Kidney segmentation in ultrasound, magnetic resonance and computed tomography images: A systematic review

HR Torres, S Queiros, P Morais, B Oliveira… - Computer methods and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background and objective Segmentation is an essential step in computer-aided diagnosis
and treatment planning of kidney diseases. In recent years, several researchers proposed …

Abdominal multi-organ segmentation from CT images using conditional shape–location and unsupervised intensity priors

T Okada, MG Linguraru, M Hori, RM Summers… - Medical image …, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper addresses the automated segmentation of multiple organs in upper abdominal
computed tomography (CT) data. The aim of our study is to develop methods to effectively …

Convolutional networks for kidney segmentation in contrast-enhanced CT scans

W Thong, S Kadoury, N Piché… - Computer Methods in …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Organ segmentation in medical imagery can be used to guide patient diagnosis, treatment
and follow ups. In this paper, we present a fully automatic framework for kidney …

3D kidney segmentation from abdominal diffusion MRI using an appearance-guided deformable boundary

M Shehata, A Mahmoud, A Soliman, F Khalifa… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
A new technique for more accurate automatic segmentation of the kidney from its
surrounding abdominal structures in diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW …

3D Kidney Segmentation from Abdominal Images Using Spatial‐Appearance Models

F Khalifa, A Soliman, A Elmaghraby… - … methods in medicine, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Kidney segmentation is an essential step in develo** any noninvasive computer‐assisted
diagnostic system for renal function assessment. This paper introduces an automated …

Statistical 4D graphs for multi-organ abdominal segmentation from multiphase CT

MG Linguraru, JA Pura, V Pamulapati… - Medical image …, 2012 - Elsevier
The interpretation of medical images benefits from anatomical and physiological priors to
optimize computer-aided diagnosis applications. Diagnosis also relies on the …

3D kidney segmentation from CT images using a level set approach guided by a novel stochastic speed function

F Khalifa, A Elnakib, GM Beache, G Gimel'farb… - … Image Computing and …, 2011 - Springer
Kidney segmentation is a key step in develo** any non-invasive computer-aided
diagnosis (CAD) system for early detection of acute renal rejection. This paper describes a …

3D multi-scale residual fully convolutional neural network for segmentation of extremely large-sized kidney tumor

E Yang, CK Kim, Y Guan, BB Koo, JH Kim - Computer Methods and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background and objective We propose a novel deep neural network, the 3D Multi-Scale
Residual Fully Convolutional Neural Network (3D-MS-RFCNN) to improve segmentation in …