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In the last decade, convolutional neural networks (ConvNets) have been a major focus of research in medical image analysis. However, the performances of ConvNets may be limited by a lack of explicit consideration of the long-range spatial…

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Medical image recognition serves as a key way to aid in clinical diagnosis, enabling more accurate and timely identification of diseases and abnormalities. Vision transformer-based approaches have proven effective in handling various…

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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 this work, we present Eformer - Edge enhancement based transformer, a novel architecture that builds an encoder-decoder network using transformer blocks for medical image denoising. Non-overlapping window-based self-attention is used in…

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Region proposal based methods like R-CNN and Faster R-CNN models have proven to be extremely successful in object detection and segmentation tasks. Recently, Transformers have also gained popularity in the domain of Computer Vision, and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Deepanshu Pandey , Pradyumna Gupta , Sumit Bhattacharya , Aman Sinha , Rohit Agarwal

Transformers have made remarkable progress towards modeling long-range dependencies within the medical image analysis domain. However, current transformer-based models suffer from several disadvantages: (1) existing methods fail to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Chenyu You , Ruihan Zhao , Fenglin Liu , Siyuan Dong , Sandeep Chinchali , Ufuk Topcu , Lawrence Staib , James S. Duncan

Skip connection engineering is primarily employed to address the semantic gap between the encoder and decoder, while also integrating global dependencies to understand the relationships among complex anatomical structures in medical image…

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Depth estimation from a single image is of paramount importance in the realm of computer vision, with a multitude of applications. Conventional methods suffer from the trade-off between consistency and fine-grained details due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Md Awsafur Rahman , Shaikh Anowarul Fattah

In recent years, computer-aided diagnosis has become an increasingly popular topic. Methods based on convolutional neural networks have achieved good performance in medical image segmentation and classification. Due to the limitations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Yao Chang , Hu Menghan , Zhai Guangtao , Zhang Xiao-Ping

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Transformers have achieved remarkable success in computer vision tasks. However, their deep architectures often lead to high computational redundancy, making them less suitable for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Novendra Setyawan , Ghufron Wahyu Kurniawan , Chi-Chia Sun , Jun-Wei Hsieh , Jing-Ming Guo , Wen-Kai Kuo

The advent of Transformer and Mamba-based architectures has significantly advanced 3D medical image segmentation by enabling global contextual modeling, a capability traditionally limited in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Duy D. Nguyen , Phat T. Tran-Truong

Most state-of-the-art methods for medical image segmentation adopt the encoder-decoder architecture. However, this U-shaped framework still has limitations in capturing the non-local multi-scale information with a simple skip connection. To…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-27 Haonan Wang , Peng Cao , Xiaoli Liu , Jinzhu Yang , Osmar Zaiane

In the past few years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved milestones in medical image analysis. Especially, the deep neural networks based on U-shaped architecture and skip-connections have been widely applied in a variety…

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Transformer, as an alternative to CNN, has been proven effective in many modalities (e.g., texts and images). For 3D point cloud transformers, existing efforts focus primarily on pushing their accuracy to the state-of-the-art level.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Zhijian Liu , Xinyu Yang , Haotian Tang , Shang Yang , Song Han

While transformers demonstrate outstanding performance across various audio tasks, their application to neural vocoders remains challenging. Neural vocoders require the generation of long audio signals at the sample level, which demands…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Seongho Hong , Yong-Hoon Choi

Detection Transformers represent end-to-end object detection approaches based on a Transformer encoder-decoder architecture, exploiting the attention mechanism for global relation modeling. Although Detection Transformers deliver results on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Bastian Wittmann , Fernando Navarro , Suprosanna Shit , Bjoern Menze

Medical image segmentation has seen significant improvements with transformer models, which excel in grasping far-reaching contexts and global contextual information. However, the increasing computational demands of these models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Reza Azad , Leon Niggemeier , Michael Huttemann , Amirhossein Kazerouni , Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam , Yury Velichko , Ulas Bagci , Dorit Merhof

As more deep learning models are being applied in real-world applications, there is a growing need for modeling and learning the representations of neural networks themselves. An efficient representation can be used to predict target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Yun Yi , Haokui Zhang , Rong Xiao , Nannan Wang , Xiaoyu Wang

Medical image segmentation is a cornerstone of modern clinical diagnostics. While Vision Transformers that leverage shifted window-based self-attention have established new benchmarks in this field, they are often hampered by a critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Fuchen Zheng , Xinyi Chen , Weixuan Li , Quanjun Li , Junhua Zhou , Xiaojiao Guo , Xuhang Chen , Chi-Man Pun , Shoujun Zhou

Transformer is a deep neural network that employs a self-attention mechanism to comprehend the contextual relationships within sequential data. Unlike conventional neural networks or updated versions of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) such…

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