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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

Accurate medical image segmentation allows for the precise delineation of anatomical structures and pathological regions, which is essential for treatment planning, surgical navigation, and disease monitoring. Both CNN-based and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Libin Lan , Yanxin Li , Xiaojuan Liu , Juan Zhou , Jianxun Zhang , Nannan Huang , Yudong Zhang

In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with channel-wise feature refining mechanisms have brought noticeable benefits to modelling channel dependencies. However, current attention paradigms fail to infer an optimal channel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Nick Nikzad , Yongsheng Gao , Jun Zhou

The hybrid architecture of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Transformer are very popular for medical image segmentation. However, it suffers from two challenges. First, although a CNNs branch can capture the local image features…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-21 Tao Lei , Rui Sun , Xuan Wang , Yingbo Wang , Xi He , Asoke Nandi

Deep learning, especially convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Transformer architectures, have become the focus of extensive research in medical image segmentation, achieving impressive results. However, CNNs come with inductive biases…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-20 Xiao Liu , Peng Gao , Tao Yu , Fei Wang , Ru-Yue Yuan

The accurate segmentation of medical images is critical for various healthcare applications. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs), especially Fully Convolutional Networks (FCNs) like U-Net, have shown remarkable success in medical image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Omid Nejati Manzari , Javad Mirzapour Kaleybar , Hooman Saadat , Shahin Maleki

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely used for hyperspectral image classification. As a common process, small cubes are firstly cropped from the hyperspectral image and then fed into CNNs to extract spectral and spatial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-15 Renlong Hang , Zhu Li , Qingshan Liu , Pedram Ghamisi , Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya

While convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and vision transformers (ViTs) have advanced medical image segmentation, they face inherent limitations such as local receptive fields in CNNs and high computational complexity in ViTs. This paper…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-02 Pooya Ashtari , Shahryar Noei , Fateme Nateghi Haredasht , Jonathan H. Chen , Giuseppe Jurman , Aleksandra Pizurica , Sabine Van Huffel

Currently, convolutional neural networks (CNN) (e.g., U-Net) have become the de facto standard and attained immense success in medical image segmentation. However, as a downside, CNN based methods are a double-edged sword as they fail to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-01 Reza Azad , Moein Heidari , Yuli Wu , Dorit Merhof

In this paper we propose a novel deep learning-based algorithm for biomedical image segmentation which uses a sequential attention mechanism able to shift the focus of attention across the image in a selective way, allowing subareas which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Shohei Hayashi , Bisser Raytchev , Toru Tamaki , Kazufumi Kaneda

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown to be powerful medical image segmentation models. In this study, we address some of the main unresolved issues regarding these models. Specifically, training of these models on small medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Davood Karimi , Ali Gholipour

Various deep learning methods have been proposed to segment breast lesion from ultrasound images. However, similar intensity distributions, variable tumor morphology and blurred boundaries present challenges for breast lesions segmentation,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-23 Gongping Chen , Yu Dai , Jianxun Zhang , Moi Hoon Yap

Melanoma is caused by the abnormal growth of melanocytes in human skin. Like other cancers, this life-threatening skin cancer can be treated with early diagnosis. To support a diagnosis by automatic skin lesion segmentation, several Fully…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam , Reza Azad , Maral Zarvani , Dorit Merhof

Medical image segmentation plays an important role in various clinical applications; however, existing deep learning models face trade-offs between efficiency and accuracy. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) capture local details well but…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-20 Saqib Qamar , Mohd Fazil , Parvez Ahmad , Shakir Khan , Abu Taha Zamani

This paper delves into the challenges and advancements in the field of medical image segmentation, particularly focusing on breast cancer diagnosis. The authors propose a novel Transformer-based segmentation model that addresses the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-20 Weijie He , Runyuan Bao , Yiru Cang , Jianjun Wei , Yang Zhang , Jiacheng Hu

Accurate medical image segmentation requires effective modeling of both long-range dependencies and fine-grained boundary details. While transformers mitigate the issue of insufficient semantic information arising from the limited receptive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Yanxin Li , Hui Wan , Libin Lan

Efficiently capturing multi-scale information and building long-range dependencies among pixels are essential for medical image segmentation because of the various sizes and shapes of the lesion regions or organs. In this paper, we present…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-18 Hao Shao , Quansheng Zeng , Qibin Hou , Jufeng Yang

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

Accurate segmentation of the liver is a prerequisite for the diagnosis of disease. Automated segmentation is an important application of computer-aided detection and diagnosis of liver disease. In recent years, automated processing of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-29 Zhiqi Lee , Sumin Qi , Chongchong Fan , Ziwei Xie

When studying the results of a segmentation algorithm using convolutional neural networks, one wonders about the reliability and consistency of the results. This leads to questioning the possibility of using such an algorithm in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-29 Nicolas Makaroff , Laurent D. Cohen