Detection of lung contour with closed principal curve and machine learning

T Peng, Y Wang, TC Xu, L Shi, J Jiang, S Zhu - Journal of Digital Imaging, 2018 - Springer
Radiation therapy plays an essential role in the treatment of cancer. In radiation therapy, the
ideal radiation doses are delivered to the observed tumor while not affecting neighboring …

A-LugSeg: Automatic and explainability-guided multi-site lung detection in chest X-ray images

T Peng, Y Gu, Z Ye, X Cheng, J Wang - Expert Systems with Applications, 2022 - Elsevier
Large variations in anatomical shape and size, too much overlap between anatomical
structures, and inconsistent anatomical shapes make accurate lung segmentation in chest x …

MR‐based spatiotemporal anisotropic atrophy evaluation of hippocampus in Alzheimer's disease progression by multiscale skeletal representation

N Gao, Z Liu, Y Deng, H Chen, C Ye… - Human Brain …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing evidence has shown a higher sensitivity of Alzheimer's disease (AD) progression
by local hippocampal atrophy rather than the whole volume. However, existing …

Deep belief network and closed polygonal line for lung segmentation in chest radiographs

T Peng, TC Xu, Y Wang, F Li - The Computer Journal, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Due to the varying appearance in the upper clavicle bone region, sharp corner at the
costophrenic angle, the presence of strong edges at the rib cage and clavicle and the lack of …

Statistical shape model to generate a planning library for cervical adaptive radiotherapy

B Rigaud, A Simon, M Gobeli, J Leseur… - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
External beam radiotherapy is extensively used to treat cervical carcinomas. A single
planning CT scan enables the calculation of the dose distribution. The treatment is delivered …

Fitting unbranching skeletal structures to objects

Z Liu, J Hong, J Vicory, JN Damon, SM Pizer - Medical image analysis, 2021 - Elsevier
Representing an object by a skeletal structure can be powerful for statistical shape analysis
if there is good correspondence of the representations within a population. Many anatomic …

Object shape representation via skeletal models (s-reps) and statistical analysis

SM Pizer, J Hong, J Vicory, Z Liu, JS Marron… - … geometric statistics in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Skeletal models that are structurally medial provide effective object representations. This is
because they include not only locations but also boundary directions and object widths. We …

Entropy-based kernel graph cut for textural image region segmentation

M Niazi, K Rahbar, M Sheikhan, M Khademi - Multimedia Tools and …, 2022 - Springer
Recently, image segmentation based on graph cut methods has shown impressive
performance on a set of image data. Although kernel graph cut provides more …

Geometric and statistical models for analysis of two-object complexes

Z Liu, J Damon, JS Marron, S Pizer - International Journal of Computer …, 2023 - Springer
Correlated shape features involving nearby objects often contain important anatomic
information. However, it is difficult to capture shape information within and between objects …

Non-Euclidean classification of medically imaged objects via s-reps

J Hong, J Vicory, J Schulz, M Styner, JS Marron… - Medical image …, 2016 - Elsevier
Classifying medically imaged objects, eg, into diseased and normal classes, has been one
of the important goals in medical imaging. We propose a novel classification scheme that …