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Lesion segmentation on computed tomography (CT) scans is an important step for precisely monitoring changes in lesion/tumor growth. This task, however, is very challenging since manual segmentation is prohibitively time-consuming,…

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Gliomas are aggressive brain tumors that require accurate imaging-based diagnosis, with segmentation playing a critical role in evaluating morphology and treatment decisions. Manual delineation of gliomas is time-consuming and prone to…

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We present an Expectation-Maximization (EM) Regularized Deep Learning (EMReDL) model for weakly supervised tumor segmentation. The proposed framework is tailored to glioblastoma, a type of malignant tumor characterized by its diffuse…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-16 Chao Li , Wenjian Huang , Xi Chen , Yiran Wei , Stephen J. Price , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

PET/CT imaging is the gold standard for tumor detection, offering high accuracy in identifying local and metastatic lesions. Radiologists often begin assessment with rotational Multi-Angle Maximum Intensity Projections (MIPs) from PET,…

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Multimodal positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) is used routinely in the assessment of cancer. PET-CT combines the high sensitivity for tumor detection with PET and anatomical information from CT. Tumor segmentation is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-13 Xiaohang Fu , Lei Bi , Ashnil Kumar , Michael Fulham , Jinman Kim

This paper introduces RETSim (Resilient and Efficient Text Similarity), a lightweight, multilingual deep learning model trained to produce robust metric embeddings for near-duplicate text retrieval, clustering, and dataset deduplication…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Marina Zhang , Owen Vallis , Aysegul Bumin , Tanay Vakharia , Elie Bursztein

Ultrasound (US) is the most commonly used liver imaging modality worldwide. Due to its low cost, it is increasingly used in the follow-up of cancer patients with metastases localized in the liver. In this contribution, we present the…

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Cancer segmentation in whole-slide images is a fundamental step for viable tumour burden estimation, which is of great value for cancer assessment. However, factors like vague boundaries or small regions dissociated from viable tumour areas…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-28 Yibao Sun , Giussepi Lopez , Yaqi Wang , Xingru Huang , Huiyu Zhou , Qianni Zhang

Complete removal of cancer tumors with a negative specimen margin during lumpectomy is essential in reducing breast cancer recurrence. However, 2D specimen radiography (SR), the current method used to assess intraoperative specimen margin…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Tyler Ward , Xiaoqin Wang , Braxton McFarland , Md Atik Ahamed , Sahar Nozad , Talal Arshad , Hafsa Nebbache , Jin Chen , Abdullah Imran

One of the most effective ways to treat liver cancer is to perform precise liver resection surgery, the key step of which includes precise digital image segmentation of the liver and its tumor. However, traditional liver parenchymal…

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Automation of brain tumors in 3D magnetic resonance images (MRIs) is key to assess the diagnostic and treatment of the disease. In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown improved results in the task. However, high…

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is the most commonly used non-intrusive technique for medical image acquisition. Brain tumor segmentation is the process of algorithmically identifying tumors in brain MRI scans. While many approaches have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-04 Jason Walsh , Alice Othmani , Mayank Jain , Soumyabrata Dev

Automated segmentation of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC) from MRI is critical for clinical workflows but is hindered by poor tumor-tissue contrast and a scarcity of annotated data. This paper details our submission to the PANTHER…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Omer Faruk Durugol , Maximilian Rokuss , Yannick Kirchhoff , Klaus H. Maier-Hein

Recently segment anything model (SAM) has shown powerful segmentation capability and has drawn great attention in computer vision fields. Massive following works have developed various applications based on the pre-trained SAM and achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Han Shu , Wenshuo Li , Yehui Tang , Yiman Zhang , Yihao Chen , Houqiang Li , Yunhe Wang , Xinghao Chen

Accurate liver and tumor segmentation on abdominal CT images is critical for reliable diagnosis and treatment planning, but remains challenging due to complex anatomical structures, variability in tumor appearance, and limited annotated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Arefin Ittesafun Abian , Ripon Kumar Debnath , Md. Abdur Rahman , Mohaimenul Azam Khan Raiaan , Md Rafiqul Islam , Asif Karim , Reem E. Mohamed , Sami Azam

Breast tumor segmentation provides accurate tumor boundary, and serves as a key step toward further cancer quantification. Although deep learning-based approaches have been proposed and achieved promising results, existing approaches have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-05 Bryar Shareef , Min Xian , Aleksandar Vakanski

Automatic and consistent meningioma segmentation in T1-weighted MRI volumes and corresponding volumetric assessment is of use for diagnosis, treatment planning, and tumor growth evaluation. In this paper, we optimized the segmentation and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-24 David Bouget , André Pedersen , Sayied Abdol Mohieb Hosainey , Johanna Vanel , Ole Solheim , Ingerid Reinertsen

Automatic segmentation of tumor lesions is a critical initial processing step for quantitative PET/CT analysis. However, numerous tumor lesion with different shapes, sizes, and uptake intensity may be distributed in different anatomical…

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T2-weighted fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans are important for diagnosis, treatment planning and monitoring of brain tumors. Depending on the brain tumor type, the FLAIR hyperintensity…

Laryngeal cancer imaging research lacks standardised datasets to enable reproducible deep learning (DL) model development. We present LaryngealCT, a curated benchmark of 1,029 computed tomography (CT) scans aggregated from six collections…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Nivea Roy , Son Tran , Atul Sajjanhar , K. Devaraja , Prakashini Koteshwara , Yong Xiang , Divya Rao