Automatic kidney segmentation in ultrasound images using subsequent boundary distance regression and pixelwise classification networks

S Yin, Q Peng, H Li, Z Zhang, X You, K Fischer… - Medical image …, 2020 - Elsevier
It remains challenging to automatically segment kidneys in clinical ultrasound (US) images
due to the kidneys' varied shapes and image intensity distributions, although semi-automatic …

SDFNet: Automatic segmentation of kidney ultrasound images using multi-scale low-level structural feature

G Chen, Y Dai, R Li, Y Zhao, L Cui, X Yin - Expert Systems with Applications, 2021 - Elsevier
Due to speckle noise, changes in kidney shape and size between patients, and similar
regions, segmenting kidneys in ultrasound images is challenging. To alleviate this …

A novel convolutional neural network for kidney ultrasound images segmentation

G Chen, J Yin, Y Dai, J Zhang, X Yin, L Cui - Computer methods and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Background and Objective: Ultrasound imaging has been widely used in the
screening of kidney diseases. The localization and segmentation of the kidneys in …

MBANet: Multi-branch aware network for kidney ultrasound images segmentation

G Chen, Y Dai, J Zhang, X Yin, L Cui - Computers in biology and medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
Due to the influence of kidney morphology, heterogeneous structure and image quality,
segmenting kidney in ultrasound images is challenging. To alleviate this challenge, we …

A dynamic graph cuts method with integrated multiple feature maps for segmenting kidneys in 2D ultrasound images

Q Zheng, S Warner, G Tasian, Y Fan - Academic radiology, 2018 - Elsevier
Rationale and Objectives Automatic segmentation of kidneys in ultrasound (US) images
remains a challenging task because of high speckle noise, low contrast, and large …

Asymmetric U-shaped network with hybrid attention mechanism for kidney ultrasound images segmentation

GP Chen, Y Zhao, Y Dai, JX Zhang, XT Yin… - Expert Systems with …, 2023 - Elsevier
Kidney ultrasound (KUS) images segmentation is one of the key steps in computer-aided
diagnosis. The perturbation of heterogeneous structure, similar intensity distribution, and …

CT2US: Cross-modal transfer learning for kidney segmentation in ultrasound images with synthesized data

Y Song, J Zheng, L Lei, Z Ni, B Zhao, Y Hu - Ultrasonics, 2022 - Elsevier
Accurate segmentation of kidney in ultrasound images is a vital procedure in clinical
diagnosis and interventional operation. In recent years, deep learning technology has …

Segmentation of kidney from ultrasound images based on texture and shape priors

J Xie, Y Jiang, H Tsui - IEEE transactions on medical imaging, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents a novel texture and shape priors based method for kidney segmentation
in ultrasound (US) images. Texture features are extracted by applying a bank of Gabor filters …

Kidney segmentation in ultrasound, magnetic resonance and computed tomography images: A systematic review

HR Torres, S Queiros, P Morais, B Oliveira… - Computer methods and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background and objective Segmentation is an essential step in computer-aided diagnosis
and treatment planning of kidney diseases. In recent years, several researchers proposed …

DSEU-net: A novel deep supervision SEU-net for medical ultrasound image segmentation

G Chen, Y Liu, J Qian, J Zhang, X Yin, L Cui… - Expert Systems with …, 2023 - Elsevier
The automatic and accurate medical ultrasound image segmentation has been a
challenging task due to the coupled interference of various internal and external factors. In …