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Medical ultrasound image segmentation presents a formidable challenge in the realm of computer vision. Traditional approaches rely on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Transformer-based methods to address the intricacies of medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Weixin Xu , Ziliang Wang

Blinding eye diseases are often correlated with altered retinal morphology, which can be clinically identified by segmenting retinal structures in fundus images. However, current methodologies often fall short in accurately segmenting…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Mufassir M. Abbasi , Shahzaib Iqbal , Asim Naveed , Tariq M. Khan , Syed S. Naqvi , Wajeeha Khalid

This paper introduces Spectral U-Net, a novel deep learning network based on spectral decomposition, by exploiting Dual Tree Complex Wavelet Transform (DTCWT) for down-sampling and inverse Dual Tree Complex Wavelet Transform (iDTCWT) for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Yaopeng Peng , Milan Sonka , Danny Z. Chen

With the immersive development in the field of augmented and virtual reality, accurate and speedy eye-tracking is required. Facebook Research has organized a challenge, named OpenEDS Semantic Segmentation challenge for per-pixel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Priya Kansal , Sabari Nathan

Vessel segmentation and centerline extraction are two crucial preliminary tasks for many computer-aided diagnosis tools dealing with vascular diseases. Recently, deep-learning based methods have been widely applied to these tasks. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-23 Pierre Rougé , Nicolas Passat , Odyssée Merveille

Accurate lesion segmentation is crucial for clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. However, lesions often resemble surrounding tissues and exhibit ill-defined boundaries, leading to unstable predictions in boundary/transition regions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Shuokun Cheng , Jinghao Shi , Kun Sun

Deep learning techniques, particularly convolutional neural networks, have shown great potential in computer vision and medical imaging applications. However, deep learning models are computationally demanding as they require enormous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-07 Owais Ali , Hazrat Ali , Syed Ayaz Ali Shah , Aamir Shahzad

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

In recent years, deep convolutional neural network-based segmentation methods have achieved state-of-the-art performance for many medical analysis tasks. However, most of these approaches rely on optimizing the U-Net structure or adding new…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-15 Kunpeng Mao , Ruoyu Li , Junlong Cheng , Danmei Huang , Zhiping Song , ZeKui Liu

Each medical segmentation task should be considered with a specific AI algorithm based on its scenario so that the most accurate prediction model can be obtained. The most popular algorithms in medical segmentation, 3D U-Net and its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Shiyi Wang , Yang Nan , Felder Federico N , Sheng Zhang , Walsh Simon L F , Guang Yang

Although the U-Net architecture has been extensively used for segmentation of medical images, we address two of its shortcomings in this work. Firstly, the accuracy of vanilla U-Net degrades when the target regions for segmentation exhibit…

Hourglass networks such as the U-Net and V-Net are popular neural architectures for medical image segmentation and counting problems. Typical instances of hourglass networks contain shortcut connections between mirroring layers. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Daniel Oñoro-Rubio , Mathias Niepert

The accurate segmentation of medical images is critical for various healthcare applications. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs), especially Fully Convolutional Networks (FCNs) like U-Net, have shown remarkable success in medical image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Omid Nejati Manzari , Javad Mirzapour Kaleybar , Hooman Saadat , Shahin Maleki

The release of nnU-Net marked a paradigm shift in 3D medical image segmentation, demonstrating that a properly configured U-Net architecture could still achieve state-of-the-art results. Despite this, the pursuit of novel architectures, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Fabian Isensee , Tassilo Wald , Constantin Ulrich , Michael Baumgartner , Saikat Roy , Klaus Maier-Hein , Paul F. Jaeger

The reliability of using fully convolutional networks (FCNs) has been successfully demonstrated by recent studies in many speech applications. One of the most popular variants of these FCNs is the `U-Net', which is an encoder-decoder…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-10 Vinay Kothapally , Wei Xia , Shahram Ghorbani , John H. L. Hansen , Wei Xue , Jing Huang

The U-shaped architecture has emerged as a crucial paradigm in the design of medical image segmentation networks. However, due to the inherent local limitations of convolution, a fully convolutional segmentation network with U-shaped…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-04 Fenghe Tang , Jianrui Ding , Lingtao Wang , Chunping Ning , S. Kevin Zhou

The convolutional neural network-based methods have become more and more popular for medical image segmentation due to their outstanding performance. However, they struggle with capturing long-range dependencies, which are essential for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-30 Hongkun Sun , Jing Xu , Yuping Duan

A number of methods based on deep learning have been applied to medical image segmentation and have achieved state-of-the-art performance. Due to the importance of chest x-ray data in studying COVID-19, there is a demand for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-27 Lipei Zhang , Aozhi Liu , Jing Xiao , Paul Taylor

Ureteroscopy is becoming the first surgical treatment option for the majority of urinary affections. This procedure is performed using an endoscope which provides the surgeon with the visual information necessary to navigate inside the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-14 Jorge F. Lazo , Aldo Marzullo , Sara Moccia , Michele Catellani , Benoit Rosa , Michel de Mathelin , Elena De Momi

Knowledge about historic landslide event occurrence is important for supporting disaster risk reduction strategies. Building upon findings from 2022 Landslide4Sense Competition, we propose a deep neural network based system for landslide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Cam Le , Lam Pham , Jasmin Lampert , Matthias Schlögl , Alexander Schindler