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Accurate and reliable image segmentation is an essential part of biomedical image analysis. In this paper, we consider the problem of biomedical image segmentation using deep convolutional neural networks. We propose a new end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Amirhossein Dadashzadeh , Alireza Tavakoli Targhi

Image segmentation is a fundamental task in image analysis and clinical practice. The current state-of-the-art techniques are based on U-shape type encoder-decoder networks with skip connections, called U-Net. Despite the powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Chun-Wun Cheng , Christina Runkel , Lihao Liu , Raymond H Chan , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Angelica I Aviles-Rivero

The edge computing paradigm places compute-capable devices - edge servers - at the network edge to assist mobile devices in executing data analysis tasks. Intuitively, offloading compute-intense tasks to edge servers can reduce their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Yoshitomo Matsubara , Marco Levorato

Conventional computer vision models rely on very deep, feedforward networks processing whole images and trained offline with extensive labeled data. In contrast, biological vision relies on comparatively shallow, recurrent networks that…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Osvaldo M Velarde , Lucas C Parra

One of the most common tasks in medical imaging is semantic segmentation. Achieving this segmentation automatically has been an active area of research, but the task has been proven very challenging due to the large variation of anatomy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Holger R. Roth , Chen Shen , Hirohisa Oda , Masahiro Oda , Yuichiro Hayashi , Kazunari Misawa , Kensaku Mori

Tomography medical imaging is essential in the clinical workflow of modern cancer radiotherapy. Radiation oncologists identify cancerous tissues, applying delineation on treatment regions throughout all image slices. This kind of task is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Chun-Hung Chao , Yen-Chi Cheng , Hsien-Tzu Cheng , Chi-Wen Huang , Tsung-Ying Ho , Chen-Kan Tseng , Le Lu , Min Sun

The paper presents a new model for single channel images low-level interpretation. The image is decomposed into a graph which captures a complete set of structural features. The description allows to accurately identify every edge location…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Alessandro Dal Palu'

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) achieved the state-of-the-art performance in medical image segmentation due to their ability to extract highly complex feature representations. However, it is argued in recent studies that traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Zhendi Gong , Andrew P. French , Guoping Qiu , Xin Chen

Multi-organ segmentation in whole-body computed tomography (CT) is a constant pre-processing step which finds its application in organ-specific image retrieval, radiotherapy planning, and interventional image analysis. We address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Fernando Navarro , Suprosanna Shit , Ivan Ezhov , Johannes Paetzold , Andrei Gafita , Jan Peeken , Stephanie Combs , Bjoern Menze

The convolutional neural network-based methods have become more and more popular for medical image segmentation due to their outstanding performance. However, they struggle with capturing long-range dependencies, which are essential for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-30 Hongkun Sun , Jing Xu , Yuping Duan

In this study, the performance of existing U-shaped neural network architectures was enhanced for medical image segmentation by adding Transformer. Although Transformer architectures are powerful at extracting global information, its…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-12 Songkai Sun , Qingshan She , Yuliang Ma , Rihui Li , Yingchun Zhang

Purpose: Conventional automated segmentation of the head anatomy in MRI distinguishes different brain and non-brain tissues based on image intensities and prior tissue probability maps (TPM). This works well for normal head anatomies, but…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-20 Lukas Hirsch , Yu Huang , Lucas C Parra

Multi-organ segmentation in abdominal Computed Tomography (CT) images is of great importance for diagnosis of abdominal lesions and subsequent treatment planning. Though deep learning based methods have attained high performance, they rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Meng Han , Xiangde Luo , Wenjun Liao , Shichuan Zhang , Shaoting Zhang , Guotai Wang

Deformable image registration estimates voxel-wise correspondences between images through spatial transformations, and plays a key role in medical imaging. While deep learning methods have significantly reduced runtime, efficiently handling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Tianran Li , Marius Staring , Yuchuan Qiao

This work explores a hybrid approach to segmentation as an alternative to a purely data-driven approach. We introduce an end-to-end U-Net based network called DU-Net, which uses additional frequency preserving features, namely the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-16 Alakh Desai , Ruchi Chauhan , Jayanthi Sivaswamy

Robust automated organ segmentation is a prerequisite for computer-aided diagnosis (CAD), quantitative imaging analysis and surgical assistance. For high-variability organs such as the pancreas, previous approaches report undesirably low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-08 Amal Farag , Le Lu , Holger R. Roth , Jiamin Liu , Evrim Turkbey , Ronald M. Summers

In this research project, we put forward an advanced method for airway segmentation based on the existent convolutional neural network (CNN) and graph neural network (GNN). The method is originated from the vessel segmentation, but we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-01 Yihua Yang

We study the image retrieval problem at the wireless edge, where an edge device captures an image, which is then used to retrieve similar images from an edge server. These can be images of the same person or a vehicle taken from other…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Mikolaj Jankowski , Deniz Gunduz , Krystian Mikolajczyk

State-of-the-art systems for semantic image segmentation use feed-forward pipelines with fixed computational costs. Building an image segmentation system that works across a range of computational budgets is challenging and time-intensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Lane McIntosh , Niru Maheswaranathan , David Sussillo , Jonathon Shlens

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