Recent studies indicate that millions of individuals suffer from renal diseases,with renal carcinoma,a type of kidney cancer,emerging as both a chronic illness and a significant cause of mortality.Magnetic Resonance I...Recent studies indicate that millions of individuals suffer from renal diseases,with renal carcinoma,a type of kidney cancer,emerging as both a chronic illness and a significant cause of mortality.Magnetic Resonance Imaging(MRI)and Computed Tomography(CT)have become essential tools for diagnosing and assessing kidney disorders.However,accurate analysis of thesemedical images is critical for detecting and evaluating tumor severity.This study introduces an integrated hybrid framework that combines three complementary deep learning models for kidney tumor segmentation from MRI images.The proposed framework fuses a customized U-Net and Mask R-CNN using a weighted scheme to achieve semantic and instance-level segmentation.The fused outputs are further refined through edge detection using Stochastic FeatureMapping Neural Networks(SFMNN),while volumetric consistency is ensured through Improved Mini-Batch K-Means(IMBKM)clustering integrated with an Encoder-Decoder Convolutional Neural Network(EDCNN).The outputs of these three stages are combined through a weighted fusion mechanism,with optimal weights determined empirically.Experiments on MRI scans from the TCGA-KIRC dataset demonstrate that the proposed hybrid framework significantly outperforms standalone models,achieving a Dice Score of 92.5%,an IoU of 87.8%,a Precision of 93.1%,a Recall of 90.8%,and a Hausdorff Distance of 2.8 mm.These findings validate that the weighted integration of complementary architectures effectively overcomes key limitations in kidney tumor segmentation,leading to improved diagnostic accuracy and robustness in medical image analysis.展开更多
Recently,many rapid developments in digital medical imaging have made further contributions to health care systems.The segmentation of regions of interest in medical images plays a vital role in assisting doctors with...Recently,many rapid developments in digital medical imaging have made further contributions to health care systems.The segmentation of regions of interest in medical images plays a vital role in assisting doctors with their medical diagnoses.Many factors like image contrast and quality affect the result of image segmentation.Due to that,image contrast remains a challenging problem for image segmentation.This study presents a new image enhancement model based on fractional Rényi entropy for the segmentation of kidney MRI scans.The proposed work consists of two stages:enhancement by fractional Rényi entropy,and MRI Kidney deep segmentation.The proposed enhancement model exploits the pixel’s probability representations for image enhancement.Since fractional Rényi entropy involves fractional calculus that has the ability to model the non-linear complexity problem to preserve the spatial relationship between pixels,yielding an overall better details of the kidney MRI scans.In the second stage,the deep learning kidney segmentation model is designed to segment kidney regions in MRI scans.The experimental results showed an average of 95.60%dice similarity index coefficient,which indicates best overlap between the segmented bodies with the ground truth.It is therefore concluded that the proposed enhancement model is suitable and effective for improving the kidney segmentation performance.展开更多
Automatic kidney segmentation from abdominal CT images is a key step in computer-aided diagnosis for kidney CT as well as computeraided surgery. However, kidney segmentation from CT images is generally performed manua...Automatic kidney segmentation from abdominal CT images is a key step in computer-aided diagnosis for kidney CT as well as computeraided surgery. However, kidney segmentation from CT images is generally performed manually or semi-autornatically because of gray levels similarities of adjacent organs/tissues in abdominal CT images. This paper presents an efficient algorithm for segmenting kidney from serials of abdominal CT images. First, we extracted estimated kidney position （EKP） according to the statistical geometric location of kidney within the abdomen. Second, we analyzed the intensity distribution of EKP for several abdominal CT images and exploit an adaptive threshold searching algorithm to eliminate many other organs/tissues in the EKP. Finally, a novel region growing approach based on labeling is used to obtain the fine kidney regions. Experimental results are comparable to those of manual tracing radiologist and shown to be efficient.展开更多
We present an automatic kidney segmentation method using ultrasound images.This method employs a coarse-to-fine approach to tackle the challenge of unclear and fuzzy boundaries.Four key innovations are introduced to e...We present an automatic kidney segmentation method using ultrasound images.This method employs a coarse-to-fine approach to tackle the challenge of unclear and fuzzy boundaries.Four key innovations are introduced to enhance the segmentation process’s accuracy and efficiency.First,an automatic deep fusion training network serves as a coarse segmentation strategy.Second,we propose an explainable mathematical mapping formula to better represent the kidney contour.Third,by utilizing the characteristics of the principal curve,a neural network automatically refines curve shapes,thus reducing model errors.Finally,we employ an intelligent searching polyline segment method for automatic kidney contour segmentation.The results show that our method achieves high accuracy and stability in segmenting kidney ultrasound images.This work’s contributions include the deep fusion training network,intelligent searching polyline segment method,and explainable mathematical mapping formula,which are applicable to other medical image segmentation tasks.Additionally,this approach uses a mean-shift clustering model,supplanting standard projection and vertex optimization steps.展开更多
