Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Histopathology images contain essential information for medical diagnosis and prognosis of cancerous disease. Segmentation of glands in histopathology images is a primary step for analysis and diagnosis of an unhealthy patient. Due to the widespread ...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Segmentation is a fundamental process in biomedical image analysis that enables various types of analysis. Segmenting organs in histological microscopy images is problematic because the boundaries between regions are ambiguous, the images have variou...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Three dimensional visualization of vascular structures can assist clinicians in preoperative planning, intra-operative guidance, and post-operative decision-making. The goal of this work is to provide an automatic, accurate and fast method for brain ...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Endometrial thickness is closely related to gyneco-logical function and is an important biomarker in transvaginal ultrasound (TVUS) examinations for assessing female reproductive health. Manual measurement is time-consuming and subject to high inter-...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) produce promising results when applied to a wide range of medical imaging tasks including the segmentation of tissue structures. However, segmentation is particularly challenging when the target structures are sma...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
We present a novel neural-network-based pipeline for segmentation of 3D muscle and bone structures from localized 2D ultrasound data of the human arm. Building from the U-Net [1] neural network framework, we examine various data augmentation techniqu...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Development of an automated sub-retinal fluid segmentation technique from optical coherence tomography (OCT) scans is faced with challenges such as noise and motion artifacts present in OCT images, variation in size, shape and location of fluid pocke...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
The continuous growing of machine learning techniques, their capabilities improvements and the availability of data being continuously collected, recorded and updated, can enhance diagnosis stages by making it faster and more accurate than human diag...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Breast ultrasound (US) is an effective imaging modality for breast cancer diagnosis. US computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems have been developed for decades and have employed either conventional handcrafted features or modern automatic deep-learned...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness worldwide. This paper proposes an automated glaucoma screening method using retinal fundus images via the ensemble technique to fuse the results of different classification networks and the result of ...