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As the COVID-19 pandemic aggravated the excessive workload of doctors globally, the demand for computer aided methods in medical imaging analysis increased even further. Such tools can result in more robust diagnostic pipelines which are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-22 Balázs Maga

Current state-of-the-art medical image segmentation methods prioritize accuracy but often at the expense of increased computational demands and larger model sizes. Applying these large-scale models to the relatively limited scale of medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Jiahui Zhong , Wenhong Tian , Yuanlun Xie , Zhijia Liu , Jie Ou , Taoran Tian , Lei Zhang

Breast ultrasound (BUS) image segmentation plays a vital role in assisting clinical diagnosis and early tumor screening. However, challenges such as speckle noise, imaging artifacts, irregular lesion morphology, and blurred boundaries…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Guoping Cai , Houjin Chen , Yanfeng Li , Jia Sun , Ziwei Chen , Qingzi Geng

To automatically detect Anterior Mediastinum Lesions (AMLs) in the Anterior Mediastinum (AM), the primary requirement will be an automatic segmentation model specifically designed for the AM. The prevalence of AML is extremely low, making…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Sina Soleimani-Fard , Won Gi Jeong , Francis Ferri Ripalda , Hasti Sasani , Younhee Choi , S Deiva , Gong Yong Jin , Seok-bum Ko

Purpose: Automatic and accurate segmentation of fundus vessel images has become an essential prerequisite for computer-aided diagnosis of ophthalmic diseases such as diabetes mellitus. The task of high-precision retinal vessel segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-06 Xiang Li , Mingsi Liu , Lixin Duan

Retinal blood vessel segmentation can extract clinically relevant information from fundus images. As manual tracing is cumbersome, algorithms based on Convolution Neural Networks have been developed. Such studies have used small publicly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-24 Jeremiah Fadugba , Patrick Köhler , Lisa Koch , Petru Manescu , Philipp Berens

Our research focuses on the critical field of early diagnosis of disease by examining retinal blood vessels in fundus images. While automatic segmentation of retinal blood vessels holds promise for early detection, accurate analysis remains…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-14 Fatema Tuj Johora Faria , Mukaffi Bin Moin , Pronay Debnath , Asif Iftekher Fahim , Faisal Muhammad Shah

Brain tumor segmentation is a challenging problem in medical image analysis. The endpoint is to generate the salient masks that accurately identify brain tumor regions in an fMRI screening. In this paper, we propose a novel attention gate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-08 Tim Cvetko

Accurate segmentation of fetal brain magnetic resonance images is crucial for analyzing fetal brain development and detecting potential neurodevelopmental abnormalities. Traditional deep learning-based automatic segmentation, although…

The advancement of deep learning has driven notable progress in remote sensing semantic segmentation. Attention mechanisms, while enabling global modeling and utilizing contextual information, face challenges of high computational costs and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Yang Yang , Shunyi Zheng

Though U-Net has achieved tremendous success in medical image segmentation tasks, it lacks the ability to explicitly model long-range dependencies. Therefore, Vision Transformers have emerged as alternative segmentation structures recently,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-12 Hongyi Wang , Shiao Xie , Lanfen Lin , Yutaro Iwamoto , Xian-Hua Han , Yen-Wei Chen , Ruofeng Tong

Background: Brain tumor segmentation has a significant impact on the diagnosis and treatment of brain tumors. Accurate brain tumor segmentation remains challenging due to their irregular shapes, vague boundaries, and high variability.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Zhanyuan Jia , Ni Yao , Danyang Sun , Chuang Han , Yanting Li , Jiaofen Nan , Fubao Zhu , Chen Zhao , Weihua Zhou

In the current salient object detection network, the most popular method is using U-shape structure. However, the massive number of parameters leads to more consumption of computing and storage resources which are not feasible to deploy on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Bin Zhang , Yang Wu , Xiaojing Zhang , Ming Ma

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is one of the non-invasive and easy-to-acquire biomarkers (the thickness of the retinal layers, which is detectable within OCT scans) being investigated to diagnose Alzheimer's disease (AD). This work aims…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-14 Paria Jeihouni , Omid Dehzangi , Annahita Amireskandari , Ali Dabouei , Ali Rezai , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

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

Gliomas are one of the most prevalent types of primary brain tumours, accounting for more than 30\% of all cases and they develop from the glial stem or progenitor cells. In theory, the majority of brain tumours could well be identified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Reza Azad , Nika Khosravi , Dorit Merhof

Adenoid hypertrophy stands as a common cause of obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome in children. It is characterized by snoring, nasal congestion, and growth disorders. Computed Tomography (CT) emerges as a pivotal medical imaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Rulin Zhou , Yingjie Feng , Guankun Wang , Xiaopin Zhong , Zongze Wu , Qiang Wu , Xi Zhang

Accurate automatic medical image segmentation relies on high-quality, dense annotations, which are costly and time-consuming. Weakly supervised learning provides a more efficient alternative by leveraging sparse and coarse annotations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Dongdong Meng , Sheng Li , Hao Wu , Suqing Tian , Wenjun Ma , Guoping Wang , Xueqing Yan

Low-Light Image Enhancement is a computer vision task which intensifies the dark images to appropriate brightness. It can also be seen as an ill-posed problem in image restoration domain. With the success of deep neural networks, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 Chi-Mao Fan , Tsung-Jung Liu , Kuan-Hsien Liu

Accurate lesion segmentation in ultrasound images is essential for preventive screening and clinical diagnosis, yet remains challenging due to low contrast, blurry boundaries, and significant scale variations. Although existing deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Chen Wang , Yixin Zhu , Yongbin Zhu , Fengyuan Shi , Qi Li , Jun Wang , Zuozhu Liu , Keli Hu