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Automatic Vertebra Localization and Identification in CT by Spine Rectification and Anatomically-constrained Optimization
Fakai Wang, Kang Zheng, Le Lu +3
Accurate vertebra localization and identification are required in many clinical applications of spine disorder diagnosis and surgery planning. However, significant challenges are p…
Contour Transformer Network for One-shot Segmentation of Anatomical Structures
Yuhang Lu, Kang Zheng, Weijian Li +8
Accurate segmentation of anatomical structures is vital for medical image analysis. The state-of-the-art accuracy is typically achieved by supervised learning methods, where gather…
Knowledge Distillation with Adaptive Asymmetric Label Sharpening for Semi-supervised Fracture Detection in Chest X-rays
Yirui Wang, Kang Zheng, Chi-Tung Chang +7
Exploiting available medical records to train high performance computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) models via the semi-supervised learning (SSL) setting is emerging to tackle the prohib…
Fully-Automated Liver Tumor Localization and Characterization from Multi-Phase MR Volumes Using Key-Slice ROI Parsing: A Physician-Inspired Approach
Bolin Lai, Yuhsuan Wu, Xiaoyu Bai +10
Using radiological scans to identify liver tumors is crucial for proper patient treatment. This is highly challenging, as top radiologists only achieve F1 scores of roughly 80% (he…
Deep Lesion Tracker: Monitoring Lesions in 4D Longitudinal Imaging Studies
Jinzheng Cai, Youbao Tang, Ke Yan +4
Monitoring treatment response in longitudinal studies plays an important role in clinical practice. Accurately identifying lesions across serial imaging follow-up is the core to th…
SAM: Self-supervised Learning of Pixel-wise Anatomical Embeddings in Radiological Images
Ke Yan, Jinzheng Cai, Dakai Jin +7
Radiological images such as computed tomography (CT) and X-rays render anatomy with intrinsic structures. Being able to reliably locate the same anatomical structure across varying…
User-Guided Domain Adaptation for Rapid Annotation from User Interactions: A Study on Pathological Liver Segmentation
Ashwin Raju, Zhanghexuan Ji, Chi Tung Cheng +6
Mask-based annotation of medical images, especially for 3D data, is a bottleneck in developing reliable machine learning models. Using minimal-labor user interactions (UIs) to guid…
Learning from Multiple Datasets with Heterogeneous and Partial Labels for Universal Lesion Detection in CT
Ke Yan, Jinzheng Cai, Youjing Zheng +7
Large-scale datasets with high-quality labels are desired for training accurate deep learning models. However, due to the annotation cost, datasets in medical imaging are often eit…
Deep Volumetric Universal Lesion Detection using Light-Weight Pseudo 3D Convolution and Surface Point Regression
Jinzheng Cai, Ke Yan, Chi-Tung Cheng +4
Identifying, measuring and reporting lesions accurately and comprehensively from patient CT scans are important yet time-consuming procedures for physicians. Computer-aided lesion/…
Lymph Node Gross Tumor Volume Detection in Oncology Imaging via Relationship Learning Using Graph Neural Network
Chun-Hung Chao, Zhuotun Zhu, Dazhou Guo +10
Determining the spread of GTV is essential in defining the respective resection or irradiating regions for the downstream workflows of surgical resection and radiotherapy fo…
Anatomy-Aware Siamese Network: Exploiting Semantic Asymmetry for Accurate Pelvic Fracture Detection in X-ray Images
Haomin Chen, Yirui Wang, Kang Zheng +8
Visual cues of enforcing bilaterally symmetric anatomies as normal findings are widely used in clinical practice to disambiguate subtle abnormalities from medical images. So far, i…
Learning to Segment Anatomical Structures Accurately from One Exemplar
Yuhang Lu, Weijian Li, Kang Zheng +8
Accurate segmentation of critical anatomical structures is at the core of medical image analysis. The main bottleneck lies in gathering the requisite expert-labeled image annotatio…
Faster Mean-shift: GPU-accelerated clustering for cosine embedding-based cell segmentation and tracking
Mengyang Zhao, Aadarsh Jha, Quan Liu +6
Recently, single-stage embedding based deep learning algorithms gain increasing attention in cell segmentation and tracking. Compared with the traditional "segment-then-associate"…
CircleNet: Anchor-free Detection with Circle Representation
Haichun Yang, Ruining Deng, Yuzhe Lu +7
Object detection networks are powerful in computer vision, but not necessarily optimized for biomedical object detection. In this work, we propose CircleNet, a simple anchor-free d…
Harvesting, Detecting, and Characterizing Liver Lesions from Large-scale Multi-phase CT Data via Deep Dynamic Texture Learning
Yuankai Huo, Jinzheng Cai, Chi-Tung Cheng +7
Non-invasive radiological-based lesion characterization and identification, e.g., to differentiate cancer subtypes, has long been a major aim to enhance oncological diagnosis and t…
Universal Lesion Detection by Learning from Multiple Heterogeneously Labeled Datasets
Ke Yan, Jinzheng Cai, Adam P. Harrison +3
Lesion detection is an important problem within medical imaging analysis. Most previous work focuses on detecting and segmenting a specialized category of lesions (e.g., lung nodul…
Detecting Scatteredly-Distributed, Small, andCritically Important Objects in 3D OncologyImaging via Decision Stratification
Zhuotun Zhu, Ke Yan, Dakai Jin +9
Finding and identifying scatteredly-distributed, small, and critically important objects in 3D oncology images is very challenging. We focus on the detection and segmentation of on…
Organ at Risk Segmentation for Head and Neck Cancer using Stratified Learning and Neural Architecture Search
Dazhou Guo, Dakai Jin, Zhuotun Zhu +7
OAR segmentation is a critical step in radiotherapy of head and neck (H&N) cancer, where inconsistencies across radiation oncologists and prohibitive labor costs motivate automated…
Structured Landmark Detection via Topology-Adapting Deep Graph Learning
Weijian Li, Yuhang Lu, Kang Zheng +8
Image landmark detection aims to automatically identify the locations of predefined fiducial points. Despite recent success in this field, higher-ordered structural modeling to cap…
Lesion Harvester: Iteratively Mining Unlabeled Lesions and Hard-Negative Examples at Scale
Jinzheng Cai, Adam P. Harrison, Youjing Zheng +5
Acquiring large-scale medical image data, necessary for training machine learning algorithms, is frequently intractable, due to prohibitive expert-driven annotation costs. Recent d…