title: Survey on Neural Networks Used for Medical Image Processing.
abstract: This paper aims to present a review of neural networks used in medical image processing. We classify neural networks by its processing goals and the nature of medical images. Main contributions, advantages, and drawbacks of the methods are mentioned in the paper. Problematic issues of neural network application for medical image processing and an outlook for the future research are also discussed. By this survey, we try to answer the following two important questions: (1) What are the major applications of neural networks in medical image processing now and in the nearby future? (2) What are the major strengths and weakness of applying neural networks for solving medical image processing tasks? We believe that this would be very helpful researchers who are involved in medical image processing with neural network techniques.
authors.affiliation: School of Computer Science and Engineering, Xi'an University of Technology, Xi'an, 710048, China, zhshi@ieee.org; Department of Radiology, The University of Chicago, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, MC 2026, Chicago, IL 60637, USA, suzuki@uchicago.edu; School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, 464-8555, Japan, tnaka@juno.ics.nitech.ac.jp, itoh@juno.ics.nitech.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Zhenghao
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Aichi Prefectural University, Nagakute, Aichi, 480-1198 Japan, he_4005@yahoo.co.jp.
authors.forename: Lifeng
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: He
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, The University of Chicago, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, MC 2026, Chicago, IL 60637, USA, suzuki@uchicago.edu.
authors.forename: Kenji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.affiliation: School of Computer Science and Engineering, Xi'an University of Technology, Xi'an, 710048, China, zhshi@ieee.org.
authors.forename: Tsuyoshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.affiliation: School of Computer Science and Engineering, Xi'an University of Technology, Xi'an, 710048, China, zhshi@ieee.org.
authors.forename: Hidenori
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Itoh
keywords: CT; Computer-aided diagnosis; Diagnosis; Image registration; Image understanding; Magnetic resonance imaging; Neural network; Object recognition; Preprocessing; Radiographic image; image segmentation; medical image processing