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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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)…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…