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Identifying biomarkers in medical images is vital for a wide range of biotech applications. However, recent Transformer and CNN based methods often struggle with variations in morphology and staining, which limits their feature extraction…

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Accurate medical image segmentation is essential for diagnosis and treatment planning of diseases. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance for automatic medical image segmentation. However, they are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Ran Gu , Guotai Wang , Tao Song , Rui Huang , Michael Aertsen , Jan Deprest , Sébastien Ourselin , Tom Vercauteren , Shaoting Zhang

Medical image segmentation underpins computer-aided diagnosis and therapy by supporting clinical diagnosis, preoperative planning, and disease monitoring. While U-Net style convolutional neural networks perform well due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Jun Ding , Shang Gao

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

Medical image segmentation has made significant progress in recent years. Deep learning-based methods are recognized as data-hungry techniques, requiring large amounts of data with manual annotations. However, manual annotation is expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Yi Lin , Yufan Chen , Kwang-Ting Cheng , Hao Chen

Semantic segmentation has witnessed remarkable advancements with the adaptation of the Transformer architecture. Parallel to the strides made by the Transformer, CNN-based U-Net has seen significant progress, especially in high-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Seul-Ki Yeom , Julian von Klitzing

For medical image semantic segmentation (MISS), Vision Transformers have emerged as strong alternatives to convolutional neural networks thanks to their inherent ability to capture long-range correlations. However, existing research uses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Qianying Liu , Chaitanya Kaul , Jun Wang , Christos Anagnostopoulos , Roderick Murray-Smith , Fani Deligianni

Clinically, the accurate annotation of lesions/tissues can significantly facilitate the disease diagnosis. For example, the segmentation of optic disc/cup (OD/OC) on fundus image would facilitate the glaucoma diagnosis, the segmentation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Junde Wu , Huihui Fang , Fangxin Shang , Dalu Yang , Zhaowei Wang , Jing Gao , Yehui Yang , Yanwu Xu

In medical image segmentation, specialized computer vision techniques, notably transformers grounded in attention mechanisms and residual networks employing skip connections, have been instrumental in advancing performance. Nonetheless,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Fuchen Zheng , Xuhang Chen , Weihuang Liu , Haolun Li , Yingtie Lei , Jiahui He , Chi-Man Pun , Shounjun Zhou

Although convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are promoting the development of medical image semantic segmentation, the standard model still has some shortcomings. First, the feature mapping from the encoder and decoder sub-networks in the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-22 Yutong Cai , Yong Wang

While convolutional neural networks have shown a tremendous impact on various computer vision tasks, they generally demonstrate limitations in explicitly modeling long-range dependencies due to the intrinsic locality of the convolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Guanglei Yang , Hao Tang , Mingli Ding , Nicu Sebe , Elisa Ricci

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

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

Medical image segmentation plays an essential role in developing computer-assisted diagnosis and therapy systems, yet still faces many challenges. In the past few years, the popular encoder-decoder architectures based on CNNs (e.g., U-Net)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Guoping Xu , Xingrong Wu , Xuan Zhang , Xinwei He

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

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

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

Medical image segmentation, a crucial task in computer vision, facilitates the automated delineation of anatomical structures and pathologies, supporting clinicians in diagnosis, treatment planning, and disease monitoring. Notably,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Fuchen Zheng , Xinyi Chen , Xuhang Chen , Haolun Li , Xiaojiao Guo , Weihuang Liu , Chi-Man Pun , Shoujun Zhou

This paper explores the segmentation of very small medical objects with significant clinical value. While Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), particularly UNet-like models, and recent Transformers have shown substantial progress in image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-27 Lingjie Kong , Qiaoling Wei , Chengming Xu , Han Chen , Yanwei Fu

Transformer, the model of choice for natural language processing, has drawn scant attention from the medical imaging community. Given the ability to exploit long-term dependencies, transformers are promising to help atypical convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Hong-Yu Zhou , Jiansen Guo , Yinghao Zhang , Lequan Yu , Liansheng Wang , Yizhou Yu