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We introduce and solve a model which considers two coupled networks growing simultaneously. The dynamics of the networks is governed by the new arrival of network elements (nodes) making preferential attachments to pre-existing nodes in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dafang Zheng , Guler Ergun

Deep learning has made a breakthrough in medical image segmentation in recent years due to its ability to extract high-level features without the need for prior knowledge. In this context, U-Net is one of the most advanced medical image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-07 Prithul Sarker , Sushmita Sarker , George Bebis , Alireza Tavakkoli

State-of-the-art segmentation methods rely on very deep networks that are not always easy to train without very large training datasets and tend to be relatively slow to run on standard GPUs. In this paper, we introduce a novel recurrent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Wei Wang , Kaicheng Yu , Joachim Hugonot , Pascal Fua , Mathieu Salzmann

Semantic segmentation in remote sensing is commonly addressed using classical deep learning architectures such as U-Net, which require a large number of parameters to model complex spatial relationships. Quantum machine learning (QML)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Md Aminur Hossain , Ayush V. Patel , Ikshwaku Vanani , Biplab Banerjee

Machine reading comprehension with unanswerable questions is a new challenging task for natural language processing. A key subtask is to reliably predict whether the question is unanswerable. In this paper, we propose a unified model,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Fu Sun , Linyang Li , Xipeng Qiu , Yang Liu

Identifying the positions of granular particles from experimental images is often complicated by their partial overlap in two dimensional projections. Uneven backgrounds and inhomogeneous illuminations can add to the challenge. Conventional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-03 Fahad Puthalath , Matthias Schröter , Nicoletta Sanvitale , Matthias Sperl , Peidong Yu

In order to enhance the real-time performance of convolutional neural networks(CNNs), more and more researchers are focusing on improving the efficiency of CNN. Based on the analysis of some CNN architectures, such as ResNet, DenseNet,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Qiuyu Zhu , Ruixin Zhang

Semantic image segmentation is the process of labeling each pixel of an image with its corresponding class. An encoder-decoder based approach, like U-Net and its variants, is a popular strategy for solving medical image segmentation tasks.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-30 Debesh Jha , Michael A. Riegler , Dag Johansen , Pål Halvorsen , Håvard D. Johansen

The proliferation of 3D scanning technology has driven a need for methods to interpret geometric data, particularly for human subjects. In this paper we propose an elegant fusion of regression (bottom-up) and generative (top-down) methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Benjamin Groisser , Alon Wolf , Ron Kimmel

There is large consent that successful training of deep networks requires many thousand annotated training samples. In this paper, we present a network and training strategy that relies on the strong use of data augmentation to use the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Olaf Ronneberger , Philipp Fischer , Thomas Brox

Recurrent neural networks have been widely used in sequence learning tasks. In previous studies, the performance of the model has always been improved by either wider or deeper structures. However, the former becomes more prone to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Yu-Xuan Li , Jin-Yuan Liu , Liang Li , Xiang Guan

Instance segmentation is critical in biomedical imaging to accurately distinguish individual objects like cells, which often overlap and vary in size. Recent query-based methods, where object queries guide segmentation, have shown strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yaroslav Prytula , Illia Tsiporenko , Ali Zeynalli , Dmytro Fishman

Many modern datasets mix points, edges, regions, groups, objects, events, hyperedges, and relations. Yet neural architectures often force such data into grids, graphs, or sequences, obscuring higher-order structure and making…

Recently, deep learning has become much more popular in computer vision area. The Convolution Neural Network (CNN) has brought a breakthrough in images segmentation areas, especially, for medical images. In this regard, U-Net is the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Ange Lou , Shuyue Guan , Murray Loew

Due to its excellent performance, U-Net is the most widely used backbone architecture for biomedical image segmentation in the recent years. However, in our studies, we observe that there is a considerable performance drop in the case of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-10 Jeya Maria Jose , Vishwanath Sindagi , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Vishal M. Patel

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have become ubiquitous in medical image processing and analysis. Among them, U-Nets are very popular in various image segmentation tasks. Yet, little is known about how information flows through these networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Suemin Lee , Ivan V. Bajić

Learning and analyzing 3D point clouds with deep networks is challenging due to the sparseness and irregularity of the data. In this paper, we present a data-driven point cloud upsampling technique. The key idea is to learn multi-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Lequan Yu , Xianzhi Li , Chi-Wing Fu , Daniel Cohen-Or , Pheng-Ann Heng

We present a novel neural network architecture, US-Net, for robust nuclei instance segmentation in histopathology images. The proposed framework integrates the nuclei detection and segmentation networks by sharing their outputs through the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Zhaoyang Xu , Faranak Sobhani , Carlos Fernandez Moro , Qianni Zhang

In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have revolutionized medical image analysis. One of the most well-known CNN architectures in semantic segmentation is the U-net, which has achieved much success in several medical image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-10 Wei Hao Khoong

Upon a matrix representation of a binary bipartite network, via the permutation invariance, a coupling geometry is computed to approximate the minimum energy macrostate of a network's system. Such a macrostate is supposed to constitute the…

Applications · Statistics 2018-02-02 Jiahui Guan , Hsieh Fushing