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For the diagnosis of Chinese medicine, tongue segmentation has reached a fairly mature point, but it has little application in the eye diagnosis of Chinese medicine.First, this time we propose Res-UNet based on the architecture of the U2Net…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-07 Peng Hong

Lung cancer is deadly cancer that causes millions of deaths every year around the world. Accurate lung nodule detection and segmentation in computed tomography (CT) images is the most important part of diagnosing lung cancer in the early…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-12 Syeda Furruka Banu , Md. Mostafa Kamal Sarker , Mohamed Abdel-Nasser , Domenec Puig , Hatem A. Raswan

Learning structural information is critical for producing an ideal result in retinal image segmentation. Recently, convolutional neural networks have shown a powerful ability to extract effective representations. However, convolutional and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-24 Shihao Zhang , Huazhu Fu , Yuguang Yan , Yubing Zhang , Qingyao Wu , Ming Yang , Mingkui Tan , Yanwu Xu

In this work, we propose a new segmentation network by integrating DenseUNet and bidirectional LSTM together with attention mechanism, termed as DA-BDense-UNet. DenseUNet allows learning enough diverse features and enhancing the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-27 Wenming Cao , Philip L. H. Yu , Gilbert C. S. Lui , Keith W. H. Chiu , Ho-Ming Cheng , Yanwen Fang , Man-Fung Yuen , Wai-Kay Seto

The task of localizing and categorizing objects in medical images often remains formulated as a semantic segmentation problem. This approach, however, only indirectly solves the coarse localization task by predicting pixel-level scores,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Paul F. Jaeger , Simon A. A. Kohl , Sebastian Bickelhaupt , Fabian Isensee , Tristan Anselm Kuder , Heinz-Peter Schlemmer , Klaus H. Maier-Hein

Accurate segmentation of multiple organs and the differentiation of pathological tissues in medical imaging are crucial but challenging, especially for nuanced classifications and ambiguous organ boundaries. To tackle these challenges, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Chengkun Sun , Russell Stevens Terry , Jiang Bian , Jie Xu

The caliber and configuration of retinal blood vessels serve as important biomarkers for various diseases and medical conditions. A thorough analysis of the retinal vasculature requires the segmentation of the blood vessels and their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-13 José Morano , Guilherme Aresta , Hrvoje Bogunović

Residual network (ResNet) and densely connected network (DenseNet) have significantly improved the training efficiency and performance of deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) mainly for object classification tasks. In this paper, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-29 Mina Jafari , Dorothee Auer , Susan Francis , Jonathan Garibaldi , Xin Chen

Medical image segmentation is a critical task in computer vision, with UNet serving as a milestone architecture. The typical component of UNet family is the skip connection, however, their skip connections face two significant limitations:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Quansong He , Xiangde Min , Kaishen Wang , Tao He

The coronary microvascular disease poses a great threat to human health. Computer-aided analysis/diagnosis systems help physicians intervene in the disease at early stages, where 3D vessel segmentation is a fundamental step. However, there…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-24 Chengwei Pan , Baolian Qi , Gangming Zhao , Jiaheng Liu , Chaowei Fang , Dingwen Zhang , Jinpeng Li

Lung cancer has been one of the major threats across the world with the highest mortalities. Computer-aided detection (CAD) can help in early detection and thus can help increase the survival rate. Accurate lung parenchyma segmentation (to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Muhammad Abdullah , Furqan Shaukat

The proposed architecture, Dual Attentive U-Net with Feature Infusion (DAU-FI Net), addresses challenges in semantic segmentation, particularly on multiclass imbalanced datasets with limited samples. DAU-FI Net integrates multiscale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Rasha Alshawi , Md Tamjidul Hoque , Md Meftahul Ferdaus , Mahdi Abdelguerfi , Kendall Niles , Ken Prathak , Joe Tom , Jordan Klein , Murtada Mousa , Johny Javier Lopez

Intracranial hemorrhages in head CT scans serve as a first line tool to help specialists diagnose different types. However, their types have diverse shapes in the same type but similar confusing shape, size and location between types. To…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-19 Chia Shuo Chang , Tian Sheuan Chang , Jiun Lin Yan , Li Ko

Curvilinear structure segmentation is important in medical imaging, quantifying structures such as vessels, airways, neurons, or organ boundaries in 2D slices. Segmentation via pixel-wise classification often fails to capture the small and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-07 Manxi Lin , Zahra Bashir , Martin Grønnebæk Tolsgaard , Anders Nymark Christensen , Aasa Feragen

Inner Retinal neurons are a most essential part of the retina and they are supplied with blood via retinal vessels. This paper primarily focuses on the segmentation of retinal vessels using a triple preprocessing approach. DRIVE database…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-26 Mahendra Kumar Gourisaria , Vinayak Singh , Manoj Sahni

Image segmentation is a fundamental task in image analysis and clinical practice. The current state-of-the-art techniques are based on U-shape type encoder-decoder networks with skip connections, called U-Net. Despite the powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Chun-Wun Cheng , Christina Runkel , Lihao Liu , Raymond H Chan , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Angelica I Aviles-Rivero

Nucleus image segmentation is a crucial step in the analysis, pathological diagnosis, and classification, which heavily relies on the quality of nucleus segmentation. However, the complexity of issues such as variations in nucleus size,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-11 Junzhou Chen , Qian Huang , Yulin Chen , Linyi Qian , Chengyuan Yu

Retinal vessels segmentation is well known problem in image processing on the medical field. Good segmentation may help doctors take better decisions while diagnose eyes disuses. This paper describes our work taking up the DRIVE challenge…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-31 Nadav Potesman , Ariel Rechtman

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

It is a challenge to segment the location and size of rectal cancer tumours through deep learning. In this paper, in order to improve the ability of extracting suffi-cient feature information in rectal tumour segmentation, attention…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-28 Hongwei Wu , Junlin Wang , Xin Wang , Hui Nan , Yaxin Wang , Haonan Jing , Kaixuan Shi