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Automatic medical image segmentation, an essential component of medical image analysis, plays an importantrole in computer-aided diagnosis. For example, locating and segmenting the liver can be very helpful in livercancer diagnosis and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-28 Xi Fang , Bo Du , Sheng Xu , Bradford J. Wood , Pingkun Yan

Pretraining CNN models (i.e., UNet) through self-supervision has become a powerful approach to facilitate medical image segmentation under low annotation regimes. Recent contrastive learning methods encourage similar global representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Zhangsihao Yang , Mengwei Ren , Kaize Ding , Guido Gerig , Yalin Wang

The paper is a short review of medical image segmentation using U-Net and its variants. As we understand going through a medical images is not an easy job for any clinician either radiologist or pathologist. Analysing medical images is the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-20 Vinay Ummadi

Volumetric image segmentation with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) encounters several challenges, which are specific to medical images. Among these challenges are large volumes of interest, high class imbalances, and difficulties in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Fabian Balsiger , Yannick Soom , Olivier Scheidegger , Mauricio Reyes

Recently, the state-of-art models for medical image segmentation is U-Net and their variants. These networks, though succeeding in deriving notable results, ignore the practical problem hanging over the medical segmentation field:…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-07 Hao Ziang , Jingsi Zhang , Lixian Li

Deep learning has substantially advanced medical image segmentation, yet achieving robust generalization across diverse imaging modalities and anatomical structures remains a major challenge. A key contributor to this limitation lies in how…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-23 Shams Nafisa Ali , Taufiq Hasan

While modern segmentation models often prioritize performance over practicality, we advocate a design philosophy prioritizing simplicity and efficiency, and attempted high performance segmentation model design. This paper presents…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Xiang Yu , Yayan Chen , Guannan He , Qing Zeng , Yue Qin , Meiling Liang , Dandan Luo , Yimei Liao , Zeyu Ren , Cheng Kang , Delong Yang , Bocheng Liang , Bin Pu , Ying Yuan , Shengli Li

$\bf{Purpose:}$ The goal of this study was (i) to use artificial intelligence to automate the traditionally labor-intensive process of manual segmentation of tumor regions in pathology slides performed by a pathologist and (ii) to validate…

Most methods for medical image segmentation use U-Net or its variants as they have been successful in most of the applications. After a detailed analysis of these "traditional" encoder-decoder based approaches, we observed that they perform…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-18 Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu , Vishwanath A. Sindagi , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Vishal M. Patel

Medical image segmentation involves identifying and separating object instances in a medical image to delineate various tissues and structures, a task complicated by the significant variations in size, shape, and density of these features.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Sina Ghorbani Kolahi , Seyed Kamal Chaharsooghi , Toktam Khatibi , Afshin Bozorgpour , Reza Azad , Moein Heidari , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Dorit Merhof

Visual saliency prediction using transformers - Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have significantly advanced computational modelling for saliency prediction. However, accurately simulating the mechanisms of visual attention in the human…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Jianxun Lou , Hanhe Lin , David Marshall , Dietmar Saupe , Hantao Liu

Vessel image segmentation plays a pivotal role in medical diagnostics, aiding in the early detection and treatment of vascular diseases. While segmentation based on deep learning has shown promising results, effectively segmenting small…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-24 Ruiqiang Xiao , Zhuoyue Wan

Solving variational image segmentation problems with hidden physics is often expensive and requires different algorithms and manually tunes model parameter. The deep learning methods based on the U-Net structure have obtained outstanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Hui Zhu , Shi Shu , Jianping Zhang

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance for automatic medical image segmentation. However, they have not demonstrated sufficiently accurate and robust results for clinical use. In addition, they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Guotai Wang , Wenqi Li , Maria A. Zuluaga , Rosalind Pratt , Premal A. Patel , Michael Aertsen , Tom Doel , Anna L. David , Jan Deprest , Sebastien Ourselin , Tom Vercauteren

Medical image segmentation, particularly in multi-domain scenarios, requires precise preservation of anatomical structures across diverse representations. While deep learning has advanced this field, existing models often struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Afshin Bozorgpour , Sina Ghorbani Kolahi , Reza Azad , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Dorit Merhof

The automatic segmentation of blood vessels in fundus images can help analyze the condition of retinal vasculature, which is crucial for identifying various systemic diseases like hypertension, diabetes, etc. Despite the success of Deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-26 Ashish Kumar , R. K. Agrawal , Leve Joseph

Due to the lack of automated methods, to diagnose cerebrovascular disease, time-of-flight magnetic resonance angiography (TOF-MRA) is assessed visually, making it time-consuming. The commonly used encoder-decoder architectures for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Syed Farhan Abbas , Nguyen Thanh Duc , Yoonguu Song , Kyungwon Kim , Ekta Srivastava , Boreom Lee

In recent years, 3D convolutional neural networks have become the dominant approach for volumetric medical image segmentation. However, compared to their 2D counterparts, 3D networks introduce substantially more training parameters and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-01 Yuan Wang , Laura Blackie , Irene Miguel-Aliaga , Wenjia Bai

Automatic segmentation of abdomen organs using medical imaging has many potential applications in clinical workflows. Recently, the state-of-the-art performance for organ segmentation has been achieved by deep learning models, i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Jinzheng Cai , Yingda Xia , Dong Yang , Daguang Xu , Lin Yang , Holger Roth

Deep Learning based techniques have gained significance over the past few years in the field of medicine. They are used in various applications such as classifying medical images, segmentation and identification. The existing architectures…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-16 Gaurav Prasanna , John Rohit Ernest , Lalitha G , Sathiya Narayanan