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Accurate segmentation of the ventricles from cardiac magnetic resonance images (CMRIs) is crucial for enhancing the diagnosis and analysis of heart conditions. Deep learning-based segmentation methods have recently garnered significant…

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Medical images exhibit latent anatomical groupings, such as organs, tissues, and pathological regions, that standard Vision Transformers (ViTs) fail to exploit. While recent work like SBM-Transformer attempts to incorporate such structures…

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Whole-body PET/CT is a cornerstone of oncological imaging, yet accurate lesion segmentation remains challenging due to tracer heterogeneity, physiological uptake, and multi-center variability. While fully automated methods have advanced…

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

Morphological analysis and identification of pathologies in the aorta are important for cardiovascular diagnosis and risk assessment in patients. Manual annotation is time-consuming and cumbersome in CT scans acquired without contrast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Julia M. H. Noothout , Bob D. de Vos , Jelmer M. Wolterink , Ivana Isgum

Transformer-based neural networks have surpassed promising performance on many biomedical image segmentation tasks due to a better global information modeling from the self-attention mechanism. However, most methods are still designed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Zheyuan Zhang , Ulas Bagci

The segmentation module which precisely outlines the nodules is a crucial step in a computer-aided diagnosis(CAD) system. The most challenging part of such a module is how to achieve high accuracy of the segmentation, especially for the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-09 Xinliang Fu , Jiayin Zheng , Juanyun Mai , Yanbo Shao , Minghao Wang , Linyu Li , Zhaoqi Diao , Yulong Chen , Jianyu Xiao , Jian You , Airu Yin , Yang Yang , Xiangcheng Qiu , Jinsheng Tao , Bo Wang , Hua Ji

Visual segmentation seeks to partition images, video frames, or point clouds into multiple segments or groups. This technique has numerous real-world applications, such as autonomous driving, image editing, robot sensing, and medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Xiangtai Li , Henghui Ding , Haobo Yuan , Wenwei Zhang , Jiangmiao Pang , Guangliang Cheng , Kai Chen , Ziwei Liu , Chen Change Loy

Utilizing patch-based transformers for unstructured geometric data such as polygon meshes presents significant challenges, primarily due to the absence of a canonical ordering and variations in input sizes. Prior approaches to handling 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Mohammad Farazi , Yalin Wang

Current deep learning based segmentation models often generalize poorly between domains due to insufficient training data. In real-world clinical applications, cross-domain image analysis tools are in high demand since medical images from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-15 Yingying Zhu , Youbao Tang , Yuxing Tang , Daniel C. Elton , Sungwon Lee , Perry J. Pickhardt , Ronald M. Summers

With the evolution of 6G, semantic communication has emerged as a promising paradigm by prioritizing the delivery of task-relevant meaning over strict bit-level correctness. However, existing transport mechanisms still rely on explicit port…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Yunhao Wang , Shuai Ma , Bin Shen , Shouhan Shi , Youlong Wu , Guangming Shi , Xiang Cheng

Multiple instance learning (MIL) has emerged as a popular method for classifying histopathology whole slide images (WSIs). Existing approaches typically rely on frozen pre-trained models to extract instance features, neglecting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Yi Lin , Zhengjie Zhu , Kwang-Ting Cheng , Hao Chen

Accurate coronary artery segmentation is critical for computeraided diagnosis of coronary artery disease (CAD), yet it remains challenging due to the small size, complex morphology, and low contrast with surrounding tissues. To address…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-18 Caixia Dong , Duwei Dai , Xinyi Han , Fan Liu , Xu Yang , Zongfang Li , Songhua Xu

Accurate lumbar spine segmentation is crucial for diagnosing spinal disorders. Existing methods typically use coarse-grained segmentation strategies that lack the fine detail needed for precise diagnosis. Additionally, their reliance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Sheng Lian , Jianlong Cai , Dengfeng Pan , Guang-Yong Chen , Hao Xu , Fan Zhang , Guodong Fan , Shuo Li

We present a novel, physically-based morphing technique for elastic shapes, leveraging the differentiable material point method (MPM) with space-time control through per-particle deformation gradients to accommodate complex topology…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Michael Xu , Chang-Yong Song , David I. W. Levin , David Hyde

Pathological alterations in the human vascular system underlie many chronic diseases, such as atherosclerosis and aneurysms. However, manually analyzing diagnostic images of the vascular system, such as computed tomographic angiograms…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-29 Alireza Bagheri Rajeoni , Breanna Pederson , Ali Firooz , Hamed Abdollahi , Andrew K. Smith , Daniel G. Clair , Susan M. Lessner , Homayoun Valafar

Purpose: Aortic dissections are life-threatening cardiovascular conditions requiring accurate segmentation of true lumen (TL), false lumen (FL), and false lumen thrombosis (FLT) from CTA images for effective management. Manual segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-30 Hao Xu , Ruth Lim , Brian E. Chapman

Detection of tumors in metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) plays an essential role in the early diagnosis and treatment of liver cancer. Deep learning models backboned by fully convolutional neural networks (FCNNs) have become the dominant…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-01 Ramtin Mojtahedi , Mohammad Hamghalam , Richard K. G. Do , Amber L. Simpson

In this work, we present Patch-based Object-centric Video Transformer (POVT), a novel region-based video generation architecture that leverages object-centric information to efficiently model temporal dynamics in videos. We build upon prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Wilson Yan , Ryo Okumura , Stephen James , Pieter Abbeel

Lung segmentation in chest X-ray images is a critical task in medical image analysis, enabling accurate diagnosis and treatment of various lung diseases. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for lung segmentation by integrating…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-22 Mohammad Ali Labbaf Khaniki , Nazanin Mahjourian , Mohammad Manthouri

The utilisation of deep learning segmentation algorithms that learn complex organs and tissue patterns and extract essential regions of interest from the noisy background to improve the visual ability for medical image diagnosis has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Yanming Guo