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Medical image segmentation remains particularly challenging for complex and low-contrast anatomical structures. In this paper, we introduce the U-Transformer network, which combines a U-shaped architecture for image segmentation with self-…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-15 Olivier Petit , Nicolas Thome , Clément Rambour , Luc Soler

Accurate and reliable image segmentation is an essential part of biomedical image analysis. In this paper, we consider the problem of biomedical image segmentation using deep convolutional neural networks. We propose a new end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Amirhossein Dadashzadeh , Alireza Tavakoli Targhi

Microscopy imaging is vital in biology research and diagnosis. When imaging at the scale of cell or molecule level, mechanical drift on the axial axis can be difficult to correct. Although multi-scale networks have been developed for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-31 Jiahe Wang , Boran Han

U-Nets have been established as a standard architecture for image-to-image learning problems such as segmentation and inverse problems in imaging. For large-scale data, as it for example appears in 3D medical imaging, the U-Net however has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Christian Etmann , Rihuan Ke , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

While deeper convolutional networks are needed to achieve maximum accuracy in visual perception tasks, for many inputs shallower networks are sufficient. We exploit this observation by learning to skip convolutional layers on a per-input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Xin Wang , Fisher Yu , Zi-Yi Dou , Trevor Darrell , Joseph E. Gonzalez

Medical image registration plays a vital role in medical image processing. Extracting expressive representations for medical images is crucial for improving the registration quality. One common practice for this end is constructing a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-09 Jinhai Xiang , Shuai Guo , Qianru Han , Dantong Shi , Xinwei He , Xiang Bai

Instance segmentation is critical in biomedical imaging to accurately distinguish individual objects like cells, which often overlap and vary in size. Recent query-based methods, where object queries guide segmentation, have shown strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yaroslav Prytula , Illia Tsiporenko , Ali Zeynalli , Dmytro Fishman

In medical imaging, there are clinically relevant segmentation tasks where the output mask is a projection to a subset of input image dimensions. In this work, we propose a novel convolutional neural network architecture that can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Dmitrii Lachinov , Philipp Seeboeck , Julia Mai , Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth , Hrvoje Bogunovic

In current practice, many image processing tasks are done sequentially (e.g. denoising, dehazing, followed by semantic segmentation). In this paper, we propose a novel multi-task neural network architecture designed for combining sequential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Ilja Gubins , Remco C. Veltkamp

Automatic medical image segmentation has made great progress benefit from the development of deep learning. However, most existing methods are based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which fail to build long-range dependencies and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Ailiang Lin , Bingzhi Chen , Jiayu Xu , Zheng Zhang , Guangming Lu

Recent advances in diffusion models for image generation have led to detailed examinations of several components within the U-Net architecture for image editing. While previous studies have focused on the bottleneck layer (h-space),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Ludovica Schaerf , Andrea Alfarano , Fabrizio Silvestri , Leonardo Impett

U-Net models with encoder, decoder, and skip-connections components have demonstrated effectiveness in a variety of vision tasks. The skip-connections transmit fine-grained information from the encoder to the decoder. It is necessary to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Lingxiao Yin , Wei Tao , Dongyue Zhao , Tadayuki Ito , Kinya Osa , Masami Kato , Tse-Wei Chen

Accurate segmentation of the region of interest in medical images can provide an essential pathway for devising effective treatment plans for life-threatening diseases. It is still challenging for U-Net, and its state-of-the-art variants,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-09 Md. Rayhan Ahmed , Adnan Ferdous Ashrafi , Raihan Uddin Ahmed , Swakkhar Shatabda , A. K. M. Muzahidul Islam , Salekul Islam

Reliable cell segmentation and classification from biomedical images is a crucial step for both scientific research and clinical practice. A major challenge for more robust segmentation and classification methods is the large variations in…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2017-10-31 Mo Zhang , Xiang Li , Mengjia Xu , Quanzheng Li

Semantic segmentation has witnessed remarkable advancements with the adaptation of the Transformer architecture. Parallel to the strides made by the Transformer, CNN-based U-Net has seen significant progress, especially in high-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Seul-Ki Yeom , Julian von Klitzing

-Background. Network neuroscience examines the brain as a complex system represented by a network (or connectome), providing deeper insights into the brain morphology and function, allowing the identification of atypical brain connectivity…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-09-01 Mert Lostar , Islem Rekik

The U-net is a deep-learning network model that has been used to solve a number of inverse problems. In this work, the concatenation of two-element U-nets, termed the W-net, operating in k-space (K) and image (I) domains, were evaluated for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-06 Roberto Souza , Mariana Bento , Nikita Nogovitsyn , Kevin J. Chung , R. Marc Lebel , Richard Frayne

Foundation models pre-trained on large-scale natural image datasets offer a powerful paradigm for medical image segmentation. However, effectively transferring their learned representations for precise clinical applications remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Haoyue Li , Yifan Gao , Feng Yuan , Xiaosong Wang , Xin Gao

Urban buildings are extracted from high-resolution Earth observation (EO) images using semantic segmentation networks like U-Net and its successors. Each re-iteration aims to improve performance by employing a denser skip connection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Bipul Neupane , Jagannath Aryal , Abbas Rajabifard

Recently, a growing interest has been seen in deep learning-based semantic segmentation. UNet, which is one of deep learning networks with an encoder-decoder architecture, is widely used in medical image segmentation. Combining multi-scale…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-21 Huimin Huang , Lanfen Lin , Ruofeng Tong , Hongjie Hu , Qiaowei Zhang , Yutaro Iwamoto , Xianhua Han , Yen-Wei Chen , Jian Wu