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The quadratic computational complexity to the number of tokens limits the practical applications of Vision Transformers (ViTs). Several works propose to prune redundant tokens to achieve efficient ViTs. However, these methods generally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Shuning Chang , Pichao Wang , Ming Lin , Fan Wang , David Junhao Zhang , Rong Jin , Mike Zheng Shou

As early detection of breast cancer strongly favors successful therapeutic outcomes, there is major commercial interest in optimizing breast cancer screening. However, current risk prediction models achieve modest performance and do not…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Manon A. Dorster , Felix J. Dorfner , Mason C. Cleveland , Melisa S. Guelen , Jay Patel , Dania Daye , Jean-Philippe Thiran , Albert E. Kim , Christopher P. Bridge

Brain tumor classification using MRI images is critical in medical diagnostics, where early and accurate detection significantly impacts patient outcomes. While recent advancements in deep learning (DL), particularly CNNs, have shown…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Priyam Ganguly , Akhilbaran Ghosh

Vision-transformers (ViTs) and large-scale convolution-neural-networks (CNNs) have reshaped computer vision through pretrained feature representations that enable strong transfer learning for diverse tasks. However, their efficiency as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Alon Kaya , Igal Bilik , Inna Stainvas

This paper delves into the challenges and advancements in the field of medical image segmentation, particularly focusing on breast cancer diagnosis. The authors propose a novel Transformer-based segmentation model that addresses the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-20 Weijie He , Runyuan Bao , Yiru Cang , Jianjun Wei , Yang Zhang , Jiacheng Hu

Brain plays a crucial role in regulating body functions and cognitive processes, with brain tumors posing significant risks to human health. Precise and prompt detection is a key factor in proper treatment and better patient outcomes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Roham Maiti , Debasmita Bhoumik

Breast cancer has become one of the most prevalent cancers by which people all over the world are affected and is posed serious threats to human beings, in a particular woman. In order to provide effective treatment or prevention of this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-15 Pouya Hallaj Zavareh , Atefeh Safayari , Hamidreza Bolhasani

Objective: This paper proposes a deep learning model for breast cancer detection from reconstructed images of microwave imaging scan data and aims to improve the accuracy and efficiency of breast tumor detection, which could have a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Gayathri Girish , Ponnathota Spandana , Badrish Vasu

Comprehending the environment and accurately detecting objects in 3D space are essential for advancing autonomous vehicle technologies. Integrating Camera and LIDAR data has emerged as an effective approach for achieving high accuracy in 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Marcelo Eduardo Pederiva , José Mario De Martino , Alessandro Zimmer

Recently, Vision Transformer (ViT) has continuously established new milestones in the computer vision field, while the high computation and memory cost makes its propagation in industrial production difficult. Pruning, a traditional model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Zhenglun Kong , Peiyan Dong , Xiaolong Ma , Xin Meng , Mengshu Sun , Wei Niu , Xuan Shen , Geng Yuan , Bin Ren , Minghai Qin , Hao Tang , Yanzhi Wang

The main challenge for small object detection algorithms is to ensure accuracy while pursuing real-time performance. The RT-DETR model performs well in real-time object detection, but performs poorly in small object detection accuracy. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Ji Huang , Hui Wang

Prior works have proposed several strategies to reduce the computational cost of self-attention mechanism. Many of these works consider decomposing the self-attention procedure into regional and local feature extraction procedures that each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Ting Yao , Yehao Li , Yingwei Pan , Yu Wang , Xiao-Ping Zhang , Tao Mei

Liver tumour ablation presents a significant clinical challenge: whilst tumours are clearly visible on pre-operative MRI, they are often effectively invisible on intra-operative CT due to minimal contrast between pathological and healthy…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Budhaditya Mukhopadhyay , Chirag Mandal , Pavan Tummala , Naghmeh Mahmoodian , Andreas Nürnberger , Soumick Chatterjee

Deep learning has proven very promising for interpreting MRI in brain tumor diagnosis. However, deep learning models suffer from a scarcity of brain MRI datasets for effective training. Self-supervised learning (SSL) models provide…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-21 Meryem Altin Karagoz , O. Ufuk Nalbantoglu , Geoffrey C. Fox

Detection of tumors in metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) plays an essential role in the early diagnosis and treatment of liver cancer. Deep learning models backboned by fully convolutional neural networks (FCNNs) have become the dominant…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-01 Ramtin Mojtahedi , Mohammad Hamghalam , Richard K. G. Do , Amber L. Simpson

Purpose: The goal of this study is to develop a novel deep learning (DL) based reconstruction framework to improve the digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) imaging performance. Methods: In this work, the DIR-DBTnet is developed for DBT image…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Ting Su , Xiaolei Deng , Zhenwei Wang , Jiecheng Yang , Jianwei Chen , Hairong Zheng , Dong Liang , Yongshuai Ge

Accurate and early detection of breast cancer is essential for successful treatment. This paper introduces a novel deep-learning approach for improved breast cancer classification in histopathological images, a crucial step in diagnosis.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Mahdie Ahmadi , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi

Incorporating human domain knowledge for breast tumor diagnosis is challenging, since shape, boundary, curvature, intensity, or other common medical priors vary significantly across patients and cannot be employed. This work proposes a new…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-03 Aleksandar Vakanski , Min Xian , Phoebe Freer

Medical images exhibit latent anatomical groupings, such as organs, tissues, and pathological regions, that standard Vision Transformers (ViTs) fail to exploit. While recent work like SBM-Transformer attempts to incorporate such structures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Huimin Cheng , Xiaowei Yu , Shushan Wu , Luyang Fang , Chao Cao , Jing Zhang , Tianming Liu , Dajiang Zhu , Wenxuan Zhong , Ping Ma

The difficulty of detecting mitosis and its similarity to non-mitosis objects has remained a challenge in computational pathology. The lack of publicly available data has added more complexity. Deep learning algorithms have shown potentials…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-25 Seyed H. Mirjahanmardi , Samir Mitha , Salar Razavi , Susan Done , April Khademi