Medical Image Classification and Segmentation: Progress and Challenges

Dear Colleagues,

Medical imaging is one of the cornerstones of modern medical diagnostics. It originated in the field of radiology, and includes various technologies such as X-ray imaging, radionuclide imaging, ultrasound imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, optical imaging, mass spectrometry imaging, bioelectric/magnetic imaging, and electron microscopy imaging. In recent decades, with the rapid development of hyperspectral cameras and artificial intelligence, hyperspectral imaging (HSI) has become an emerging and promising medical auxiliary diagnostic technology.

Although medical imaging technology obtains a large amount of information that the human eye cannot perceive, it is still extremely challenging to effectively utilize information for auxiliary diagnosis and disease treatment. Some of the challenges include low image spatial or spectral resolution caused by imaging device limitations, small sample issues caused by missing clinical sample annotations, difficulty in extracting diagnostic information, class imbalance learning, multimodal learning, domain adaptation, etc.

Therefore, this Special Issue aims to collate papers that address the aforementioned challenges, and highlights the recent research findings and developments in the field of medical image classification and segmentation. We also welcome submissions of manuscripts on aspects closely related to the scope of this Special Issue (e.g., image registration, image reconstruction, feature extraction, feature selection, etc.).

Dr. Meng Lv
Dr. Xin Chen
Guest Editors

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