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most citedAutomated Design of Deep Learning Methods for Biomedical Image Segmentation

9.8k citations · 18.5k across the 47 of their papers we have counts for

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55 papers

cs.CV2026

TriALS: Triphasic-Aided Liver Lesion Segmentation Benchmark in Non-Contrast CT

Marawan Elbatel, Mohamed Ghonim, Jiaji Mao +62

Automated segmentation of liver lesions on non-contrast computed tomography (NCCT) is clinically important but fundamentally challenging, particularly in low-resource settings acro…

cs.CV2026★ 1 cited

The autoPET3 Challenge: Automated Lesion Segmentation in Whole-Body PET/CT $\unicode{x2013}$ Multitracer Multicenter Generalization

Jakob Dexl, Katharina Jeblick, Andreas Mittermeier +27

We report the design and results of the third autoPET challenge (MICCAI 2024), which benchmarked automated lesion segmentation in whole-body PET/CT under a compositional generaliza…

cs.CV2025

nnActive: A Framework for Evaluation of Active Learning in 3D Biomedical Segmentation

Carsten T. Lüth, Jeremias Traub, Kim-Celine Kahl +6

Semantic segmentation is crucial for various biomedical applications, yet its reliance on large annotated datasets presents a bottleneck due to the high cost and specialized expert…

eess.IV2025

Multi-Class Segmentation of Aortic Branches and Zones in Computed Tomography Angiography: The AortaSeg24 Challenge

Muhammad Imran, Jonathan R. Krebs, Vishal Balaji Sivaraman +60

Multi-class segmentation of the aorta in computed tomography angiography (CTA) scans is essential for diagnosing and planning complex endovascular treatments for patients with aort…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

Touchstone Benchmark: Are We on the Right Way for Evaluating AI Algorithms for Medical Segmentation?

Pedro R. A. S. Bassi, Wenxuan Li, Yucheng Tang +50

How can we test AI performance? This question seems trivial, but it isn't. Standard benchmarks often have problems such as in-distribution and small-size test sets, oversimplified…

cs.CV2024

Decoupling Semantic Similarity from Spatial Alignment for Neural Networks

Tassilo Wald, Constantin Ulrich, Gregor Köhler +6

What representation do deep neural networks learn? How similar are images to each other for neural networks? Despite the overwhelming success of deep learning methods key questions…

eess.IV2024★ 4 cited

From FDG to PSMA: A Hitchhiker's Guide to Multitracer, Multicenter Lesion Segmentation in PET/CT Imaging

Maximilian Rokuss, Balint Kovacs, Yannick Kirchhoff +4

Automated lesion segmentation in PET/CT scans is crucial for improving clinical workflows and advancing cancer diagnostics. However, the task is challenging due to physiological va…

eess.IV2024

Data-Centric Strategies for Overcoming PET/CT Heterogeneity: Insights from the AutoPET III Lesion Segmentation Challenge

Balint Kovacs, Shuhan Xiao, Maximilian Rokuss +3

The third autoPET challenge introduced a new data-centric task this year, shifting the focus from model development to improving metastatic lesion segmentation on PET/CT images thr…

eess.IV2024

Mitigating False Predictions In Unreasonable Body Regions

Constantin Ulrich, Catherine Knobloch, Julius C. Holzschuh +7

Despite considerable strides in developing deep learning models for 3D medical image segmentation, the challenge of effectively generalizing across diverse image distributions pers…

cs.CV2024★ 4 cited

Revisiting 3D Medical Scribble Supervision: Benchmarking Beyond Cardiac Segmentation

Karol Gotkowski, Klaus H. Maier-Hein, Fabian Isensee

Scribble supervision has emerged as a promising approach for reducing annotation costs in medical 3D segmentation by leveraging sparse annotations instead of voxel-wise labels. Whi…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

RecycleNet: Latent Feature Recycling Leads to Iterative Decision Refinement

Gregor Koehler, Tassilo Wald, Constantin Ulrich +6

Despite the remarkable success of deep learning systems over the last decade, a key difference still remains between neural network and human decision-making: As humans, we cannot…

eess.IV2023

Anatomy-informed Data Augmentation for Enhanced Prostate Cancer Detection

Balint Kovacs, Nils Netzer, Michael Baumgartner +17

Data augmentation (DA) is a key factor in medical image analysis, such as in prostate cancer (PCa) detection on magnetic resonance images. State-of-the-art computer-aided diagnosis…

eess.IV2023★ 2 cited

Look Ma, no code: fine tuning nnU-Net for the AutoPET II challenge by only adjusting its JSON plans

Fabian Isensee, Klaus H. Maier-Hein

We participate in the AutoPET II challenge by modifying nnU-Net only through its easy to understand and modify 'nnUNetPlans.json' file. By switching to a UNet with residual encoder…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Exploring new ways: Enforcing representational dissimilarity to learn new features and reduce error consistency

Tassilo Wald, Constantin Ulrich, Fabian Isensee +4

Independently trained machine learning models tend to learn similar features. Given an ensemble of independently trained models, this results in correlated predictions and common f…

cs.CV2023★ 35 cited

The KiTS21 Challenge: Automatic segmentation of kidneys, renal tumors, and renal cysts in corticomedullary-phase CT

Nicholas Heller, Fabian Isensee, Dasha Trofimova +42

This paper presents the challenge report for the 2021 Kidney and Kidney Tumor Segmentation Challenge (KiTS21) held in conjunction with the 2021 international conference on Medical…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Transformer Utilization in Medical Image Segmentation Networks

Saikat Roy, Gregor Koehler, Michael Baumgartner +4

Owing to success in the data-rich domain of natural images, Transformers have recently become popular in medical image segmentation. However, the pairing of Transformers with convo…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Why is the winner the best?

Matthias Eisenmann, Annika Reinke, Vivienn Weru +122

International benchmarking competitions have become fundamental for the comparative performance assessment of image analysis methods. However, little attention has been given to in…

eess.IV2023★ 41 cited

MultiTalent: A Multi-Dataset Approach to Medical Image Segmentation

Constantin Ulrich, Fabian Isensee, Tassilo Wald +3

The medical imaging community generates a wealth of datasets, many of which are openly accessible and annotated for specific diseases and tasks such as multi-organ or lesion segmen…

eess.IV2023★ 17 cited

MedNeXt: Transformer-driven Scaling of ConvNets for Medical Image Segmentation

Saikat Roy, Gregor Koehler, Constantin Ulrich +5

There has been exploding interest in embracing Transformer-based architectures for medical image segmentation. However, the lack of large-scale annotated medical datasets make achi…

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.CV2023★ 5 cited

CRADL: Contrastive Representations for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection and Localization

Carsten T. Lüth, David Zimmerer, Gregor Koehler +4

Unsupervised anomaly detection in medical imaging aims to detect and localize arbitrary anomalies without requiring annotated anomalous data during training. Often, this is achieve…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

ParticleSeg3D: A Scalable Out-of-the-Box Deep Learning Segmentation Solution for Individual Particle Characterization from Micro CT Images in Mineral Processing and Recycling

Karol Gotkowski, Shuvam Gupta, Jose R. A. Godinho +3

Minerals, metals, and plastics are indispensable for a functioning modern society. Yet, their supply is limited causing a need for optimizing ore extraction and recuperation from r…

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.IV2022★ 3 cited

Extending nnU-Net is all you need

Fabian Isensee, Constantin Ulrich, Tassilo Wald +1

Semantic segmentation is one of the most popular research areas in medical image computing. Perhaps surprisingly, despite its conceptualization dating back to 2018, nnU-Net continu…