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Brain tumor segmentation from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plays an important role in diagnostic radiology. To overcome the practical issues in manual approaches, there is a huge demand for building automatic tumor segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-14 Dhrumil Patel , Dhruv Patel , Rudra Saxena , Thangarajah Akilan

Accurate brain tumor segmentation from MRI scans is critical for diagnosis and treatment planning. Despite the strong performance of recent deep learning approaches, two fundamental limitations remain: (1) the lack of reliable uncertainty…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Bahram Mohammadi , Yanqiu Wu , Vu Minh Hieu Phan , Sam White , Minh-Son To , Jian Yang , Michael Sheng , Yang Song , Yuankai Qi

Brain tumor segmentation is a critical pre-processing step in the medical image analysis pipeline that involves precise delineation of tumor regions from healthy brain tissue in medical imaging data, particularly MRI scans. An efficient and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 GodsGift Uzor , Tania-Amanda Nkoyo Fredrick Eneye , Chukwuebuka Ijezue

Liver cancer is one of the most prevalent and lethal forms of cancer, making early detection crucial for effective treatment. This paper introduces a novel approach for automated liver tumor segmentation in computed tomography (CT) images…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Nastaran Ghorbani , Bitasadat Jamshidi , Mohsen Rostamy-Malkhalifeh

In recent years, 3D convolutional neural networks have become the dominant approach for volumetric medical image segmentation. However, compared to their 2D counterparts, 3D networks introduce substantially more training parameters and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-01 Yuan Wang , Laura Blackie , Irene Miguel-Aliaga , Wenjia Bai

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-23 Gongping Chen , Lei Li , JianXun Zhang , Yu Dai

We propose a reliable and energy-efficient framework for 3D brain tumor segmentation using spiking neural networks (SNNs). A multi-view ensemble of sagittal, coronal, and axial SNN models provides voxel-wise uncertainty estimation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Aurora Pia Ghiardelli , Guangzhi Tang , Tao Sun

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

Glioblastoma is a highly aggressive and malignant brain tumor type that requires early diagnosis and prompt intervention. Due to its heterogeneity in appearance, developing automated detection approaches is challenging. To address this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Ziya Ata Yazıcı , İlkay Öksüz , Hazım Kemal Ekenel

Segmentation of tumors in brain MRI images is a challenging task, where most recent methods demand large volumes of data with pixel-level annotations, which are generally costly to obtain. In contrast, image-level annotations, where only…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-07 Sergey Pavlov , Alexey Artemov , Maksim Sharaev , Alexander Bernstein , Evgeny Burnaev

Brain tumor segmentation plays a crucial role in computer-aided diagnosis. This study introduces a novel segmentation algorithm utilizing a modified nnU-Net architecture. Within the nnU-Net architecture's encoder section, we enhance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Sahaj K. Mistry , Sourav Saini , Aashray Gupta , Aayush Gupta , Sunny Rai , Vinit Jakhetiya , Ujjwal Baid , Sharath Chandra Guntuku

Accurate segmentation of brain tumors from multi-modal Magnetic Resonance (MR) images is essential in brain tumor diagnosis and treatment. However, due to the existence of domain shifts among different modalities, the performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Kelei He , Wen Ji , Tao Zhou , Zhuoyuan Li , Jing Huo , Xin Zhang , Yang Gao , Dinggang Shen , Bing Zhang , Junfeng Zhang

Precise segmentation of brain tumors, particularly contrast-enhancing regions visible in post-contrast MRI (areas highlighted by contrast agent injection), is crucial for accurate clinical diagnosis and treatment planning but remains…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-13 Minye Shao , Zeyu Wang , Haoran Duan , Yawen Huang , Bing Zhai , Shizheng Wang , Yang Long , Yefeng Zheng

Accurate and automated lesion segmentation in Positron Emission Tomography / Computed Tomography (PET/CT) imaging is essential for cancer diagnosis and therapy planning. This paper presents a Swin Transformer UNet 3D (SwinUNet3D) framework…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-07 Shovini Guha , Dwaipayan Nandi

Brain tumor segmentation is essential for diagnosis and treatment planning, yet many CNN and U-Net based approaches produce noisy boundaries in regions of tumor infiltration. We introduce UAMSA-UNet, an Uncertainty-Aware Multi-Scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Satyaki Roy Chowdhury , Golrokh Mirzaei

Stereotactic radiosurgery is a minimally-invasive treatment option for a large number of patients with intracranial tumors. As part of the therapy treatment, accurate delineation of brain tumors is of great importance. However,…

The diagnosis and segmentation of tumors using any medical diagnostic tool can be challenging due to the varying nature of this pathology. Magnetic Reso- nance Imaging (MRI) is an established diagnostic tool for various diseases and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Tanvi Gupta , Pranay Manocha , Tapan K. Gandhi , RK Gupta , BK Panigrahi

In this paper, we present a novel approach for segmenting pediatric brain tumors using a deep learning architecture, inspired by expert radiologists' segmentation strategies. Our model delineates four distinct tumor labels and is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Max Bengtsson , Elif Keles , Gorkem Durak , Syed Anwar , Yuri S. Velichko , Marius G. Linguraru , Angela J. Waanders , Ulas Bagci

Another year of the multimodal brain tumor segmentation challenge (BraTS) 2021 provides an even larger dataset to facilitate collaboration and research of brain tumor segmentation methods, which are necessary for disease analysis and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-02 Md Mahfuzur Rahman Siddiquee , Andriy Myronenko

Purpose: To develop a fast and precise method for searching rectangular regions in brain tumor images. Methods: The authors propose a new method for searching rectangular tumor regions in brain MR images. The proposed method consisted of a…

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