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Skin lesion segmentation is a critical task in computer-aided diagnosis systems for dermatological diseases. Accurate segmentation of skin lesions from medical images is essential for early detection, diagnosis, and treatment planning. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Viet-Thanh Nguyen , Van-Truong Pham , Thi-Thao Tran

We introduce MARL-MambaContour, the first contour-based medical image segmentation framework based on Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL). Our approach reframes segmentation as a multi-agent cooperation task focused on generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Ruicheng Zhang , Yu Sun , Zeyu Zhang , Jinai Li , Xiaofan Liu , Au Hoi Fan , Haowei Guo , Puxin Yan

Prostate radiotherapy is a well established curative oncology modality, which in future will use Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)-based radiotherapy for daily adaptive radiotherapy target definition. However the time needed to delineate the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-17 David Gillespie , Connah Kendrick , Ian Boon , Cheng Boon , Tim Rattay , Moi Hoon Yap

Breast cancer lesion segmentation in DCE-MRI remains challenging due to heterogeneous tumor morphology and indistinct boundaries. To address these challenges, this study proposes a novel hybrid segmentation network, HCMA-UNet, for lesion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-02 Haoxuan Li , Wei song , Peiwu Qin , Xi Yuan , Zhenglin Chen

In this work, we propose a deep U-Net based model to tackle the challenging task of prostate cancer segmentation by aggressiveness in MRI based on weak scribble annotations. This model extends the size constraint loss proposed by Kervadec…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-13 Audrey Duran , Gaspard Dussert , Carole Lartizien

Background: High-resolution MRI is critical for diagnosis, but long acquisition times limit clinical use. Super-resolution (SR) can enhance resolution post-scan, yet existing deep learning methods face fidelity-efficiency trade-offs.…

Objective: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been widely used for the analysis and diagnosis of brain diseases. Accurate and automatic brain tumor segmentation is of paramount importance for radiation treatment. However, low tissue…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-18 Jiangyun Li , Hong Yu , Chen Chen , Meng Ding , Sen Zha

The diagnosis of prostate cancer faces a problem with overdiagnosis that leads to damaging side effects due to unnecessary treatment. Research has shown that the use of multi-parametric magnetic resonance images to conduct biopsies can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-04 Pedro C. Neto

Widely used traditional pipelines for subcortical brain segmentation are often inefficient and slow, particularly when processing large datasets. Furthermore, deep learning models face challenges due to the high resolution of MRI images and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Aaron Cao , Zongyu Li , Jordan Jomsky , Andrew F. Laine , Jia Guo

Early detection of skin abnormalities plays a crucial role in diagnosing and treating skin cancer. Segmentation of affected skin regions using AI-powered devices is relatively common and supports the diagnostic process. However, achieving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Thi-Nhu-Quynh Nguyen , Quang-Huy Ho , Duy-Thai Nguyen , Hoang-Minh-Quang Le , Van-Truong Pham , Thi-Thao Tran

The emergence of multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI) has had a profound impact on the diagnosis of prostate cancers (PCa), which is the most prevalent malignancy in males in the western world, enabling a better selection of…

This contribution presents a deep learning method for the segmentation of prostate zones in MRI images based on U-Net using additive and feature pyramid attention modules, which can improve the workflow of prostate cancer detection and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Pablo Cesar Quihui-Rubio , Daniel Flores-Araiza , Miguel Gonzalez-Mendoza , Christian Mata , Gilberto Ochoa-Ruiz

Automated prostate segmentation in MRI is highly demanded for computer-assisted diagnosis. Recently, a variety of deep learning methods have achieved remarkable progress in this task, usually relying on large amounts of training data. Due…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-20 Quande Liu , Qi Dou , Lequan Yu , Pheng Ann Heng

Medical image segmentation plays an important role in computer-aided diagnosis. Traditional convolution-based U-shape segmentation architectures are usually limited by the local receptive field. Existing vision transformers have been widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Qing Xu , Yanming Chen , Yue Li , Ziyu Liu , Zhenye Lou , Yixuan Zhang , Xiangjian He

Multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (mp-MRI) has shown excellent results in the detection of prostate cancer (PCa). However, characterizing prostate lesions aggressiveness in mp-MRI sequences is impossible in clinical practice, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-28 Audrey Duran , Gaspard Dussert , Olivier Rouvière , Tristan Jaouen , Pierre-Marc Jodoin , Carole Lartizien

Brain tumor segmentation is essential for diagnosis and treatment planning, yet many CNN and U-Net based approaches produce noisy boundaries in regions of tumor infiltration. We introduce UAMSA-UNet, an Uncertainty-Aware Multi-Scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Satyaki Roy Chowdhury , Golrokh Mirzaei

Nuclei segmentation and classification provide an essential basis for tumor immune microenvironment analysis. The previous nuclei segmentation and classification models require splitting large images into smaller patches for training,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Ye Zhang , Zijie Fang , Yifeng Wang , Lingbo Zhang , Xianchao Guan , Yongbing Zhang

Skin lesion segmentation is a critical challenge in computer vision, and it is essential to separate pathological features from healthy skin for diagnostics accurately. Traditional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are limited by narrow…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-26 Muyi Bao , Shuchang Lyu , Zhaoyang Xu , Qi Zhao , Changyu Zeng , Wenpei Bai , Guangliang Cheng

Recent 2D CNN-based domain adaptation approaches struggle with long-range dependencies due to limited receptive fields, making it difficult to adapt to target domains with significant spatial distribution changes. While transformer-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 A. Enes Doruk , Hasan F. Ates

Recently Mamba-based methods have shown promise in abdominal organ segmentation. However, existing approaches neglect cross-channel anatomical semantic collaboration and lack explicit boundary-aware feature fusion mechanisms. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Yuyang Zheng , Mingda Zhang , Jianglong Qin , Qi Mo , Jingdan Pan , Haozhe Hu , Hongyi Huang