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Over the past two decades, machine analysis of medical imaging has advanced rapidly, opening up significant potential for several important medical applications. As complicated diseases increase and the number of cases rises, the role of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-08 Fares Bougourzi , Fadi Dornaika , Cosimo Distante , Abdelmalik Taleb-Ahmed

While CNN-based methods have been the cornerstone of medical image segmentation due to their promising performance and robustness, they suffer from limitations in capturing long-range dependencies. Transformer-based approaches are currently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Reza Azad , Yiwei Jia , Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam , Julien Cohen-Adad , Dorit Merhof

The recent vision transformer(i.e.for image classification) learns non-local attentive interaction of different patch tokens. However, prior arts miss learning the cross-scale dependencies of different pixels, the semantic correspondence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Yuanfeng Ji , Ruimao Zhang , Huijie Wang , Zhen Li , Lingyun Wu , Shaoting Zhang , Ping Luo

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been recently employed to solve problems from both the computer vision and medical image analysis fields. Despite their popularity, most approaches are only able to process 2D images while most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-16 Fausto Milletari , Nassir Navab , Seyed-Ahmad Ahmadi

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

While convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and vision transformers (ViTs) have advanced medical image segmentation, they face inherent limitations such as local receptive fields in CNNs and high computational complexity in ViTs. This paper…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-02 Pooya Ashtari , Shahryar Noei , Fateme Nateghi Haredasht , Jonathan H. Chen , Giuseppe Jurman , Aleksandra Pizurica , Sabine Van Huffel

The adoption of Vision Transformers (ViTs) based architectures represents a significant advancement in 3D Medical Image (MI) segmentation, surpassing traditional Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models by enhancing global contextual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Shehan Perera , Pouyan Navard , Alper Yilmaz

Medical image segmentation have drawn massive attention as it is important in biomedical image analysis. Good segmentation results can assist doctors with their judgement and further improve patients' experience. Among many available…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-20 Youyang Sha , Yonghong Zhang , Xuquan Ji , Lei Hu

Medical image segmentation is important for computer-aided diagnosis. Good segmentation demands the model to see the big picture and fine details simultaneously, i.e., to learn image features that incorporate large context while keep high…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-03 Shaohua Li , Xiuchao Sui , Xiangde Luo , Xinxing Xu , Yong Liu , Rick Goh

Accurate segmentation of organs and lesions in medical images is essential for clinical applications including diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment planning. While Vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown impressive segmentation performance,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-13 Jin Yang , Xiaobing Yu , Peijie Qiu

The remarkable performance of the Transformer architecture in natural language processing has recently also triggered broad interest in Computer Vision. Among other merits, Transformers are witnessed as capable of learning long-range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Reza Azad , Amirhossein Kazerouni , Moein Heidari , Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam , Amirali Molaei , Yiwei Jia , Abin Jose , Rijo Roy , Dorit Merhof

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has achieved remarkable successes in the realm of natural image segmentation, but its deployment in the medical imaging sphere has encountered challenges. Specifically, the model struggles with medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Shreyank N Gowda , David A. Clifton

This paper introduces a groundbreaking classification model called the Controllable Ensemble Transformer and CNN (CETC) for the analysis of medical images. The CETC model combines the powerful capabilities of convolutional neural networks…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-06 Javad Mirzapour Kaleybar , Hooman Saadat , Hooman Khaloo

U-Nets have achieved tremendous success in medical image segmentation. Nevertheless, it may suffer limitations in global (long-range) contextual interactions and edge-detail preservation. In contrast, Transformer has an excellent ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Nan Wang , Shaohui Lin , Xiaoxiao Li , Ke Li , Yunhang Shen , Yue Gao , Lizhuang Ma

Deep neural networks have been applied to improve the image quality of fluorescence microscopy imaging. Previous methods are based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) which generally require more time-consuming training of separate…

Transformers have achieved significant success in medical image segmentation, owing to its capability to capture long-range dependencies. Previous works incorporate convolutional layers into the encoder module of transformers, thereby…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-18 Long Zeng , Kaigui Wu

Deep learning has successfully been leveraged for medical image segmentation. It employs convolutional neural networks (CNN) to learn distinctive image features from a defined pixel-wise objective function. However, this approach can lead…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-05 Kibrom Berihu Girum , Gilles Créhange , Alain Lalande

Biomedical image segmentation is a critical task in medical diagnosis and treatment planning, enabling precise delineation of anatomical structures and pathological regions. Despite significant advancements, challenges persist due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Joao Batista Florindo , Amanda Pontes de Oliveira Ornelas

We introduce the Convolutional Set Transformer (CST), a novel neural architecture designed to process image sets of arbitrary cardinality that are visually heterogeneous yet share high-level semantics - such as a common category, scene, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Federico Chinello , Giacomo Boracchi

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been successful in solving tasks in computer vision including medical image segmentation due to their ability to automatically extract features from unstructured data. However, CNNs are sensitive to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-18 Minh Tran , Viet-Khoa Vo-Ho , Kyle Quinn , Hien Nguyen , Khoa Luu , Ngan Le