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OkanNet: A Lightweight Deep Learning Architecture for Classification of Brain Tumor from MRI Images

Okan Ucar, Murat Kurt · 2026

Medical imaging techniques, especially Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), are accepted as the gold standard in the diagnosis and treatment planning of neurological diseases. However, the manual analysi…

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A Deep Convolutional Neural Network-Based Novel Class Balancing for Imbalance Data Segmentation

Atifa Kalsoom, M.A. Iftikhar, Amjad Ali, Zubair Shah, Shidin Balakrishnan, Hazrat Ali · 2025

Retinal fundus images provide valuable insights into the human eye's interior structure and crucial features, such as blood vessels, optic disk, macula, and fovea. However, accurate segmentation of re…

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Seeing Beyond Words: MatVQA for Challenging Visual-Scientific Reasoning in Materials Science

Sifan Wu, Huan Zhang, Yizhan Li, Farshid Effaty, Amirreza Ataei, Bang Liu · 2025

The emergence of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) that integrate vision and language modalities has unlocked new potentials for scientific reasoning, outperforming prior benchmarks in both nat…

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A graph neural network-based multispectral-view learning model for diabetic macular ischemia detection from color fundus photographs

Qinghua He, Hongyang Jiang, Danqi Fang, Dawei Yang, Truong X. Nguyen, Anran Ran, Clement C. Tham, Simon K. H. Szeto, Sobha Sivaprasad, Carol Y. Cheung · 2025

Diabetic macular ischemia (DMI), marked by the loss of retinal capillaries in the macular area, contributes to vision impairment in patients with diabetes. Although color fundus photographs (CFPs), co…

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Advanced Assessment of Stroke in Retinal Fundus Imaging with Deep Multi-view Learning

Aysen Degerli, Mika Hilvo, Juha Pajula, Petri Huhtinen, Pekka Jakala · 2025

Stroke is globally a major cause of mortality and morbidity, and hence accurate and rapid diagnosis of stroke is valuable. Retinal fundus imaging reveals the known markers of elevated stroke risk in t…

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AI-Driven Diabetic Retinopathy Screening: Multicentric Validation of AIDRSS in India

Amit Kr Dey, Pradeep Walia, Girish Somvanshi, Abrar Ali, Sagarnil Das, Pallabi Paul, Minakhi Ghosh · 2025

Purpose: Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a major cause of vision loss, particularly in India, where access to retina specialists is limited in rural areas. This study aims to evaluate the Artificial Inte…

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Implementaci\'on de Navegaci\'on en Plataforma Rob\'otica M\'ovil Basada en ROS y Gazebo

Angel Da Silva, Santiago Fernandez, Braian Vidal, Hiago Sodre, Pablo Moraes, Christopher Peters, Sebastian Barcelona, Vincent Sandin, William Moraes, Ahilen Mazondo, Brandon Macedo, Nathalie Assuncao, Bruna de Vargas, Andre Kelbouscas, Ricardo Grando · 2024

This research focused on utilizing ROS2 and Gazebo for simulating the TurtleBot3 robot, with the aim of exploring autonomous navigation capabilities. While the study did not achieve full autonomous na…

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Multiscale Color Guided Attention Ensemble Classifier for Age-Related Macular Degeneration using Concurrent Fundus and Optical Coherence Tomography Images

Pragya Gupta, Subhamoy Mandal, Debashree Guha, Debjani Chakraborty · 2024

Automatic diagnosis techniques have evolved to identify age-related macular degeneration (AMD) by employing single modality Fundus images or optical coherence tomography (OCT). To classify ocular dise…

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MASPA: An efficient strategy for path planning with a tethered marsupial robotics system

Jesus Capitan, Jose M. Diaz-Banez, Miguel A. Perez-Cutino, Fabio Rodriguez, Inmaculada Ventura · 2024

A tethered marsupial robotics system comprises three components: an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV), an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), and a tether connecting both robots. Marsupial systems are highly b…

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SLOctolyzer: Fully automatic analysis toolkit for segmentation and feature extracting in scanning laser ophthalmoscopy images

Jamie Burke, Samuel Gibbon, Justin Engelmann, Adam Threlfall, Ylenia Giarratano, Charlene Hamid, Stuart King, Ian J.C. MacCormick, Tom MacGillivray · 2024

