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Positron emission tomography (PET) is a cornerstone of modern radiology. The ability to detect cancer and metastases in whole body scans fundamentally changed cancer diagnosis and treatment. One of the main bottlenecks in the clinical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Ida Häggström , C. Ross Schmidtlein , Gabriele Campanella , Thomas J. Fuchs

Tumor segmentation in whole-body PET/CT imaging is crucial for precise disease evaluation and treatment planning. However, it remains challenging due to variability in lesion size, contrast, and anatomical distribution. Relying on manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Hussain Alasmawi

In this paper, we examine the recent Segment Anything Model (SAM) on medical images, and report both quantitative and qualitative zero-shot segmentation results on nine medical image segmentation benchmarks, covering various imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Peilun Shi , Jianing Qiu , Sai Mu Dalike Abaxi , Hao Wei , Frank P. -W. Lo , Wu Yuan

Segmenting 3D blood vessels is a critical yet challenging task in medical image analysis. This is due to significant imaging modality-specific variations in artifacts, vascular patterns and scales, signal-to-noise ratios, and background…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 Bastian Wittmann , Yannick Wattenberg , Tamaz Amiranashvili , Suprosanna Shit , Bjoern Menze

Lesion segmentation in PET/CT imaging is essential for precise tumor characterization, which supports personalized treatment planning and enhances diagnostic precision in oncology. However, accurate manual segmentation of lesions is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-19 Hamza Kalisch , Fabian Hörst , Ken Herrmann , Jens Kleesiek , Constantin Seibold

In the paper, we present an approach for learning a single model that universally segments 33 anatomical structures, including vertebrae, pelvic bones, and abdominal organs. Our model building has to address the following challenges.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-07 Pengbo Liu , Yang Deng , Ce Wang , Yuan Hui , Qian Li , Jun Li , Shiwei Luo , Mengke Sun , Quan Quan , Shuxin Yang , You Hao , Honghu Xiao , Chunpeng Zhao , Xinbao Wu , S. Kevin Zhou

This study presents FP-PET, a comprehensive approach to medical image segmentation with a focus on CT and PET images. Utilizing a dataset from the AutoPet2023 Challenge, the research employs a variety of machine learning models, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Yixin Chen , Ourui Fu , Wenrui Shao , Zhaoheng Xie

The escalating global cancer burden underscores the critical need for precise diagnostic tools in oncology. This research employs deep learning to enhance lesion segmentation in PET/CT imaging, utilizing a dataset of 900 whole-body…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Jiayi Liu , Qiaoyi Xue , Youdan Feng , Tianming Xu , Kaixin Shen , Chuyun Shen , Yuhang Shi

PET imaging is an invaluable tool in clinical settings as it captures the functional activity of both healthy anatomy and cancerous lesions. Developing automatic lesion segmentation methods for PET images is crucial since manual lesion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Tanya Gatsak , Kumar Abhishek , Hanene Ben Yedder , Saeid Asgari Taghanaki , Ghassan Hamarneh

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is pivotal in radiology, offering non-invasive and high-quality insights into the human body. Precise segmentation of MRIs into different organs and tissues would be highly beneficial since it would allow…

Medical image and video segmentation is a critical task for precision medicine, which has witnessed considerable progress in developing task or modality-specific and generalist models for 2D images. However, there have been limited studies…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-07 Jun Ma , Zongxin Yang , Sumin Kim , Bihui Chen , Mohammed Baharoon , Adibvafa Fallahpour , Reza Asakereh , Hongwei Lyu , Bo Wang

Segmentation is an important analysis task for biomedical images, enabling the study of individual organelles, cells or organs. Deep learning has massively improved segmentation methods, but challenges remain in generalization to new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Carolin Teuber , Anwai Archit , Constantin Pape

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is an important molecular imaging tool widely used in medicine. Traditional PET systems rely on complete detector rings for full angular coverage and reliable data collection. However, incomplete-ring PET…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yeqi Fang , Rong Zhou

Generating automated reports for 3D positron emission tomography (PET) is an important and challenging task in medical imaging. PET plays a vital role in oncology, but automating report generation is difficult due to the complexity of…

Image segmentation remains a pivotal component in medical image analysis, aiding in the extraction of critical information for precise diagnostic practices. With the advent of deep learning, automated image segmentation methods have risen…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-07 Nhat-Tan Bui , Dinh-Hieu Hoang , Minh-Triet Tran , Gianfranco Doretto , Donald Adjeroh , Brijesh Patel , Arabinda Choudhary , Ngan Le

This study proposes a deep learning-based framework for automated segmentation of brain regions and classification of amyloid positivity using positron emission tomography (PET) images alone, without the need for structural MRI or CT. A 3D…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-31 Penghan Zhu , Shurui Mei , Shushan Chen , Xiaobo Chu , Shanbo He , Ziyi Liu

Computed Tomography (CT) is one of the most popular modalities for medical imaging. By far, CT images have contributed to the largest publicly available datasets for volumetric medical segmentation tasks, covering full-body anatomical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-25 Jin Ye , Ying Chen , Yanjun Li , Haoyu Wang , Zhongying Deng , Ziyan Huang , Yanzhou Su , Chenglong Ma , Yuanfeng Ji , Junjun He

Reducing scan times, radiation dose, and enhancing image quality for lower-performance scanners, are critical in low-dose PET imaging. Deep learning techniques have been investigated for PET image denoising. However, existing models have…

Positron emission tomography (PET) is a cornerstone of modern oncologic and neurologic imaging, distinguished by its unique ability to illuminate dynamic metabolic processes that transcend the anatomical focus of traditional imaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-13 Yichi Zhang , Wenbo Zhang , Zehui Ling , Gang Feng , Sisi Peng , Deshu Chen , Yuchen Liu , Hongwei Zhang , Shuqi Wang , Lanlan Li , Limei Han , Yuan Cheng , Zixin Hu , Yuan Qi , Le Xue

Automated segmentation is a fundamental medical image analysis task, which enjoys significant advances due to the advent of deep learning. While foundation models have been useful in natural language processing and some vision tasks for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Hanxue Gu , Haoyu Dong , Jichen Yang , Maciej A. Mazurowski