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Medical image segmentation is an important step in medical image analysis, especially as a crucial prerequisite for efficient disease diagnosis and treatment. The use of deep learning for image segmentation has become a prevalent trend. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-11 Wenjian Yao , Jiajun Bai , Wei Liao , Yuheng Chen , Mengjuan Liu , Yao Xie

Deep neural networks have been a prevailing technique in the field of medical image processing. However, the most popular convolutional neural networks (CNNs) based methods for medical image segmentation are imperfect because they model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Zhuangzhuang Zhang , Weixiong Zhang

Transformer-based models, capable of learning better global dependencies, have recently demonstrated exceptional representation learning capabilities in computer vision and medical image analysis. Transformer reformats the image into…

Medical image segmentation takes an important position in various clinical applications. 2.5D-based segmentation models bridge the computational efficiency of 2D-based models with the spatial perception capabilities of 3D-based models.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-13 De-Xing Huang , Xiao-Hu Zhou , Mei-Jiang Gui , Xiao-Liang Xie , Shi-Qi Liu , Shuang-Yi Wang , Zhen-Qiu Feng , Zhi-Chao Lai , Zeng-Guang Hou

In this work, we present Eformer - Edge enhancement based transformer, a novel architecture that builds an encoder-decoder network using transformer blocks for medical image denoising. Non-overlapping window-based self-attention is used in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-10 Achleshwar Luthra , Harsh Sulakhe , Tanish Mittal , Abhishek Iyer , Santosh Yadav

Modeling temporal changes in subcortical structures is crucial for a better understanding of the progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Given their flexibility to adapt to heterogeneous sequence lengths, mesh-based transformer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Ignacio Sarasua , Sebastian Pölsterl , Christian Wachinger

Segmentation of 3D medical images is a critical task for accurate diagnosis and treatment planning. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have dominated the field, achieving significant success in 3D medical image segmentation. However, CNNs…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-11 Canxuan Gang

Owing to success in the data-rich domain of natural images, Transformers have recently become popular in medical image segmentation. However, the pairing of Transformers with convolutional blocks in varying architectural permutations leaves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Saikat Roy , Gregor Koehler , Michael Baumgartner , Constantin Ulrich , Jens Petersen , Fabian Isensee , Klaus Maier-Hein

Recently, deep learning methods have achieved state-of-the-art performance in many medical image segmentation tasks. Many of these are based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs). For such methods, the encoder is the key part for global…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-25 Hao Li , Dewei Hu , Han Liu , Jiacheng Wang , Ipek Oguz

Accurate and computationally efficient 3D medical image segmentation remains a critical challenge in clinical workflows. Transformer-based architectures often demonstrate superior global contextual modeling but at the expense of excessive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-19 Kavyansh Tyagi , Vishwas Rathi , Puneet Goyal

Semantic segmentation of microscopy cell images by deep learning is a significant technique. We considered that the Transformers, which have recently outperformed CNNs in image recognition, could also be improved and developed for cell…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Hinako Mitsuoka , Kazuhiro Hotta

In the last decade, convolutional neural networks (ConvNets) have been a major focus of research in medical image analysis. However, the performances of ConvNets may be limited by a lack of explicit consideration of the long-range spatial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Junyu Chen , Eric C. Frey , Yufan He , William P. Segars , Ye Li , Yong Du

In recent years, transformer-based methods have achieved remarkable progress in medical image segmentation due to their superior ability to capture long-range dependencies. However, these methods typically suffer from two major limitations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Zunhui Xia , Hongxing Li , Libin Lan

Over the past decade, convolutional neural networks (CNN) have shown very competitive performance in medical image analysis tasks, such as disease classification, tumor segmentation, and lesion detection. CNN has great advantages in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Yin Dai , Yifan Gao

Transformers have recently gained attention in the computer vision domain due to their ability to model long-range dependencies. However, the self-attention mechanism, which is the core part of the Transformer model, usually suffers from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Reza Azad , René Arimond , Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam , Amirhossein Kazerouni , Dorit Merhof

Stroke remains a significant global health concern, necessitating precise and efficient diagnostic tools for timely intervention and improved patient outcomes. The emergence of deep learning methodologies has transformed the landscape of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-02 Yalda Zafari-Ghadim , Essam A. Rashed , Mohamed Mabrok

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

Histopathology has played an essential role in cancer diagnosis. With the rapid advances in convolutional neural networks (CNN). Various CNN-based automated pathological image segmentation approaches have been developed in computer-assisted…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-23 Cam Nguyen , Zuhayr Asad , Yuankai Huo

Medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in advancing healthcare systems for disease diagnosis and treatment planning. The u-shaped architecture, popularly known as U-Net, has proven highly successful for various medical image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Jieneng Chen , Jieru Mei , Xianhang Li , Yongyi Lu , Qihang Yu , Qingyue Wei , Xiangde Luo , Yutong Xie , Ehsan Adeli , Yan Wang , Matthew Lungren , Lei Xing , Le Lu , Alan Yuille , Yuyin Zhou

Super-resolution remains a promising technique to enhance the quality of low-resolution images. This study introduces CATformer (Contrastive Adversarial Transformer), a novel neural network integrating diffusion-inspired feature refinement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Qinyi Tian , Spence Cox , Laura E. Dalton