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Breast ultrasound imaging is a valuable tool for early breast cancer detection, but automated tumor segmentation is challenging due to inherent noise, variations in scale of lesions, and fuzzy boundaries. To address these challenges, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Muhammad Azeem Aslam , Asim Naveed , Nisar Ahmed

This paper introduces a lightweight convolutional neural network, called FDDWNet, for real-time accurate semantic segmentation. In contrast to recent advances of lightweight networks that prefer to utilize shallow structure, FDDWNet makes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Jia Liu , Quan Zhou , Yong Qiang , Bin Kang , Xiaofu Wu , Baoyu Zheng

Conventional therapy approaches limit surgeons' dexterity control due to limited field-of-view. With the advent of robot-assisted surgery, there has been a paradigm shift in medical technology for minimally invasive surgery. However, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-26 S. M. Kamrul Hasan , Cristian A. Linte

The extensive computational burden limits the usage of CNNs in mobile devices for dense estimation tasks. In this paper, we present a lightweight network to address this problem,namely LEDNet, which employs an asymmetric encoder-decoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Yu Wang , Quan Zhou , Jia Liu , Jian Xiong , Guangwei Gao , Xiaofu Wu , Longin Jan Latecki

The analysis of retinal images for the diagnosis of various diseases is one of the emerging areas of research. Recently, the research direction has been inclined towards investigating several changes in retinal blood vessels in subjects…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Mehwish Mehmood , Shahzaib Iqbal , Tariq Mahmood Khan , Ivor Spence , Muhammad Fahim

Real-time semantic segmentation presents the dual challenge of designing efficient architectures that capture large receptive fields for semantic understanding while also refining detailed contours. Vision transformers model long-range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Ping-Mao Huang , I-Tien Chao , Ping-Chia Huang , Jia-Wei Liao , Yung-Yu Chuang

Deep learning-based medical image segmentation technology aims at automatic recognizing and annotating objects on the medical image. Non-local attention and feature learning by multi-scale methods are widely used to model network, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Bo Wang , Lei Wang , Junyang Chen , Zhenghua Xu , Thomas Lukasiewicz , Zhigang Fu

Semantic segmentation of surgical instruments plays a crucial role in robot-assisted surgery. However, accurate segmentation of cataract surgical instruments is still a challenge due to specular reflection and class imbalance issues. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Zhen-Liang Ni , Gui-Bin Bian , Xiao-Hu Zhou , Zeng-Guang Hou , Xiao-Liang Xie , Chen Wang , Yan-Jie Zhou , Rui-Qi Li , Zhen Li

Real-time tool segmentation is an essential component in computer-assisted surgical systems. We propose a novel real-time automatic method based on Fully Convolutional Networks (FCN) and optical flow tracking. Our method exploits the…

Convolutional blocks have played a crucial role in advancing medical image segmentation by excelling in dense prediction tasks. However, their inability to effectively capture long-range dependencies has limited their performance.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Siddhartha Mallick , Aayushman Ghosh , Jayanta Paul , Jaya Sil

Recently, some pioneering works have preferred applying more complex modules to improve segmentation performances. However, it is not friendly for actual clinical environments due to limited computing resources. To address this challenge,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-04 Jiacheng Ruan , Suncheng Xiang , Mingye Xie , Ting Liu , Yuzhuo Fu

The rapid increment of morbidity of brain stroke in the last few years have been a driving force towards fast and accurate segmentation of stroke lesions from brain MRI images. With the recent development of deep-learning, computer-aided…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-25 Hritam Basak , Rukhshanda Hussain , Ajay Rana

Early-stage 3D brain tumor segmentation from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans is crucial for prompt and effective treatment. However, this process faces the challenge of precise delineation due to the tumors' complex heterogeneity.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Ebtihal J. Alwadee , Xianfang Sun , Yipeng Qin , Frank C. Langbein

The accurate segmentation of multiple types of lesions from adjacent tissues in medical images is significant in clinical practice. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) based on the coarse-to-fine strategy have been widely used in this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-12 Xiangyu Zhao , Peng Zhang , Fan Song , Chenbin Ma , Guangda Fan , Yangyang Sun , Youdan Feng , Guanglei Zhang

Computer-aided segmentation methods can assist medical personnel in improving diagnostic outcomes. While recent advancements like UNet and its variants have shown promise, they face a critical challenge: balancing accuracy with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-03 Abhijit Das , Debesh Jha , Vandan Gorade , Koushik Biswas , Hongyi Pan , Zheyuan Zhang , Daniela P. Ladner , Yury Velichko , Amir Borhani , Ulas Bagci

The performance of a computer-aided automated diagnosis system of lung cancer from Computed Tomography (CT) volumetric images greatly depends on the accurate detection and segmentation of tumor regions. In this paper, we present Recurrent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-09 Uday Kamal , Abdul Muntakim Rafi , Rakibul Hoque , Jonathan Wu , Md. Kamrul Hasan

Semantic segmentation is a fundamental perception task in autonomous driving, particularly for identifying drivable areas and lane markings to enable safe navigation. However, most state-of-the-art (SOTA) models are computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Quang-Huy Che , Duc-Tri Le , Minh-Quan Pham , Vinh-Tiep Nguyen , Duc-Khai Lam

Medical image segmentation plays a pivotal role in automated diagnostic and treatment planning systems. In this work, we present DAUNet, a novel lightweight UNet variant that integrates Deformable V2 Convolutions and Parameter-Free…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Adnan Munir , Muhammad Shahid Jabbar , Shujaat Khan

Ultrasound tongue imaging (UTI) is a non-invasive and cost-effective tool for studying speech articulation, motor control, and related disorders. However, real-time tongue contour segmentation remains challenging due to low signal-to-noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Alisher Myrgyyassov , Zhen Song , Yu Sun , Bruce Xiao Wang , Min Ney Wong , Yongping Zheng

Medical image segmentation can provide detailed information for clinical analysis which can be useful for scenarios where the detailed location of a finding is important. Knowing the location of disease can play a vital role in treatment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Abhishek Srivastava , Sukalpa Chanda , Debesh Jha , Michael A. Riegler , Pål Halvorsen , Dag Johansen , Umapada Pal