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Medical image segmentation plays an important role in computer-aided diagnosis. Existing methods mainly utilize spatial attention to highlight the region of interest. However, due to limitations of medical imaging devices, medical images…

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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.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Siddhartha Mallick , Aayushman Ghosh , Jayanta Paul , Jaya Sil

Spatial attention has been introduced to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for improving both their performance and interpretability in visual tasks including image classification. The essence of the spatial attention is to learn a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-03 Linchuan Xu , Jun Huang , Atsushi Nitanda , Ryo Asaoka , Kenji Yamanishi

To address the limitations of Transformer decoders in capturing edge details, recognizing local textures and modeling spatial continuity, this paper proposes a novel decoder framework specifically designed for medical image segmentation,…

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Since the Transformer architecture was introduced in 2017 there has been many attempts to bring the self-attention paradigm in the field of computer vision. In this paper we propose a novel self-attention module that can be easily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Roberto Pecoraro , Valerio Basile , Viviana Bono , Sara Gallo

Transformer-based methods have demonstrated impressive results in medical image restoration, attributed to the multi-head self-attention (MSA) mechanism in the spatial dimension. However, the majority of existing Transformers conduct…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-15 Zhiwen Yang , Haowei Chen , Ziniu Qian , Yang Zhou , Hui Zhang , Dan Zhao , Bingzheng Wei , Yan Xu

An important development direction in the Single-Image Super-Resolution (SISR) algorithms is to improve the efficiency of the algorithms. Recently, efficient Super-Resolution (SR) research focuses on reducing model complexity and improving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Chengxu Wu , Qinrui Fan , Shu Hu , Xi Wu , Xin Wang , Jing Hu

Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) with multiple-choice questions requires the machine to read given passage and select the correct answer among several candidates. In this paper, we propose a novel approach called Convolutional Spatial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Zhipeng Chen , Yiming Cui , Wentao Ma , Shijin Wang , Guoping Hu

Multi-modal learning has shown exceptional performance in various tasks, especially in medical applications, where it integrates diverse medical information for comprehensive diagnostic evidence. However, there still are several challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Lin Fan , Yafei Ou , Cenyang Zheng , Pengyu Dai , Tamotsu Kamishima , Masayuki Ikebe , Kenji Suzuki , Xun Gong

Attention mechanism has been regarded as an advanced technique to capture long-range feature interactions and to boost the representation capability for convolutional neural networks. However, we found two ignored problems in current…

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Channel attention mechanisms endeavor to recalibrate channel weights to enhance representation abilities of networks. However, mainstream methods often rely solely on global average pooling as the feature squeezer, which significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Yangbo Jiang , Zhiwei Jiang , Le Han , Zenan Huang , Nenggan Zheng

We propose AttentionMixer, a unified deep learning framework for multimodal detection of brain edema that combines structural head CT (HCT) with routine clinical metadata. While HCT provides rich spatial information, clinical variables such…

Convolutional layers are an integral part of many deep neural network solutions in computer vision. Recent work shows that replacing the standard convolution operation with mechanisms based on self-attention leads to improved performance on…

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Despite the remarkable success of deep learning, an optimal convolution operation on point clouds remains elusive owing to their irregular data structure. Existing methods mainly focus on designing an effective continuous kernel function…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Sungmin Woo , Dogyoon Lee , Sangwon Hwang , Woojin Kim , Sangyoun Lee

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

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

We propose a novel semi-supervised image segmentation method that simultaneously optimizes a supervised segmentation and an unsupervised reconstruction objectives. The reconstruction objective uses an attention mechanism that separates the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Shuai Chen , Gerda Bortsova , Antonio Garcia-Uceda Juarez , Gijs van Tulder , Marleen de Bruijne

Brain tumor represents one of the most fatal cancers around the world, and is very common in children and the elderly. Accurate identification of the type and grade of tumor in the early stages plays an important role in choosing a precise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Dunyuan Xu , Xi Wang , Jinyue Cai , Pheng-Ann Heng

Medical imaging, particularly X-ray analysis, often involves detecting multiple conditions simultaneously within a single scan, making multi-label classification crucial for real-world clinical applications. We present the Medical X-ray…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Amit Rand , Hadi Ibrahim

While the Transformer architecture dominates many fields, its quadratic self-attention complexity hinders its use in large-scale applications. Linear attention offers an efficient alternative, but its direct application often degrades…

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