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Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Yongkang He , Mingjin Chen , Zhijing Yang , Yongyi Lu

Active learning is a unique abstraction of machine learning techniques where the model/algorithm could guide users for annotation of a set of data points that would be beneficial to the model, unlike passive machine learning. The primary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Vishwesh Nath , Dong Yang , Bennett A. Landman , Daguang Xu , Holger R. Roth

Medical image segmentation is crucial for accurate clinical diagnoses, yet it faces challenges such as low contrast between lesions and normal tissues, unclear boundaries, and high variability across patients. Deep learning has improved…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-09 Houze Liu , Tong Zhou , Yanlin Xiang , Aoran Shen , Jiacheng Hu , Junliang Du

Quantification of kidney function in Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DCE-MRI) requires careful segmentation of the renal region of interest (ROI). Traditionally, human experts are required to manually delineate the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-27 Santosh Tirunagari , Norman Poh , Kevin Wells , Miroslaw Bober , Isky Gorden , David Windridge

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) enables non-invasive, high-resolution analysis of muscle structures. However, automated segmentation remains limited by high computational costs, reliance on large training datasets, and reduced accuracy in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Mengyuan Liu , Jeongkyu Lee

We propose a method for automatic segmentation of individual muscles from a clinical CT. The method uses Bayesian convolutional neural networks with the U-Net architecture, using Monte Carlo dropout that infers an uncertainty metric in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-10 Yuta Hiasa , Yoshito Otake , Masaki Takao , Takeshi Ogawa , Nobuhiko Sugano , Yoshinobu Sato

Automated 3-D breast ultrasound (ABUS) is a newfound system for breast screening that has been proposed as a supplementary modality to mammography for breast cancer detection. While ABUS has better performance in dense breasts, reading ABUS…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-30 Hamed Fayyaz , Ehsan Kozegar , Tao Tan , Mohsen Soryani

Despite the considerable progress in automatic abdominal multi-organ segmentation from CT/MRI scans in recent years, a comprehensive evaluation of the models' capabilities is hampered by the lack of a large-scale benchmark from diverse…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-05 Yuanfeng Ji , Haotian Bai , Jie Yang , Chongjian Ge , Ye Zhu , Ruimao Zhang , Zhen Li , Lingyan Zhang , Wanling Ma , Xiang Wan , Ping Luo

Medical Image Segmentation (MIS) stands as a cornerstone in medical image analysis, playing a pivotal role in precise diagnostics, treatment planning, and monitoring of various medical conditions. This paper presents a comprehensive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Ahmed Kabil , Ghada Khoriba , Mina Yousef , Essam A. Rashed

Wound image segmentation is a critical component for the clinical diagnosis and in-time treatment of wounds. Recently, deep learning has become the mainstream methodology for wound image segmentation. However, the pre-processing of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-13 Honghui Liu , Changjian Wang , Kele Xu , Fangzhao Li , Ming Feng , Yuxing Peng , Hongjun He

Accurate and robust segmentation of small organs in whole-body MRI is difficult due to anatomical variation and class imbalance. Recent deep network based approaches have demonstrated promising performance on abdominal multi-organ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Vanya V. Valindria , Ioannis Lavdas , Juan Cerrolaza , Eric O. Aboagye , Andrea G. Rockall , Daniel Rueckert , Ben Glocker

Image segmentation is often performed on medical images for identifying diseases in clinical evaluation. Hence it has become one of the major research areas. Conventional image segmentation techniques are unable to provide satisfactory…

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Segmentation of skeletal muscles in Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) is essential for the study of muscle physiology and diagnosis of muscular pathologies. However, manual segmentation of large MRI volumes is a time-consuming task. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Rafael Rodrigues , Antonio M. G. Pinheiro

Lumbar disc herniation (LDH) is a common musculoskeletal disease that requires magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for effective clinical management. However, the interpretation of MRI images heavily relies on the expertise of radiologists,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Lingrui Zhang , Liang Guo , Xiao An , Feng Lin , Binlong Zheng , Jiankun Wang , Zhirui Li

Multi-modality is widely used in medical imaging, because it can provide multiinformation about a target (tumor, organ or tissue). Segmentation using multimodality consists of fusing multi-information to improve the segmentation. Recently,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-17 Tongxue Zhou , Su Ruan , Stéphane Canu

Biomedical image segmentation is a critical task in medical diagnosis and treatment planning, enabling precise delineation of anatomical structures and pathological regions. Despite significant advancements, challenges persist due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Joao Batista Florindo , Amanda Pontes de Oliveira Ornelas

Deep learning has shown great promise in the ability to automatically annotate organs in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, for example, of the brain. However, despite advancements in the field, the ability to accurately segment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Cosmin Ciausu , Deepa Krishnaswamy , Benjamin Billot , Steve Pieper , Ron Kikinis , Andrey Fedorov

The objective of this paper is to significantly reduce the manual workload required from medical professionals in complex 3D segmentation tasks that cannot be yet fully automated. For instance, in radiotherapy planning, organs at risk must…

In this paper we present a new 3D segmentation approach for the vertebrae of the lower thoracic and the lumbar spine in spiral computed tomography datasets. We implemented a multi-step procedure. Its main components are deformable models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Andre Mastmeyer , Klaus Engelke , Sebastian Meller , Willi Kalender