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Atrial Fibrillation (AF), the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia worldwide, increasingly requires accurate bi-atrial structural assessment to guide ablation strategies, particularly in persistent AF. Late gadolinium-enhanced magnetic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Malitha Gunawardhana , Mark L Trew , Gregory B Sands , Jichao Zhao

Segmentation of the left atrial chamber and assessing its morphology, are essential for improving our understanding of atrial fibrillation, the most common type of cardiac arrhythmia. Automation of this process in 3D gadolinium enhanced-MRI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Sulaiman Vesal , Nishant Ravikumar , Andreas Maier

Late Gadolinium Enhancement Magnetic Resonance Imaging (LGE MRI) emerged as a routine scan for patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). However, due to the low image quality automating the quantification and analysis of the atrial scars is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Lei Li , Fuping Wu , Guang Yang , Tom Wong , Raad Mohiaddin , David Firmin , Jenny Keegan , Lingchao Xu , Xiahai Zhuang

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (cMRI) is an integral part of diagnosis in many heart related diseases. Recently, deep neural networks have demonstrated successful automatic segmentation, thus alleviating the burden of time-consuming…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-17 Peter M. Full , Fabian Isensee , Paul F. Jäger , Klaus Maier-Hein

Segmentation of the Left ventricle (LV) is a crucial step for quantitative measurements such as area, volume, and ejection fraction. However, the automatic LV segmentation in 2D echocardiographic images is a challenging task due to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-24 Shakiba Moradi , Mostafa Ghelich-Oghli , Azin Alizadehasl , Isaac Shiri , Niki Oveisi , Mehrdad Oveisi , Majid Maleki , Jan Dhooge

Segmentation of the left ventricle (LV) from cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) datasets is an essential step for calculation of clinical indices such as ventricular volume and ejection fraction. In this work, we employ deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-29 M. R. Avendi , A. Kheradvar , H. Jafarkhani

This study addresses the essential task of medical image segmentation, which involves the automatic identification and delineation of anatomical structures and pathological regions in medical images. Accurate segmentation is crucial in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Seyedeh Sahar Taheri Otaghsara , Reza Rahmanzadeh

This study proposes a fully automated approach for the left atrial segmentation from routine cine long-axis cardiac magnetic resonance image sequences using deep convolutional neural networks and Bayesian filtering. The proposed approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Xiaoran Zhang , Michelle Noga , David Glynn Martin , Kumaradevan Punithakumar

In drug discovery, accurate lung tumor segmentation is an important step for assessing tumor size and its progression using \textit{in-vivo} imaging such as MRI. While deep learning models have been developed to automate this process, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-11 Piotr Kaniewski , Fariba Yousefi , Yeman Brhane Hagos , Talha Qaiser , Nikolay Burlutskiy

Multi-atlas segmentation approach is one of the most widely-used image segmentation techniques in biomedical applications. There are two major challenges in this category of methods, i.e., atlas selection and label fusion. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Heran Yang , Jian Sun , Huibin Li , Lisheng Wang , Zongben Xu

The U-Net was presented in 2015. With its straight-forward and successful architecture it quickly evolved to a commonly used benchmark in medical image segmentation. The adaptation of the U-Net to novel problems, however, comprises several…

This research aims to develop a novel deep learning network, GBU-Net, utilizing a group-batch-normalized U-Net framework, specifically designed for the precise semantic segmentation of the left ventricle in short-axis cine MRI scans. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Wenhui Chu , Aobo Jin , Hardik A. Gohel

Accurate and generalisable segmentation of stroke lesions from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is essential for advancing clinical research, prognostic modelling, and personalised interventions. Although deep learning has improved…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-11 Tammar Truzman , Matthew A. Lambon Ralph , Ajay D. Halai

Medical Image Segmentation (MIS) includes diverse tasks, from bone to organ segmentation, each with its own challenges in finding the best segmentation model. The state-of-the-art AutoML-related MIS-framework nnU-Net automates many aspects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Jannis Becktepe , Leona Hennig , Steffen Oeltze-Jafra , Marius Lindauer

Atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common cardiac arrhythmia, is associated with heart failure and stroke. Accurate segmentation of the left atrium (LA) in 3D late gadolinium-enhanced (LGE) MRI is helpful for evaluating AF, as fibrotic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Mehri Mehrnia , Mohamed Elbayumi , Mohammed S. M. Elbaz

Left atrial (LA) and atrial scar segmentation from late gadolinium enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (LGE MRI) is an important task in clinical practice. %, to guide ablation therapy and predict treatment results for atrial fibrillation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-15 Lei Li , Veronika A. Zimmer , Julia A. Schnabel , Xiahai Zhuang

Automatic segmentation of left atrial (LA) scars from late gadolinium enhanced CMR images is a crucial step for atrial fibrillation (AF) recurrence analysis. However, delineating LA scars is tedious and error-prone due to the variation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-11 Mengjun Wu , Wangbin Ding , Mingjin Yang , Liqin Huang

Segmentation of the left atrium and deriving its size can help to predict and detect various cardiovascular conditions. Automation of this process in 3D Ultrasound image data is desirable, since manual delineations are time-consuming,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Markus A. Degel , Nassir Navab , Shadi Albarqouni

Integrating 2D mammography with 3D magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is crucial for improving breast cancer diagnosis and treatment planning. However, this integration is challenging due to differences in imaging modalities and the need for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Melika Pooyan , Hadeel Awwad , Eloy García , Robert Martí

Background: Cardiac MRI derived biventricular mass and function parameters, such as end-systolic volume (ESV), end-diastolic volume (EDV), ejection fraction (EF), stroke volume (SV), and ventricular mass (VM) are clinically well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-15 Hinrich B Winther , Christian Hundt , Bertil Schmidt , Christoph Czerner , Johann Bauersachs , Frank Wacker , Jens Vogel-Claussen