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The rapid increment of morbidity of brain stroke in the last few years have been a driving force towards fast and accurate segmentation of stroke lesions from brain MRI images. With the recent development of deep-learning, computer-aided…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-25 Hritam Basak , Rukhshanda Hussain , Ajay Rana

Lumbar disc degeneration, a progressive structural wear and tear of lumbar intervertebral disc, is regarded as an essential role on low back pain, a significant global health concern. Automated lumbar spine geometry reconstruction from MR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Linchen Qian , Jiasong Chen , Linhai Ma , Timur Urakov , Weiyong Gu , Liang Liang

A novel deep hybrid Residual-SwinCA-Net segmentation framework is proposed in the study for addressing such challenges by extracting locally correlated and robust features, incorporating residual CNN modules. Furthermore, for learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Saeeda Naz , Saddam Hussain Khan

Intervertebral disc disease, a prevalent ailment, frequently leads to intermittent or persistent low back pain, and diagnosing and assessing of this disease rely on accurate measurement of vertebral bone and intervertebral disc geometries…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Jiasong Chen , Linchen Qian , Linhai Ma , Timur Urakov , Weiyong Gu , Liang Liang

Automatic vessel segmentation is paramount for developing next-generation interventional navigation systems. However, current approaches suffer from suboptimal segmentation performances due to significant challenges in intraoperative images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-01 De-Xing Huang , Xiao-Hu Zhou , Xiao-Liang Xie , Shi-Qi Liu , Shuang-Yi Wang , Zhen-Qiu Feng , Mei-Jiang Gui , Hao Li , Tian-Yu Xiang , Bo-Xian Yao , Zeng-Guang Hou

This work proposes Bonnet, an ultra-fast sparse-volume pipeline for whole-body bone segmentation from CT scans. Accurate bone segmentation is important for surgical planning and anatomical analysis, but existing 3D voxel-based models such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-02 Hanjiang Zhu , Pedro Martelleto Rezende , Zhang Yang , Tong Ye , Bruce Z. Gao , Feng Luo , Siyu Huang , Jiancheng Yang

Transformer architecture has emerged to be successful in a number of natural language processing tasks. However, its applications to medical vision remain largely unexplored. In this study, we present UTNet, a simple yet powerful hybrid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Yunhe Gao , Mu Zhou , Dimitris Metaxas

In recent years, transformer-based deep learning networks have gained popularity in Hyperspectral (HS) unmixing applications due to their superior performance. The attention mechanism within transformers facilitates input-dependent…

This paper presents a method for automatic segmentation, localization, and identification of vertebrae in arbitrary 3D CT images. Many previous works do not perform the three tasks simultaneously even though requiring a priori knowledge of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-01 Naoto Masuzawa , Yoshiro Kitamura , Keigo Nakamura , Satoshi Iizuka , Edgar Simo-Serra

The recent years have witnessed great advances for semantic segmentation using deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs). However, a large number of convolutional layers and feature channels lead to semantic segmentation as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Yu Wang , Quan Zhou , Xiaofu Wu

Semantic segmentation requires both rich spatial information and sizeable receptive field. However, modern approaches usually compromise spatial resolution to achieve real-time inference speed, which leads to poor performance. In this…

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Contextual information is vital in visual understanding problems, such as semantic segmentation and object detection. We propose a Criss-Cross Network (CCNet) for obtaining full-image contextual information in a very effective and efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Zilong Huang , Xinggang Wang , Yunchao Wei , Lichao Huang , Humphrey Shi , Wenyu Liu , Thomas S. Huang

Accurate segmentation of the stroke lesions using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is associated with difficulties due to the complicated anatomy of the brain and the different properties of the lesions. This study introduces the…

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Vertebrae localization, segmentation and identification in CT images is key to numerous clinical applications. While deep learning strategies have brought to this field significant improvements over recent years, transitional and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-27 Di Meng , Edmond Boyer , Sergi Pujades

With the improvements in the object detection networks, several variations of object detection networks have been achieved impressive performance. However, the performance evaluation of most models has focused on detection accuracy, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Min-Kook Choi , Heechul Jung

Accurate multi-organ segmentation in abdominal CT scans is essential for computer-aided diagnosis and treatment. While convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have long been the standard approach in medical image segmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Lukas Bayer , Sheethal Bhat , Andreas Maier

This research presents an enhanced approach for precise segmentation of brain tumor masses in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using an advanced 3D-UNet model combined with a Context Transformer (CoT). By architectural expansion CoT, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Thien-Qua T. Nguyen , Hieu-Nghia Nguyen , Thanh-Hieu Bui , Thien B. Nguyen-Tat , Vuong M. Ngo

Contextual information has been shown to be powerful for semantic segmentation. This work proposes a novel Context-based Tandem Network (CTNet) by interactively exploring the spatial contextual information and the channel contextual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Zechao Li , Yanpeng Sun , Jinhui Tang

Purpose: Accurate segmentation of clinical target volumes (CTV) and organs-at-risk is crucial for optimizing gynecologic brachytherapy (GYN-BT) treatment planning. However, anatomical variability, low soft-tissue contrast in CT imaging, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Mingzhe Hu , Yuan Gao , Yuheng Li , Ricahrd LJ Qiu , Chih-Wei Chang , Keyur D. Shah , Priyanka Kapoor , Beth Bradshaw , Yuan Shao , Justin Roper , Jill Remick , Zhen Tian , Xiaofeng Yang

Automatic 3D reconstruction of indoor spaces from 2D floor plans necessitates high-precision semantic segmentation of structural elements, particularly walls. However, existing methods often struggle with detecting thin structures and…

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