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Despite recent advances in deep-learning based semantic segmentation, automatic building detection from remotely sensed imagery is still a challenging problem owing to large variability in the appearance of buildings across the globe. The…

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Accurate lesion segmentation in ultrasound images is essential for preventive screening and clinical diagnosis, yet remains challenging due to low contrast, blurry boundaries, and significant scale variations. Although existing deep…

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Recently, the state-of-art models for medical image segmentation is U-Net and their variants. These networks, though succeeding in deriving notable results, ignore the practical problem hanging over the medical segmentation field:…

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Recently, a growing interest has been seen in deep learning-based semantic segmentation. UNet, which is one of deep learning networks with an encoder-decoder architecture, is widely used in medical image segmentation. Combining multi-scale…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-21 Huimin Huang , Lanfen Lin , Ruofeng Tong , Hongjie Hu , Qiaowei Zhang , Yutaro Iwamoto , Xianhua Han , Yen-Wei Chen , Jian Wu

Despite the recent improvements in overall accuracy, deep learning systems still exhibit low levels of robustness. Detecting possible failures is critical for a successful clinical integration of these systems, where each data point…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-14 Alain Jungo , Mauricio Reyes

Breast tumor segmentation is one of the key steps that helps us characterize and localize tumor regions. However, variable tumor morphology, blurred boundary, and similar intensity distributions bring challenges for accurate segmentation of…

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In the field of clinical medicine, computed tomography (CT) is an effective medical imaging modality for the diagnosis of various pathologies. Compared with X-ray images, CT images can provide more information, including multi-planar slices…

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Accurate whole-heart segmentation is a critical component in the precise diagnosis and interventional planning of cardiovascular diseases. Integrating complementary information from modalities such as computed tomography (CT) and magnetic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-13 Jierui Qu , Jianchun Zhao

The U-net architecture has significantly impacted deep learning-based segmentation of medical images. Through the integration of long-range skip connections, it facilitated the preservation of high-resolution features. Out-of-distribution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Frauke Wilm , Jonas Ammeling , Mathias Öttl , Rutger H. J. Fick , Marc Aubreville , Katharina Breininger

Automatic breast lesion segmentation in ultrasound helps to diagnose breast cancer, which is one of the dreadful diseases that affect women globally. Segmenting breast regions accurately from ultrasound image is a challenging task due to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-06 Cheng Xue , Lei Zhu , Huazhu Fu , Xiaowei Hu , Xiaomeng Li , Hai Zhang , Pheng Ann Heng

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) enables image search by combining a reference image with modification text. Intrinsic noise in CIR triplets incurs intrinsic uncertainty and threatens the model's robustness. Probabilistic learning approaches…

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Deep learning has played a major role in the interpretation of dermoscopic images for detecting skin defects and abnormalities. However, current deep learning solutions for dermatological lesion analysis are typically limited in providing…

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Brain tumor segmentation is a critical task in medical image analysis, aiding in the diagnosis and treatment planning of brain tumor patients. The importance of automated and accurate brain tumor segmentation cannot be overstated. It…

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We propose a novel convolutional neural network for lesion detection from weak labels. Only a single, global label per image - the lesion count - is needed for training. We train a regression network with a fully convolutional architecture…

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Accurate segmentation of brain images from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans plays a pivotal role in brain image analysis and the diagnosis of neurological disorders. Deep learning algorithms, particularly U-Net and U-Net++, are widely…

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Although segmenting natural images has shown impressive performance, these techniques cannot be directly applied to medical image segmentation. Medical image segmentation is particularly complicated by inherent uncertainties. For instance,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-06 Jiayuan Zhu , Junde Wu

Objective: To develop a fast image reconstruction method for stroke monitoring with electrical impedance tomography with image quality comparable to computationally expensive nonlinear model-based methods. Methods: A post-processing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-12 J. Toivanen , V. Kolehmainen , A. Paldanius , A. Hänninen , A. Hauptmann , S. J. Hamilton

Robust segmentation for non-elongated tissues in medical images is hard to realize due to the large variation of the shape, size, and appearance of these tissues in different patients. In this paper, we present an end-to-end trainable deep…

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Precisely estimating lumen boundaries in intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) is needed for sizing interventional stents to treat deep vein thrombosis (DVT). Unfortunately, current segmentation networks like the UNet lack the precision needed…