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to introduce SLOctolyzer: an open-source analysis toolkit for en face retinal vessels in infrared reflectance scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (SLO) images. Metho…

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Diagnostic Quality Assessment of Fundus Photographs: Hierarchical Deep Learning with Clinically Significant Explanations

Shanmukh Reddy Manne, Jose-Alain Sahel, Jay Chhablani, Kiran Kumar Vupparaboinab, Soumya Jana · 2023

Fundus photography (FP) remains the primary imaging modality in screening various retinal diseases including age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma. FP allows the clinicia…

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Weakly-supervised detection of AMD-related lesions in color fundus images using explainable deep learning

Jose Morano, Alvaro S. Hervella, Jose Rouco, Jorge Novo, Jose I. Fernandez-Vigo, Marcos Ortega · 2022

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a degenerative disorder affecting the macula, a key area of the retina for visual acuity. Nowadays, it is the most frequent cause of blindness in developed co…

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Are Macula or Optic Nerve Head Structures better at Diagnosing Glaucoma? An Answer using AI and Wide-Field Optical Coherence Tomography

Charis Y.N. Chiang, Fabian Braeu, Thanadet Chuangsuwanich, Royston K.Y. Tan, Jacqueline Chua, Leopold Schmetterer, Alexandre Thiery, Martin Buist, Michael J.A. Girard · 2022

Purpose: (1) To develop a deep learning algorithm to automatically segment structures of the optic nerve head (ONH) and macula in 3D wide-field optical coherence tomography (OCT) scans; (2) To assess …

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JOINED : Prior Guided Multi-task Learning for Joint Optic Disc/Cup Segmentation and Fovea Detection

Huaqing He, Li Lin, Zhiyuan Cai, Xiaoying Tang · 2022

Fundus photography has been routinely used to document the presence and severity of various retinal degenerative diseases such as age-related macula degeneration, glaucoma, and diabetic retinopathy, f…

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Multiscale Softmax Cross Entropy for Fovea Localization on Color Fundus Photography

Yuli Wu, Peter Walter, Dorit Merhof · 2021

Fovea localization is one of the most popular tasks in ophthalmic medical image analysis, where the coordinates of the center point of the macula lutea, i.e. fovea centralis, should be calculated base…

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C-MADA: Unsupervised Cross-Modality Adversarial Domain Adaptation framework for medical Image Segmentation

Maria Baldeon-Calisto, Susana K. Lai-Yuen · 2021

Deep learning models have obtained state-of-the-art results for medical image analysis. However, when these models are tested on an unseen domain there is a significant performance degradation. In thi…

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Analysis of Macula on Color Fundus Images Using Heightmap Reconstruction Through Deep Learning

Peyman Tahghighi, Reza A.Zoroofi, Sare Safi, Alireza Ramezani · 2020

For medical diagnosis based on retinal images, a clear understanding of 3D structure is often required but due to the 2D nature of images captured, we cannot infer that information. However, by utiliz…

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A Fast and Effective Method of Macula Automatic Detection for Retina Images

Yukang Jiang, Jianying Pan, Yanhe Shen, Jin Zhu, Jiamin Huang, Huirui Xie, Xueqin Wang, Yan Luo · 2020

Retina image processing is one of the crucial and popular topics of medical image processing. The macula fovea is responsible for sharp central vision, which is necessary for human behaviors where vis…

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Conditional GAN for Prediction of Glaucoma Progression with Macular Optical Coherence Tomography

Osama N. Hassan, Serhat Sahin, Vahid Mohammadzadeh, Xiaohe Yang, Navid Amini, Apoorva Mylavarapu, Jack Martinyan, Tae Hong, Golnoush Mahmoudinezhad, Daniel Rueckert, Kouros Nouri-Mahdavi, Fabien Scalzo · 2020

The estimation of glaucoma progression is a challenging task as the rate of disease progression varies among individuals in addition to other factors such as measurement variability and the lack of st…

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Heightmap Reconstruction of Macula on Color Fundus Images Using Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks

Peyman Tahghighi, Reza A.Zoroofi, Sare Safi, Alireza Ramezani · 2020

For screening, 3D shape of the eye retina often provides structural information and can assist ophthalmologists to diagnose diseases. However, fundus images which are one the most common screening mod…

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