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Medical image segmentation can provide detailed information for clinical analysis which can be useful for scenarios where the detailed location of a finding is important. Knowing the location of disease can play a vital role in treatment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Abhishek Srivastava , Sukalpa Chanda , Debesh Jha , Michael A. Riegler , Pål Halvorsen , Dag Johansen , Umapada Pal

Importance estimators are explainability methods that quantify feature importance for deep neural networks (DNN). In vision transformers (ViT), the self-attention mechanism naturally leads to attention maps, which are sometimes interpreted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Lennart Brocki , Jakub Binda , Neo Christopher Chung

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have proven effective for image processing tasks, such as object recognition and classification. Recently, CNNs have been enhanced with concepts of attention, similar to those found in biology. Much of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-10 Grace W. Lindsay

We present an attention-based modular neural framework for computer vision. The framework uses a soft attention mechanism allowing models to be trained with gradient descent. It consists of three modules: a recurrent attention module…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-29 Samira Ebrahimi Kahou , Vincent Michalski , Roland Memisevic

Deep learning models have great potential in medical imaging, including orthodontics and skeletal maturity assessment. However, applying a model to data different from its training set can lead to unreliable predictions that may impact…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-15 Omid Halimi Milani , Amanda Nikho , Lauren Mills , Marouane Tliba , Ahmet Enis Cetin , Mohammed H. Elnagar

Medical data analysis often combines both imaging and tabular data processing using machine learning algorithms. While previous studies have investigated the impact of attention mechanisms on deep learning models, few have explored…

Accurate medical image segmentation is essential for diagnosis and treatment planning of diseases. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance for automatic medical image segmentation. However, they are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Ran Gu , Guotai Wang , Tao Song , Rui Huang , Michael Aertsen , Jan Deprest , Sébastien Ourselin , Tom Vercauteren , Shaoting Zhang

The attention mechanism is one of the most important priori knowledge to enhance convolutional neural networks. Most attention mechanisms are bound to the convolutional layer and use local or global contextual information to recalibrate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Yu Xue , Ziming Yuan

Accurate beam prediction is essential for maintaining reliable links and high spectral efficiency in dynamic low-altitude wireless networks. However, existing approaches often fail to capture the deep correlations across heterogeneous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-03 Xiaotong Zhao , Yuanhao Cui , Weijie Yuan , Ziye Jia , Heng Liu , Chengwen Xing

To overcome the poor scalability of convolutional neural network, recurrent attention model(RAM) selectively choose what and where to look on the image. By directing recurrent attention model how to look the image, RAM can be even more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Minki Chung , Sungzoon Cho

Recently, large pre-trained neural language models have attained remarkable performance on many downstream natural language processing (NLP) applications via fine-tuning. In this paper, we target at how to further improve the token…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Mengyuan Zhou , Jian Ma , Haiqin Yang , Lianxin Jiang , Yang Mo

Attention-based beamformers have recently been shown to be effective for multi-channel speech recognition. However, they are less capable at capturing local information. In this work, we propose a 2D Conv-Attention module which combines…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-18 Bhargav Pulugundla , Yang Gao , Brian King , Gokce Keskin , Harish Mallidi , Minhua Wu , Jasha Droppo , Roland Maas

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely used for hyperspectral image classification. As a common process, small cubes are firstly cropped from the hyperspectral image and then fed into CNNs to extract spectral and spatial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-15 Renlong Hang , Zhu Li , Qingshan Liu , Pedram Ghamisi , Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya

Convolution is the main building block of convolutional neural networks (CNN). We observe that an optimized CNN often has highly correlated filters as the number of channels increases with depth, reducing the expressive power of feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Xudong Wang , Stella X. Yu

Within (semi-)automated visual inspection, learning-based approaches for assessing visual defects, including deep neural networks, enable the processing of otherwise small defect patterns in pixel size on high-resolution imagery. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 André Luiz B. Vieira e Silva , Francisco Simões , Danny Kowerko , Tobias Schlosser , Felipe Battisti , Veronica Teichrieb

Scene parsing is a great challenge for real-time semantic segmentation. Although traditional semantic segmentation networks have made remarkable leap-forwards in semantic accuracy, the performance of inference speed is unsatisfactory.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Zhengbin Zhang , Zhenhao Xu , Xingsheng Gu , Juan Xiong

Automatic Modulation Classification (AMC) is a critical component in cognitive radio systems and spectrum management applications. This study presents a comprehensive comparative analysis of three attention mechanisms (i.e., baseline…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-15 Ferhat Ozgur Catak , Murat Kuzlu , Umit Cali

Various Vision Transformer (ViT) models have been widely used for image recognition tasks. However, existing visual explanation methods can not display the attention flow hidden inside the inner structure of ViT models, which explains how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Yi Liao , Yongsheng Gao , Weichuan Zhang

The Foundation model for image segmentation, Segment Anything (SAM), has been actively researched in various fields since its proposal. Various researches have been proposed to adapt SAM to specific domains, with one notable approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Joohyeok Kim , Joonhyeon Song , Seohwan Yun , Seongho Yoon , Sangmin Lee

With the development of feed-forward models, the default model for sequence modeling has gradually evolved to replace recurrent networks. Many powerful feed-forward models based on convolutional networks and attention mechanism were…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Hongyan Hao , Yan Wang , Siqiao Xue , Yudi Xia , Jian Zhao , Furao Shen