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In recent years, high-performance computer vision models have achieved remarkable success in medical imaging, with some skin lesion classification systems even surpassing dermatology specialists in diagnostic accuracy. However, such models…

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Segmentation is a crucial step in microscopy image analysis. Numerous approaches have been developed over the past years, ranging from classical segmentation algorithms to advanced deep learning models. While U-Net remains one of the most…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Illia Tsiporenko , Pavel Chizhov , Dmytro Fishman

The current state-of-the art techniques for image segmentation are often based on U-Net architectures, a U-shaped encoder-decoder networks with skip connections. Despite the powerful performance, the architecture often does not perform well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Asbjørn Munk , Ao Ma , Mads Nielsen

The main objective of image segmentation is to divide an image into homogeneous regions for further analysis. This is a significant and crucial task in many applications such as medical imaging. Deep learning (DL) methods have been proposed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-27 Junying Meng , Weihong Guo , Jun Liu , Mingrui Yang

The irregular geometry and high inter-slice variability in computerized tomography (CT) scans of the human pancreas make an accurate segmentation of this crucial organ a challenging task for existing data-driven deep learning methods. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Hao Li , Jun Li , Xiaozhu Lin , Xiaohua Qian

The diagnosis of brain cancer relies heavily on medical imaging techniques, with MRI being the most commonly used. It is necessary to perform automatic segmentation of brain tumors on MRI images. This project intends to build an MRI…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-28 Yuxiang Hu , Haowei Yang , Ting Xu , Shuyao He , Jiajie Yuan , Haozhang Deng

Purpose: Accurate identification of hepatocystic anatomy is critical to preventing surgical complications during laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Deep learning models often struggle with occlusions, long-range dependencies, and capturing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Yihan Li , Nikhil Churamani , Maria Robu , Imanol Luengo , Danail Stoyanov

This study's objective was to segment spinal metastases in diagnostic MR images using a deep learning-based approach. Segmentation of such lesions can present a pivotal step towards enhanced therapy planning and validation, as well as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-29 Georg Hille , Johannes Steffen , Max Dünnwald , Mathias Becker , Sylvia Saalfeld , Klaus Tönnies

Accurate segmentation of different sub-regions of gliomas including peritumoral edema, necrotic core, enhancing and non-enhancing tumor core from multimodal MRI scans has important clinical relevance in diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Xue Feng , Nicholas Tustison , Craig Meyer

The detection head constitutes a pivotal component within object detectors, tasked with executing both classification and localization functions. Regrettably, the commonly used parallel head often lacks omni perceptual capabilities, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Hantao Zhou , Rui Yang , Yachao Zhang , Haoran Duan , Yawen Huang , Runze Hu , Xiu Li , Yefeng Zheng

Delineation approaches provide significant benefits to various domains, including agriculture, environmental and natural disasters monitoring. Most of the work in the literature utilize traditional segmentation methods that require a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Kostas Blekos , Stavros Nousias , Aris S Lalos

Knowledge about historic landslide event occurrence is important for supporting disaster risk reduction strategies. Building upon findings from 2022 Landslide4Sense Competition, we propose a deep neural network based system for landslide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Cam Le , Lam Pham , Jasmin Lampert , Matthias Schlögl , Alexander Schindler

Vessel segmentation and centerline extraction are two crucial preliminary tasks for many computer-aided diagnosis tools dealing with vascular diseases. Recently, deep-learning based methods have been widely applied to these tasks. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-23 Pierre Rougé , Nicolas Passat , Odyssée Merveille

This article presents a convolutional neural network for the automatic segmentation of brain tumors in multimodal 3D MR images based on a U-net architecture.We evaluate the use of a densely connected convolutional network encoder (DenseNet)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Jean Stawiaski

Cancer is an abnormal growth with potential to invade locally and metastasize to distant organs. Accurate auto-segmentation of the tumor and surrounding normal tissues is required for radiotherapy treatment plan optimization. Recent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-31 Syed Haider Ali , Asrar Ahmad , Muhammad Ali , Asifullah Khan , Nadeem Shaukat

Medical image segmentation involves identifying and separating object instances in a medical image to delineate various tissues and structures, a task complicated by the significant variations in size, shape, and density of these features.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Sina Ghorbani Kolahi , Seyed Kamal Chaharsooghi , Toktam Khatibi , Afshin Bozorgpour , Reza Azad , Moein Heidari , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Dorit Merhof

Modern segmentation models achieve strong predictive performance but remain largely opaque, limiting our ability to diagnose failures, understand dataset shift, or intervene in a principled manner. We introduce Med-SegLens, a model-diffing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Salma J. Ahmed , Emad A. Mohammed , Azam Asilian Bidgoli

We propose a novel approach to image segmentation based on combining implicit spline representations with deep convolutional neural networks. This is done by predicting the control points of a bivariate spline function whose zero-set…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-22 Oliver J. D. Barrowclough , Georg Muntingh , Varatharajan Nainamalai , Ivar Stangeby

This work explores a hybrid approach to segmentation as an alternative to a purely data-driven approach. We introduce an end-to-end U-Net based network called DU-Net, which uses additional frequency preserving features, namely the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-16 Alakh Desai , Ruchi Chauhan , Jayanthi Sivaswamy

Transformer architecture has emerged to be successful in a number of natural language processing tasks. However, its applications to medical vision remain largely unexplored. In this study, we present UTNet, a simple yet powerful hybrid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Yunhe Gao , Mu Zhou , Dimitris Metaxas