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Deep learning-based brain tumor segmentation (BTS) models for multi-modal MRI images have seen significant advancements in recent years. However, a common problem in practice is the unavailability of some modalities due to varying scanning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Weide Liu , Jingwen Hou , Xiaoyang Zhong , Huijing Zhan , Jun Cheng , Yuming Fang , Guanghui Yue

Liver cancer is one of the most common cancers worldwide. Due to inconspicuous texture changes of liver tumor, contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) imaging is effective for the diagnosis of liver cancer. In this paper, we focus on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-22 Yao Zhang , Jiawei Yang , Jiang Tian , Zhongchao Shi , Cheng Zhong , Yang Zhang , Zhiqiang He

Brain tumor segmentation based on multi-modal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plays a pivotal role in assisting brain cancer diagnosis, treatment, and postoperative evaluations. Despite the achieved inspiring performance by existing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-16 Haoran Li , Cheng Li , Weijian Huang , Xiawu Zheng , Yan Xi , Shanshan Wang

Multi-modal Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is imperative for accurate brain tumor segmentation, offering indispensable complementary information. Nonetheless, the absence of modalities poses significant challenges in achieving precise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-27 Zheyu Zhang , Xinzhao Liu , Zheng Chen , Yueyi Zhang , Huanjing Yue , Yunwei Ou , Xiaoyan Sun

Due to the difficulties of obtaining multimodal paired images in clinical practice, recent studies propose to train brain tumor segmentation models with unpaired images and capture complementary information through modality translation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Zecheng Liu , Jia Wei , Rui Li

Multimodal MRI is essential for brain tumor segmentation, yet missing modalities in clinical practice cause existing methods to exhibit >40% performance variance across modality combinations, rendering them clinically unreliable. We propose…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Chengxiang Guo , Jian Wang , Junhua Fei , Xiao Li , Chunling Chen , Yun Jin

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a widely used imaging technique to assess brain tumor. Accurately segmenting brain tumor from MR images is the key to clinical diagnostics and treatment planning. In addition, multi-modal MR images can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-21 Tongxue Zhou , Stéphane Canu , Pierre Vera , Su Ruan

Automatic brain tumor segmentation from multi-modality Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) using deep learning methods plays an important role in assisting the diagnosis and treatment of brain tumor. However, previous methods mostly ignore the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-01 Yixin Wang , Yao Zhang , Feng Hou , Yang Liu , Jiang Tian , Cheng Zhong , Yang Zhang , Zhiqiang He

Medical image segmentation of tumors and organs at risk is a time-consuming yet critical process in the clinic that utilizes multi-modality imaging (e.g, different acquisitions, data types, and sequences) to increase segmentation precision.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-07 Qisheng He , Nicholas Summerfield , Ming Dong , Carri Glide-Hurst

Gliomas are one of the most prevalent types of primary brain tumours, accounting for more than 30\% of all cases and they develop from the glial stem or progenitor cells. In theory, the majority of brain tumours could well be identified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Reza Azad , Nika Khosravi , Dorit Merhof

Multi-modal learning is typically performed with network architectures containing modality-specific layers and shared layers, utilizing co-registered images of different modalities. We propose a novel learning scheme for unpaired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Qi Dou , Quande Liu , Pheng Ann Heng , Ben Glocker

Accurate segmentation of brain images typically requires the integration of complementary information from multiple image modalities. However, clinical data for all modalities may not be available for every patient, creating a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Haitao Li , Ziyu Li , Yiheng Mao , Zhengyao Ding , Zhengxing Huang

Incomplete multi-modal medical image segmentation faces critical challenges from modality imbalance, including imbalanced modality missing rates and heterogeneous modality contributions. Due to their reliance on idealized assumptions of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Libin Lan , Hongxing Li , Zunhui Xia , Yudong Zhang

Using multimodal Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is necessary for accurate brain tumor segmentation. The main problem is that not all types of MRIs are always available in clinical exams. Based on the fact that there is a strong…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-11 Tongxue Zhou , Stéphane Canu , Pierre Vera , Su Ruan

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has become a promising direction for medical image segmentation, enabling models to learn from limited labeled data alongside abundant unlabeled samples. However, existing SSL approaches for multi-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Tien-Dat Chung , Ba-Thinh Lam , Thanh-Huy Nguyen , Thien Nguyen , Nguyen Lan Vi Vu , Hoang-Loc Cao , Phat Kim Huynh , Min Xu

Multimodal MR images can provide complementary information for accurate brain tumor segmentation. However, it's common to have missing imaging modalities in clinical practice. Since there exists a strong correlation between multi…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-21 Tongxue Zhou , Stéphane Canu , Pierre Vera , Su Ruan

This technical report presents a comparative analysis of existing deep learning (DL) based approaches for brain tumor segmentation with missing MRI modalities. Approaches evaluated include the Adversarial Co-training Network (ACN) and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Benteng Ma , Yushi Wang , Shen Wang

Multi-modality medical imaging is crucial in clinical treatment as it can provide complementary information for medical image segmentation. However, collecting multi-modal data in clinical is difficult due to the limitation of the scan time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Shuai Wang , Zipei Yan , Daoan Zhang , Haining Wei , Zhongsen Li , Rui Li

Brain MRI scans are often found in four modalities, consisting of T1-weighted with and without contrast enhancement (T1ce and T1w), T2-weighted imaging (T2w), and Flair. Leveraging complementary information from these different modalities…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-22 Bhavesh Sandbhor , Bheeshm Sharma , Balamurugan Palaniappan

Recent advances in machine learning and prevalence of digital medical images have opened up an opportunity to address the challenging brain tumor segmentation (BTS) task by using deep convolutional neural networks. However, different from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-10 Dingwen Zhang , Guohai Huang , Qiang Zhang , Jungong Han , Junwei Han , Yizhou Yu