Machine learning techniques for biomedical image segmentation: an overview of technical aspects and introduction to state‐of‐art applications

H Seo, M Badiei Khuzani, V Vasudevan… - Medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, significant progress has been made in developing more accurate and
efficient machine learning algorithms for segmentation of medical and natural images. In this …

Auto‐segmentation of organs at risk for head and neck radiotherapy planning: from atlas‐based to deep learning methods

T Vrtovec, D Močnik, P Strojan, F Pernuš… - Medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Radiotherapy (RT) is one of the basic treatment modalities for cancer of the head and neck
(H&N), which requires a precise spatial description of the target volumes and organs at risk …

Multi-task learning for the segmentation of organs at risk with label dependence

T He, J Hu, Y Song, J Guo, Z Yi - Medical Image Analysis, 2020 - Elsevier
Automatic segmentation of organs at risk is crucial to aid diagnoses and remains a
challenging task in medical image analysis domain. To perform the segmentation, we use …

Organ at risk segmentation in head and neck CT images using a two-stage segmentation framework based on 3D U-Net

Y Wang, L Zhao, M Wang, Z Song - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurate segmentation of organs at risk (OARs) plays a critical role in the treatment planning
of image-guided radiotherapy of head and neck cancer. This segmentation task is …

Deep learning-based medical image segmentation with limited labels

W Chi, L Ma, J Wu, M Chen, W Lu… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Deep learning (DL)-based auto-segmentation has the potential for accurate organ
delineation in radiotherapy applications but requires large amounts of clean labeled data to …

Weaving attention U‐net: A novel hybrid CNN and attention‐based method for organs‐at‐risk segmentation in head and neck CT images

Z Zhang, T Zhao, H Gay, W Zhang, B Sun - Medical physics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose In radiotherapy planning, manual contouring is labor‐intensive and time‐
consuming. Accurate and robust automated segmentation models improve the efficiency …

Robustness study of noisy annotation in deep learning based medical image segmentation

S Yu, M Chen, E Zhang, J Wu, H Yu… - Physics in Medicine …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Partly due to the use of exhaustive-annotated data, deep networks have achieved
impressive performance on medical image segmentation. Medical imaging data paired with …

Geometric evaluations of CT and MRI based deep learning segmentation for brain OARs in radiotherapy

N Alzahrani, A Henry, A Clark, L Murray… - Physics in Medicine …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Deep-learning auto-contouring (DL-AC) promises standardisation of organ-at-risk
(OAR) contouring, enhancing quality and improving efficiency in radiotherapy. No …

Deep hybrid neural-like P systems for multiorgan segmentation in head and neck CT/MR images

J Xue, Y Wang, D Kong, F Wu, A Yin, J Qu… - Expert Systems with …, 2021 - Elsevier
Automatic segmentation of organs-at-risk (OARs) of the head and neck, such as the
brainstem, the left and right parotid glands, mandible, optic chiasm, and the left and right …

[HTML][HTML] Computational approaches for the reconstruction of optic nerve fibers along the visual pathway from medical images: a comprehensive review

R Jin, Y Cai, S Zhang, T Yang, H Feng… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Optic never fibers in the visual pathway play significant roles in vision formation. Damages of
optic nerve fibers are biomarkers for the diagnosis of various ophthalmological and …