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most citedAutomated Design of Deep Learning Methods for Biomedical Image Segmentation

9.8k citations · 17.9k across the 31 of their papers we have counts for

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38 papers

eess.IV2024★ 5 cited

Pre-examinations Improve Automated Metastases Detection on Cranial MRI

Katerina Deike-Hofmann, Dorottya Dancs, Daniel Paech +5

Materials and methods: First, a dual-time approach was assessed, for which the CNN was provided sequences of the MRI that initially depicted new MM (diagnosis MRI) as well as of a…

eess.IV2024★ 97 cited

DALSA: Domain Adaptation for Supervised Learning From Sparsely Annotated MR Images

Michael Götz, Christian Weber, Franciszek Binczyk +7

We propose a new method that employs transfer learning techniques to effectively correct sampling selection errors introduced by sparse annotations during supervised learning for a…

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

atTRACTive: Semi-automatic white matter tract segmentation using active learning

Robin Peretzke, Klaus Maier-Hein, Jonas Bohn +6

Accurately identifying white matter tracts in medical images is essential for various applications, including surgery planning and tract-specific analysis. Supervised machine learn…

eess.IV2020

nnU-Net for Brain Tumor Segmentation

Fabian Isensee, Paul F. Jaeger, Peter M. Full +2

We apply nnU-Net to the segmentation task of the BraTS 2020 challenge. The unmodified nnU-Net baseline configuration already achieves a respectable result. By incorporating BraTS-s…

eess.IV2020★ 17 cited

OR-UNet: an Optimized Robust Residual U-Net for Instrument Segmentation in Endoscopic Images

Fabian Isensee, Klaus H. Maier-Hein

Segmentation of endoscopic images is an essential processing step for computer and robotics-assisted interventions. The Robust-MIS challenge provides the largest dataset of annotat…

cs.CV2020★ 33 cited

Robust Medical Instrument Segmentation Challenge 2019

Tobias Ross, Annika Reinke, Peter M. Full +47

Intraoperative tracking of laparoscopic instruments is often a prerequisite for computer and robotic-assisted interventions. While numerous methods for detecting, segmenting and tr…

eess.IV2020★ 831 cited

CHAOS Challenge -- Combined (CT-MR) Healthy Abdominal Organ Segmentation

A. Emre Kavur, N. Sinem Gezer, Mustafa Barış +24

Segmentation of abdominal organs has been a comprehensive, yet unresolved, research field for many years. In the last decade, intensive developments in deep learning (DL) have intr…

eess.IV2019

The state of the art in kidney and kidney tumor segmentation in contrast-enhanced CT imaging: Results of the KiTS19 Challenge

Nicholas Heller, Fabian Isensee, Klaus H. Maier-Hein +38

There is a large body of literature linking anatomic and geometric characteristics of kidney tumors to perioperative and oncologic outcomes. Semantic segmentation of these tumors a…

eess.IV2019★ 20 cited

A Case for the Score: Identifying Image Anomalies using Variational Autoencoder Gradients

David Zimmerer, Jens Petersen, Simon A. A. Kohl +1

Through training on unlabeled data, anomaly detection has the potential to impact computer-aided diagnosis by outlining suspicious regions. Previous work on deep-learning-based ano…

cs.LG2019★ 6 cited

High- and Low-level image component decomposition using VAEs for improved reconstruction and anomaly detection

