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Medical image segmentation has been so far achieving promising results with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). However, it is arguable that in traditional CNNs, its pooling layer tends to discard important information such as positions.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-12 Tan Nguyen , Binh-Son Hua , Ngan Le

A Capsule Network (CapsNet) is a relatively new classifier and one of the possible successors of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). CapsNet maintains the spatial hierarchies between the features and outperforms CNNs at classifying images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Pouya Shiri , Amirali Baniasadi

Deep learning has excelled in medical image classification, but its clinical application is limited by poor interpretability. Capsule networks, known for encoding hierarchical relationships and spatial features, show potential in addressing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Xinyu Geng , Jiaming Wang , Jun Xu

Convolutional Neural Networks need the construction of informative features, which are determined by channel-wise and spatial-wise information at the network's layers. In this research, we focus on bringing in a novel solution that uses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Jerrin Bright , Suryaprakash Rajkumar , Arockia Selvakumar Arockia Doss

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved promising results in medical image segmentation. However, CNNs require lots of training data and are incapable of handling pose and deformation of objects. Furthermore, their pooling layers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Minh Tran , Viet-Khoa Vo-Ho , Ngan T. H. Le

The basic computational unit in Capsule Network (CapsNet) is a capsule (vs. neurons in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)). A capsule is a set of neurons, which form a vector. CapsNet is used for supervised classification of data and has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Pouya Shiri , Ramin Sharifi , Amirali Baniasadi

Capsule Networks (CapsNets) are brand-new architectures that have shown ground-breaking results in certain areas of Computer Vision (CV). In 2017, Hinton and his team introduced CapsNets with routing-by-agreement in "Sabour et al" and in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Moein Hasani , Amin Nasim Saravi , Hassan Khotanlou

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been widely deployed for many Machine Learning applications. Recently, CapsuleNets have overtaken traditional DNNs, because of their improved generalization ability due to the multi-dimensional capsules, in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Alberto Marchisio , Muhammad Abdullah Hanif , Muhammad Shafique

In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNN) have played an important role in the field of deep learning. Variants of CNN's have proven to be very successful in classification tasks across different domains. However, there are two…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-12 Edgar Xi , Selina Bing , Yang Jin

Lung diseases including infections such as Pneumonia, Tuberculosis, and novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), together with Lung Cancer are significantly widespread and are, typically, considered life threatening. In particular, lung cancer is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-17 Parnian Afshar , Farnoosh Naderkhani , Anastasia Oikonomou , Moezedin Javad Rafiee , Arash Mohammadi , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

Residual network (ResNet) and densely connected network (DenseNet) have significantly improved the training efficiency and performance of deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) mainly for object classification tasks. In this paper, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-29 Mina Jafari , Dorothee Auer , Susan Francis , Jonathan Garibaldi , Xin Chen

Capsule Networks (CapsNets) are a generation of image classifiers with proven advantages over Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Better robustness to affine transformation and overlapping image detection are some of the benefits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Ramin Sharifi , Pouya Shiri , Amirali Baniasadi

Capsule network has shown various advantages over convolutional neural network (CNN). It keeps more precise spatial information than CNN and uses equivariance instead of invariance during inference and highly potential to be a new effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Zonglin Yang , Xinggang Wang

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) achieve translational invariance by using pooling operations. However, the operations do not preserve the spatial relationships in the learned representations. Hence, CNNs cannot extrapolate to various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Jindong Gu , Volker Tresp

Capsule networks (CapsNets) have recently shown promise to excel in most computer vision tasks, especially pertaining to scene understanding. In this paper, we explore CapsNet's capabilities in optical flow estimation, a task at which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Vinoj Jayasundara , Debaditya Roy , Basura Fernando

We propose Pure CapsNets (P-CapsNets) which is a generation of normal CNNs structurally. Specifically, we make three modifications to current CapsNets. First, we remove routing procedures from CapsNets based on the observation that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Zhenhua Chen , Xiwen Li , Chuhua Wang , David Crandall

Capsule Network (CapsNet) has shown significant improvement in understanding the variation in images along with better generalization ability compared to traditional Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). CapsNet preserves spatial relationship…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Abdul Rahoof , Vivek Chaturvedi , Muhammad Shafique

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the past several years. A major challenge in lung cancer screening is the detection of lung nodules from computed tomography (CT) scans. State-of-the-art approaches in automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Aryan Mobiny , Hien Van Nguyen

Recently proposed Capsule Network is a brain inspired architecture that brings a new paradigm to deep learning by modelling input domain variations through vector based representations. Despite being a seminal contribution, CapsNet does not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Sameera Ramasinghe , C. D. Athuralya , Salman Khan

The capsule network is a distinct and promising segment of the neural network family that drew attention due to its unique ability to maintain the equivariance property by preserving the spatial relationship amongst the features. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 S J Pawan , Rishi Sharma , Hemanth Sai Ram Reddy , M Vani , Jeny Rajan