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Automated detection of anatomical landmarks plays a crucial role in many diagnostic and surgical applications. Progresses in deep learning (DL) methods have resulted in significant performance enhancement in tasks related to anatomical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-28 Soorena Salari , Hassan Rivaz , Yiming Xiao

In forensic craniofacial identification and in many biomedical applications, craniometric landmarks are important. Traditional methods for locating landmarks are time-consuming and require specialized knowledge and expertise. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Ravi Shankar Prasad , Nandani Sharma , Dinesh Singh

Deep learning networks have shown promising performance for accurate object localization in medial images, but require large amount of annotated data for supervised training, which is expensive and expertise burdensome. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Wenhui Lei , Wei Xu , Ran Gu , Hao Fu , Shaoting Zhang , Guotai Wang

We study landmark-based SLAM with unknown data association: our robot navigates in a completely unknown environment and has to simultaneously reason over its own trajectory, the positions of an unknown number of landmarks in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Yihao Zhang , Odin A. Severinsen , John J. Leonard , Luca Carlone , Kasra Khosoussi

Current pandemic has caused the medical system to operate under high load. To relieve it, robots with high autonomy can be used to effectively execute contactless operations in hospitals and reduce cross-infection between medical staff and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Kaiqi Chen , Jialing Liu , Qinying Chen , Zhenhua Wang , Jianhua Zhang

Precise segmentation of brain structures in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is essential for reliable neuroimaging analysis, yet voxel-wise deep models often yield anatomically inconsistent results that diverge from expert-defined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ahmed Rekik , R. Jarrett Rushmore , Sylvain Bouix , Linda Marrakchi-Kacem

This paper proposes a novel active Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) method with continuous trajectory optimization over a stochastic robot dynamics model. The problem is formalized as a stochastic optimal control over the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Shumon Koga , Arash Asgharivaskasi , Nikolay Atanasov

Although significant progress achieved, multi-label classification is still challenging due to the complexity of correlations among different labels. Furthermore, modeling the relationships between input and some (dull) classes further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Junbing Li , Changqing Zhang , Pengfei Zhu , Baoyuan Wu , Lei Chen , Qinghua Hu

This paper develops a real-time decentralized metric-semantic SLAM algorithm that enables a heterogeneous robot team to collaboratively construct object-based metric-semantic maps. The proposed framework integrates a data-driven front-end…

Early screening via colonoscopy is critical for colon cancer prevention, yet developing robust AI systems for this domain is hindered by the lack of densely annotated, long-sequence video datasets. Existing datasets predominantly focus on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-27 Abdullah Hamdi , Changchun Yang , Xin Gao

Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have significantly improved 2D visual understanding, prompting interest in their application to complex 3D reasoning tasks. However, it remains unclear whether these models can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xiaoyu Zhan , Wenxuan Huang , Hao Sun , Xinyu Fu , Changfeng Ma , Shaosheng Cao , Bohan Jia , Shaohui Lin , Zhenfei Yin , Lei Bai , Wanli Ouyang , Yuanqi Li , Jie Guo , Yanwen Guo

Classical robotic systems typically rely on custom planners designed for constrained environments. While effective in restricted settings, these systems lack generalization capabilities, limiting the scalability of embodied AI and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Guangming Wang , Qizhen Ying , Yixiong Jing , Olaf Wysocki , Brian Sheil

Humans naturally swing their arms during locomotion to regulate whole-body dynamics, reduce angular momentum, and help maintain balance. Inspired by this principle, we present a limb-level multi-agent reinforcement learning (RL) framework…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ho Jae Lee , Se Hwan Jeon , Sangbae Kim

Meta reasoning behaviors work as a skeleton to guide large language model (LLM) reasoning, thus help to improve reasoning performance. However, prior researches implement meta reasoning skeleton with manually designed structure, limiting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Ziying Zhang , Yaqing Wang , Quanming Yao

Anatomical landmarks are a crucial prerequisite for many medical imaging tasks. Usually, the set of landmarks for a given task is predefined by experts. The landmark locations for a given image are then annotated manually or via machine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Richard Droste , Pierre Chatelain , Lior Drukker , Harshita Sharma , Aris T. Papageorghiou , J. Alison Noble

The adoption of machine learning (ML) and deep learning methods has revolutionized molecular medicine by driving breakthroughs in genomics, transcriptomics, drug discovery, and biological systems modeling. The increasing quantity,…

Skeleton-based action recognition has garnered significant attention due to the utilization of concise and resilient skeletons. Nevertheless, the absence of detailed body information in skeletons restricts performance, while other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Jinfu Liu , Chen Chen , Mengyuan Liu

Data-target association is an important step in multi-target localization for the intelligent operation of un- manned systems in numerous applications such as search and rescue, traffic management and surveillance. The objective of this…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Samuel Silva , Rengan Suresh , Feng Tao , Johnathan Votion , Yongcan Cao

Anatomical landmark detection in medical images is essential for various clinical and research applications, including disease diagnosis and surgical planning. However, manual landmark annotation is time-consuming and requires significant…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Soorena Salari , Arash Harirpoush , Hassan Rivaz , Yiming Xiao

Evaluating large language models (LLM) in clinical scenarios is crucial to assessing their potential clinical utility. Existing benchmarks rely heavily on static question-answering, which does not accurately depict the complex, sequential…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Samuel Schmidgall , Rojin Ziaei , Carl Harris , Eduardo Reis , Jeffrey Jopling , Michael Moor