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Deep convolutional neural network (CNN) achieves remarkable performance for medical image analysis. UNet is the primary source in the performance of 3D CNN architectures for medical imaging tasks, including brain tumor segmentation. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-30 Parvez Ahmad , Saqib Qamar , Linlin Shen , Adnan Saeed

Gliomas, among the most common primary brain tumors, vary widely in aggressiveness, prognosis, and histology, making treatment challenging due to complex and time-intensive surgical interventions. This study presents an Attention-Gated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Rut Pate , Snehal Rajput , Mehul S. Raval , Rupal A. Kapdi , Mohendra Roy

Brain tumor segmentation is a fundamental step in assessing a patient's cancer progression. However, manual segmentation demands significant expert time to identify tumors in 3D multimodal brain MRI scans accurately. This reliance on manual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-07 Fadillah Maani , Anees Ur Rehman Hashmi , Numan Saeed , Mohammad Yaqub

Gliomas are one of the most frequent brain tumors and are classified into high grade and low grade gliomas. The segmentation of various regions such as tumor core, enhancing tumor etc. plays an important role in determining severity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Navchetan Awasthi , Rohit Pardasani , Swati Gupta

In this paper, we address the crucial task of brain tumor segmentation in medical imaging and propose innovative approaches to enhance its performance. The current state-of-the-art nnU-Net has shown promising results but suffers from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Tuan-Luc Huynh , Thanh-Danh Le , Tam V. Nguyen , Trung-Nghia Le , Minh-Triet Tran

Automation of brain tumors in 3D magnetic resonance images (MRIs) is key to assess the diagnostic and treatment of the disease. In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown improved results in the task. However, high…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-28 Laura Mora Ballestar , Veronica Vilaplana

Gliomas are brain tumor types that have a high mortality rate which means early and accurate diagnosis is important for therapeutic intervention for the tumors. To address this difficulty, the proposed research will develop a hybrid deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Pandiyaraju V , Sreya Mynampati , Abishek Karthik , Poovarasan L , D. Saraswathi

Automatically segmenting sub-regions of gliomas (necrosis, edema and enhancing tumor) and accurately predicting overall survival (OS) time from multimodal MRI sequences have important clinical significance in diagnosis, prognosis and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-17 Xiaoqing Guo , Chen Yang , Pak Lun Lam , Peter Y. M. Woo , Yixuan Yuan

Deep learning has quickly become the weapon of choice for brain lesion segmentation. However, few existing algorithms pre-configure any biological context of their chosen segmentation tissues, and instead rely on the neural network's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Andrew Beers , Ken Chang , James Brown , Emmett Sartor , CP Mammen , Elizabeth Gerstner , Bruce Rosen , Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer

Segmentation of brain tumors is a critical step in treatment planning, yet manual segmentation is both time-consuming and subjective, relying heavily on the expertise of radiologists. In Sub-Saharan Africa, this challenge is magnified by…

We propose combining memory saving techniques with traditional U-Net architectures to increase the complexity of the models on the Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) challenge. The BraTS challenge consists of a 3D segmentation of a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-22 Mihir Pendse , Vithursan Thangarasa , Vitaliy Chiley , Ryan Holmdahl , Joel Hestness , Dennis DeCoste

Accurate segmentation of brain tumour sub-regions from multi-parametric MRI is critical for treatment planning yet remains challenging due to morphological variability, class imbalance, and overlapping appearances of tumour regions across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Hasaan Maqsood , Saif Ur Rehman Khan , Sebastian Vollmer , Andreas Dengel , Muhammad Nabeel Asim

Segmentation of brain tumors and their subregions remains a challenging task due to their weak features and deformable shapes. In this paper, three patterns (cross-skip, skip-1 and skip-2) of distributed dense connections (DDCs) are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-04 Hanxiao Zhang , Jingxiong Li , Mali Shen , Yaqi Wang , Guang-Zhong Yang

This article presents a multiscale patch based convolutional neural network for the automatic segmentation of brain tumors in multi-modality 3D MR images. We use multiscale deep supervision and inputs to train a convolutional network. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-09 Jean Stawiaski

Segmenting brain tumors is complex due to their diverse appearances and scales. Brain metastases, the most common type of brain tumor, are a frequent complication of cancer. Therefore, an effective segmentation model for brain metastases…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Siwei Yang , Xianhang Li , Jieru Mei , Jieneng Chen , Cihang Xie , Yuyin Zhou

Accurate brain tumor segmentation is crucial for neuro-oncology diagnosis and treatment planning. Deep learning methods have made significant progress, but automatic segmentation still faces challenges, including tumor morphological…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Mingda Zhang

The high cure rate of cancer is inextricably linked to physicians' accuracy in diagnosis and treatment, therefore a model that can accomplish high-precision tumor segmentation has become a necessity in many applications of the medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-26 Zeqiu. Yu , Shuo. Han , Ziheng. Song

Automatic extraction of liver and tumor from CT volumes is a challenging task due to their heterogeneous and diffusive shapes. Recently, 2D and 3D deep convolutional neural networks have become popular in medical image segmentation tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Qiangguo Jin , Zhaopeng Meng , Changming Sun , Leyi Wei , Ran Su

Automation of brain tumor segmentation in 3D magnetic resonance images (MRIs) is key to assess the diagnostic and treatment of the disease. In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown improved results in the task.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-01 Laura Mora Ballestar , Veronica Vilaplana

An improved model of medical image segmentation for brain tumor is discussed, which is a deep learning algorithm based on U-Net architecture. Based on the traditional U-Net, we introduce GSConv module and ECA attention mechanism to improve…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Qiyuan Tian , Zhuoyue Wang , Xiaoling Cui