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Attention mechanism has gained great success in vision recognition. Many works are devoted to improving the effectiveness of attention mechanism, which finely design the structure of the attention operator. These works need lots of…

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Attention mechanisms represent a fundamental paradigm shift in neural network architectures, enabling models to selectively focus on relevant portions of input sequences through learned weighting functions. This monograph provides a…

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Multimodal positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) is used routinely in the assessment of cancer. PET-CT combines the high sensitivity for tumor detection with PET and anatomical information from CT. Tumor segmentation is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-13 Xiaohang Fu , Lei Bi , Ashnil Kumar , Michael Fulham , Jinman Kim

Automated fetal head segmentation in ultrasound images is critical for accurate biometric measurements in prenatal care. While existing deep learning approaches have achieved a reasonable performance, they struggle with issues like low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Ammar Bhilwarawala , Mainak Bandyopadhyay

Over the past decade, Deep Convolutional Neural Networks have been widely adopted for medical image segmentation and shown to achieve adequate performance. However, due to the inherent inductive biases present in the convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu , Poojan Oza , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Vishal M. Patel

Deep Learning based techniques have gained significance over the past few years in the field of medicine. They are used in various applications such as classifying medical images, segmentation and identification. The existing architectures…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-16 Gaurav Prasanna , John Rohit Ernest , Lalitha G , Sathiya Narayanan

Convolutional neural networks have become a popular research in the field of finger vein recognition because of their powerful image feature representation. However, most researchers focus on improving the performance of the network by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Zhongxia Zhang , Mingwen Wang

Medical imaging plays a crucial role in modern healthcare by providing non-invasive visualisation of internal structures and abnormalities, enabling early disease detection, accurate diagnosis, and treatment planning. This study aims to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-25 Walid Ehab , Yongmin Li

The channel attention mechanism is a useful technique widely employed in deep convolutional neural networks to boost the performance for image processing tasks, eg, image classification and image super-resolution. It is usually designed as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Yuxuan Shi , Lingxiao Yang , Wangpeng An , Xiantong Zhen , Liuqing Wang

In recent years, there have been significant advancements in applying attention mechanisms to point cloud analysis. However, attention module variants featured in various research papers often operate under diverse settings and tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Chengzhi Wu , Kaige Wang , Zeyun Zhong , Hao Fu , Junwei Zheng , Jiaming Zhang , Julius Pfrommer , Jürgen Beyerer

We consider the problem of referring image segmentation. Given an input image and a natural language expression, the goal is to segment the object referred by the language expression in the image. Existing works in this area treat the…

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Breast ultrasound imaging is a valuable tool for early breast cancer detection, but automated tumor segmentation is challenging due to inherent noise, variations in scale of lesions, and fuzzy boundaries. To address these challenges, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Muhammad Azeem Aslam , Asim Naveed , Nisar Ahmed

The success of deep networks in medical image segmentation relies heavily on massive labeled training data. However, acquiring dense annotations is a time-consuming process. Weakly-supervised methods normally employ less expensive forms of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Mu Tian , Qinzhu Yang , Yi Gao

The performance of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can be improved by adjusting the interrelationship between channels with attention mechanism. However, attention mechanism in recent advance has not fully utilized spatial information…

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Currently, convolutional neural networks (CNN) (e.g., U-Net) have become the de facto standard and attained immense success in medical image segmentation. However, as a downside, CNN based methods are a double-edged sword as they fail to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-01 Reza Azad , Moein Heidari , Yuli Wu , Dorit Merhof

Fluorescence microscopy allows for a detailed inspection of cells, cellular networks, and anatomical landmarks by staining with a variety of carefully-selected markers visualized as color channels. Quantitative characterization of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Alvaro Gomariz , Tiziano Portenier , Patrick M. Helbling , Stephan Isringhausen , Ute Suessbier , César Nombela-Arrieta , Orcun Goksel

Effective deep feature extraction via feature-level fusion is crucial for multimodal object detection. However, previous studies often involve complex training processes that integrate modality-specific features by stacking multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Lei Hao , Lina Xu , Chang Liu , Yanni Dong

Recently, many attempts have been made to construct a transformer base U-shaped architecture, and new methods have been proposed that outperformed CNN-based rivals. However, serious problems such as blockiness and cropped edges in predicted…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-20 MohammadReza Naderi , MohammadHossein Givkashi , Fatemeh Piri , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi

Transformer architecture has emerged to be successful in a number of natural language processing tasks. However, its applications to medical vision remain largely unexplored. In this study, we present UTNet, a simple yet powerful hybrid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Yunhe Gao , Mu Zhou , Dimitris Metaxas

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