David Zimmerer, Jens Petersen, Klaus Maier-Hein

Variational Auto-Encoders have often been used for unsupervised pretraining, feature extraction and out-of-distribution and anomaly detection in the medical field. However, VAEs of…

cs.LG2019★ 9 cited

ModelHub.AI: Dissemination Platform for Deep Learning Models

Ahmed Hosny, Michael Schwier, Christoph Berger +13

Recent advances in artificial intelligence research have led to a profusion of studies that apply deep learning to problems in image analysis and natural language processing among…

cs.CV2019

Reg R-CNN: Lesion Detection and Grading under Noisy Labels

Gregor N. Ramien, Paul F. Jaeger, Simon A. A. Kohl +1

For the task of concurrently detecting and categorizing objects, the medical imaging community commonly adopts methods developed on natural images. Current state-of-the-art object…

eess.IV2019

An attempt at beating the 3D U-Net

Fabian Isensee, Klaus H. Maier-Hein

The U-Net is arguably the most successful segmentation architecture in the medical domain. Here we apply a 3D U-Net to the 2019 Kidney and Kidney Tumor Segmentation Challenge and a…

cs.LG2019

Unsupervised Anomaly Localization using Variational Auto-Encoders

David Zimmerer, Fabian Isensee, Jens Petersen +2

An assumption-free automatic check of medical images for potentially overseen anomalies would be a valuable assistance for a radiologist. Deep learning and especially Variational A…

eess.IV2019

Deep Probabilistic Modeling of Glioma Growth

Jens Petersen, Paul F. Jäger, Fabian Isensee +8

Existing approaches to modeling the dynamics of brain tumor growth, specifically glioma, employ biologically inspired models of cell diffusion, using image data to estimate the ass…

cs.CV2019★ 27 cited

A Hierarchical Probabilistic U-Net for Modeling Multi-Scale Ambiguities

Simon A. A. Kohl, Bernardino Romera-Paredes, Klaus H. Maier-Hein +5

Medical imaging only indirectly measures the molecular identity of the tissue within each voxel, which often produces only ambiguous image evidence for target measures of interest,…

cs.CV2019★ 9.8k cited

Automated Design of Deep Learning Methods for Biomedical Image Segmentation

Fabian Isensee, Paul F. Jäger, Simon A. A. Kohl +2

Biomedical imaging is a driver of scientific discovery and core component of medical care, currently stimulated by the field of deep learning. While semantic segmentation algorithm…

cs.CV2019★ 762 cited

Automated brain extraction of multi-sequence MRI using artificial neural networks

Fabian Isensee, Marianne Schell, Irada Tursunova +10

Brain extraction is a critical preprocessing step in the analysis of MRI neuroimaging studies and influences the accuracy of downstream analyses. The majority of brain extraction a…

cs.CV2019★ 185 cited

Combined tract segmentation and orientation mapping for bundle-specific tractography

Jakob Wasserthal, Peter Neher, Dusan Hirjak +1

While the major white matter tracts are of great interest to numerous studies in neuroscience and medicine, their manual dissection in larger cohorts from diffusion MRI tractograms…

cs.LG2018★ 82 cited

Context-encoding Variational Autoencoder for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection

David Zimmerer, Simon A. A. Kohl, Jens Petersen +2

Unsupervised learning can leverage large-scale data sources without the need for annotations. In this context, deep learning-based auto encoders have shown great potential in detec…

cs.CV2018★ 98 cited

Retina U-Net: Embarrassingly Simple Exploitation of Segmentation Supervision for Medical Object Detection

Paul F. Jaeger, Simon A. A. Kohl, Sebastian Bickelhaupt +4

The task of localizing and categorizing objects in medical images often remains formulated as a semantic segmentation problem. This approach, however, only indirectly solves the co…

cs.CV2018★ 268 cited

nnU-Net: Self-adapting Framework for U-Net-Based Medical Image Segmentation

Fabian Isensee, Jens Petersen, Andre Klein +8

The U-Net was presented in 2015. With its straight-forward and successful architecture it quickly evolved to a commonly used benchmark in medical image segmentation. The adaptation…

cs.CV2018★ 5 cited

No New-Net

Fabian Isensee, Philipp Kickingereder, Wolfgang Wick +2

In this paper we demonstrate the effectiveness of a well trained U-Net in the context of the BraTS 2018 challenge. This endeavour is particularly interesting given that researchers…