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most citedBiomedical image analysis competitions: The state of current participation practice

17 citations · 26 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.CV2026

Zero-Shot Brain MRI Inpainting with 2.5D Unconditional Flow Priors

Arnela Hadzic, Franz Thaler, Simon Johannes Joham +1

Generative inpainting of brain MRI volumes is essential for synthesizing healthy tissue in pathological regions, improving the accuracy and reliability of automated downstream brai…

eess.IV2026

The MYOSAIQ Challenge: Myocardial Segmentation with Automated Infarct Quantification

Olivier Bernard, William A. Romero R., Cyprien Bouton +24

Late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is the modality of choice to assess myocardial infarction (MI) lesions. Nowadays MI volume quantification…

eess.IV2026

Evaluation of Anatomical Shape Priors in Deep Learning-Based Cardiac Multi-Compartment Segmentation

Michael Hudler, Franz Thaler, Martin Urschler

Whole-heart multi-compartment CT segmentation is clinically important, but standard CNNs do not explicitly enforce anatomical plausibility. Based on statistics derived from the tra…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

Semantic-aware Random Convolution and Source Matching for Domain Generalization in Medical Image Segmentation

Franz Thaler, Martin Urschler, Mateusz Kozinski +3

We tackle the challenging problem of single-source domain generalization (DG) for medical image segmentation, where we train a network on one domain (e.g., CT) and directly apply i…

cs.CV2025

Restora-Flow: Mask-Guided Image Restoration with Flow Matching

Arnela Hadzic, Franz Thaler, Lea Bogensperger +2

Flow matching has emerged as a promising generative approach that addresses the lengthy sampling times associated with state-of-the-art diffusion models and enables a more flexible…

eess.IV2025★ 1 cited

LA-CaRe-CNN: Cascading Refinement CNN for Left Atrial Scar Segmentation

Franz Thaler, Darko Stern, Gernot Plank +1

Atrial fibrillation (AF) represents the most prevalent type of cardiac arrhythmia for which treatment may require patients to undergo ablation therapy. In this surgery cardiac tiss…

cs.CV2025★ 2 cited

Augmentation-based Domain Generalization and Joint Training from Multiple Source Domains for Whole Heart Segmentation

Franz Thaler, Darko Stern, Gernot Plank +1

As the leading cause of death worldwide, cardiovascular diseases motivate the development of more sophisticated methods to analyze the heart and its substructures from medical imag…

math.NA2025★ 1 cited

An efficient end-to-end computational framework for the generation of ECG calibrated volumetric models of human atrial electrophysiology

Elena Zappon, Luca Azzolin, Matthias A. F. Gsell +12

Computational models of atrial electrophysiology (EP) are increasingly utilized for applications such as the development of advanced mapping systems, personalized clinical therapy…

q-bio.TO2025★ 3 cited

Integrating anatomy and electrophysiology in the healthy human heart: Insights from biventricular statistical shape analysis using universal coordinates

Lore Van Santvliet, Elena Zappon, Matthias A. F. Gsell +9

A cardiac digital twin is a virtual replica of a patient-specific heart, mimicking its anatomy and physiology. A crucial step of building a cardiac digital twin is anatomical twinn…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Gaussian Process Emulators for Few-Shot Segmentation in Cardiac MRI

Bruno Viti, Franz Thaler, Kathrin Lisa Kapper +3

Segmentation of cardiac magnetic resonance images (MRI) is crucial for the analysis and assessment of cardiac function, helping to diagnose and treat various cardiovascular disease…

eess.IV2024

Multi-Source and Multi-Sequence Myocardial Pathology Segmentation Using a Cascading Refinement CNN

Franz Thaler, Darko Stern, Gernot Plank +1

Myocardial infarction (MI) is one of the most prevalent cardiovascular diseases and consequently, a major cause for mortality and morbidity worldwide. Accurate assessment of myocar…

physics.med-ph2024

pyCEPS: A cross-platform Electroanatomic Mapping Data to Computational Model Conversion Platform for the Calibration of Digital Twin Models of Cardiac Electrophysiology

Robert Arnold, Anton J. Prassl, Aurel Neic +7

Background and Objective: Data from electro-anatomical mapping (EAM) systems are playing an increasingly important role in computational modeling studies for the patient-specific c…

cs.CV2023

CaRe-CNN: Cascading Refinement CNN for Myocardial Infarct Segmentation with Microvascular Obstructions

Franz Thaler, Matthias A. F. Gsell, Gernot Plank +1

Late gadolinium enhanced (LGE) magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is widely established to assess the viability of myocardial tissue of patients after acute myocardial infarction (MI)…

cs.CV2022★ 17 cited

Biomedical image analysis competitions: The state of current participation practice

Matthias Eisenmann, Annika Reinke, Vivienn Weru +352

The number of international benchmarking competitions is steadily increasing in various fields of machine learning (ML) research and practice. So far, however, little is known abou…

eess.IV2021

Efficient Multi-Organ Segmentation Using SpatialConfiguration-Net with Low GPU Memory Requirements

Franz Thaler, Christian Payer, Horst Bischof +1

Even though many semantic segmentation methods exist that are able to perform well on many medical datasets, often, they are not designed for direct use in clinical practice. The t…

cs.CV2021

Modeling Annotation Uncertainty with Gaussian Heatmaps in Landmark Localization

Franz Thaler, Christian Payer, Martin Urschler +1

In landmark localization, due to ambiguities in defining their exact position, landmark annotations may suffer from large observer variabilities, which result in uncertain annotati…