Brain tumor segmentation from Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) is an important task to measure tumor responses to treatments. However, automatic segmentation is very challenging. This paper presents an automatic brain tumor segmentation method based on a Normalized Gaussian Bayesian classification and a new 3D Fluid Ve…
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RCS-YOLO improves brain tumor detection speed and accuracy.
problem Efficiently detecting brain tumors with high accuracy and speed.
method Proposes RCS-YOLO, a fast and accurate brain tumor detector using YOLO with Reparameterized Convolution and channel Shuffle.
result RCS-YOLO outperforms other YOLO versions in speed and accuracy on brain tumor detection.
In this work we approach the brain tumor segmentation problem with a cascade of two CNNs inspired in the V-Net architecture \cite{VNet}, reformulating residual connections and making use of ROI masks to constrain the networks to train only on relevant voxels. This architecture allows dense training on problems with hig…
In this paper we present a method for simultaneously segmenting brain tumors and an extensive set of organs-at-risk for radiation therapy planning of glioblastomas. The method combines a contrast-adaptive generative model for whole-brain segmentation with a new spatial regularization model of tumor shape using convolut…
Automated brain tumor segmentation plays an important role in the diagnosis and prognosis of the patient. In addition, features from the tumorous brain help in predicting patients overall survival. The main focus of this paper is to segment tumor from BRATS 2018 benchmark dataset and use age, shape and volumetric featu…
Segmentation of tumors in brain MRI images is a challenging task, where most recent methods demand large volumes of data with pixel-level annotations, which are generally costly to obtain. In contrast, image-level annotations, where only the presence of lesion is marked, are generally cheap, generated in far larger vol…
Realism in Action: Anomaly-Aware Diagnosis of Brain Tumors from Medical Images Using YOLOv8 and DeiTeess.IV
Framework detects brain tumors robustly from MRI images.
problem Low clinical incidence of brain tumor cases makes diagnosis challenging.
method YOLOv8n for detection, DeiT for classification, PTP metric for evaluation.
result F1-score of 0.92 achieved with reduced computational resources.
Brain cancer can be very fatal, but chances of survival increase through early detection and treatment. Doctors use Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) to detect and locate tumors in the brain, and very carefully analyze scans to segment brain tumors. Manual segmentation is time consuming and tiring for doctors, and it ca…
The accurate automatic segmentation of gliomas and its intra-tumoral structures is important not only for treatment planning but also for follow-up evaluations. Several methods based on 2D and 3D Deep Neural Networks (DNN) have been developed to segment brain tumors and to classify different categories of tumors from d…
A method for MRI brain tumor segmentation using feature vectors and kernel dictionary learning.
problem Segmenting brain tumor regions in MRI images.
method Extracting feature vectors, training kernel dictionaries, and selecting informative feature vectors.
result The method outperforms other methods in segmentation accuracy and reduces training time.
Glioma is one of the most common types of brain tumors; it arises in the glial cells in the human brain and in the spinal cord. In addition to having a high mortality rate, glioma treatment is also very expensive. Hence, automatic and accurate segmentation and measurement from the early stages are critical in order to …
The recent state-of-the-art deep learning methods have significantly improved brain tumor segmentation. However, fully supervised training requires a large amount of manually labeled masks, which is highly time-consuming and needs domain expertise. Weakly supervised learning with scribbles provides a good trade-off bet…
Bayesian method transfers knowledge between brain tumor datasets.
problem Applying deep learning to small medical datasets.
method Generative Bayesian Prior network for knowledge transfer.
result Best results in Dice Similarity Coefficient for BRATS2018.
The paper demonstrates the use of the fully convolutional neural network for glioma segmentation on the BraTS 2019 dataset. Three-layers deep encoder-decoder architecture is used along with dense connection at encoder part to propagate the information from coarse layer to deep layers. This architecture is used to train…
Gliomas are the most common primary brain malignancies, with different degrees of aggressiveness, variable prognosis and various heterogeneous histologic sub-regions, i.e., peritumoral edematous/invaded tissue, necrotic core, active and non-enhancing core. This intrinsic heterogeneity is also portrayed in their radio-p…
Understanding the dynamics of brain tumor progression is essential for optimal treatment planning. Cast in a mathematical formulation, it is typically viewed as evaluation of a system of partial differential equations, wherein the physiological processes that govern the growth of the tumor are considered. To personaliz…
Human-Expert-Level Brain Tumor Detection Using Deep Learning with Data Distillation and Augmentationcs.CV
Deep learning improves brain tumor detection with few data.
problem Scarce training data and data corruption in medical diagnosis.
method Data distillation and augmentation to improve deep neural network training.
result Reaches human expert-level accuracy with just a few thousand training examples.
