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Identifying key pathological features in brain MRIs is crucial for the long-term survival of glioma patients. However, manual segmentation is time-consuming, requiring expert intervention and is susceptible to human error. Therefore,…

Accurate brain tumor segmentation is crucial for neuro-oncology diagnosis and treatment planning. Deep learning methods have made significant progress, but automatic segmentation still faces challenges, including tumor morphological…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Mingda Zhang

Accurate and efficient segmentation of brain tumors is critical for diagnosis, treatment planning, and monitoring in clinical practice. In this study, we present an enhanced ResUNet architecture for automatic brain tumor segmentation,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Majid Behzadpour , Ebrahim Azizi , Kai Wu , Bengie L. Ortiz

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in medical image segmentation tasks. A common feature in most top-performing CNNs is an encoder-decoder architecture inspired by the U-Net. For multi-region…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-07 Syed Talha Bukhari , Hassan Mohy-ud-Din

Segmenting brain tumors in multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging enables performing quantitative analysis in support of clinical trials and personalized patient care. This analysis provides the potential to impact clinical…

Using multimodal Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is necessary for accurate brain tumor segmentation. The main problem is that not all types of MRIs are always available in clinical exams. Based on the fact that there is a strong…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-11 Tongxue Zhou , Stéphane Canu , Pierre Vera , Su Ruan

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) exhibit superior energy efficiency but suffer from limited performance. In this paper, we consider SNNs as ensembles of temporal subnetworks that share architectures and weights, and highlight a crucial issue…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Yongqi Ding , Lin Zuo , Mengmeng Jing , Pei He , Hanpu Deng

Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) are the so-called third generation of neural networks which attempt to more closely match the functioning of the biological brain. They inherently encode temporal data, allowing for training with less energy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Chethan M. Parameshwara , Simin Li , Cornelia Fermüller , Nitin J. Sanket , Matthew S. Evanusa , Yiannis Aloimonos

In this study, an automated three dimensional (3D) deep segmentation approach for detecting gliomas in 3D pre-operative MRI scans is proposed. Then, a classi-fication algorithm based on random forests, for survival prediction is presented.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-20 Mehdi Amian , Mohammadreza Soltaninejad

Automatic brain tumor segmentation method plays an extremely important role in the whole process of brain tumor diagnosis and treatment. In this paper, we propose a multi-step cascaded network which takes the hierarchical topology of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-26 Xiangyu Li , Gongning Luo , Kuanquan Wang

Glioma is one of the most common and aggressive types of primary brain tumors. The accurate segmentation of subcortical brain structures is crucial to the study of gliomas in that it helps the monitoring of the progression of gliomas and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-02 Lele Chen , Yue Wu , Adora M. DSouza , Anas Z. Abidin , Axel Wismuller , Chenliang Xu

We propose an optimized U-Net architecture for a brain tumor segmentation task in the BraTS21 challenge. To find the optimal model architecture and the learning schedule, we have run an extensive ablation study to test: deep supervision…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-28 Michał Futrega , Alexandre Milesi , Michal Marcinkiewicz , Pablo Ribalta

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) event-driven nature enables efficient encoding of spatial and temporal features, making them suitable for dynamic time-dependent data processing. Despite their biological relevance, SNNs have seen limited…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Zofia Rudnicka , Januszcz Szczepanski , Agnieszka Pregowska

Accurate and automatic segmentation of brain tumors in multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI) is essential for quantitative measurements, which play an increasingly important role in clinical diagnosis and prognosis. The…

This research presents an enhanced approach for precise segmentation of brain tumor masses in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using an advanced 3D-UNet model combined with a Context Transformer (CoT). By architectural expansion CoT, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Thien-Qua T. Nguyen , Hieu-Nghia Nguyen , Thanh-Hieu Bui , Thien B. Nguyen-Tat , Vuong M. Ngo

Brain tumors are one of the deadliest forms of cancer with a mortality rate of over 80%. A quick and accurate diagnosis is crucial to increase the chance of survival. However, in medical analysis, the manual annotation and segmentation of a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-18 Zachary Schwehr , Sriman Achanta

Medical image segmentation, particularly for brain tumor analysis, demands precise and computationally efficient models due to the complexity of multimodal MRI datasets and diverse tumor morphologies. This study introduces PSO-UNet, which…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Shoffan Saifullah , Rafał Dreżewski

Automatic segmentation of brain tumors is an essential but challenging step for extracting quantitative imaging biomarkers for accurate tumor detection, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment planning and assessment. Multimodal Brain Tumor…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-30 Yading Yuan

Despite recent improvements in the accuracy of brain tumor segmentation, the results still exhibit low levels of confidence and robustness. Uncertainty estimation is one effective way to change this situation, as it provides a measure of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-29 Ke Zou , Xuedong Yuan , Xiaojing Shen , Meng Wang , Huazhu Fu

Brain tumor is deliberated as one of the severe health complications which lead to decrease in life expectancy of the individuals and is also considered as a prominent cause of mortality worldwide. Therefore, timely detection and prediction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-18 Tejashwini P S , Thriveni J , Venugopal K R