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This paper proposes a novel framework for lung segmentation in chest X-rays. It consists of two key contributions, a criss-cross attention based segmentation network and radiorealistic chest X-ray image synthesis (i.e. a synthesized…

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An increasing number of public datasets have shown a marked impact on automated organ segmentation and tumor detection. However, due to the small size and partially labeled problem of each dataset, as well as a limited investigation of…

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Longitudinal chest X-ray (CXR) interpretation requires reasoning over disease evolution across multiple patient visits, yet most existing medical VQA benchmarks focus on single images or short-horizon image pairs. We introduce MI-CXR, a…

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Report generation models offer fine-grained textual interpretations of medical images like chest X-rays, yet they often lack interactivity (i.e. the ability to steer the generation process through user queries) and localized…

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Medical image segmentation is undergoing a paradigm shift from conventional visual pattern matching to cognitive reasoning analysis. Although Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown promise in integrating linguistic and visual…

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In this paper, we describe our method for the ISIC 2019 Skin Lesion Classification Challenge. The challenge comes with two tasks. For task 1, skin lesions have to be classified based on dermoscopic images. For task 2, dermoscopic images and…

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Segmentation is a crucial task in the medical imaging field and is often an important primary step or even a prerequisite to the analysis of medical volumes. Yet treatments such as surgery complicate the accurate delineation of regions of…

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Medical image segmentation is one of the fundamental problems for artificial intelligence-based clinical decision systems. Current automatic medical image segmentation methods are often failed to meet clinical requirements. As such, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Wenhao Li , Qisen Xu , Chuyun Shen , Bin Hu , Fengping Zhu , Yuxin Li , Bo Jin , Xiangfeng Wang

The accurate understanding of ischemic stroke lesions is critical for efficient therapy and prognosis of stroke patients. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is sensitive to acute ischemic stroke and is a common diagnostic method for stroke.…

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We introduce Med-CTX, a fully transformer based multimodal framework for explainable breast cancer ultrasound segmentation. We integrate clinical radiology reports to boost both performance and interpretability. Med-CTX achieves exact…

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Medical imaging is crucial for diagnosing a patient's health condition, and accurate segmentation of these images is essential for isolating regions of interest to ensure precise diagnosis and treatment planning. Existing methods primarily…

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Masked Image Modeling (MIM) has become an essential method for building foundational visual models in remote sensing (RS). However, the limitations in size and diversity of existing RS datasets restrict the ability of MIM methods to learn…

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Anatomical segmentation of organs in ultrasound images is essential to many clinical applications, particularly for diagnosis and monitoring. Existing deep neural networks require a large amount of labeled data for training in order to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-01 Yordanka Velikova , Mohammad Farid Azampour , Walter Simson , Vanessa Gonzalez Duque , Nassir Navab

Medical researchers and clinicians often need to perform novel segmentation tasks on a set of related images. Existing methods for segmenting a new dataset are either interactive, requiring substantial human effort for each image, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Hallee E. Wong , Jose Javier Gonzalez Ortiz , John Guttag , Adrian V. Dalca

Localisation of surgical tools constitutes a foundational building block for computer-assisted interventional technologies. Works in this field typically focus on training deep learning models to perform segmentation tasks. Performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Zhe Han , Charlie Budd , Gongyu Zhang , Huanyu Tian , Christos Bergeles , Tom Vercauteren

Chest radiography is an effective screening tool for diagnosing pulmonary diseases. In computer-aided diagnosis, extracting the relevant region of interest, i.e., isolating the lung region of each radiography image, can be an essential step…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-23 Hilda Azimi , Jianxing Zhang , Pengcheng Xi , Hala Asad , Ashkan Ebadi , Stephane Tremblay , Alexander Wong

In-context learning (ICL) with Large Vision Models (LVMs) presents a promising avenue in medical image segmentation by reducing the reliance on extensive labeling. However, the ICL performance of LVMs highly depends on the choices of visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Chenwei Wu , David Restrepo , Zitao Shuai , Zhongming Liu , Liyue Shen

Recent advances in text-conditioned image generation diffusion models have begun paving the way for new opportunities in modern medical domain, in particular, generating Chest X-rays (CXRs) from diagnostic reports. Nonetheless, to further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Woojung Han , Chanyoung Kim , Dayun Ju , Yumin Shim , Seong Jae Hwang

This paper proposes one of the first clinical applications of multimodal large language models (LLMs) as an assistant for radiologists to check errors in their reports. We created an evaluation dataset from real-world radiology datasets…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Jinge Wu , Yunsoo Kim , Eva C. Keller , Jamie Chow , Adam P. Levine , Nikolas Pontikos , Zina Ibrahim , Paul Taylor , Michelle C. Williams , Honghan Wu

Accurate segmentation of skin lesions within dermoscopic images plays a crucial role in the timely identification of skin cancer for computer-aided diagnosis on mobile platforms. However, varying shapes of the lesions, lack of defined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Hamza Farooq , Zuhair Zafar , Ahsan Saadat , Tariq M Khan , Shahzaib Iqbal , Imran Razzak