This paper analyzes the use of 3D Convolutional Neural Networks for brain tumor segmentation in MR images. We address the problem using three different architectures that combine fine and coarse features to obtain the final segmentation. We compare three different networks that use multi-resolution features in terms of…
Most of the current state-of-the-art methods for tumor segmentation are based on machine learning models trained on manually segmented images. This type of training data is particularly costly, as manual delineation of tumors is not only time-consuming but also requires medical expertise. On the other hand, images with…
Unsupervised method selects genes for tumor subtype discovery.
problem High-dimensional tumor gene expression data with noisy variables and heterogeneity.
method Autoencoders for latent space learning, Multiple Kernel Learning for feature selection, clustering.
result Lower redundancy and better clustering performance compared to benchmarks.
Data diversity is critical to success when training deep learning models. Medical imaging data sets are often imbalanced as pathologic findings are generally rare, which introduces significant challenges when training deep learning models. In this work, we propose a method to generate synthetic abnormal MRI images with…
NAS improves gliomas segmentation on MRI scans.
problem Designing optimal deep learning architectures for brain tumor segmentation.
method Neural architecture search with probabilistic parameter learning for MRI brain tumor segmentation.
result Two optimal neural architectures for brain tumor segmentation were discovered.
Deep Learning is a promising approach to either automate or simplify several tasks in the healthcare domain. In this work, we introduce SegAN-CAT, an approach to brain tumor segmentation in Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI), based on Adversarial Networks. In particular, we extend SegAN, successfully applied to the same t…
In this work, we introduce the Global Planar Convolution module as a building-block for fully-convolutional networks that aggregates global information and, therefore, enhances the context perception capabilities of segmentation networks in the context of brain tumor segmentation. We implement two baseline architecture…
The efficiency of deep machine learning for automatic delineation of tumor areas has been demonstrated for intraoperative neuronavigation using active IR-mapping with the use of the cold test. The proposed approach employs a matrix IR-imager to remotely register the space-time distribution of surface temperature patter…
Challenge aims to develop automated meningioma MRI segmentation models.
problem Lack of automated, objective tools for meningioma assessment.
method Develop and evaluate models on largest annotated dataset.
result Improved care of patients with meningioma through automated segmentation.
Joint estimation of high-dimensional spiked covariance matrices via a partially shared subspacestat.ME
Model improves covariance estimation from shared and distinct datasets.
problem Limited sample sizes and shared covariance structure across related datasets.
method Spiked covariance model with shared subspace, closed-form pooling weight, and asymptotic guarantees.
result Improves estimation of high-dimensional covariance matrices from related datasets.
KD-Net transfers knowledge from multi-modal to mono-modal segmentation networks.
problem Limited acquisition of multiple imaging modalities in clinical settings.
method Generalized distillation framework adapted for mono-modal networks.
result The student network outperforms baseline mono-modal networks in brain tumor segmentation.
Every year thousands of patients are diagnosed with a glioma, a type of malignant brain tumor. Physicians use MR images as a key tool in the diagnosis and treatment of these patients. Neural networks show great potential to aid physicians in the medical image analysis. This study investigates the use of varying amounts…
A benchmark evaluates ioUS-to-MR synthesis methods for brain tumor surgery.
problem Difficult interpretation of ioUS images for brain tumor surgery.
method Six generators trained under four inference regimes and two targets on public data.
result SynDiff-2.5D best preserved downstream segmentation (U_Dice=0.55).
Bayesian variational inference improves medical image segmentation confidence.
problem Improving interpretability and confidence in deep learning models for medical image segmentation.
method Encoder-decoder architecture based on variational inference for segmenting brain tumor images.
result The model segments brain tumors with both aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty.
Automatic segmentation methods based on deep learning have recently demonstrated state-of-the-art performance, outperforming the ordinary methods. Nevertheless, these methods are inapplicable for small datasets, which are very common in medical problems. To this end, we propose a knowledge transfer method between disea…
Bayesian layer improves image segmentation and out-of-distribution detection.
problem Outlier detection in image segmentation.
method Parameter-efficient hierarchical convolutional Gaussian Processes in Wasserstein-2 space.
result Uncertainty estimates improve out-of-distribution detection.
