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Publications (45)

cs.LG2023

Do Gradient Inversion Attacks Make Federated Learning Unsafe?

Ali Hatamizadeh, Hongxu Yin, Pavlo Molchanov +8

Federated learning (FL) allows the collaborative training of AI models without needing to share raw data. This capability makes it especially interesting for healthcare application…

cs.CV2025

Towards the Automatic Segmentation, Modeling and Meshing of the Aortic Vessel Tree from Multicenter Acquisitions: An Overview of the SEG.A. 2023 Segmentation of the Aorta Challenge

Yuan Jin, Antonio Pepe, Gian Marco Melito +36

The automated analysis of the aortic vessel tree (AVT) from computed tomography angiography (CTA) holds immense clinical potential, but its development has been impeded by a lack o…

cs.LG2023

NVIDIA FLARE: Federated Learning from Simulation to Real-World

Holger R. Roth, Yan Cheng, Yuhong Wen +20

Federated learning (FL) enables building robust and generalizable AI models by leveraging diverse datasets from multiple collaborators without centralizing the data. We created NVI…

cs.CV2019

NeurReg: Neural Registration and Its Application to Image Segmentation

Wentao Zhu, Andriy Myronenko, Ziyue Xu +5

Registration is a fundamental task in medical image analysis which can be applied to several tasks including image segmentation, intra-operative tracking, multi-modal image alignme…

cs.CV2019

Identifying the Best Machine Learning Algorithms for Brain Tumor Segmentation, Progression Assessment, and Overall Survival Prediction in the BRATS Challenge

Spyridon Bakas, Mauricio Reyes, Andras Jakab +421

Gliomas are the most common primary brain malignancies, with different degrees of aggressiveness, variable prognosis and various heterogeneous histologic sub-regions, i.e., peritum…

eess.IV2020

Edge-Gated CNNs for Volumetric Semantic Segmentation of Medical Images

Ali Hatamizadeh, Demetri Terzopoulos, Andriy Myronenko

Textures and edges contribute different information to image recognition. Edges and boundaries encode shape information, while textures manifest the appearance of regions. Despite…

cs.CV2009

On the closed-form solution of the rotation matrix arising in computer vision problems

Andriy Myronenko, Xubo Song

We show the closed-form solution to the maximization of trace(A'R), where A is given and R is unknown rotation matrix. This problem occurs in many computer vision tasks involving o…

eess.IV2020

Federated Semi-Supervised Learning for COVID Region Segmentation in Chest CT using Multi-National Data from China, Italy, Japan

Dong Yang, Ziyue Xu, Wenqi Li +17

The recent outbreak of COVID-19 has led to urgent needs for reliable diagnosis and management of SARS-CoV-2 infection. As a complimentary tool, chest CT has been shown to be able t…

eess.IV2021

UNETR: Transformers for 3D Medical Image Segmentation

Ali Hatamizadeh, Yucheng Tang, Vishwesh Nath +5

Fully Convolutional Neural Networks (FCNNs) with contracting and expanding paths have shown prominence for the majority of medical image segmentation applications since the past de…

cs.CV2024

A Short Review and Evaluation of SAM2's Performance in 3D CT Image Segmentation

Yufan He, Pengfei Guo, Yucheng Tang +7

Since the release of Segment Anything 2 (SAM2), the medical imaging community has been actively evaluating its performance for 3D medical image segmentation. However, different stu…

eess.IV2021

Redundancy Reduction in Semantic Segmentation of 3D Brain Tumor MRIs

Md Mahfuzur Rahman Siddiquee, Andriy Myronenko

Another year of the multimodal brain tumor segmentation challenge (BraTS) 2021 provides an even larger dataset to facilitate collaboration and research of brain tumor segmentation…

cs.LG2025

Training the next generation of physicians for artificial intelligence-assisted clinical neuroradiology: ASNR MICCAI Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) 2025 Lighthouse Challenge education platform

Raisa Amiruddin, Nikolay Y. Yordanov, Nazanin Maleki +45

High-quality reference standard image data creation by neuroradiology experts for automated clinical tools can be a powerful tool for neuroradiology & artificial intelligence educa…

cs.CV2023

Automated 3D Segmentation of Kidneys and Tumors in MICCAI KiTS 2023 Challenge

Andriy Myronenko, Dong Yang, Yufan He +1

Kidney and Kidney Tumor Segmentation Challenge (KiTS) 2023 offers a platform for researchers to compare their solutions to segmentation from 3D CT. In this work, we describe our su…

eess.IV2024

A Robust Ensemble Algorithm for Ischemic Stroke Lesion Segmentation: Generalizability and Clinical Utility Beyond the ISLES Challenge

Ezequiel de la Rosa, Mauricio Reyes, Sook-Lei Liew +55

Diffusion-weighted MRI (DWI) is essential for stroke diagnosis, treatment decisions, and prognosis. However, image and disease variability hinder the development of generalizable A…

eess.IV2021

Federated Whole Prostate Segmentation in MRI with Personalized Neural Architectures

