English
Related papers

Related papers: MEDUSA: Multi-scale Encoder-Decoder Self-Attention…

200 papers

Medical image segmentation faces challenges due to variations in anatomical structures. While convolutional neural networks (CNNs) effectively capture local features, they struggle with modeling long-range dependencies. Transformers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Lalit Maurya , Honghai Liu , Reyer Zwiggelaar

Medical image segmentation plays an important role in various clinical applications; however, existing deep learning models face trade-offs between efficiency and accuracy. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) capture local details well but…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-20 Saqib Qamar , Mohd Fazil , Parvez Ahmad , Shakir Khan , Abu Taha Zamani

Automated identification of DICOM image series is essential for large-scale medical image analysis, quality control, protocol harmonization, and reliable downstream processing. However, DICOM series classification remains challenging due to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-22 Tuan Truong , Melanie Dohmen , Sara Lorio , Matthias Lenga

Accurate lung nodule segmentation is crucial for early-stage lung cancer diagnosis, as it can substantially enhance patient survival rates. Computed tomography (CT) images are widely employed for early diagnosis in lung nodule analysis.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Muhammad Usman , Azka Rehman , Abd Ur Rehman , Abdullah Shahid , Tariq Mahmood Khan , Imran Razzak , Minyoung Chung , Yeong Gil Shin

Large Language Models (LLMs) employ auto-regressive decoding that requires sequential computation, with each step reliant on the previous one's output. This creates a bottleneck as each step necessitates moving the full model parameters…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Tianle Cai , Yuhong Li , Zhengyang Geng , Hongwu Peng , Jason D. Lee , Deming Chen , Tri Dao

Recently, a series of works in computer vision have shown promising results on various image and video understanding tasks using self-attention. However, due to the quadratic computational and memory complexities of self-attention, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Zhuoran Shen , Irwan Bello , Raviteja Vemulapalli , Xuhui Jia , Ching-Hui Chen

Learning similarity is a key aspect in medical image analysis, particularly in recommendation systems or in uncovering the interpretation of anatomical data in images. Most existing methods learn such similarities in the embedding space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Sukesh Adiga , Jose Dolz , Herve Lombaert

Segmentation plays a crucial role in diagnosis. Studying the retinal vasculatures from fundus images help identify early signs of many crucial illnesses such as diabetic retinopathy. Due to the varying shape, size, and patterns of retinal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-07 Shreshth Saini , Geetika Agrawal

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Zunhui Xia , Hongxing Li , Libin Lan

Decoding human activity accurately from wearable sensors can aid in applications related to healthcare and context awareness. The present approaches in this domain use recurrent and/or convolutional models to capture the spatio-temporal…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Satya P. Singh , Aimé Lay-Ekuakille , Deepak Gangwar , Madan Kumar Sharma , Sukrit Gupta

Semantic segmentation of remote sensing images plays an important role in a wide range of applications including land resource management, biosphere monitoring and urban planning. Although the accuracy of semantic segmentation in remote…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-21 Rui Li , Shunyi Zheng , Chenxi Duan , Ce Zhang , Jianlin Su , P. M. Atkinson

The medical image is characterized by the inter-class indistinction, high variability, and noise, where the recognition of pixels is challenging. Unlike previous self-attention based methods that capture context information from one level,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Fei Ding , Gang Yang , Jinlu Liu , Jun Wu , Dayong Ding , Jie Xv , Gangwei Cheng , Xirong Li

Segmenting biomarkers in medical images is crucial for various biotech applications. Despite advances, Transformer and CNN based methods often struggle with variations in staining and morphology, limiting feature extraction. In medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-25 Saad Wazir , Daeyoung Kim

In medical images, various types of lesions often manifest significant differences in their shape and texture. Accurate medical image segmentation demands deep learning models with robust capabilities in multi-scale and boundary feature…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-20 Zhenhuan Zhou , Along He , Yanlin Wu , Rui Yao , Xueshuo Xie , Tao Li

Since their emergence, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have made significant strides in medical image analysis. However, the local nature of the convolution operator may pose a limitation for capturing global and long-range…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-01 Abdul Rehman Khan , Asifullah Khan

Attention mechanisms have raised significant interest in the research community, since they promise significant improvements in the performance of neural network architectures. However, in any specific problem, we still lack a principled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Rafael Pedro , Arlindo L. Oliveira

Due to the success of CNN-based and Transformer-based models in various computer vision tasks, recent works study the applicability of CNN-Transformer hybrid architecture models in 3D multi-modality medical segmentation tasks. Introducing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Yonghao Huang , Leiting Chen , Chuan Zhou

Deep learning has made important contributions to the development of medical image segmentation. Convolutional neural networks, as a crucial branch, have attracted strong attention from researchers. Through the tireless efforts of numerous…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-02 Zhaojin Fu , Zheng Chen , Jinjiang Li , Lu Ren

Accurate segmentation of the region of interest in medical images can provide an essential pathway for devising effective treatment plans for life-threatening diseases. It is still challenging for U-Net, and its state-of-the-art variants,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-09 Md. Rayhan Ahmed , Adnan Ferdous Ashrafi , Raihan Uddin Ahmed , Swakkhar Shatabda , A. K. M. Muzahidul Islam , Salekul Islam

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