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Medical imaging plays a crucial role in modern healthcare by providing non-invasive visualisation of internal structures and abnormalities, enabling early disease detection, accurate diagnosis, and treatment planning. This study aims to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-25 Walid Ehab , Yongmin Li

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…

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Generalization capabilities of learning-based medical image segmentation across domains are currently limited by the performance degradation caused by the domain shift, particularly for ultrasound (US) imaging. The quality of US images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-07 Yuan Bi , Zhongliang Jiang , Ricarda Clarenbach , Reza Ghotbi , Angelos Karlas , Nassir Navab

Understanding the morphological structure of medical images and precisely segmenting the region of interest or abnormality is an important task that can assist in diagnosis. However, the unique properties of medical imaging make clear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Sungmin Kang , Jaeha Song , Jihie Kim

While computer vision has proven valuable for medical image segmentation, its application faces challenges such as limited dataset sizes and the complexity of effectively leveraging unlabeled images. To address these challenges, we present…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-15 Zhaoshan Liua , Qiujie Lv , Chau Hung Lee , Lei Shen

Medical Image Segmentation (MIS) plays a crucial role in medical therapy planning and robot navigation. Prototype learning methods in MIS focus on generating segmentation masks through pixel-to-prototype comparison. However, current…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-11 Guoyan Liang , Qin Zhou , Jingyuan Chen , Zhe Wang , Chang Yao

Medical image segmentation is pivotal in healthcare, enhancing diagnostic accuracy, informing treatment strategies, and tracking disease progression. This process allows clinicians to extract critical information from visual data, enabling…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-31 Ovais Iqbal Shah , Danish Raza Rizvi , Aqib Nazir Mir

In medical imaging, scans often reveal objects with varied contrasts but consistent internal intensities or textures. This characteristic enables the use of low-frequency approximations for tasks such as segmentation and deformation field…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-19 Hang Zhang , Xiang Chen , Rongguang Wang , Renjiu Hu , Dongdong Liu , Gaolei Li

Due to low tissue contrast, irregular object appearance, and unpredictable location variation, segmenting the objects from different medical imaging modalities (e.g., CT, MR) is considered as an important yet challenging task. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Jinquan Sun , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao , Lei Wang , Luping Zhou , Wanqi Yang , Dinggang Shen

Accurate segmentation of anatomical structures and abnormalities in medical images is crucial for computer-aided diagnosis and analysis. While deep learning techniques excel at this task, their computational demands pose challenges.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Syed Javed , Tariq M. Khan , Abdul Qayyum , Hamid Alinejad-Rokny , Arcot Sowmya , Imran Razzak

Accurate segmentation of the pelvic CTs is crucial for the clinical diagnosis of pelvic bone diseases and for planning patient-specific hip surgeries. With the emergence and advancements of deep learning for digital healthcare, several…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-28 Prabhakara Subramanya Jois , Aniketh Manjunath , Thomas Fevens

Traditional one-shot medical image segmentation (MIS) methods use registration networks to propagate labels from a reference atlas or rely on comprehensive sampling strategies to generate synthetic labeled data for training. However, these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-07 Feng Zhou , Yanjie Zhou , Longjie Wang , Yun Peng , David E. Carlson , Liyun Tu

Building upon [2308.02636], we investigate the constraining power of persistent homology on cosmological parameters and primordial non-Gaussianity in a likelihood-free inference pipeline utilizing machine learning. We evaluate the ability…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-22 Juan Calles , Jacky H. T. Yip , Gabriella Contardo , Jorge Noreña , Adam Rouhiainen , Gary Shiu

Besides per-pixel accuracy, topological correctness is also crucial for the segmentation of images with fine-scale structures, e.g., satellite images and biomedical images. In this paper, by leveraging the theory of digital topology, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Xiaoling Hu

Accurate and reliable image segmentation is an essential part of biomedical image analysis. In this paper, we consider the problem of biomedical image segmentation using deep convolutional neural networks. We propose a new end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Amirhossein Dadashzadeh , Alireza Tavakoli Targhi

Detection of curvilinear structures in images has long been of interest. One of the most challenging aspects of this problem is inferring the graph representation of the curvilinear network. Most existing delineation approaches first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Agata Mosinska , Mateusz Kozinski , Pascal Fua

Deep learning based image segmentation methods have achieved great success, even having human-level accuracy in some applications. However, due to the black box nature of deep learning, the best method may fail in some situations. Thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Leixin Zhou , Wenxiang Deng , Xiaodong Wu

We present a novel method to explicitly incorporate topological prior knowledge into deep learning based segmentation, which is, to our knowledge, the first work to do so. Our method uses the concept of persistent homology, a tool from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-30 James R. Clough , Ilkay Oksuz , Nicholas Byrne , Julia A. Schnabel , Andrew P. King

Retinal fundus photography enhancement is important for diagnosing and monitoring retinal diseases. However, early approaches to retinal image enhancement, such as those based on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), often struggle to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Xuanzhao Dong , Wenhui Zhu , Xin Li , Guoxin Sun , Yi Su , Oana M. Dumitrascu , Yalin Wang

The segmentation of medical images is a fundamental step in automated clinical decision support systems. Existing medical image segmentation methods based on supervised deep learning, however, remain problematic because of their reliance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Euijoon Ahn , Dagan Feng , Jinman Kim