Overview of the HECKTOR challenge at MICCAI 2021: automatic head and neck tumor segmentation and outcome prediction in PET/CT images

V Andrearczyk, V Oreiller, S Boughdad… - 3D head and neck tumor …, 2021 - Springer
This paper presents an overview of the second edition of the HEad and neCK TumOR
(HECKTOR) challenge, organized as a satellite event of the 24th International Conference …

Multiple sclerosis lesion analysis in brain magnetic resonance images: techniques and clinical applications

Y Ma, C Zhang, M Cabezas, Y Song… - IEEE Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory and degenerative disease of the central
nervous system, characterized by the appearance of focal lesions in the white and gray …

[HTML][HTML] End-to-end prostate cancer detection in bpMRI via 3D CNNs: effects of attention mechanisms, clinical priori and decoupled false positive reduction

A Saha, M Hosseinzadeh, H Huisman - Medical image analysis, 2021 - Elsevier
We present a multi-stage 3D computer-aided detection and diagnosis (CAD) model 1 for
automated localization of clinically significant prostate cancer (csPCa) in bi-parametric MR …

[HTML][HTML] Single level UNet3D with multipath residual attention block for brain tumor segmentation

AS Akbar, C Fatichah, N Suciati - Journal of King Saud University-Computer …, 2022 - Elsevier
Atrous convolution and attention have improved the performance of the UNet architecture for
segmentation purposes. However, a perfect combination of atrous convolution and attention …

[HTML][HTML] A high-resolution in vivo magnetic resonance imaging atlas of the human hypothalamic region

C Neudorfer, J Germann, GJB Elias, R Gramer… - Scientific data, 2020 - nature.com
The study of the hypothalamus and its topological changes provides valuable insights into
underlying physiological and pathological processes. Owing to technological limitations …

[HTML][HTML] Automatic and unbiased segmentation and quantification of myofibers in skeletal muscle

A Waisman, AM Norris, M Elías Costa, D Kopinke - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Skeletal muscle has the remarkable ability to regenerate. However, with age and disease
muscle strength and function decline. Myofiber size, which is affected by injury and disease …

Metrics reloaded: recommendations for image analysis validation

L Maier-Hein, A Reinke, P Godau, MD Tizabi… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Increasing evidence shows that flaws in machine learning (ML) algorithm validation are an
underestimated global problem. In biomedical image analysis, chosen performance metrics …

SoftSeg: Advantages of soft versus binary training for image segmentation

C Gros, A Lemay, J Cohen-Adad - Medical image analysis, 2021 - Elsevier
Most image segmentation algorithms are trained on binary masks formulated as a
classification task per pixel. However, in applications such as medical imaging, this “black …

[HTML][HTML] Automated segmentation by deep learning of loose connective tissue fibers to define safe dissection planes in robot-assisted gastrectomy

Y Kumazu, N Kobayashi, N Kitamura, E Rayan… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The prediction of anatomical structures within the surgical field by artificial intelligence (AI) is
expected to support surgeons' experience and cognitive skills. We aimed to develop a deep …

Benchmarking of deep architectures for segmentation of medical images

D Gut, Z Tabor, M Szymkowski… - … on Medical Imaging, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, there were many suggestions regarding modifications of the well-known U-
Net architecture in order to improve its performance. The central motivation of this work is to …