3D vascular segmentation supervised by 2D annotation of maximum intensity projection

Z Guo, Z Tan, J Feng, J Zhou - IEEE Transactions on Medical …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Vascular structure segmentation plays a crucial role in medical analysis and clinical
applications. The practical adoption of fully supervised segmentation models is impeded by …

Universal Topology Refinement for Medical Image Segmentation with Polynomial Feature Synthesis

L Li, H Wang, M Baugh, Q Ma, W Zhang… - … Conference on Medical …, 2024 - Springer
Although existing medical image segmentation methods provide impressive pixel-wise
accuracy, they often neglect topological correctness, making their segmentations unusable …

Nextou: efficient topology-aware u-net for medical image segmentation

P Shi, X Guo, Y Yang, C Ye, T Ma - arxiv preprint arxiv:2305.15911, 2023 - arxiv.org
Convolutional neural networks (CNN) and Transformer variants have emerged as the
leading medical image segmentation backbones. Nonetheless, due to their limitations in …

Spatial Prior-Guided Bi-Directional Cross-Attention Transformers for Tooth Instance Segmentation

P Li, C Gao, C Lian, D Meng - IEEE Transactions on Medical …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Tooth instance segmentation of dental panoramic X-ray images represents a task of
significant clinical importance. Teeth demonstrate symmetry within the upper and lower …

AASeg: Artery-aware Global-to-Local Framework for Aneurysm Segmentation in Head and Neck CTA Images

L Yao, D Chen, X Zhao, M Fei, Z Song… - … on Medical Imaging, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Aneurysm segmentation in computed tomography angiography (CTA) images is essential
for medical intervention aimed at preventing subarachnoid hemorrhages. However, most …

Topology-preserving automatic labeling of coronary arteries via anatomy-aware connection classifier

Z Zhang, Z Zhao, D Wang, S Zhao, Y Liu, J Liu… - … Conference on Medical …, 2023 - Springer
Automatic labeling of coronary arteries is an essential task in the practical diagnosis process
of cardiovascular diseases. For experienced radiologists, the anatomically predetermined …

Distinctive Phase Interdependency Model for Retinal Vasculature Delineation in OCT-Angiography Images

M Challoob, Y Gao, A Busch - IEEE Transactions on Medical …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatic detection of retinal vasculature in optical coherence tomography angiography
(OCTA) images faces several challenges such as the closely located capillaries, vessel …

Edge morphology attention mechanism and optimal geometric matching connection model for vascular segmentation

Y Zhu, Y Qiao, Q Zhou, X Yang - Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 2025 - Elsevier
Over the past decades, medical image segmentation methods have been intensively
developed, but there are still a number of unsolved challenging problems in vascular image …

SPR-Net: Structural Points Based Registration for Coronary Arteries Across Systolic and Diastolic Phases

X Zhang, F Liu, Y Gu, X **ong, C Jiang, J Feng… - … Conference on Medical …, 2023 - Springer
Systolic and diastolic registration of coronary arteries is a critical yet challenging step in
coronary artery disease analysis. Most existing methods ignore the important relationship …

An Improved Path-Finding Method for the Tracking of Centerlines of Tortuous Internal Carotid Arteries in MR Angiography

SO Kim, YC Kim - Journal of Imaging, 2024 - mdpi.com
Centerline tracking is useful in performing segmental analysis of vessel tortuosity in
angiography data. However, a highly tortuous) artery can produce multiple centerlines due …