Holger R. Roth, Dong Yang, Wenqi Li +5

Building robust deep learning-based models requires diverse training data, ideally from several sources. However, these datasets cannot be combined easily because of patient privac…

eess.IV2022

Automated ischemic stroke lesion segmentation from 3D MRI

Md Mahfuzur Rahman Siddique, Dong Yang, Yufan He +2

Ischemic Stroke Lesion Segmentation challenge (ISLES 2022) offers a platform for researchers to compare their solutions to 3D segmentation of ischemic stroke regions from 3D MRIs.…

cs.CV2025

Auto3DSeg for Brain Tumor Segmentation from 3D MRI in BraTS 2023 Challenge

Andriy Myronenko, Dong Yang, Yufan He +1

In this work, we describe our solution to the BraTS 2023 cluster of challenges using Auto3DSeg from MONAI. We participated in all 5 segmentation challenges, and achieved the 1st pl…

eess.IV2020

Robust Semantic Segmentation of Brain Tumor Regions from 3D MRIs

Andriy Myronenko, Ali Hatamizadeh

Multimodal brain tumor segmentation challenge (BraTS) brings together researchers to improve automated methods for 3D MRI brain tumor segmentation. Tumor segmentation is one of the…

eess.IV2023

The state-of-the-art 3D anisotropic intracranial hemorrhage segmentation on non-contrast head CT: The INSTANCE challenge

Xiangyu Li, Gongning Luo, Kuanquan Wang +31

Automatic intracranial hemorrhage segmentation in 3D non-contrast head CT (NCCT) scans is significant in clinical practice. Existing hemorrhage segmentation methods usually ignores…

eess.IV2022

Automated segmentation of intracranial hemorrhages from 3D CT

Md Mahfuzur Rahman Siddiquee, Dong Yang, Yufan He +2

Intracranial hemorrhage segmentation challenge (INSTANCE 2022) offers a platform for researchers to compare their solutions to segmentation of hemorrhage stroke regions from 3D CTs…

cs.CV2019

End-to-End Boundary Aware Networks for Medical Image Segmentation

Ali Hatamizadeh, Demetri Terzopoulos, Andriy Myronenko

Fully convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have proven to be effective at representing and classifying textural information, thus transforming image intensity into output class mas…

cs.CV2025

Reasoning Visual Language Model for Chest X-Ray Analysis

Andriy Myronenko, Dong Yang, Baris Turkbey +10

Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown strong promise for medical image analysis, but most remain opaque, offering predictions without the transparent, stepwise reasoning clinici…

eess.IV2021

Accounting for Dependencies in Deep Learning Based Multiple Instance Learning for Whole Slide Imaging

Andriy Myronenko, Ziyue Xu, Dong Yang +2

Multiple instance learning (MIL) is a key algorithm for classification of whole slide images (WSI). Histology WSIs can have billions of pixels, which create enormous computational…

eess.IV2022

HyperSegNAS: Bridging One-Shot Neural Architecture Search with 3D Medical Image Segmentation using HyperNet

Cheng Peng, Andriy Myronenko, Ali Hatamizadeh +6

Semantic segmentation of 3D medical images is a challenging task due to the high variability of the shape and pattern of objects (such as organs or tumors). Given the recent succes…

cs.CV2009

Point-Set Registration: Coherent Point Drift

Andriy Myronenko, Xubo Song

Point set registration is a key component in many computer vision tasks. The goal of point set registration is to assign correspondences between two sets of points and to recover t…

cs.CV2009

Adaptive Regularization of Ill-Posed Problems: Application to Non-rigid Image Registration

Andriy Myronenko, Xubo Song

We introduce an adaptive regularization approach. In contrast to conventional Tikhonov regularization, which specifies a fixed regularization operator, we estimate it simultaneousl…

eess.IV2022

Fetal Brain Tissue Annotation and Segmentation Challenge Results

Kelly Payette, Hongwei Li, Priscille de Dumast +55

In-utero fetal MRI is emerging as an important tool in the diagnosis and analysis of the developing human brain. Automatic segmentation of the developing fetal brain is a vital ste…

eess.IV2021

Auto-FedAvg: Learnable Federated Averaging for Multi-Institutional Medical Image Segmentation

Yingda Xia, Dong Yang, Wenqi Li +15

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training while preserving each participant's privacy, which is particularly beneficial to the medical field. FedAvg is a standar…

eess.IV2019

4D CNN for semantic segmentation of cardiac volumetric sequences

Andriy Myronenko, Dong Yang, Varun Buch +6

We propose a 4D convolutional neural network (CNN) for the segmentation of retrospective ECG-gated cardiac CT, a series of single-channel volumetric data over time. While only a sm…

cs.RO2026

Cosmos-H-Surgical: Learning Surgical Robot Policies from Videos via World Modeling

