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Medical image analysis faces significant challenges due to limited annotation data, particularly in three-dimensional carotid artery segmentation tasks, where existing datasets exhibit spatially discontinuous slice annotations with only a…

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Biomedical image classification requires capturing of bio-informatics based on specific feature distribution. In most of such applications, there are mainly challenges due to limited availability of samples for diseased cases and imbalanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Arun K. Sharma , Nishchal K. Verma

Automated methods for breast cancer detection have focused on 2D mammography and have largely ignored 3D digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT), which is frequently used in clinical practice. The two key challenges in developing automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Yu Zhang , Xiaoqin Wang , Hunter Blanton , Gongbo Liang , Xin Xing , Nathan Jacobs

Due to the scarcity and specific imaging characteristics in medical images, light-weighting Vision Transformers (ViTs) for efficient medical image segmentation is a significant challenge, and current studies have not yet paid attention to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-05 Fenghe Tang , Bingkun Nian , Jianrui Ding , Quan Quan , Jie Yang , Wei Liu , S. Kevin Zhou

Medical image segmentation, a critical application of semantic segmentation in healthcare, has seen significant advancements through specialized computer vision techniques. While deep learning-based medical image segmentation is essential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Fuchen Zheng , Quanjun Li , Weixuan Li , Xuhang Chen , Yihang Dong , Guoheng Huang , Chi-Man Pun , Shoujun Zhou

Liver cancer is one of the most common malignant diseases in the world. Segmentation and labeling of liver tumors and blood vessels in CT images can provide convenience for doctors in liver tumor diagnosis and surgical intervention. In the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-01 Xiangyu Meng , Xudong Zhang , Gan Wang , Ying Zhang , Xin Shi , Huanhuan Dai , Zixuan Wang , Xun Wang

Utilizing transformer architectures for semantic segmentation of high-resolution images is hindered by the attention's quadratic computational complexity in the number of tokens. A solution to this challenge involves decreasing the number…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Daniel Kienzle , Marco Kantonis , Robin Schön , Rainer Lienhart

Accurate medical image segmentation allows for the precise delineation of anatomical structures and pathological regions, which is essential for treatment planning, surgical navigation, and disease monitoring. Both CNN-based and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Libin Lan , Yanxin Li , Xiaojuan Liu , Juan Zhou , Jianxun Zhang , Nannan Huang , Yudong Zhang

Multi-organ segmentation of 3D medical images is fundamental with meaningful applications in various clinical automation pipelines. Although deep learning has achieved superior performance, the time and memory consumption of segmenting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Xueqi Guo , Halid Ziya Yerebakan , Yoshihisa Shinagawa , Kritika Iyer , Gerardo Hermosillo Valadez

Vision Transformer (ViT) has made significant advancements in computer vision, thanks to its token mixer's sophisticated ability to capture global dependencies between all tokens. However, the quadratic growth in computational demands as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Guoan Xu , Wenfeng Huang , Wenjing Jia , Jiamao Li , Guangwei Gao , Guo-Jun Qi

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

With the rapid development of deep learning, CNN-based U-shaped networks have succeeded in medical image segmentation and are widely applied for various tasks. However, their limitations in capturing global features hinder their performance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Xin Li , Wenhui Zhu , Xuanzhao Dong , Oana M. Dumitrascu , Yalin Wang

Medical image registration is a fundamental and critical task in medical image analysis. With the rapid development of deep learning, convolutional neural networks (CNN) have dominated the medical image registration field. Due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Mingrui Ma , Lei Song , Yuanbo Xu , Guixia Liu

Processing 3D data efficiently has always been a challenge. Spatial operations on large-scale point clouds, stored as sparse data, require extra cost. Attracted by the success of transformers, researchers are using multi-head attention for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Mahdi Saleh , Yige Wang , Nassir Navab , Benjamin Busam , Federico Tombari

We adapt the remote sensing-inspired AMBER model from multi-band image segmentation to 3D medical datacube segmentation. To address the computational bottleneck of the volumetric transformer, we propose the AMBER-AFNO architecture. This…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Andrea Dosi , Semanto Mondal , Rajib Chandra Ghosh , Massimo Brescia , Giuseppe Longo

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

Automatic prostate segmentation in transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) images is of essential importance for image-guided prostate interventions and treatment planning. However, developing such automatic solutions remains very challenging due to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-05 Yi Wang , Haoran Dou , Xiaowei Hu , Lei Zhu , Xin Yang , Ming Xu , Jing Qin , Pheng-Ann Heng , Tianfu Wang , Dong Ni

Deep neural networks are commonly used for automated medical image segmentation, but models will frequently struggle to generalize well across different imaging modalities. This issue is particularly problematic due to the limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Malo de Boisredon , Eugene Vorontsov , William Trung Le , Samuel Kadoury

Segmentation is a crucial step in microscopy image analysis. Numerous approaches have been developed over the past years, ranging from classical segmentation algorithms to advanced deep learning models. While U-Net remains one of the most…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Illia Tsiporenko , Pavel Chizhov , Dmytro Fishman

In this paper, we propose a novel network named Vision Transformer for Biomedical Image Segmentation (ViTBIS). Our network splits the input feature maps into three parts with $1\times 1$, $3\times 3$ and $5\times 5$ convolutions in both…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Abhinav Sagar