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Accurate segmentation of the blood vessels of the retina is an important step in clinical diagnosis of ophthalmic diseases. Many deep learning frameworks have come up for retinal blood vessels segmentation tasks. However, the complex…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-08 Ting Zhang , Jun Li , Yi Zhao , Nan Chen , Han Zhou , Hongtao Xu , Zihao Guan , Changcai Yang , Lanyan Xue , Riqing Chen , Lifang Wei

In recent years, deep neural networks have played a major role solving various challenges in two dimensional image processing.Fully Convolutional Networks (FCN) such as U-net have been shown to be highly successful at segmentation tasks for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-22 Noam Katz

U-Net has been widely used for segmenting abdominal organs, achieving promising performance. However, when it is used for multi-organ segmentation, first, it may be limited in exploiting global long-range contextual information due to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Jin Yang , Daniel S. Marcus , Aristeidis Sotiras

The irregular and challenging characteristics of lung adenocarcinoma nodules in computed tomography (CT) images complicate staging diagnosis, making accurate segmentation critical for clinicians to extract detailed lesion information. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-20 Yuke Wu , Xiang Liu , Yunyu Shi , Xinyi Chen , Zhenglei Wang , YuQing Xu , Shuo Hong Wang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Transformers have been the most popular architectures for biomedical image segmentation, but both of them have limited ability to handle long-range dependencies because of inherent locality or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-10 Jun Ma , Feifei Li , Bo Wang

Anatomical consistency in biomarker segmentation is crucial for many medical image analysis tasks. A promising paradigm for achieving anatomically consistent segmentation via deep networks is incorporating pixel connectivity, a basic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-04 Ziyun Yang , Sina Farsiu

Since medical image data sets contain few samples and singular features, lesions are viewed as highly similar to other tissues. The traditional neural network has a limited ability to learn features. Even if a host of feature maps is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Hongfeng You , Long Yu , Shengwei Tian , Xiang Ma , Yan Xing , Xiaojie Ma

3D lung segmentation is essential since it processes the volumetric information of the lungs, removes the unnecessary areas of the scan, and segments the actual area of the lungs in a 3D volume. Recently, the deep learning model, such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-07 Dhaval D. Kadia , Md Zahangir Alom , Ranga Burada , Tam V. Nguyen , Vijayan K. Asari

This study addresses the essential task of medical image segmentation, which involves the automatic identification and delineation of anatomical structures and pathological regions in medical images. Accurate segmentation is crucial in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Seyedeh Sahar Taheri Otaghsara , Reza Rahmanzadeh

In this paper, we present the VMSE U-Net and VM-Unet CBAM+ model, two cutting-edge deep learning architectures designed to enhance medical image segmentation. Our approach integrates Squeeze-and-Excitation (SE) and Convolutional Block…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-10 Sayandeep Kanrar , Raja Piyush , Qaiser Razi , Debanshi Chakraborty , Vikas Hassija , GSS Chalapathi

This paper proposes a 3D attention-based U-Net architecture for multi-region segmentation of brain tumors using a single stacked multi-modal volume created by combining three non-native MRI volumes. The attention mechanism added to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-11 Maryann M. Gitonga

Magnetic resonance imaging is a fundamental tool to reach a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis and monitoring its progression. Although several attempts have been made to segment multiple sclerosis lesions using artificial intelligence, fully…

Accurate segmentation of the pancreas and its lesions in CT scans is crucial for the precise diagnosis and treatment of pancreatic cancer. However, it remains a highly challenging task due to several factors such as low tissue contrast with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Qiu Guan , Zhiqiang Yang , Dezhang Ye , Yang Chen , Xinli Xu , Ying Tang

Recently, deep learning methods have achieved state-of-the-art performance in many medical image segmentation tasks. Many of these are based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs). For such methods, the encoder is the key part for global…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-25 Hao Li , Dewei Hu , Han Liu , Jiacheng Wang , Ipek Oguz

Medical image segmentation, particularly tumor segmentation, is a critical task in medical imaging, with U-Net being a widely adopted convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture for this purpose. However, U-Net's high computational and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-13 Christiaan Boerkamp , Akhil John Thomas

Automatic segmentation of multiple organs and tumors from 3D medical images such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) scans using deep learning methods can aid in diagnosing and treating cancer. However, organs…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-25 Hao Li , Yang Nan , Javier Del Ser , Guang Yang

Medical imaging refers to the technologies and methods utilized to view the human body and its inside, in order to diagnose, monitor, or even treat medical disorders. This paper aims to explore the application of deep learning techniques in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-08 Ketan Suhaas Saichandran

In this paper, we propose a novel medical image segmentation using iterative deep learning framework. We have combined an iterative learning approach and an encoder-decoder network to improve segmentation results, which enables to precisely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-14 Jung Uk Kim , Hak Gu Kim , Yong Man Ro

The U-net architecture has significantly impacted deep learning-based segmentation of medical images. Through the integration of long-range skip connections, it facilitated the preservation of high-resolution features. Out-of-distribution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Frauke Wilm , Jonas Ammeling , Mathias Öttl , Rutger H. J. Fick , Marc Aubreville , Katharina Breininger

Purpose Medical imaging diagnosis faces challenges, including low-resolution images due to machine artifacts and patient movement. This paper presents the Frequency-Guided U-Net (GFNet), a novel approach for medical image segmentation that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-03 Haytham Al Ewaidat , Youness El Brag , Ahmad Wajeeh Yousef E'layan , Ali Almakhadmeh