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Delineating the brain tumor from magnetic resonance (MR) images is critical for the treatment of gliomas. However, automatic delineation is challenging due to the complex appearance and ambiguous outlines of tumors. Considering that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-03 Chenyu Liu , Wangbin Ding , Lei Li , Zhen Zhang , Chenhao Pei , Liqin Huang , Xiahai Zhuang

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), especially functional MRI (fMRI) and diffusion MRI (dMRI), is essential for studying neurodegenerative diseases. However, missing modalities pose a major barrier to their clinical use. Although GAN- and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Xiongri Shen , Jiaqi Wang , Yi Zhong , Zhenxi Song , Leilei Zhao , Yichen Wei , Lingyan Liang , Shuqiang Wang , Baiying Lei , Demao Deng , Zhiguo Zhang

Segmentation models based on deep neural networks demonstrate strong generalization for medical image segmentation. However, they often exhibit overconfidence or underconfidence, leading to unreliable confidence scores for segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Qiuyu Tian , Haoliang Sun , Yunshan Wang , Yinghuan Shi , Yilong Yin

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

We present the first study of Hyper-Connections (HC) for volumetric multi-modal brain tumor segmentation, integrating them as a drop-in replacement for fixed residual connections across five architectures: nnU-Net, SwinUNETR, VT-UNet,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Lokendra Kumar , Shubham Aggarwal

In the field of multimodal segmentation, the correlation between different modalities can be considered for improving the segmentation results. In this paper, we propose a multi-modality segmentation network with a correlation constraint.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-08 Tongxue Zhou , Stéphane Canu , Pierre Vera , Su Ruan

Brain tumor segmentation (BTS) in magnetic resonance image (MRI) is crucial for brain tumor diagnosis, cancer management and research purposes. With the great success of the ten-year BraTS challenges as well as the advances of CNN and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-18 Jianwei Lin , Jiatai Lin , Cheng Lu , Hao Chen , Huan Lin , Bingchao Zhao , Zhenwei Shi , Bingjiang Qiu , Xipeng Pan , Zeyan Xu , Biao Huang , Changhong Liang , Guoqiang Han , Zaiyi Liu , Chu Han

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) provides crucial insights into the microstructure of the human brain, but it can be time-consuming to acquire compared to more readily available T1-weighted (T1w) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Shaorong Zhang , Tamoghna Chattopadhyay , Sophia I. Thomopoulos , Jose-Luis Ambite , Paul M. Thompson , Greg Ver Steeg

Cancer remains one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide, and among its many forms, brain tumors are particularly notorious due to their aggressive nature and the critical challenges involved in early diagnosis. Recent advances in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-21 Mohammad Mahdi Danesh Pajouh

Tumor segmentation in multimodal medical images has seen a growing trend towards deep learning based methods. Typically, studies dealing with this topic fuse multimodal image data to improve the tumor segmentation contour for a single…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-25 Theresa Neubauer , Maria Wimmer , Astrid Berg , David Major , Dimitrios Lenis , Thomas Beyer , Jelena Saponjski , Katja Bühler

Medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in assisting healthcare professionals with accurate diagnoses and enabling automated diagnostic processes. Traditional convolutional neural networks (CNNs) often struggle with capturing…

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Due to the difficulties of obtaining multimodal paired images in clinical practice, recent studies propose to train brain tumor segmentation models with unpaired images and capture complementary information through modality translation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Zecheng Liu , Jia Wei , Rui Li

Gliomas are one of the most prevalent types of primary brain tumours, accounting for more than 30\% of all cases and they develop from the glial stem or progenitor cells. In theory, the majority of brain tumours could well be identified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Reza Azad , Nika Khosravi , Dorit Merhof

Accurate segmentation of tubular structures in medical images, such as vessels and airway trees, is crucial for computer-aided diagnosis, radiotherapy, and surgical planning. However, significant challenges exist in algorithm design when…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-11 Yi Huang , Ke Zhang , Wei Liu , Yuanyuan Wang , Vishal M. Patel , Le Lu , Xu Han , Dakai Jin , Ke Yan

Segmentation of brain structures from MRI is crucial for evaluating brain morphology, yet existing CNN and transformer-based methods struggle to delineate complex structures accurately. While current diffusion models have shown promise in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Qilong Xing , Zikai Song , Yuteng Ye , Yuke Chen , Youjia Zhang , Na Feng , Junqing Yu , Wei Yang

Accurate segmentation of laryngo-pharyngeal tumors is crucial for precise diagnosis and effective treatment planning. However, traditional single-modality imaging methods often fall short of capturing the complex anatomical and pathological…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Junhao Wu , Yun Li , Junhao Li , Jingliang Bian , Xiaomao Fan , Wenbin Lei , Ruxin Wang

Brain tumors exhibit high heterogeneity in morphology and multimodal contrast, making manual slice-by-slice de lineation time-consuming and experience-dependent, thus necessitating efficient and stable automated segmentation methods. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Hanjun Tao , Hua Wang , Fan Zhang

Multimodal learning has been demonstrated to enhance performance across various clinical tasks, owing to the diverse perspectives offered by different modalities of data. However, existing multimodal segmentation methods rely on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-04 Shiyun Chen , Li Lin , Pujin Cheng , ZhiCheng Jin , JianJian Chen , HaiDong Zhu , Kenneth K. Y. Wong , Xiaoying Tang

According to the 2021 World Health Organization (WHO) Classification scheme for gliomas, glioma segmentation is a very important basis for diagnosis and genotype prediction. In general, 3D multimodal brain MRI is an effective diagnostic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Xiaoyu Shi , Shurong Chai , Yinhao Li , Jingliang Cheng , Jie Bai , Guohua Zhao , Yen-Wei Chen

Accurate cancer survival prediction is crucial for assisting clinical doctors in formulating treatment plans. Multimodal data, including histopathological images and genomic data, offer complementary and comprehensive information that can…

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