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In recent years, significant advancements have been made in deep learning for medical image segmentation, particularly with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and transformer models. However, CNNs face limitations in capturing long-range…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Juntao Jiang , Jiangning Zhang , Weixuan Liu , Muxuan Gao , Xiaobin Hu , Zhucun Xue , Yong Liu , Shuicheng Yan

In clinical practice, regions of interest in medical imaging often need to be identified through a process of precise image segmentation. The quality of this image segmentation step critically affects the subsequent clinical assessment of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-23 João B. S. Carvalho , João A. Santinha , Đorđe Miladinović , Joachim M. Buhmann

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) excel in local feature extraction while Transformers are superior in processing global semantic information. By leveraging the strengths of both, hybrid Transformer-CNN networks have become the major…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Xu Ma , Mengsheng Chen , Junhui Zhang , Lijuan Song , Fang Du , Zhenhua Yu

Sturge-Weber syndrome (SWS) is a vascular malformation disease, and it may cause blindness if the patient's condition is severe. Clinical results show that SWS can be divided into two types based on the characteristics of scleral blood…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-26 Chang Yao , Jingyu Tang , Menghan Hu , Yue Wu , Wenyi Guo , Qingli Li , Xiao-Ping Zhang

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and vision transformers (ViTs) are widely employed for medical image segmentation, but they are still challenged by their intrinsic characteristics. CNNs are limited from capturing varying-scaled…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Jin Yang , Daniel S. Marcus , Aristeidis Sotiras

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been the de facto standard for nowadays 3D medical image segmentation. The convolutional operations used in these networks, however, inevitably have limitations in modeling the long-range dependency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Yutong Xie , Jianpeng Zhang , Chunhua Shen , Yong Xia

Deep learning has shown its great promise in various biomedical image segmentation tasks. Existing models are typically based on U-Net and rely on an encoder-decoder architecture with stacked local operators to aggregate long-range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Zhengyang Wang , Na Zou , Dinggang Shen , Shuiwang Ji

The convolution operation is a central building block of neural network architectures widely used in computer vision. The size of the convolution kernels determines both the expressiveness of convolutional neural networks (CNN), as well as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-10 Tianyu Ma , Adrian V. Dalca , Mert R. Sabuncu

In recent years, deep learning has achieved great success in many computer vision applications. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have lately emerged as a major approach to image classification. Most research on CNNs thus far has focused…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Yunho Jeon , Junmo Kim

Accurate segmentation of critical anatomical structures is at the core of medical image analysis. The main bottleneck lies in gathering the requisite expert-labeled image annotations in a scalable manner. Methods that permit to produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Yuhang Lu , Weijian Li , Kang Zheng , Yirui Wang , Adam P. Harrison , Chihung Lin , Song Wang , Jing Xiao , Le Lu , Chang-Fu Kuo , Shun Miao

Deep learning (DL) based semantic segmentation methods have been providing state-of-the-art performance in the last few years. More specifically, these techniques have been successfully applied to medical image classification, segmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Md Zahangir Alom , Mahmudul Hasan , Chris Yakopcic , Tarek M. Taha , Vijayan K. Asari

The quality of patient care associated with diagnostic radiology is proportionate to a physician workload. Segmentation is a fundamental limiting precursor to both diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Advances in machine learning (ML) aim…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-30 Ahmed Ghorbel , Ahmed Aldahdooh , Shadi Albarqouni , Wassim Hamidouche

While scale-invariant modeling has substantially boosted the performance of visual recognition tasks, it remains largely under-explored in deep networks based image restoration. Naively applying those scale-invariant techniques (e.g.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Yuchen Fan , Jiahui Yu , Ding Liu , Thomas S. Huang

Brain tumor segmentation plays a pivotal role in medical image processing. In this work, we aim to segment brain MRI volumes. 3D convolution neural networks (CNN) such as 3D U-Net and V-Net employing 3D convolutions to capture the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Chen Chen , Xiaopeng Liu , Meng Ding , Junfeng Zheng , Jiangyun Li

Accurate and fast segmentation of medical images is clinically essential, yet current research methods include convolutional neural networks with fast inference speed but difficulty in learning image contextual features, and transformer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Weihu Song , Heng Yu , Jianhua Wu

Over the past two decades, machine analysis of medical imaging has advanced rapidly, opening up significant potential for several important medical applications. As complicated diseases increase and the number of cases rises, the role of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-08 Fares Bougourzi , Fadi Dornaika , Cosimo Distante , Abdelmalik Taleb-Ahmed

Convolution neural networks (CNNs) have succeeded in compressive image sensing. However, due to the inductive bias of locality and weight sharing, the convolution operations demonstrate the intrinsic limitations in modeling the long-range…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-03 Dongjie Ye , Zhangkai Ni , Hanli Wang , Jian Zhang , Shiqi Wang , Sam Kwong

Feature foundation models - usually vision transformers - offer rich semantic descriptors of images, useful for downstream tasks such as (interactive) segmentation and object detection. For computational efficiency these descriptors are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Ronan Docherty , Antonis Vamvakeros , Samuel J. Cooper

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

In many modern computer application problems, the classification of image data plays an important role. Among many different supervised machine learning models, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and linear discriminant analysis (LDA) as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Axel Klawonn , Martin Lanser , Janine Weber