Yufan He, Pengfei Guo, Mengya Xu +11

Data scarcity remains a fundamental barrier to achieving fully autonomous surgical robots. While large scale vision language action (VLA) models have shown impressive generalizatio…

eess.IV2023

Aorta Segmentation from 3D CT in MICCAI SEG.A. 2023 Challenge

Andriy Myronenko, Dong Yang, Yufan He +1

Aorta provides the main blood supply of the body. Screening of aorta with imaging helps for early aortic disease detection and monitoring. In this work, we describe our solution to…

cs.CV2018

3D MRI brain tumor segmentation using autoencoder regularization

Andriy Myronenko

Automated segmentation of brain tumors from 3D magnetic resonance images (MRIs) is necessary for the diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment planning of the disease. Manual delineatio…

eess.IV2021

T-AutoML: Automated Machine Learning for Lesion Segmentation using Transformers in 3D Medical Imaging

Dong Yang, Andriy Myronenko, Xiaosong Wang +3

Lesion segmentation in medical imaging has been an important topic in clinical research. Researchers have proposed various detection and segmentation algorithms to address this tas…

cs.AI2026

AutoMedBench: Towards Medical AutoResearch with Agentic AI Models

Junqi Liu, Selena Song, Yuhan Wang +12

Autonomous agents are increasingly expected to support end-to-end medical-AI research workflows, moving beyond isolated prediction tasks or short-form clinical question answering.…

eess.IV2022

Automated head and neck tumor segmentation from 3D PET/CT

Andriy Myronenko, Md Mahfuzur Rahman Siddiquee, Dong Yang +2

Head and neck tumor segmentation challenge (HECKTOR) 2022 offers a platform for researchers to compare their solutions to segmentation of tumors and lymph nodes from 3D CT and PET…

eess.IV2019

3D Kidneys and Kidney Tumor Semantic Segmentation using Boundary-Aware Networks

Andriy Myronenko, Ali Hatamizadeh

Automated segmentation of kidneys and kidney tumors is an important step in quantifying the tumor's morphometrical details to monitor the progression of the disease and accurately…

eess.IV2022

QU-BraTS: MICCAI BraTS 2020 Challenge on Quantifying Uncertainty in Brain Tumor Segmentation - Analysis of Ranking Scores and Benchmarking Results

Raghav Mehta, Angelos Filos, Ujjwal Baid +89

Deep learning (DL) models have provided state-of-the-art performance in various medical imaging benchmarking challenges, including the Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) challenges.…

cs.CV2025

VILA-M3: Enhancing Vision-Language Models with Medical Expert Knowledge

Vishwesh Nath, Wenqi Li, Dong Yang +22

Generalist vision language models (VLMs) have made significant strides in computer vision, but they fall short in specialized fields like healthcare, where expert knowledge is esse…

cs.CV2024

VISTA3D: A Unified Segmentation Foundation Model For 3D Medical Imaging

Yufan He, Pengfei Guo, Yucheng Tang +11

Foundation models for interactive segmentation in 2D natural images and videos have sparked significant interest in building 3D foundation models for medical imaging. However, the…

eess.IV2024

Multi-Center Fetal Brain Tissue Annotation (FeTA) Challenge 2022 Results

Kelly Payette, Céline Steger, Roxane Licandro +64

Segmentation is a critical step in analyzing the developing human fetal brain. There have been vast improvements in automatic segmentation methods in the past several years, and th…

cs.CV2022

Split-U-Net: Preventing Data Leakage in Split Learning for Collaborative Multi-Modal Brain Tumor Segmentation

Holger R. Roth, Ali Hatamizadeh, Ziyue Xu +4

Split learning (SL) has been proposed to train deep learning models in a decentralized manner. For decentralized healthcare applications with vertical data partitioning, SL can be…

eess.IV2021

The Power of Proxy Data and Proxy Networks for Hyper-Parameter Optimization in Medical Image Segmentation

Vishwesh Nath, Dong Yang, Ali Hatamizadeh +4

Deep learning models for medical image segmentation are primarily data-driven. Models trained with more data lead to improved performance and generalizability. However, training is…

eess.IV2020

Enhancing Foreground Boundaries for Medical Image Segmentation

Dong Yang, Holger Roth, Xiaosong Wang +3

Object segmentation plays an important role in the modern medical image analysis, which benefits clinical study, disease diagnosis, and surgery planning. Given the various modaliti…

cs.LG2022

MONAI: An open-source framework for deep learning in healthcare

M. Jorge Cardoso, Wenqi Li, Richard Brown +53

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is having a tremendous impact across most areas of science. Applications of AI in healthcare have the potential to improve our ability to detect, diagn…

cs.CV2019

When Unseen Domain Generalization is Unnecessary? Rethinking Data Augmentation

Ling Zhang, Xiaosong Wang, Dong Yang +7

Recent advances in deep learning for medical image segmentation demonstrate expert-level accuracy. However, in clinically realistic environments, such methods have marginal perform…