, in clinical practice, radiation oncologists predominantly perform OAR segmentations manually on CT scans.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Zeyu Zhang , Xuyin Qi , Bowen Zhang , Biao Wu , Hien Le , Bora Jeong , Zhibin Liao , Yunxiang Liu , Johan Verjans , Minh-Son To , Richard Hartley

High-level shape understanding and technique evaluation on large repositories of 3D shapes often benefit from additional information known about the shapes. One example of such information is the semantic segmentation of a shape into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-18 David George , Xianguha Xie , Yu-Kun Lai , Gary KL Tam

Three-dimensional (3D) images, such as CT, MRI, and PET, are common in medical imaging applications and important in clinical diagnosis. Semantic ambiguity is a typical feature of many medical image labels. It can be caused by many factors,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-19 Lin Wang , Xiufen Ye , Donghao Zhang , Wanji He , Lie Ju , Xin Wang , Wei Feng , Kaimin Song , Xin Zhao , Zongyuan Ge

Multi-parametric magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is an indispensable tool in the clinic. Consequently, automatic volume-of-interest segmentation based on multi-parametric MR imaging is crucial for computer-aided disease diagnosis, treatment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-17 Cheng Li , Yousuf Babiker M. Osman , Weijian Huang , Zhenzhen Xue , Hua Han , Hairong Zheng , Shanshan Wang

Medical Image Segmentation is a useful application for medical image analysis including detecting diseases and abnormalities in imaging modalities such as MRI, CT etc. Deep learning has proven to be promising for this task but usually has a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-08 Soham Bhosale , Arjun Krishna , Ge Wang , Klaus Mueller

Regular mammography screening is essential for early breast cancer detection. Deep learning-based risk prediction methods have sparked interest to adjust screening intervals for high-risk groups. While early methods focused only on current…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-25 Solveig Thrun , Stine Hansen , Zijun Sun , Nele Blum , Suaiba A. Salahuddin , Kristoffer Wickstrøm , Elisabeth Wetzer , Robert Jenssen , Maik Stille , Michael Kampffmeyer

There are many approaches to weakly-supervised training of networks to segment 2D images. By contrast, existing approaches to segmenting volumetric images rely on full-supervision of a subset of 2D slices of the 3D volume. We propose an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Udaranga Wickramasinghe , Patrick M. Jensen , Mian Shah , Jiancheng Yang , Pascal Fua