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Text-guided medical segmentation enhances segmentation accuracy by utilizing clinical reports as auxiliary information. However, existing methods typically rely on unaligned image and text encoders, which necessitate complex interaction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Gaoren Lin , Huangxuan Zhao , Yuan Xiong , Lefei Zhang , Bo Du , Wentao Zhu

The segmentation of medical images is a fundamental step in automated clinical decision support systems. Existing medical image segmentation methods based on supervised deep learning, however, remain problematic because of their reliance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Euijoon Ahn , Dagan Feng , Jinman Kim

Segmentation is an important task in a wide range of computer vision applications, including medical image analysis. Recent years have seen an increase in the complexity of medical image segmentation approaches based on sophisticated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-19 Tariq M Khan , Syed S. Naqvi , Erik Meijering

Precise segmentation of organs and tumors plays a crucial role in clinical applications. It is a challenging task due to the irregular shapes and various sizes of organs and tumors as well as the significant class imbalance between the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-03 Ziqiang Li , Hong Pan , Yaping Zhu , A. K. Qin

This paper introduces Tree-NET, a novel framework for medical image segmentation that leverages bottleneck feature supervision to enhance both segmentation accuracy and computational efficiency. While previous studies have employed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-07 Orhan Demirci , Bulent Yilmaz

Development of deep learning systems for biomedical segmentation often requires access to expert-driven, manually annotated datasets. If more than a single expert is involved in the annotation of the same images, then the inter-expert…

Medical image segmentation, a crucial task in computer vision, facilitates the automated delineation of anatomical structures and pathologies, supporting clinicians in diagnosis, treatment planning, and disease monitoring. Notably,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Fuchen Zheng , Xinyi Chen , Xuhang Chen , Haolun Li , Xiaojiao Guo , Weihuang Liu , Chi-Man Pun , Shoujun Zhou

Automatic tumor or lesion segmentation is a crucial step in medical image analysis for computer-aided diagnosis. Although the existing methods based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved the state-of-the-art performance,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-01 Shuchao Pang , Anan Du , Mehmet A. Orgun , Yan Wang , Quan Z. Sheng , Shoujin Wang , Xiaoshui Huang , Zhenmei Yu

Deep learning, especially convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Transformer architectures, have become the focus of extensive research in medical image segmentation, achieving impressive results. However, CNNs come with inductive biases…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-20 Xiao Liu , Peng Gao , Tao Yu , Fei Wang , Ru-Yue Yuan

Cardiac segmentation of atriums, ventricles, and myocardium in computed tomography (CT) images is an important first-line task for presymptomatic cardiovascular disease diagnosis. In several recent studies, deep learning models have shown…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-01 Sanguk Park , Minyoung Chung

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

Accurate segmentation of solar filaments in H-alpha observations is critical for determining filament chirality, a key factor in the behavior of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs). However, existing methods often fail to capture fine-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Victor Solomon , Piet Martens , Jingyu Liu , Rafal Angryk

Blood vessel segmentation is crucial for many diagnostic and research applications. In recent years, CNN-based models have leaded to breakthroughs in the task of segmentation, however, such methods usually lose high-frequency information…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-09 Mo Zhang , Fei Yu , Jie Zhao , Li Zhang , Quanzheng Li

Accurate visualization of liver tumors and their surrounding blood vessels is essential for noninvasive diagnosis and prognosis prediction of tumors. In medical image segmentation, there is still a lack of in-depth research on the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-21 Haopeng Kuang , Dingkang Yang , Shunli Wang , Xiaoying Wang , Lihua Zhang

In view of the recent paradigm shift in deep AI based image processing methods, medical image processing has advanced considerably. In this study, we propose a novel deep neural network (DNN), entitled InceptNet, in the scope of medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Amirhossein Sajedi , Mohammad Javad Fadaeieslam

Automated pathology segmentation remains a valuable diagnostic tool in clinical practice. However, collecting training data is challenging. Semi-supervised approaches by combining labelled and unlabelled data can offer a solution to data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-09 Haochuan Jiang , Agisilaos Chartsias , Xinheng Zhang , Giorgos Papanastasiou , Scott Semple , Mark Dweck , David Semple , Rohan Dharmakumar , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

Depression is a major cause of global mental illness and significantly influences suicide rates. Timely and accurate diagnosis is essential for effective intervention. Electroencephalography (EEG) provides a non-invasive and accessible…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Soujanya Hazra , Sanjay Ghosh

Current state-of-the-art medical image segmentation methods prioritize accuracy but often at the expense of increased computational demands and larger model sizes. Applying these large-scale models to the relatively limited scale of medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Jiahui Zhong , Wenhong Tian , Yuanlun Xie , Zhijia Liu , Jie Ou , Taoran Tian , Lei Zhang

An improved model of medical image segmentation for brain tumor is discussed, which is a deep learning algorithm based on U-Net architecture. Based on the traditional U-Net, we introduce GSConv module and ECA attention mechanism to improve…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Qiyuan Tian , Zhuoyue Wang , Xiaoling Cui

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