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most citedValidation, comparison, and combination of algorithms for automatic detection of pulmonary nodules in computed tomography images: the LUNA16 challenge

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cs.CV2026

Depth to Anatomy: Organ Localization from Depth Images for Automated Patient Table Positioning in Radiology Workflow

Eytan Kats, Kai Geissler, Daniel Mensing +4

In clinical radiology, accurate patient table positioning is essential to align specific internal organs of interest with the scanner imaging isocenter, ensuring image quality and…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

Robust Renal Mass Segmentation on CT: A Validation Study of an AI-Based Framework

Sarah de Boer, Hartmut Häntze, Kiran Vaidhya Venkadesh +9

Renal mass segmentation has important potential to enhance the clinical workflow, especially in settings requiring quantitative assessments. Kidney volume could serve as an importa…

cs.CV2025★ 2 cited

Carotid Artery Plaque Analysis in 3D Based on Distance Encoding in Mesh Representations

Hinrich Rahlfs, Markus Hüllebrand, Sebastian Schmitter +3

Purpose: Enabling a comprehensive and robust assessment of carotid artery plaques in 3D through extraction and visualization of quantitative plaque parameters. These parameters hav…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

Learning Wall Segmentation in 3D Vessel Trees using Sparse Annotations

Hinrich Rahlfs, Markus Hüllebrand, Sebastian Schmitter +3

We propose a novel approach that uses sparse annotations from clinical studies to train a 3D segmentation of the carotid artery wall. We use a centerline annotation to sample perpe…

cs.CV2023★ 8 cited

The NCI Imaging Data Commons as a platform for reproducible research in computational pathology

Daniela P. Schacherer, Markus D. Herrmann, David A. Clunie +7

Background and Objectives: Reproducibility is a major challenge in developing machine learning (ML)-based solutions in computational pathology (CompPath). The NCI Imaging Data Comm…

cs.CV2023★ 204 cited

Understanding metric-related pitfalls in image analysis validation

Annika Reinke, Minu D. Tizabi, Michael Baumgartner +75

Validation metrics are key for the reliable tracking of scientific progress and for bridging the current chasm between artificial intelligence (AI) research and its translation int…

cs.CV2022★ 2 cited

Comparison of different automatic solutions for resection cavity segmentation in postoperative MRI volumes including longitudinal acquisitions

Luca Canalini, Jan Klein, Nuno Pedrosa de Barros +3

In this work, we compare five deep learning solutions to automatically segment the resection cavity in postoperative MRI. The proposed methods are based on the same 3D U-Net archit…

cs.CV2022★ 469 cited

Metrics reloaded: Recommendations for image analysis validation

Lena Maier-Hein, Annika Reinke, Patrick Godau +71

Increasing evidence shows that flaws in machine learning (ML) algorithm validation are an underestimated global problem. Particularly in automatic biomedical image analysis, chosen…

cs.CV2019★ 49 cited

mlVIRNET: Multilevel Variational Image Registration Network

Alessa Hering, Bram van Ginneken, Stefan Heldmann

We present a novel multilevel approach for deep learning based image registration. Recently published deep learning based registration methods have shown promising results for a wi…

cs.CV2019★ 1.2k cited

The Liver Tumor Segmentation Benchmark (LiTS)

Patrick Bilic, Patrick Christ, Hongwei Bran Li +106

In this work, we report the set-up and results of the Liver Tumor Segmentation Benchmark (LiTS), which was organized in conjunction with the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedi…

cs.CV2018

Fully-deformable 3D image registration in two seconds

Daniel Budelmann, Lars König, Nils Papenberg +1

We present a highly parallel method for accurate and efficient variational deformable 3D image registration on a consumer-grade graphics processing unit (GPU). We build on recent m…

cs.CV2018★ 2 cited

Enhancing Label-Driven Deep Deformable Image Registration with Local Distance Metrics for State-of-the-Art Cardiac Motion Tracking

Alessa Hering, Sven Kuckertz, Stefan Heldmann +1

While deep learning has achieved significant advances in accuracy for medical image segmentation, its benefits for deformable image registration have so far remained limited to red…

cs.CV2018★ 154 cited

Epithelium segmentation using deep learning in H&E-stained prostate specimens with immunohistochemistry as reference standard

Wouter Bulten, Péter Bándi, Jeffrey Hoven +7

Prostate cancer (PCa) is graded by pathologists by examining the architectural pattern of cancerous epithelial tissue on hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) stained slides. Given the impor…

cs.CV2018★ 98 cited

Estimation of Large Motion in Lung CT by Integrating Regularized Keypoint Correspondences into Dense Deformable Registration

Jan Rühaak, Thomas Polzin, Stefan Heldmann +4

We present a novel algorithm for the registration of pulmonary CT scans. Our method is designed for large respiratory motion by integrating sparse keypoint correspondences into a d…

cs.CV2017★ 260 cited

Automatic calcium scoring in low-dose chest CT using deep neural networks with dilated convolutions

Nikolas Lessmann, Bram van Ginneken, Majd Zreik +4

Heavy smokers undergoing screening with low-dose chest CT are affected by cardiovascular disease as much as by lung cancer. Low-dose chest CT scans acquired in screening enable qua…

cs.CV2016★ 1.4k cited

Validation, comparison, and combination of algorithms for automatic detection of pulmonary nodules in computed tomography images: the LUNA16 challenge

Arnaud Arindra Adiyoso Setio, Alberto Traverso, Thomas de Bel +29

Automatic detection of pulmonary nodules in thoracic computed tomography (CT) scans has been an active area of research for the last two decades. However, there have only been few…