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Interpretability is essential in medical imaging to ensure that clinicians can comprehend and trust artificial intelligence models. In this paper, we propose a novel interpretable approach that combines attribute regularization of the…

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The quality of patient care associated with diagnostic radiology is proportionate to a physician workload. Segmentation is a fundamental limiting precursor to both diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Advances in machine learning (ML) aim…

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We propose a method to classify cardiac pathology based on a novel approach to extract image derived features to characterize the shape and motion of the heart. An original semi-supervised learning procedure, which makes efficient use of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Qiao Zheng , Hervé Delingette , Nicholas Ayache

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the dominant cause of death and hospitalization across the globe. Atherosclerosis, an inflammatory condition that gradually narrows arteries and has potentially fatal effects, is the most frequent cause of…

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Objectives: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common heart rhythm disorder associated with deadly and debilitating consequences including heart failure, stroke, poor mental health, reduced quality of life and death. Having an automatic system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-31 Philip Warrick , Masun Nabhan Homsi

Coronary artery disease (CAD) remains a prevalent cardiovascular condition, posing significant health risks worldwide. This pathology, characterized by plaque accumulation in coronary artery walls, leads to myocardial ischemia and various…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-14 Xinyun Liu , Chen Zhao

Coronary artery disease (CAD) remains a leading cause of mortality worldwide, requiring accurate segmentation and stenosis detection using Coronary Computed Tomography angiography (CCTA). Existing methods struggle with challenges such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Ni Yao , Xiangyu Liu , Danyang Sun , Chuang Han , Yanting Li , Jiaofen Nan , Chengyang Li , Fubao Zhu , Weihua Zhou , Chen Zhao

In CT angiography, the accurate segmentation of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) is difficult due to large anatomical variability, low-contrast vessel boundaries, and the close proximity of organs whose intensities resemble vascular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Osamah Sufyan , Martin Brückmann , Ralph Wickenhöfer , Babette Dellen , Uwe Jaekel

Coronary artery calcium (CAC) scoring plays a crucial role in the early detection and risk stratification of coronary artery disease (CAD). In this study, we focus on non-contrast coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) scans, which…

Pathological anomalies exhibit diverse appearances in medical imaging, making it difficult to collect and annotate a representative amount of data required to train deep learning models in a supervised setting. Therefore, in this work, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-18 Mariana-Iuliana Georgescu

Cardiac motion estimation is critical to the assessment of cardiac function. Myocardium feature tracking (FT) can directly estimate cardiac motion from cine MRI, which requires no special scanning procedure. However, current deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-19 Pingjun Chen , Xiao Chen , Eric Z. Chen , Hanchao Yu , Terrence Chen , Shanhui Sun

Convolutional networks (ConvNets) have achieved promising accuracy for various anatomical segmentation tasks. Despite the success, these methods can be sensitive to data appearance variations. Considering the large variability of scans…

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Deep learning methods for classifying medical images have demonstrated impressive accuracy in a wide range of tasks but often these models are hard to interpret, limiting their applicability in clinical practice. In this work we introduce a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-13 James R. Clough , Ilkay Oksuz , Esther Puyol-Anton , Bram Ruijsink , Andrew P. King , Julia A. Schnabel

The electrocardiogram (ECG) is an essential tool for diagnosing heart disease, with computer-aided systems improving diagnostic accuracy and reducing healthcare costs. Despite advancements, existing systems often miss rare cardiac anomalies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Aofan Jiang , Chaoqin Huang , Qing Cao , Yuchen Xu , Zi Zeng , Kang Chen , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Echocardiography is essential to modern cardiology. However, human interpretation limits high throughput analysis, limiting echocardiography from reaching its full clinical and research potential for precision medicine. Deep learning is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Ali Madani , Ramy Arnaout , Mohammad Mofrad , Rima Arnaout

Electrocardiogram (ECG) is a widely used diagnostic tool for detecting heart conditions. Rare cardiac diseases may be underdiagnosed using traditional ECG analysis, considering that no training dataset can exhaust all possible cardiac…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Aofan Jiang , Chaoqin Huang , Qing Cao , Shuang Wu , Zi Zeng , Kang Chen , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Transformers are very powerful tools for a variety of tasks across domains, from text generation to image captioning. However, transformers require substantial amounts of training data, which is often a challenge in biomedical settings,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Andrew Kean Gao

Deep learning provides an excellent avenue for optimizing diagnosis and patient monitoring for clinical-based applications, which can critically enhance the response time to the onset of various conditions. For cardiovascular disease, one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Ankur Samanta , Mark Karlov , Meghna Ravikumar , Christian McIntosh Clarke , Jayakumar Rajadas , Kaveh Hassani

Unsupervised Anomaly Detection has become a popular method to detect pathologies in medical images as it does not require supervision or labels for training. Most commonly, the anomaly detection model generates a "normal" version of an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Felix Meissen , Johannes Paetzold , Georgios Kaissis , Daniel Rueckert