Florian Jung's research while affiliated with Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD and other places

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Proper treatment of prostate cancer is essential to increase the survival chance. In this sense, numerous studies show how important the communication between all stakeholders in the clinic is. This communication is difficult because of the lack of conventions while referring to the location where a biopsy for diagnosis was taken. This becomes even...
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The localization and analysis of the sentinel lymph node for patients diagnosed with cancer, has significant influence on the prognosis, outcome and treatment of the disease. We present a fully automatic approach to localize the sentinel lymph node and additional active nodes and determine their lymph node level on SPECT-CT data. This is a crucial...
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Purpose: Automated delineation of structures and organs is a key step in medical imaging. However, due to the large number and diversity of structures and the large variety of segmentation algorithms a consensus is lacking as to which automated segmentation method works best for certain applications. Segmentation challenges are a good approach for...
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The common approach to do a fully automatic segmentation of multiple structures is an atlas or multi-atlas based solution. These already have proven to be suitable for the segmentation of structures in the head and neck area and provide very accurate segmentation results, but can struggle with challenging cases with unnatural postures, where the re...
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Einleitung: Akustikusneurinome sind benigne Tumore des N. vestibularis im Bereich des Kleinhirnbrückenwinkels oder des inneren Gehörgangs. Bei langsamem Wachstum ist neben der operativen Entfernung oder der Strahlentherapie eine „wait and scan“-Strategie unter regelmäßigen MRT-Kontrollen möglich. Objektivierbare Tumorvolumenbestimmungen können mitt...
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Die Untersuchung von Größe und Aussehen eines Lymphknotens kann ein entscheidender Indikator für die Existenz eines Tumors sein und ist außerdem ein probates Mittel, um Verlaufsanalysen bei einem Patienten durchzuführen, welche wiederum maßgeblichen Einfluss auf die Behandlung haben können. Um die Größe und andere Parameter des Lymphknotens bestimm...
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Medizinische Bilddaten enthalten anatomische Informationen. Die Extraktion derselben durch manuelles Markieren ist unter Berücksichtigung der Datenmenge vor allem bei radiologischen 3D-Bilddaten nicht mehr vernünftig durchführbar. Hier helfen computerbasierte, automatische Verfahren. Nicht alle anatomischen Regionen heben sich durch deutliche Kontr...
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Radiation therapy plays a major role in head and neck cancer treatment. Segmentation of organs at risk prior to the radiation therapy helps to prevent the radiation beam from damaging healthy tissue, whereas a concentrated ray can target the cancerous regions. Unfortunately, the manual annotation of all relevant structures in the head and neck area...
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This paper presents a novel segmentation method for the joint segmentation of individual bones in CT- or CT/MR- head and neck images. It is based on an articulated atlas for CT images that learned the shape and appearance of the individual bones along with the articulation between them from annotated training instances. First, a novel dynamic adapt...
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Automatic segmentation of medical images requires accurate detection of the desired organ as a first step. In contrast to application-specific approaches, learning-based object detection algorithms are easily adaptable to new applications. We present a learning-based object detection approach based on the Viola-Jones algorithm. We propose several e...

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... Various methods other than deep learning have been proposed for automatic segmentation of OAR in the head and neck region. The approaches include, among others, (multi) atlas-based methods, 3-6 model-based methods, [7][8][9][10] or their combinations. 11,12 Some of the methods 6,[8][9][10][11] have been evaluated in the 2015 MICCAI challenge on head and neck autosegmentation, where the best mean Dice score on the parotid glands was 0.84. ...
... There are several methods for processing the human teeth, including methods for teeth reconstruction [Abdelrehim et al. 2014;Farag et al. 2013;Wirtz et al. 2021;Wu et al. 2016;Zheng et al. 2011], restoration and completion [Mostafa et al. 2014;Ping et al. 2021], orthodontic treatment [Yang et al. 2020], segmentation Zhang et al. 2021], pose estimation [Beeler and Bradley 2014;Murugesan et al. 2018;Yang et al. 2019] and others [Velinov et al. 2018;Wei et al. 2020]. The closest to our work are methods for teeth reconstruction and restoration [Abdelrehim et al. 2014;Mostafa et al. 2014;Ping et al. 2021;Wirtz et al. 2021;Wu et al. 2016]. ...
... The suggested visual analytics interface can thus be used to extend approaches, which support retraining models with user-corrected image annotations such as the setup suggested by Dikici et al. (51). Related approaches for the application of visual analytics tools in the exploration of multimodal study data including image information as suggested by Bannach et al. (52) and Angulo et al. (53) strongly focus on the visualization of parameter distributions and have not been applied in a data curation context. However, our solution could also be used for cohort exploration and enhanced by more context-specific visualizations of the cardiac anatomy as suggested e.g., by Meuschke et al. (54). ...
... The field of damage recognition on built structures is still unexplored. In contrast to the fields of autonomous driving [12,18,9,34,43] or medicine [29,35,32], semantic segmentation benchmarks for damage recognition are rare. To the best of our knowledge, only two relevant benchmarks in the domain of reinforced concrete defects (RCDs) exist: CrackSeg9k [26] and S2DS [7]. ...
... The gross tumor volume was segmented at the clinical centers using a semi-automatic segmentation software based on coupled shape modeling [55]. The segmentation of the region of interest (ROI), corresponding to the primary tumor, was performed manually slice by slice by expert radiologists (one for each center) dedicated to head and neck cancers. ...
... We compare our proposed ECONet with existing state-of-the-art methods in online likelihood inference, which are Histogram (Boykov and Jolly, 2001), Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) (Rother et al., 2004) and DybaORF-Haar-Like (Wang et al., 2016). In addition, to show the effectiveness of learning features in ECONet, we define ECONet-Haar-Like that replaces the first convolution layer of ECONet with hand-crafted haar-like features (Jung et al., 2013) and learns the three fully-connected layers. Both DybaORF-Haar-Like and ECONet-Haar-Like utilize our GPU-based implementation of 3d haar-like features, available at: https://github.com/masadcv/PyTorchHaarFeatures. ...
... Among the existing architectures, nn-UNet is commonly a top performer in prostate segmentation challenges and is considered as the de facto choice for the task [8,9]. Whilst a broad range of results have been presented for prostate WG segmentation trained on open-source and single-institution datasets [9,10], little is known about the impact of the MRI scanner characteristics and their degree of adherence to PI-RADS v2.1 technical standards on the inter-institutional transferability and longitudinal performance of the model after a successful deployment [11]. ...
... Manual contours of the prostate from MR examinations were used to assess each registration method. The aligned contours from each registration method were compared using the Dice similarity index (DSI) [27] for volume overlap (1 representing perfect overlap and 0 representing no overlap) and surface distance differences (mm) based on the 95% Hausdorff distance (HD) [28] and average surface distance (ASD) [29]. The HD is a measurement of the largest minimum distance between two contours. ...