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As an essential prerequisite for developing a medical intelligent assistant system, medical image segmentation has received extensive research and concentration from the neural network community. A series of UNet-like networks with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-25 Ledan Qian , Xiao Zhou , Yi Li , Zhongyi Hu

The accurate segmentation of Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography (CCTA) images holds substantial clinical value for the early detection and treatment of Coronary Heart Disease (CHD). The Transformer, utilizing a self-attention…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Chenchu Xu , Meng Li , Xue Wu

Transformers have been extensively studied in medical image segmentation to build pairwise long-range dependence. Yet, relatively limited well-annotated medical image data makes transformers struggle to extract diverse global features,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-13 Xian Lin , Zengqiang Yan , Xianbo Deng , Chuansheng Zheng , Li Yu

To address the limitations of Transformer decoders in capturing edge details, recognizing local textures and modeling spatial continuity, this paper proposes a novel decoder framework specifically designed for medical image segmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Fan Zhang , Zhiwei Gu , Hua Wang

Recently, a growing interest has been seen in deep learning-based semantic segmentation. UNet, which is one of deep learning networks with an encoder-decoder architecture, is widely used in medical image segmentation. Combining multi-scale…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-21 Huimin Huang , Lanfen Lin , Ruofeng Tong , Hongjie Hu , Qiaowei Zhang , Yutaro Iwamoto , Xianhua Han , Yen-Wei Chen , Jian Wu

Multi-organ segmentation is one of most successful applications of deep learning in medical image analysis. Deep convolutional neural nets (CNNs) have shown great promise in achieving clinically applicable image segmentation performance on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-18 Hao Tang , Xingwei Liu , Kun Han , Shanlin Sun , Narisu Bai , Xuming Chen , Huang Qian , Yong Liu , Xiaohui Xie

In recent advancements in medical image analysis, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and Vision Transformers (ViT) have set significant benchmarks. While the former excels in capturing local features through its convolution operations, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Ziyang Wang , Jian-Qing Zheng , Yichi Zhang , Ge Cui , Lei Li

We propose Video-TransUNet, a deep architecture for instance segmentation in medical CT videos constructed by integrating temporal feature blending into the TransUNet deep learning framework. In particular, our approach amalgamates strong…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-23 Chengxi Zeng , Xinyu Yang , Majid Mirmehdi , Alberto M Gambaruto , Tilo Burghardt

This study proposes a 3D semantic segmentation method for the spine based on the improved SwinUNETR to improve segmentation accuracy and robustness. Aiming at the complex anatomical structure of spinal images, this paper introduces a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yanlin Xiang , Qingyuan He , Ting Xu , Ran Hao , Jiacheng Hu , Hanchao Zhang

Medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in various healthcare applications, enabling accurate diagnosis, treatment planning, and disease monitoring. Traditionally, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) dominated this domain,…

Accurate abdominal multi-organ segmentation is critical for clinical applications. Although numerous deep learning-based automatic segmentation methods have been developed, they still struggle to segment small, irregular, or anatomically…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-22 Fang Lu , Jingyu Xu , Qinxiu Sun , Qiong Lou

Medical image segmentation is vital to the area of medical imaging because it enables professionals to more accurately examine and understand the information offered by different imaging modalities. The technique of splitting a medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-01 Aitik Gupta , Joydip Dhar

One of the common and promising deep learning approaches used for medical image segmentation is transformers, as they can capture long-range dependencies among the pixels by utilizing self-attention. Despite being successful in medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Md Motiur Rahman , Shiva Shokouhmand , Smriti Bhatt , Miad Faezipour

Medical image segmentation is pivotal in healthcare, enhancing diagnostic accuracy, informing treatment strategies, and tracking disease progression. This process allows clinicians to extract critical information from visual data, enabling…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-31 Ovais Iqbal Shah , Danish Raza Rizvi , Aqib Nazir Mir

Brain tumor segmentation models have aided diagnosis in recent years. However, they face MRI complexity and variability challenges, including irregular shapes and unclear boundaries, leading to noise, misclassification, and incomplete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Ruoxin Wang , Tianyi Tang , Haiming Du , Yuxuan Cheng , Yu Wang , Lingjie Yang , Xiaohui Duan , Yunfang Yu , Yu Zhou , Donglong Chen

Medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. Although models based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Transformers have achieved remarkable success in medical image segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-04 Jiashu Xu

The U-shaped architecture has emerged as a crucial paradigm in the design of medical image segmentation networks. However, due to the inherent local limitations of convolution, a fully convolutional segmentation network with U-shaped…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-04 Fenghe Tang , Jianrui Ding , Lingtao Wang , Chunping Ning , S. Kevin Zhou

The real-time segmentation of surgical instruments plays a crucial role in robot-assisted surgery. However, it is still a challenging task to implement deep learning models to do real-time segmentation for surgical instruments due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Zhen-Liang Ni , Gui-Bin Bian , Zeng-Guang Hou , Xiao-Hu Zhou , Xiao-Liang Xie , Zhen Li

With the rapid development of deep learning, CNN-based U-shaped networks have succeeded in medical image segmentation and are widely applied for various tasks. However, their limitations in capturing global features hinder their performance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Xin Li , Wenhui Zhu , Xuanzhao Dong , Oana M. Dumitrascu , Yalin Wang

In the field of medical CT image processing, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been the dominant technique.Encoder-decoder CNNs utilise locality for efficiency, but they cannot simulate distant pixel interactions properly.Recent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-03 Hongyang He , Feng Ziliang , Yuanhang Zheng , Shudong Huang , HaoBing Gao