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Transformers have been extensively studied in medical image segmentation to build pairwise long-range dependence. Yet, relatively limited well-annotated medical image data makes transformers struggle to extract diverse global features,…

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Convolutional blocks have played a crucial role in advancing medical image segmentation by excelling in dense prediction tasks. However, their inability to effectively capture long-range dependencies has limited their performance.…

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We introduce an approach to integrate segmentation information within a convolutional neural network (CNN). This counter-acts the tendency of CNNs to smooth information across regions and increases their spatial precision. To obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Adam W. Harley , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Iasonas Kokkinos

Even though convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are driving progress in medical image segmentation, standard models still have some drawbacks. First, the use of multi-scale approaches, i.e., encoder-decoder architectures, leads to a…

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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

The CNN-based methods have achieved impressive results in medical image segmentation, but they failed to capture the long-range dependencies due to the inherent locality of the convolution operation. Transformer-based methods are recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Xiaohong Huang , Zhifang Deng , Dandan Li , Xueguang Yuan

Deep learning, especially convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Transformer architectures, have become the focus of extensive research in medical image segmentation, achieving impressive results. However, CNNs come with inductive biases…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-20 Xiao Liu , Peng Gao , Tao Yu , Fei Wang , Ru-Yue Yuan

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been recently used for a variety of histology image analysis. However, availability of a large dataset is a major prerequisite for training a CNN which limits its use by the computational pathology…

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Accurate medical image segmentation is essential for diagnosis and treatment planning of diseases. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance for automatic medical image segmentation. However, they are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Ran Gu , Guotai Wang , Tao Song , Rui Huang , Michael Aertsen , Jan Deprest , Sébastien Ourselin , Tom Vercauteren , Shaoting Zhang

Accurate segmentation of heterogeneous anatomical structures is pivotal for computer-aided diagnosis and subsequent clinical decision-making. Although U-Net based convolutional neural networks have achieved remarkable progress, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Jun Ding , Shang Gao

In the past few years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs), particularly U-Net, have been the prevailing technique in the medical image processing era. Specifically, the seminal U-Net, as well as its alternatives, have successfully managed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Reza Azad , Mohammad T. AL-Antary , Moein Heidari , Dorit Merhof

Reading text in the wild is a challenging task in the field of computer vision. Existing approaches mainly adopted Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) or Attention models based on Recurrent Neural Network (RNN), which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-14 Yunze Gao , Yingying Chen , Jinqiao Wang , Hanqing Lu

Video-based behavior recognition is essential in fields such as public safety, intelligent surveillance, and human-computer interaction. Traditional 3D Convolutional Neural Network (3D CNN) effectively capture local spatiotemporal features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Xiuliang Zhang , Tadiwa Elisha Nyamasvisva , Chuntao Liu

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

Since their emergence, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have made significant strides in medical image analysis. However, the local nature of the convolution operator may pose a limitation for capturing global and long-range…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-01 Abdul Rehman Khan , Asifullah Khan

Medical image segmentation is crucial for the development of computer-aided diagnostic and therapeutic systems, but still faces numerous difficulties. In recent years, the commonly used encoder-decoder architecture based on CNNs has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Davoud Saadati , Omid Nejati Manzari , Sattar Mirzakuchaki

Medical image segmentation plays an important role in various clinical applications; however, existing deep learning models face trade-offs between efficiency and accuracy. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) capture local details well but…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-20 Saqib Qamar , Mohd Fazil , Parvez Ahmad , Shakir Khan , Abu Taha Zamani

Since the beginning of this decade, CNN has been a very successful tool in the field of Computer Vision tasks.The invention of CNN was inspired from neuroscience and it shares a lot of anatomical similarities with our visual system.Inspired…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-12 Kaushik Das , Qianni Zhang

Deep learning has shown great potential for automated medical image segmentation to improve the precision and speed of disease diagnostics. However, the task presents significant difficulties due to variations in the scale, shape, texture,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-06 Shahzaib Iqbal , Tariq M. Khan , Syed S. Naqvi , Asim Naveed , Erik Meijering

Semantic segmentation of remotely sensed urban scene images is required in a wide range of practical applications, such as land cover mapping, urban change detection, environmental protection, and economic assessment.Driven by rapid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Libo Wang , Rui Li , Ce Zhang , Shenghui Fang , Chenxi Duan , Xiaoliang Meng , Peter M. Atkinson