Current Progress in Medical Image Segmentation
A special issue of Journal of Imaging (ISSN 2313-433X). This special issue belongs to the section "Medical Imaging".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 29 August 2025 | Viewed by 545
Special Issue Editor
Interests: medical image segmentation; medical imaging
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Medical image segmentation (MIS) is an essential component of modern medical imaging, enabling the precise and reliable extraction of meaningful information from medical images.
Despite significant advancements, MIS still faces numerous challenges which include the following:
- Data-related challenges (due to limited annotated data, data heterogeneity, and class imbalance);
- Model/algorithmic challenges (complexity and resource intensive nature);
- Biological variability challenges (anatomical and disease variability);
- Clinical integration challenges (workflow integration and user-acceptance);
- Technical challenges (real-time segmentation).
These challenges pose an ever-growing need for continuous innovation to enhance the accuracy, reliability, and efficiency of MIS.
Therefore, we warmly invite you and your colleagues to submit original research articles, reviews, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, brief reports, and case reports that address issues related to medical image segmentation, specifically focusing on the development of new algorithms and techniques, addressing data imbalances, enhancing model generalization, and leveraging novel architectures.
You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Life.
Dr. Krishna Chaitanya
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- medical image segmentation
- deep learning
- generative models
- algorithm
- clinical integration
- biological variability
- transformer architectures
- interactive segmentation
- interdisciplinary collaboration
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