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Many functional and structural neuroimaging studies call for accurate morphometric segmentation of different brain structures starting from image intensity values of MRI scans. Current automatic (multi-) atlas-based segmentation strategies…

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Brain extraction and removal of skull artifacts from magnetic resonance images (MRI) is an important preprocessing step in neuroimaging analysis. There are many tools developed to handle human fMRI images, which could involve manual steps…

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Segmentation of magnetic resonance images (MRI) facilitates analysis of human brain development by delineating anatomical structures. However, in infants and young children, accurate segmentation is challenging due to development and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Malte Hoffmann , Lilla Zöllei , Adrian V. Dalca

MR images of fetuses allow clinicians to detect brain abnormalities in an early stage of development. The cornerstone of volumetric and morphologic analysis in fetal MRI is segmentation of the fetal brain into different tissue classes.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-12 N. Khalili , N. Lessmann , E. Turk , N. Claessens , R. de Heus , T. Kolk , M. A. Viergever , M. J. N. L. Benders , I. Isgum

Spinal cord tumors significantly contribute to neurological morbidity and mortality. Precise morphometric quantification, encompassing the size, location, and type of such tumors, holds promise for optimizing treatment planning strategies.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Hongkang Song , Zihui Zhang , Yanpeng Zhou , Jie Hu , Zishuo Wang , Hou Him Chan , Chon Lok Lei , Chen Xu , Yu Xin , Bo Yang

Purpose: Gliomas are the most common and aggressive type of brain tumors due to their infiltrative nature and rapid progression. The process of distinguishing tumor boundaries from healthy cells is still a challenging task in the clinical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-28 Ramy A. Zeineldin , Mohamed E. Karar , Jan Coburger , Christian R. Wirtz , Oliver Burgert

Automated brain tissue segmentation into white matter (WM), gray matter (GM), and cerebro-spinal fluid (CSF) from magnetic resonance images (MRI) is helpful in the diagnosis of neuro-disorders such as epilepsy, Alzheimer's, multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Pulkit Kumar , Pravin Nagar , Chetan Arora , Anubha Gupta

Objective: Hydrocephalus is a medical condition in which there is an abnormal accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in the brain. Segmentation of brain imagery into brain tissue and CSF (before and after surgery, i.e. pre-op vs. postop)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-11 Venkateswararao Cherukuri , Peter Ssenyonga , Benjamin C. Warf , Abhaya V. Kulkarni , Vishal Monga , Steven J. Schiff

In the diverse field of medical imaging, automatic segmentation has numerous applications and must handle a wide variety of input domains, such as different types of Computed Tomography (CT) scans and Magnetic Resonance (MR) images. This…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Chengyin Li , Hui Zhu , Rafi Ibn Sultan , Hassan Bagher Ebadian , Prashant Khanduri , Chetty Indrin , Kundan Thind , Dongxiao Zhu

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has played a crucial role in fetal neurodevelopmental research. Structural annotations of MR images are an important step for quantitative analysis of the developing human brain, with Deep Learning providing…

Purpose: Conventional automated segmentation of the head anatomy in MRI distinguishes different brain and non-brain tissues based on image intensities and prior tissue probability maps (TPM). This works well for normal head anatomies, but…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-20 Lukas Hirsch , Yu Huang , Lucas C Parra

Semantic segmentation is an established while rapidly evolving field in medical imaging. In this paper we focus on the segmentation of brain Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) into cerebral structures using convolutional neural networks (CNN).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Pierre-Antoine Ganaye , Michaël Sdika , Hugues Benoit-Cattin

Gliomas are aggressive brain tumors that require accurate imaging-based diagnosis, with segmentation playing a critical role in evaluating morphology and treatment decisions. Manual delineation of gliomas is time-consuming and prone to…

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Accurate polyp and cardiac segmentation for early detection and treatment is essential for the diagnosis and treatment planning of cancer-like diseases. Traditional convolutional neural network (CNN) based models have represented limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Anshul Kaushal , Kunal Jangid , Vinod K. Kurmi

The segmentation of cranial nerves (CNs) tract provides a valuable quantitative tool for the analysis of the morphology and trajectory of individual CNs. Multimodal CNs tract segmentation networks, e.g., CNTSeg, which combine structural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-06 Lei Xie , Huajun Zhou , Junxiong Huang , Jiahao Huang , Qingrun Zeng , Jianzhong He , Jiawei Zhang , Baohua Fan , Mingchu Li , Guoqiang Xie , Hao Chen , Yuanjing Feng

Medical image segmentation models are typically optimised with voxel-wise losses that constrain predictions only in the output space. This leaves latent feature representations largely unconstrained, potentially limiting generalisation. We…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-02 Puru Vaish , Amin Ranem , Felix Meister , Tobias Heimann , Christoph Brune , Jelmer M. Wolterink

Brain extraction is a critical preprocessing step in various neuroimaging studies, particularly enabling accurate separation of brain from non-brain tissue and segmentation of relevant within-brain tissue compartments and structures using…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-21 Sovesh Mohapatra , Advait Gosai , Gottfried Schlaug

Objective. Electroencephalography (EEG) data is derived by sampling continuous neurological time series signals. In order to prepare EEG signals for machine learning, the signal must be divided into manageable segments. The current naive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Johnson Zhou , Joseph West , Krista A. Ehinger , Zhenming Ren , Sam E. John , David B. Grayden

Automatic segmentation of brain MR images into white matter (WM), gray matter (GM), and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is critical for tissue volumetric analysis and cortical surface reconstruction. Due to dramatic structural and appearance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-05 Xiaoyang Chen , Jinjian Wu , Wenjiao Lyu , Yicheng Zou , Kim-Han Thung , Siyuan Liu , Ye Wu , Sahar Ahmad , Pew-Thian Yap

Whole brain segmentation is an important neuroimaging task that segments the whole brain volume into anatomically labeled regions-of-interest. Convolutional neural networks have demonstrated good performance in this task. Existing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-01 Yeshu Li , Jonathan Cui , Yilun Sheng , Xiao Liang , Jingdong Wang , Eric I-Chao Chang , Yan Xu