Symmetry in Medical Image Processing
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Life Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 10116
Special Issue Editor
Interests: artificial intelligence; machine learning; computer vision; medical image analysis and 3D construction
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Medical Image Analysis has commonly enjoyed leveraging and incorporating techniques from the wider field of Computer Vision. On the one hand, compared to natural images (photography), medical images often present relatively lower variability of anatomy, orientation, and field-of-view; on the other hand, clinical applications necessitate much stricter requirements on accuracy. In many fields, recent neural network-based end-to-end machine-learning approaches have shown great success and had a remarkable impact, especially thanks to the availability of large annotated datasets. Their effects in Medical Image Analysis are also prominent, although the lack of large, curated, annotated datasets, and sometimes prohibitive 3D data sizes, may pose limitations.
In this Special Issue, we aim to cover recent advances and applications in Medical Image Analysis. We are particularly interested in exploring novel applications of machine- and deep-learning approaches, although submissions are open to a wider range of medical image processing topics. Some potential areas of interest include methods for dealing with a low number (lack) of annotations; optimal/efficient approaches to procure annotations; scalable methods for multi-organ, multi-tissue analysis applications; approaches to deal with non-normalized sequences/imaging data; and techniques to gather population information.
We welcome submissions on topics including, but not limited to, the following:
- Novel applications of deep or machine learning;
- Applications in medical imaging, acquisition, reconstruction, denoising, super-resolution, segmentation, registration, tracking, and others;
- Applications in different medical image modalities, including MR, X-ray, PET, and US imaging (but excluding biological or microscopy imaging).
Prof. Dr. Jie Yang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- medical image analysis
- theoretical and experimental advances
- imaging modalities
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