Deep learning models for semantic segmentation of images require large amounts of data. In the medical imaging domain, acquiring sufficient data is a significant challenge. Labeling medical image data requires expert knowledge. Collaboration between institutions could address this challenge, but sharing medical data to…
Machine Learning Distinguishes Neurosurgical Skill Levels in a Virtual Reality Tumor Resection Taskcs.LG
Background: Virtual reality simulators and machine learning have the potential to augment understanding, assessment and training of psychomotor performance in neurosurgery residents. Objective: This study outlines the first application of machine learning to distinguish "skilled" and "novice" psychomotor performance du…
Proposes BGNN for tumor heterogeneity prediction using graph neural networks.
problem Tumor classification limitations and heterogeneity assessment challenges.
method Artificial data generation, tumor heterogeneity estimation, and BGNN model development.
result BGNN achieves accuracy in predicting tumor heterogeneity.
Deep neural network models used for medical image segmentation are large because they are trained with high-resolution three-dimensional (3D) images. Graphics processing units (GPUs) are widely used to accelerate the trainings. However, the memory on a GPU is not large enough to train the models. A popular approach to …
Determining the primary site of origin for metastatic tumors is one of the open problems in cancer care because the efficacy of treatment often depends on the cancer tissue of origin. Classification methods that can leverage tumor genomic data and predict the site of origin are therefore of great value. Because tumor D…
Kidney tumor segmentation emerges as a new frontier of computer vision in medical imaging. This is partly due to its challenging manual annotation and great medical impact. Within the scope of the Kidney Tumor Segmentation Challenge 2019, that is aiming at combined kidney and tumor segmentation, this work proposes a no…
This study improves lung tumor segmentation in mice MRI scans with nnU-Net, reducing annotation needs.
problem Accurate lung tumor segmentation in mice MRI scans for drug discovery.
method Optimized nnU-Net 3D model for lung tumor segmentation with minimal annotations.
result nnU-Net 3D models outperform 2D models in MRI mice scans, requiring fewer annotations.
Quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) is a powerful MRI technique that has shown great potential in quantifying tissue susceptibility in numerous neurological disorders. However, the intrinsic ill-posed dipole inversion problem greatly affects the accuracy of the susceptibility map. We propose QSMGAN: a 3D deep con…
A method selects key genes from tumor transcriptomics data using kernel methods and improves classification performance.
problem Feature selection for tumor classification using gene expression data.
method Multiple Kernel Learning with latent regularization and non-linear dimensionality reduction.
result Improved tumor classification performance on unseen test samples.
The majority of cancer treatments end in failure due to Intra-Tumor Heterogeneity (ITH). ITH in cancer is represented by clonal evolution where different sub-clones compete with each other for resources under conditions of Darwinian natural selection. Predicting the growth of these sub-clones within a tumour is among t…
Large Language Models-Enabled Digital Twins for Precision Medicine in Rare Gynecological Tumorscs.CL
Study uses LLMs to create personalized treatment plans for rare gynecological tumors.
problem Suboptimal management and poor prognosis due to low incidence and heterogeneity of rare gynecological tumors.
method Developed a digital twin system using LLMs to integrate clinical and biomarker data.
result LLM-enabled digital twins efficiently model individual patient trajectories and identify potential treatment options.
The morphometry of a kidney tumor revealed by contrast-enhanced Computed Tomography (CT) imaging is an important factor in clinical decision making surrounding the lesion's diagnosis and treatment. Quantitative study of the relationship between kidney tumor morphology and clinical outcomes is difficult due to data scar…
EB-VAE combines tumor growth and dropout data for personalized treatment response modeling.
problem Challenges in integrating longitudinal tumor measurements, dropout information, and genetic covariates.
method Extended EB-VAE framework to jointly model longitudinal and time-to-event data, incorporating dropout hazard and genetic covariates.
result Hybrid decoder formulation yields consistent treatment-effect parameters and prior predictive performance comparable to neural decoder.
Computer-aided detection has been a research area attracting great interest in the past decade. Machine learning algorithms have been utilized extensively for this application as they provide a valuable second opinion to the doctors. Despite several machine learning models being available for medical imaging applicatio…
Bayesian networks (BN) are used in a big range of applications but they have one issue concerning parameter learning. In real application, training data are always incomplete or some nodes are hidden. To deal with this problem many learning parameter algorithms are suggested foreground EM, Gibbs sampling and RBE algori…