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Publications (20)

cs.CV2023

Image To Tree with Recursive Prompting

James Batten, Matthew Sinclair, Ben Glocker +1

Extracting complex structures from grid-based data is a common key step in automated medical image analysis. The conventional solution to recovering tree-structured geometries typi…

eess.IV2020

Atlas-ISTN: Joint Segmentation, Registration and Atlas Construction with Image-and-Spatial Transformer Networks

Matthew Sinclair, Andreas Schuh, Karl Hahn +5

Deep learning models for semantic segmentation are able to learn powerful representations for pixel-wise predictions, but are sensitive to noise at test time and do not guarantee a…

eess.IV2024

Improved 3D Whole Heart Geometry from Sparse CMR Slices

Yiyang Xu, Hao Xu, Matthew Sinclair +6

Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging and computed tomography (CT) are two common non-invasive imaging methods for assessing patients with cardiovascular disease. CMR typically…

cs.CV2017

Ensembles of Multiple Models and Architectures for Robust Brain Tumour Segmentation

Konstantinos Kamnitsas, Wenjia Bai, Enzo Ferrante +8

Deep learning approaches such as convolutional neural nets have consistently outperformed previous methods on challenging tasks such as dense, semantic segmentation. However, the v…

cs.CV2018

Weakly Supervised Localisation for Fetal Ultrasound Images

Nicolas Toussaint, Bishesh Khanal, Matthew Sinclair +4

This paper addresses the task of detecting and localising fetal anatomical regions in 2D ultrasound images, where only image-level labels are present at training, i.e. without any…

cs.CV2026

Positional Segmentor-Guided Counterfactual Fine-Tuning for Spatially Localized Image Synthesis

Tian Xia, Matthew Sinclair, Andreas Schuh +8

Counterfactual image generation enables controlled data augmentation, bias mitigation, and disease modeling. However, existing methods guided by external classifiers or regressors…

eess.IV2019

Confident Head Circumference Measurement from Ultrasound with Real-time Feedback for Sonographers

Samuel Budd, Matthew Sinclair, Bishesh Khanal +6

Manual estimation of fetal Head Circumference (HC) from Ultrasound (US) is a key biometric for monitoring the healthy development of fetuses. Unfortunately, such measurements are s…

cs.CV2018

Fast Multiple Landmark Localisation Using a Patch-based Iterative Network

Yuanwei Li, Amir Alansary, Juan J. Cerrolaza +7

We propose a new Patch-based Iterative Network (PIN) for fast and accurate landmark localisation in 3D medical volumes. PIN utilises a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to learn t…

cs.CV2018

A Comprehensive Approach for Learning-based Fully-Automated Inter-slice Motion Correction for Short-Axis Cine Cardiac MR Image Stacks

Giacomo Tarroni, Ozan Oktay, Matthew Sinclair +7

In the clinical routine, short axis (SA) cine cardiac MR (CMR) image stacks are acquired during multiple subsequent breath-holds. If the patient cannot consistently hold the breath…

eess.IV2021

Detecting Hypo-plastic Left Heart Syndrome in Fetal Ultrasound via Disease-specific Atlas Maps

Samuel Budd, Matthew Sinclair, Thomas Day +11

Fetal ultrasound screening during pregnancy plays a vital role in the early detection of fetal malformations which have potential long-term health impacts. The level of skill requi…

q-bio.QM2026

Scalable Agentic Reasoning for Designing Biologics Targeting Intrinsically Disordered Proteins

Matthew Sinclair, Moeen Meigooni, Archit Vasan +14

Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) represent crucial therapeutic targets due to their significant role in disease -- approximately 80\% of cancer-related proteins contain lon…

eess.IV2025

Vector Representations of Vessel Trees

James Batten, Michiel Schaap, Matthew Sinclair +2

We introduce a novel framework for learning vector representations of tree-structured geometric data focusing on 3D vascular networks. Our approach employs two sequentially trained…

cs.CV2024

Pay Attention to the Atlas: Atlas-Guided Test-Time Adaptation Method for Robust 3D Medical Image Segmentation

Jingjie Guo, Weitong Zhang, Matthew Sinclair +2

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) often suffer from poor performance when tested on target data that differs from the training (source) data distribution, particularly in medica…

cs.CV2019

Weakly Supervised Estimation of Shadow Confidence Maps in Fetal Ultrasound Imaging

Qingjie Meng, Matthew Sinclair, Veronika Zimmer +11

Detecting acoustic shadows in ultrasound images is important in many clinical and engineering applications. Real-time feedback of acoustic shadows can guide sonographers to a stand…

cs.CV2018

Standard Plane Detection in 3D Fetal Ultrasound Using an Iterative Transformation Network

Yuanwei Li, Bishesh Khanal, Benjamin Hou +8

Standard scan plane detection in fetal brain ultrasound (US) forms a crucial step in the assessment of fetal development. In clinical settings, this is done by manually manoeuvring…

cs.CV2025

Segmentor-Guided Counterfactual Fine-Tuning for Locally Coherent and Targeted Image Synthesis

Tian Xia, Matthew Sinclair, Andreas Schuh +8

Counterfactual image generation is a powerful tool for augmenting training data, de-biasing datasets, and modeling disease. Current approaches rely on external classifiers or regre…

eess.IV2022

CAS-Net: Conditional Atlas Generation and Brain Segmentation for Fetal MRI

Liu Li, Qiang Ma, Matthew Sinclair +6

Fetal Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is used in prenatal diagnosis and to assess early brain development. Accurate segmentation of the different brain tissues is a vital step in…

eess.IV2020

Automated quantification of myocardial tissue characteristics from native T1 mapping using neural networks with Bayesian inference for uncertainty-based quality-control

Esther Puyol Anton, Bram Ruijsink, Christian F. Baumgartner +4

Tissue characterisation with CMR parametric mapping has the potential to detect and quantify both focal and diffuse alterations in myocardial structure not assessable by late gadol…

cs.CV2018

Human-level Performance On Automatic Head Biometrics In Fetal Ultrasound Using Fully Convolutional Neural Networks

Matthew Sinclair, Christian F. Baumgartner, Jacqueline Matthew +9

Measurement of head biometrics from fetal ultrasonography images is of key importance in monitoring the healthy development of fetuses. However, the accurate measurement of relevan…

cs.CV2018

Automated cardiovascular magnetic resonance image analysis with fully convolutional networks

Wenjia Bai, Matthew Sinclair, Giacomo Tarroni +20

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging is a standard imaging modality for assessing cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), the leading cause of death globally. CMR enables accura…