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Semantic image segmentation is the process of labeling each pixel of an image with its corresponding class. An encoder-decoder based approach, like U-Net and its variants, is a popular strategy for solving medical image segmentation tasks.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-30 Debesh Jha , Michael A. Riegler , Dag Johansen , Pål Halvorsen , Håvard D. Johansen

The convolutional neural network-based methods have become more and more popular for medical image segmentation due to their outstanding performance. However, they struggle with capturing long-range dependencies, which are essential for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-30 Hongkun Sun , Jing Xu , Yuping Duan

Segmentation for tracking surgical instruments plays an important role in robot-assisted surgery. Segmentation of surgical instruments contributes to capturing accurate spatial information for tracking. In this paper, a novel network,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Zhen-Liang Ni , Gui-Bin Bian , Xiao-Liang Xie , Zeng-Guang Hou , Xiao-Hu Zhou , Yan-Jie Zhou

Nowadays, pre-trained encoders are widely used in medical image segmentation due to their strong capability in extracting rich and generalized feature representations. However, existing methods often fail to fully leverage these features,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Xiaolin Gou , Chuanlin Liao , Jizhe Zhou , Fengshuo Ye , Yi Lin

Semi-supervised learning has gained considerable popularity in medical image segmentation tasks due to its capability to reduce reliance on expert-examined annotations. Several mean-teacher (MT) based semi-supervised methods utilize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Kaiwen Huang , Tao Zhou , Huazhu Fu , Yizhe Zhang , Yi Zhou , Xiao-Jun Wu

Unsupervised image segmentation aims at assigning the pixels with similar feature into a same cluster without annotation, which is an important task in computer vision. Due to lack of prior knowledge, most of existing model usually need to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Zhichao Wu , Lei Guo , Hao Zhang , Dan Xu

The recent prevalence of deep neural networks has lead semantic segmentation networks to achieve human-level performance in the medical field when sufficient training data is provided. Such networks however fail to generalize when tasked…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Serban Stan , Mohammad Rostami

The performance of supervised deep learning methods for medical image segmentation is often limited by the scarcity of labeled data. As a promising research direction, semi-supervised learning addresses this dilemma by leveraging unlabeled…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-13 Zihang Liu , Chunhui Zhao

Due to low tissue contrast, irregular object appearance, and unpredictable location variation, segmenting the objects from different medical imaging modalities (e.g., CT, MR) is considered as an important yet challenging task. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Jinquan Sun , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao , Lei Wang , Luping Zhou , Wanqi Yang , Dinggang Shen

The U-Net architecture, built upon the fully convolutional network, has proven to be effective in biomedical image segmentation. However, U-Net applies skip connections to merge semantically different low- and high-level convolutional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-28 Hasib Zunair , A. Ben Hamza

In recent years, U-Net and its variants have been widely used in pathology image segmentation tasks. One of the key designs of U-Net is the use of skip connections between the encoder and decoder, which helps to recover detailed information…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-18 Zongyi Li , Hongbing Lyu , Jun Wang

In this paper, we introduce U-Net v2, a new robust and efficient U-Net variant for medical image segmentation. It aims to augment the infusion of semantic information into low-level features while simultaneously refining high-level features…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Yaopeng Peng , Milan Sonka , Danny Z. Chen

The encoder-decoder network is widely used to learn deep feature representations from pixel-wise annotations in biomedical image analysis. Under this structure, the performance profoundly relies on the effectiveness of feature extraction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-12 Weinan Song , Yuan Liang , Jiawei Yang , Kun Wang , Lei He

Automated medical image segmentation is becoming increasingly crucial to modern clinical practice, driven by the growing demand for precise diagnosis, the push towards personalized treatment plans, and the advancements in machine learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-13 Tan-Hanh Pham , Xianqi Li , Kim-Doang Nguyen

Medical image segmentation typically adopts a point-wise convolutional segmentation head to predict dense labels, where each output channel is heuristically tied to a specific class. This rigid design limits both feature sharing and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Bin Xie , Gady Agam

Accurate medical image segmentation is critical for disease quantification and treatment evaluation. While traditional Unet architectures and their transformer-integrated variants excel in automated segmentation tasks. However, they lack…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-09 Guanqun Sun , Yizhi Pan , Weikun Kong , Zichang Xu , Jianhua Ma , Teeradaj Racharak , Le-Minh Nguyen , Junyi Xin

Deep learning techniques have successfully been employed in numerous computer vision tasks including image segmentation. The techniques have also been applied to medical image segmentation, one of the most critical tasks in computer-aided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Titinunt Kitrungrotsakul , Iwamoto Yutaro , Lanfen Lin , Ruofeng Tong , Jingsong Li , Yen-Wei Chen

Accurate training labels are a key component for multi-class medical image segmentation. Their annotation is costly and time-consuming because it requires domain expertise. This work aims to develop a dual-branch network and automatically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Jianfei Liu , Christopher Parnell , Ronald M. Summers

Deep convolutional neural networks have achieved remarkable progress on a variety of medical image computing tasks. A common problem when applying supervised deep learning methods to medical images is the lack of labeled data, which is very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Xiaomeng Li , Lequan Yu , Hao Chen , Chi-Wing Fu , Lei Xing , Pheng-Ann Heng

In medical image segmentation tasks, the scarcity of labeled training data poses a significant challenge when training deep neural networks. When using U-Net-style architectures, it is common practice to address this problem by pretraining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Gábor Hidy , Bence Bakos , András Lukács