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Automated segmentation of cancerous lesions in PET/CT images is a vital initial task for quantitative analysis. However, it is often challenging to train deep learning-based segmentation methods to high degree of accuracy due to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Shadab Ahamed , Arman Rahmim

Background: Multiparametric breast MRI data might improve tumor diagnostics, characterization, and treatment planning. Accurate alignment and delineation of images acquired at different field strengths such as 3T and 7T, remain challenging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-24 Muhammad Shahkar Khan , Haider Ali , Laura Villazan Garcia , Noor Badshah , Siegfried Trattnig , Florian Schwarzhans , Ramona Woitek , Olgica Zaric

Accurate segmentation of brain tumors plays a key role in the diagnosis and treatment of brain tumor diseases. It serves as a critical technology for quantifying tumors and extracting their features. With the increasing application of deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Longfeng Shen , Yanqi Hou , Jiacong Chen , Liangjin Diao , Yaxi Duan

Small object segmentation, like tumor segmentation, is a difficult and critical task in the field of medical image analysis. Although deep learning based methods have achieved promising performance, they are restricted to the use of binary…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-17 Huiyu Li , Xiabi Liu , Said Boumaraf , Xiaopeng Gong , Donghai Liao , Xiaohong Ma

Segmentation of brain tumors from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) remains a pivotal challenge in medical image analysis due to the heterogeneous nature of tumor morphology and intensity distributions. Accurate delineation of tumor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Dibya Jyoti Bora , Mrinal Kanti Mishra

Deep learning presents novel opportunities for the auto-segmentation of gross tumor volume (GTV) in head and neck cancer (HNC), yet fully automatic methods usually necessitate significant manual refinement. This study investigates the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Jintao Ren , Mathis Rasmussen , Jasper Nijkamp , Jesper Grau Eriksen , Stine Korreman

The Segment Anything Model (SAM), originally built on a 2D Vision Transformer (ViT), excels at capturing global patterns in 2D natural images but struggles with 3D medical imaging modalities like CT and MRI. These modalities require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Xiang Gao , Kai Lu

Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography (FDG-PET) combined with Computed Tomography (CT) scans are critical in oncology to the identification of solid tumours and the monitoring of their progression. However, precise and consistent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Anissa Alloula , Daniel R McGowan , Bartłomiej W. Papież

Precise characterization of the kidney and kidney tumor characteristics is of outmost importance in the context of kidney cancer treatment, especially for nephron sparing surgery which requires a precise localization of the tissues to be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-03 Gianmarco Santini , Noémie Moreau , Mathieu Rubeaux

The objective of this study was to develop a PET tumor-segmentation framework that addresses the challenges of limited spatial resolution, high image noise, and lack of clinical training data with ground-truth tumor boundaries in PET…

The clinical management of breast cancer depends on an accurate understanding of the tumor and its anatomical context to adjacent tissues and landmark structures. This context may be provided by semantic segmentation methods; however,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-29 Arda Pekis , Vignesh Kannan , Evandros Kaklamanos , Anu Antony , Snehal Patel , Tyler Earnest

Glioma is one of the most common and aggressive types of primary brain tumors. The accurate segmentation of subcortical brain structures is crucial to the study of gliomas in that it helps the monitoring of the progression of gliomas and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-02 Lele Chen , Yue Wu , Adora M. DSouza , Anas Z. Abidin , Axel Wismuller , Chenliang Xu

A number of studies on lung nodule classification lack clinical/biological interpretations of the features extracted by convolutional neural network (CNN). The methods like class activation mapping (CAM) and gradient-based CAM (Grad-CAM)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Yiming Lei , Yukun Tian , Hongming Shan , Junping Zhang , Ge Wang , Mannudeep Kalra

Anomaly detection for Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) can be solved with unsupervised methods by learning the distribution of healthy images and identifying anomalies as outliers. In presence of an additional dataset of unlabelled data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Alexandra-Ioana Albu , Alina Enescu , Luigi Malagò

Another year of the multimodal brain tumor segmentation challenge (BraTS) 2021 provides an even larger dataset to facilitate collaboration and research of brain tumor segmentation methods, which are necessary for disease analysis and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-02 Md Mahfuzur Rahman Siddiquee , Andriy Myronenko

Purpose: To develop a fast and precise method for searching rectangular regions in brain tumor images. Methods: The authors propose a new method for searching rectangular tumor regions in brain MR images. The proposed method consisted of a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-08 Hidenori Takeshima , Shuki Maruyama

The prediction of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma therapy response is a clinically challenging and important task in this high-mortality tumour entity. The training of neural networks able to tackle this challenge is impeded by a lack of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-31 Alexander Ziller , Ayhan Can Erdur , Friederike Jungmann , Daniel Rueckert , Rickmer Braren , Georgios Kaissis

Liver cancer is one of the most prevalent and lethal forms of cancer, making early detection crucial for effective treatment. This paper introduces a novel approach for automated liver tumor segmentation in computed tomography (CT) images…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Nastaran Ghorbani , Bitasadat Jamshidi , Mohsen Rostamy-Malkhalifeh

The work presented in this paper is to propose a reliable high-quality system of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for brain tumor segmentation with a low computation requirement. The system consists of a CNN for the main processing for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 Yanming Sun , Chunyan Wang

The automated detection of cancerous tumors has attracted interest mainly during the last decade, due to the necessity of early and efficient diagnosis that will lead to the most effective possible treatment of the impending risk. Several…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-13 Vasileios E. Papageorgiou , Pantelis Dogoulis , Dimitrios-Panagiotis Papageorgiou