基金funded by the Ongoing Research Funding Program-Research Chairs(ORF-RC-2025-2400),King Saud University,Riyadh,Saudi Arabia。
文摘Recent studies indicate that millions of individuals suffer from renal diseases,with renal carcinoma,a type of kidney cancer,emerging as both a chronic illness and a significant cause of mortality.Magnetic Resonance Imaging(MRI)and Computed Tomography(CT)have become essential tools for diagnosing and assessing kidney disorders.However,accurate analysis of thesemedical images is critical for detecting and evaluating tumor severity.This study introduces an integrated hybrid framework that combines three complementary deep learning models for kidney tumor segmentation from MRI images.The proposed framework fuses a customized U-Net and Mask R-CNN using a weighted scheme to achieve semantic and instance-level segmentation.The fused outputs are further refined through edge detection using Stochastic FeatureMapping Neural Networks(SFMNN),while volumetric consistency is ensured through Improved Mini-Batch K-Means(IMBKM)clustering integrated with an Encoder-Decoder Convolutional Neural Network(EDCNN).The outputs of these three stages are combined through a weighted fusion mechanism,with optimal weights determined empirically.Experiments on MRI scans from the TCGA-KIRC dataset demonstrate that the proposed hybrid framework significantly outperforms standalone models,achieving a Dice Score of 92.5%,an IoU of 87.8%,a Precision of 93.1%,a Recall of 90.8%,and a Hausdorff Distance of 2.8 mm.These findings validate that the weighted integration of complementary architectures effectively overcomes key limitations in kidney tumor segmentation,leading to improved diagnostic accuracy and robustness in medical image analysis.
基金funded by the deanship of scientific research at princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University through the fast-track research-funding program.
文摘Recently,many rapid developments in digital medical imaging have made further contributions to health care systems.The segmentation of regions of interest in medical images plays a vital role in assisting doctors with their medical diagnoses.Many factors like image contrast and quality affect the result of image segmentation.Due to that,image contrast remains a challenging problem for image segmentation.This study presents a new image enhancement model based on fractional Rényi entropy for the segmentation of kidney MRI scans.The proposed work consists of two stages:enhancement by fractional Rényi entropy,and MRI Kidney deep segmentation.The proposed enhancement model exploits the pixel’s probability representations for image enhancement.Since fractional Rényi entropy involves fractional calculus that has the ability to model the non-linear complexity problem to preserve the spatial relationship between pixels,yielding an overall better details of the kidney MRI scans.In the second stage,the deep learning kidney segmentation model is designed to segment kidney regions in MRI scans.The experimental results showed an average of 95.60%dice similarity index coefficient,which indicates best overlap between the segmented bodies with the ground truth.It is therefore concluded that the proposed enhancement model is suitable and effective for improving the kidney segmentation performance.
基金National Natural Science Foundations of China (No.60601025, No.60701022, No.30770561)
文摘Automatic kidney segmentation from abdominal CT images is a key step in computer-aided diagnosis for kidney CT as well as computeraided surgery. However, kidney segmentation from CT images is generally performed manually or semi-autornatically because of gray levels similarities of adjacent organs/tissues in abdominal CT images. This paper presents an efficient algorithm for segmenting kidney from serials of abdominal CT images. First, we extracted estimated kidney position （EKP） according to the statistical geometric location of kidney within the abdomen. Second, we analyzed the intensity distribution of EKP for several abdominal CT images and exploit an adaptive threshold searching algorithm to eliminate many other organs/tissues in the EKP. Finally, a novel region growing approach based on labeling is used to obtain the fine kidney regions. Experimental results are comparable to those of manual tracing radiologist and shown to be efficient.
基金supported by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(No.2023M742568)the China Social Development Plan of Taizhou(No.TN202110)。
文摘We present an automatic kidney segmentation method using ultrasound images.This method employs a coarse-to-fine approach to tackle the challenge of unclear and fuzzy boundaries.Four key innovations are introduced to enhance the segmentation process’s accuracy and efficiency.First,an automatic deep fusion training network serves as a coarse segmentation strategy.Second,we propose an explainable mathematical mapping formula to better represent the kidney contour.Third,by utilizing the characteristics of the principal curve,a neural network automatically refines curve shapes,thus reducing model errors.Finally,we employ an intelligent searching polyline segment method for automatic kidney contour segmentation.The results show that our method achieves high accuracy and stability in segmenting kidney ultrasound images.This work’s contributions include the deep fusion training network,intelligent searching polyline segment method,and explainable mathematical mapping formula,which are applicable to other medical image segmentation tasks.Additionally,this approach uses a mean-shift clustering model,supplanting standard projection and vertex optimization steps.
