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Foundation models (FMs) have emerged as a transformative paradigm in medical image analysis, offering the potential to provide generalizable, task-agnostic solutions across a wide range of clinical tasks and imaging modalities. Their…

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Transformers have recently shown promise for medical image applications, leading to an increasing interest in developing such models for medical image registration. Recent advancements in designing registration Transformers have focused on…

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Medical image segmentation plays an essential role in developing computer-assisted diagnosis and therapy systems, yet still faces many challenges. In the past few years, the popular encoder-decoder architectures based on CNNs (e.g., U-Net)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Guoping Xu , Xingrong Wu , Xuan Zhang , Xinwei He

In recent times, Transformer-based language models are making quite an impact in the field of natural language processing. As relevant parallels can be drawn between biological sequences and natural languages, the models used in NLP can be…

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Over the years, the Invariant Scattering Transform (IST) technique has become popular for medical image analysis, including using wavelet transform computation using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) to capture patterns' scale and…

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Deformable medical image registration plays an important role in clinical diagnosis and treatment. Recently, the deep learning (DL) based image registration methods have been widely investigated and showed excellent performance in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Yibo Wang , Wen Qian , Xuming Zhang

Convolutional neural networks demonstrated outstanding empirical results in computer vision and speech recognition tasks where labeled training data is abundant. In medical imaging, there is a huge variety of possible imaging modalities and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-21 Vlado Menkovski , Zharko Aleksovski , Axel Saalbach , Hannes Nickisch

Deep learning algorithms, in particular convolutional networks, have rapidly become a methodology of choice for analyzing medical images. This paper reviews the major deep learning concepts pertinent to medical image analysis and summarizes…

Foundation models, large-scale, pre-trained deep-learning models adapted to a wide range of downstream tasks have gained significant interest lately in various deep-learning problems undergoing a paradigm shift with the rise of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Bobby Azad , Reza Azad , Sania Eskandari , Afshin Bozorgpour , Amirhossein Kazerouni , Islem Rekik , Dorit Merhof

Medical Image Analysis is currently experiencing a paradigm shift due to Deep Learning. This technology has recently attracted so much interest of the Medical Imaging community that it led to a specialized conference in `Medical Imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Fouzia Altaf , Syed M. S. Islam , Naveed Akhtar , Naeem K. Janjua

This paper discusses the role of Transfer Learning (TL) and transformers in cancer detection based on image analysis. With the enormous evolution of cancer patients, the identification of cancer cells in a patient's body has emerged as a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-17 Amine Bechar , Youssef Elmir , Rafik Medjoudj , Yassine Himeur , Abbes Amira

Breast cancer detection through mammography interpretation remains difficult because of the minimal nature of abnormalities that experts need to identify alongside the variable interpretations between readers. The potential of CNNs for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Ojonugwa Oluwafemi Ejiga Peter , Daniel Emakporuena , Bamidele Dayo Tunde , Maryam Abdulkarim , Abdullahi Bn Umar

Model-based approaches for image reconstruction, analysis and interpretation have made significant progress over the last decades. Many of these approaches are based on either mathematical, physical or biological models. A challenge for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Daniel Rueckert , Julia A. Schnabel

The emergence of deep learning has significantly enhanced the analysis of electrocardiograms (ECGs), a non-invasive method that is essential for assessing heart health. Despite the complexity of ECG interpretation, advanced deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Zibin Zhao

Neural networks have become the standard technique for medical diagnostics, especially in cancer detection and classification. This work evaluates the performance of Vision Transformers architectures, including Swin Transformer and MaxViT,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Óscar A. Martín , Javier Sánchez

There has been exploding interest in embracing Transformer-based architectures for medical image segmentation. However, the lack of large-scale annotated medical datasets make achieving performances equivalent to those in natural images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-04 Saikat Roy , Gregor Koehler , Constantin Ulrich , Michael Baumgartner , Jens Petersen , Fabian Isensee , Paul F. Jaeger , Klaus Maier-Hein

The fields of generative AI and transfer learning have experienced remarkable advancements in recent years especially in the domain of Natural Language Processing (NLP). Transformers have been at the heart of these advancements where the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Majd Saleh , Stéphane Paquelet

The application of machine learning to radiological images is an increasingly active research area that is expected to grow in the next five to ten years. Recent advances in machine learning have the potential to recognize and classify…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-01 Zhenwei Zhang , Ervin Sejdic

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

This paper investigates the critical problem of representation similarity evolution during cross-domain transfer learning, with particular focus on understanding why pre-trained models maintain effectiveness when adapted to medical imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Wenqiang Zu , Shenghao Xie , Hao Chen , Lei Ma