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eess.IV2025★ 1 cited

Disentangling Progress in Medical Image Registration: Beyond Trend-Driven Architectures towards Domain-Specific Strategies

Bailiang Jian, Jiazhen Pan, Rohit Jena +5

Medical image registration drives quantitative analysis across organs, modalities, and patient populations. Recent deep learning methods often combine low-level "trend-driven" comp…

eess.IV2025

MM-DINOv2: Adapting Foundation Models for Multi-Modal Medical Image Analysis

Daniel Scholz, Ayhan Can Erdur, Viktoria Ehm +4

Vision foundation models like DINOv2 demonstrate remarkable potential in medical imaging despite their origin in natural image domains. However, their design inherently works best…

eess.IV2025

Contrastive Anatomy-Contrast Disentanglement: A Domain-General MRI Harmonization Method

Daniel Scholz, Ayhan Can Erdur, Robbie Holland +4

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an invaluable tool for clinical and research applications. Yet, variations in scanners and acquisition parameters cause inconsistencies in image…

eess.IV2025

Rule-based Key-Point Extraction for MR-Guided Biomechanical Digital Twins of the Spine

Robert Graf, Tanja Lerchl, Kati Nispel +7

Digital twins offer a powerful framework for subject-specific simulation and clinical decision support, yet their development often hinges on accurate, individualized anatomical mo…

eess.IV2025★ 1 cited

MedFuncta: A Unified Framework for Learning Efficient Medical Neural Fields

Paul Friedrich, Florentin Bieder, Julian McGinnis +3

Research in medical imaging primarily focuses on discrete data representations that poorly scale with grid resolution and fail to capture the often continuous nature of the underly…

eess.IV2025

TimeFlow: Temporal Conditioning for Longitudinal Brain MRI Registration and Aging Analysis

Bailiang Jian, Jiazhen Pan, Yitong Li +5

Longitudinal brain analysis is essential for understanding healthy aging and identifying pathological deviations. Longitudinal registration of sequential brain MRI underpins such a…

eess.IV2024★ 5 cited

Towards a vision foundation model for comprehensive assessment of Cardiac MRI

Athira J Jacob, Indraneel Borgohain, Teodora Chitiboi +3

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR), considered the gold standard for noninvasive cardiac assessment, is a diverse and complex modality requiring a wide variety of image proce…

eess.IV2024

Classification, Regression and Segmentation directly from k-Space in Cardiac MRI

Ruochen Li, Jiazhen Pan, Youxiang Zhu +2

Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging (CMR) is the gold standard for diagnosing cardiovascular diseases. Clinical diagnoses predominantly rely on magnitude-only Digital Imaging and Co…

eess.IV2024

Unsupervised Analysis of Alzheimer's Disease Signatures using 3D Deformable Autoencoders

Mehmet Yigit Avci, Emily Chan, Veronika Zimmer +4

With the increasing incidence of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's Disease (AD), there is a need for further research that enhances detection and monitoring of the dis…

eess.IV2024

DCSM 2.0: Deep Conditional Shape Models for Data Efficient Segmentation

Athira J Jacob, Puneet Sharma, Daniel Rueckert

Segmentation is often the first step in many medical image analyses workflows. Deep learning approaches, while giving state-of-the-art accuracies, are data intensive and do not sca…

eess.IV2024★ 1 cited

VIBESegmentator: Full Body MRI Segmentation for the NAKO and UK Biobank

Robert Graf, Paul-Sören Platzek, Evamaria Olga Riedel +17

Objectives: To present a publicly available deep learning-based torso segmentation model that provides comprehensive voxel-wise coverage, including delineations that extend to the…

eess.IV2024★ 16 cited

MRSegmentator: Multi-Modality Segmentation of 40 Classes in MRI and CT

Hartmut Häntze, Lina Xu, Christian J. Mertens +29

Purpose: To develop and evaluate a deep learning model for multi-organ segmentation of MRI scans. Materials and Methods: The model was trained on 1,200 manually annotated 3D axial…

eess.IV2024★ 2 cited

Diffusion Models with Implicit Guidance for Medical Anomaly Detection

Cosmin I. Bercea, Benedikt Wiestler, Daniel Rueckert +1

Diffusion models have advanced unsupervised anomaly detection by improving the transformation of pathological images into pseudo-healthy equivalents. Nonetheless, standard approach…

eess.IV2024★ 8 cited

Topologically Faithful Multi-class Segmentation in Medical Images

Alexander H. Berger, Nico Stucki, Laurin Lux +6

Topological accuracy in medical image segmentation is a highly important property for downstream applications such as network analysis and flow modeling in vessels or cell counting…

eess.IV2024★ 28 cited

SPINEPS -- Automatic Whole Spine Segmentation of T2-weighted MR images using a Two-Phase Approach to Multi-class Semantic and Instance Segmentation

Hendrik Möller, Robert Graf, Joachim Schmitt +16

Purpose. To present SPINEPS, an open-source deep learning approach for semantic and instance segmentation of 14 spinal structures (ten vertebra substructures, intervertebral discs,…

eess.IV2024★ 1 cited

Towards Universal Unsupervised Anomaly Detection in Medical Imaging

Cosmin I. Bercea, Benedikt Wiestler, Daniel Rueckert +1

The increasing complexity of medical imaging data underscores the need for advanced anomaly detection methods to automatically identify diverse pathologies. Current methods face ch…

eess.IV2023★ 44 cited

Denoising diffusion-based MRI to CT image translation enables automated spinal segmentation

Robert Graf, Joachim Schmitt, Sarah Schlaeger +8

Background: Automated segmentation of spinal MR images plays a vital role both scientifically and clinically. However, accurately delineating posterior spine structures presents ch…

eess.IV2023

Framing image registration as a landmark detection problem for label-noise-aware task representation (HitR)

Diana Waldmannstetter, Ivan Ezhov, Benedikt Wiestler +16

Accurate image registration is pivotal in biomedical image analysis, where selecting suitable registration algorithms demands careful consideration. While numerous algorithms are a…