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The generalization performance of deep learning models for medical image analysis often decreases on images collected with different devices for data acquisition, device settings, or patient population. A better understanding of the…

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Semantic segmentation is a crucial task in medical image processing, essential for segmenting organs or lesions such as tumors. In this study we aim to improve automated segmentation in CBCTs through multi-task learning. To evaluate effects…

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Separating overlapped nuclei is a major challenge in histopathology image analysis. Recently published approaches have achieved promising overall performance on nuclei segmentation; however, their performance on separating overlapped nuclei…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-01 Haotian Wang , Aleksandar Vakanski , Changfa Shi , Min Xian

Capturing global contextual information plays a critical role in breast ultrasound (BUS) image classification. Although convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated reliable performance in tumor classification, they have inherent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-07 Bryar Shareef , Min Xian , Aleksandar Vakanski , Haotian Wang

Accurate medical image segmentation commonly requires effective learning of the complementary information from multimodal data. However, in clinical practice, we often encounter the problem of missing imaging modalities. We tackle this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Cheng Chen , Qi Dou , Yueming Jin , Hao Chen , Jing Qin , Pheng-Ann Heng

Automatic breast lesion detection and classification is an important task in computer-aided diagnosis, in which breast ultrasound (BUS) imaging is a common and frequently used screening tool. Recently, a number of deep learning-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-13 Zong Fan , Ping Gong , Shanshan Tang , Christine U. Lee , Xiaohui Zhang , Pengfei Song , Shigao Chen , Hua Li

Mammography stands as the main screening method for detecting breast cancer early, enhancing treatment success rates. The segmentation of landmark structures in mammography images can aid the medical assessment in the evaluation of cancer…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-31 Jan Hurtado , Joao P. Maia , Cesar A. Sierra-Franco , Alberto Raposo

Accurate tumor segmentation and classification in breast ultrasound (BUS) imaging remain challenging due to low contrast, speckle noise, and diverse lesion morphology. This study presents a multi-task deep learning framework that jointly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Samuel E. Johnny , Bernes L. Atabonfack , Israel Alagbe , Assane Gueye

Deep learning-based brain tumor segmentation (BTS) models for multi-modal MRI images have seen significant advancements in recent years. However, a common problem in practice is the unavailability of some modalities due to varying scanning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Weide Liu , Jingwen Hou , Xiaoyang Zhong , Huijing Zhan , Jun Cheng , Yuming Fang , Guanghui Yue

Automatic brain tumor segmentation from multi-modality Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) using deep learning methods plays an important role in assisting the diagnosis and treatment of brain tumor. However, previous methods mostly ignore the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-01 Yixin Wang , Yao Zhang , Feng Hou , Yang Liu , Jiang Tian , Cheng Zhong , Yang Zhang , Zhiqiang He

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) aims to adapt existing models of the source domain to a new target domain with only unlabeled data. Most existing methods suffer from noticeable negative transfer resulting from either the error-prone…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Qianyu Zhou , Zhengyang Feng , Qiqi Gu , Guangliang Cheng , Xuequan Lu , Jianping Shi , Lizhuang Ma

Background: Brain tumor segmentation has a significant impact on the diagnosis and treatment of brain tumors. Accurate brain tumor segmentation remains challenging due to their irregular shapes, vague boundaries, and high variability.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Zhanyuan Jia , Ni Yao , Danyang Sun , Chuang Han , Yanting Li , Jiaofen Nan , Fubao Zhu , Chen Zhao , Weihua Zhou

We study the problem of learning-to-learn: inferring a learning algorithm that works well on tasks sampled from an unknown distribution. As class of algorithms we consider Stochastic Gradient Descent on the true risk regularized by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Giulia Denevi , Carlo Ciliberto , Riccardo Grazzi , Massimiliano Pontil

This paper proposes an efficient solution for tumor segmentation and classification in breast ultrasound (BUS) images. We propose to add an atrous convolution layer to the conditional generative adversarial network (cGAN) segmentation model…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Vivek Kumar Singh , Hatem A. Rashwan , Mohamed Abdel-Nasser , Md. Mostafa Kamal Sarker , Farhan Akram , Nidhi Pandey , Santiago Romani , Domenec Puig

This paper proposes a 3D attention-based U-Net architecture for multi-region segmentation of brain tumors using a single stacked multi-modal volume created by combining three non-native MRI volumes. The attention mechanism added to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-11 Maryann M. Gitonga

Neural networks have recently been established as a viable classification method for imaging mass spectrometry data for tumor typing. For multi-laboratory scenarios however, certain confounding factors may strongly impede their performance.…

Organ at risk (OAR) segmentation in computed tomography (CT) imagery is a difficult task for automated segmentation methods and can be crucial for downstream radiation treatment planning. U-net has become a de-facto standard for medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-27 Abdullah Nazib , Riad Hassan , Zahidul Islam , Clinton Fookes

Deep learning methods for brain tumor segmentation are typically trained in an ad hoc fashion on all available data. Brain tumors are tremendously heterogeneous in image appearance and labeled training data is limited. We argue that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-31 Raphael Meier , Michael Rebsamen , Urspeter Knecht , Mauricio Reyes , Roland Wiest , Richard McKinley

Medical image registration and segmentation are two of the most frequent tasks in medical image analysis. As these tasks are complementary and correlated, it would be beneficial to apply them simultaneously in a joint manner. In this paper,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-06 Mohamed S. Elmahdy , Laurens Beljaards , Sahar Yousefi , Hessam Sokooti , Fons Verbeek , U. A. van der Heide , Marius Staring

Brain tumor segmentation remains a significant challenge, particularly in the context of multi-modal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) where missing modality images are common in clinical settings, leading to reduced segmentation accuracy.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-14 Zhongao Sun , Jiameng Li , Yuhan Wang , Jiarong Cheng , Qing Zhou , Chun Li