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This paper explores the segmentation of very small medical objects with significant clinical value. While Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), particularly UNet-like models, and recent Transformers have shown substantial progress in image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-27 Lingjie Kong , Qiaoling Wei , Chengming Xu , Han Chen , Yanwei Fu

Accurate retinal vessel segmentation is a challenging problem in color fundus image analysis. An automatic retinal vessel segmentation system can effectively facilitate clinical diagnosis and ophthalmological research. Technically, this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-26 Muyi Sun , Guanhong Zhang

As a fundamental task in computer vision, semantic segmentation is widely applied in fields such as autonomous driving, remote sensing image analysis, and medical image processing. In recent years, Transformer-based segmentation methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Tai An , Weiqiang Huang , Da Xu , Qingyuan He , Jiacheng Hu , Yujia Lou

Medical ultrasound image segmentation presents a formidable challenge in the realm of computer vision. Traditional approaches rely on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Transformer-based methods to address the intricacies of medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Weixin Xu , Ziliang Wang

3D image segmentation plays an important role in biomedical image analysis. Many 2D and 3D deep learning models have achieved state-of-the-art segmentation performance on 3D biomedical image datasets. Yet, 2D and 3D models have their own…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Hao Zheng , Yizhe Zhang , Lin Yang , Peixian Liang , Zhuo Zhao , Chaoli Wang , Danny Z. Chen

Uncertainty quantification is vital for safety-critical Deep Learning applications like medical image segmentation. We introduce BA U-Net, an uncertainty-aware model for MRI segmentation that integrates Bayesian Neural Networks with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Lohith Konathala

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for biomedical image analysis are often of very large size, resulting in high memory requirement and high latency of operations. Searching for an acceptable compressed representation of the base CNN for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Suraj Mishra , Peixian Liang , Adam Czajka , Danny Z. Chen , X. Sharon Hu

Precise segmentation of medical images is fundamental for extracting critical clinical information, which plays a pivotal role in enhancing the accuracy of diagnoses, formulating effective treatment plans, and improving patient outcomes.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Jintong Hu , Siyan Chen , Zhiyi Pan , Sen Zeng , Wenming Yang

In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have revolutionized medical image analysis. One of the most well-known CNN architectures in semantic segmentation is the U-net, which has achieved much success in several medical image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-10 Wei Hao Khoong

Skin lesion segmentation is an important step for automatic melanoma diagnosis. Due to the non-negligible diversity of lesions from different patients, extracting powerful context for fine-grained semantic segmentation is still challenging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-08 Ruxin Wang , Shuyuan Chen , Chaojie Ji , Ye Li

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

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

Volumetric medical segmentation is a critical component of 3D medical image analysis that delineates different semantic regions. Deep neural networks have significantly improved volumetric medical segmentation, but they generally require…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-18 Hanan Gani , Muzammal Naseer , Fahad Khan , Salman Khan

Deep learning architecture with convolutional neural network (CNN) achieves outstanding success in the field of computer vision. Where U-Net, an encoder-decoder architecture structured by CNN, makes a great breakthrough in biomedical image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-13 Qing Xu , Zhicheng Ma , Na HE , Wenting Duan

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

The segmentation of organs in volumetric medical images plays an important role in computer-aided diagnosis and treatment/surgery planning. Conventional 2D convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can hardly exploit the spatial correlation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-21 Zhuoyuan Wang , Dong Sun , Xiangyun Zeng , Ruodai Wu , Yi Wang

Automated detection of curvilinear structures, e.g., blood vessels or nerve fibres, from medical and biomedical images is a crucial early step in automatic image interpretation associated to the management of many diseases. Precise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-20 Lei Mou , Yitian Zhao , Huazhu Fu , Yonghuai Liu , Jun Cheng , Yalin Zheng , Pan Su , Jianlong Yang , Li Chen , Alejandro F Frang , Masahiro Akiba , Jiang Liu

Object segmentation and structure localization are important steps in automated image analysis pipelines for microscopy images. We present a convolution neural network (CNN) based deep learning architecture for segmentation of objects in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Shan E Ahmed Raza , Linda Cheung , Muhammad Shaban , Simon Graham , David Epstein , Stella Pelengaris , Michael Khan , Nasir M. Rajpoot

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

Deep convolutional neural networks have been proven to be very effective in image related analysis and tasks, such as image segmentation, image classification, image generation, etc. Recently many sophisticated CNN based architectures have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-12 Eshal Zahra , Bostan Ali , Wajahat Siddique