Tiren Huang, Chong Luo, Xu Li^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.85, No.3, pp. 5847-5865, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.067986 - 23 October 2025

Abstract Automatic pancreas segmentation in CT scans is crucial for various medical applications including early disease detection, treatment planning and therapeutic evaluation. However, the pancreas’s small size, irregular morphology, and low contrast with surrounding tissues make accurate pancreas segmentation still a challenging task. To address these challenges, we propose a novel RPMS-DSAUnet for accurate automatic pancreas segmentation in abdominal CT images. First, a Residual Pyramid Squeeze Attention module enabling hierarchical multi-resolution feature extraction with dynamic feature weighting and selective feature reinforcement capabilities is integrated into the backbone network, enhancing pancreatic feature extraction and improving localization accuracy.… More >

Panru Liang¹, Guojiang Xin^1,*, Xiaolei Yi², Hao Liang³, Changsong Ding¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.83, No.2, pp. 2481-2504, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.060961 - 16 April 2025

Abstract Automatic pancreas segmentation plays a pivotal role in assisting physicians with diagnosing pancreatic diseases, facilitating treatment evaluations, and designing surgical plans. Due to the pancreas’s tiny size, significant variability in shape and location, and low contrast with surrounding tissues, achieving high segmentation accuracy remains challenging. To improve segmentation precision, we propose a novel network utilizing EfficientNetV2 and multi-branch structures for automatically segmenting the pancreas from CT images. Firstly, an EfficientNetV2 encoder is employed to extract complex and multi-level features, enhancing the model’s ability to capture the pancreas’s intricate morphology. Then, a residual multi-branch dilated attention… More >

Xu Yao^1,2, Chengjian Qiu¹, Yuqing Song¹, Zhe Liu^1,*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.37, No.3, pp. 2583-2594, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.037205 - 11 September 2023

Abstract As the pancreas only occupies a small region in the whole abdominal computed tomography (CT) scans and has high variability in shape, location and size, deep neural networks in automatic pancreas segmentation task can be easily confused by the complex and variable background. To alleviate these issues, this paper proposes a novel pancreas segmentation optimization based on the coarse-to-fine structure, in which the coarse stage is responsible for increasing the proportion of the target region in the input image through the minimum bounding box, and the fine is for improving the accuracy of pancreas segmentation More >