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Brain tumour segmentation plays a key role in computer-assisted surgery. Deep neural networks have increased the accuracy of automatic segmentation significantly, however these models tend to generalise poorly to different imaging…

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Automatic segmentation of head and neck tumors plays an important role in radiomics analysis. In this short paper, we propose an automatic segmentation method for head and neck tumors from PET and CT images based on the combination of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Jun Ma , Xiaoping Yang

Carotid arteries vulnerable plaques are a crucial factor in the screening of atherosclerosis by ultrasound technique. However, the plaques are contaminated by various noises such as artifact, speckle noise, and manual segmentation may be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-19 Yanchao Yuan , Cancheng Li , Lu Xu , Ke Zhang , Yang Hua , Jicong Zhang

Accurate nuclei segmentation is an essential foundation for various applications in computational pathology, including cancer diagnosis and treatment planning. Even slight variations in nuclei representations can significantly impact these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-30 Zunaira Rauf , Abdul Rehman Khan , Asifullah Khan

Deep cerebellar nuclei are a key structure of the cerebellum that are involved in processing motor and sensory information. It is thus a crucial step to accurately segment deep cerebellar nuclei for the understanding of the cerebellum…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Jinyoung Kim , Remi Patriat , Jordan Kaplan , Oren Solomon , Noam Harel

Tumor volume segmentation on MRI is a challenging and time-consuming process that is performed manually in typical clinical settings. This work presents an approach to automated delineation of head and neck tumors on MRI scans, developed in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-10 Andrei Iantsen

Retinal blood vessel segmentation can extract clinically relevant information from fundus images. As manual tracing is cumbersome, algorithms based on Convolution Neural Networks have been developed. Such studies have used small publicly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-24 Jeremiah Fadugba , Patrick Köhler , Lisa Koch , Petru Manescu , Philipp Berens

Brain tumor segmentation is a fundamental step in assessing a patient's cancer progression. However, manual segmentation demands significant expert time to identify tumors in 3D multimodal brain MRI scans accurately. This reliance on manual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-07 Fadillah Maani , Anees Ur Rehman Hashmi , Numan Saeed , Mohammad Yaqub

Purpose: Deep learning methods have shown promising results in the segmentation, and detection of diseases in medical images. However, most methods are trained and tested on data from a single source, modality, organ, or disease type,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-20 Nchongmaje Ndipenocha , Alina Mirona , Kezhi Wanga , Yongmin Li

Automatic segmentation of the fetal brain is still challenging due to the health state of fetal development, motion artifacts, and variability across gestational ages, since existing methods rely on high-quality datasets of healthy fetuses.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-27 Zhigao Cai , Xing-Ming Zhao

In this paper, we propose an end-to-end deep neural network for solving the problem of imbalanced large and small organ segmentation in head and neck (HaN) CT images. To conduct radiotherapy planning for nasopharyngeal cancer, more than 10…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-30 Yunhe Gao , Rui Huang , Ming Chen , Zhe Wang , Jincheng Deng , Yuanyuan Chen , Yiwei Yang , Jie Zhang , Chanjuan Tao , Hongsheng Li

The integration of machine learning in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), specifically in neuroimaging, is proving to be incredibly effective, leading to better diagnostic accuracy, accelerated image analysis, and data-driven insights, which…

This study addresses critical gaps in automated lymphoma segmentation from PET/CT images, focusing on issues often overlooked in existing literature. While deep learning has been applied for lymphoma lesion segmentation, few studies…

In clinical practice, regions of interest in medical imaging often need to be identified through a process of precise image segmentation. The quality of this image segmentation step critically affects the subsequent clinical assessment of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-23 João B. S. Carvalho , João A. Santinha , Đorđe Miladinović , Joachim M. Buhmann

Digital pathology, augmented by artificial intelligence (AI), holds significant promise for improving the workflow of pathologists. However, challenges such as the labor-intensive annotation of whole slide images (WSIs), high computational…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-18 Walid Rehamnia , Alexandra Getmanskaya , Evgeniy Vasilyev , Vadim Turlapov

Segmenting medical images accurately and reliably is important for disease diagnosis and treatment. It is a challenging task because of the wide variety of objects' sizes, shapes, and scanning modalities. Recently, many convolutional neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-17 Ange Lou , Shuyue Guan , Hanseok Ko , Murray Loew

Automatic segmentation of anatomical landmarks from ultrasound (US) plays an important role in the management of preterm neonates with a very low birth weight due to the increased risk of developing intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-19 Jeya Maria Jose V. , Rajeev Yasarla , Puyang Wang , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Vishal M. Patel

This work introduces a novel framework for brain tumor segmentation leveraging pre-trained GANs and Unet architectures. By combining a global anomaly detection module with a refined mask generation network, the proposed model accurately…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-27 Qifei Cui , Xinyu Lu

Automated detection of curvilinear structures, e.g., blood vessels or nerve fibres, from medical and biomedical images is a crucial early step in automatic image interpretation associated to the management of many diseases. Precise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-20 Lei Mou , Yitian Zhao , Huazhu Fu , Yonghuai Liu , Jun Cheng , Yalin Zheng , Pan Su , Jianlong Yang , Li Chen , Alejandro F Frang , Masahiro Akiba , Jiang Liu

Automatic nuclei segmentation and classification play a vital role in digital pathology. However, previous works are mostly built on data with limited diversity and small sizes, making the results questionable or misleading in actual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-31 Kai Yao , Kaizhu Huang , Jie Sun , Amir Hussain