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U-Net has been the go-to architecture for medical image segmentation tasks, however computational challenges arise when extending the U-Net architecture to 3D images. We propose the Implicit U-Net architecture that adapts the efficient…

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In clinical practice, regions of interest in medical imaging often need to be identified through a process of precise image segmentation. The quality of this image segmentation step critically affects the subsequent clinical assessment of…

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3D medical image processing with deep learning greatly suffers from a lack of data. Thus, studies carried out in this field are limited compared to works related to 2D natural image analysis, where very large datasets exist. As a result,…

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Recently, many attempts have been made to construct a transformer base U-shaped architecture, and new methods have been proposed that outperformed CNN-based rivals. However, serious problems such as blockiness and cropped edges in predicted…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-20 MohammadReza Naderi , MohammadHossein Givkashi , Fatemeh Piri , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi

Uncertainty quantification is vital for safety-critical Deep Learning applications like medical image segmentation. We introduce BA U-Net, an uncertainty-aware model for MRI segmentation that integrates Bayesian Neural Networks with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Lohith Konathala

Neural segmentation has a great impact on the smooth implementation of local anesthesia surgery. At present, the network for the segmentation includes U-NET [1] and SegNet [2]. U-NET network has short training time and less training…

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Brain tumor segmentation is a critical task in medical image analysis, aiding in the diagnosis and treatment planning of brain tumor patients. The importance of automated and accurate brain tumor segmentation cannot be overstated. It…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-24 Muhammad Ansab Butt , Absaar Ul Jabbar

Convolutional neural networks like U-Net excel in medical image segmentation, while attention mechanisms and KAN enhance feature extraction. Meta's SAM 2 uses Vision Transformers for prompt-based segmentation without fine-tuning. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Mengyuan Liu , Yixiao Chen , Anning Tian , Xinmeng Wu , Mozhi Shen , Tianchou Gong , Jeongkyu Lee

Precise 3D segmentation of cerebral vasculature from T1-weighted contrast-enhanced (T1CE) MRI is crucial for safe neurosurgical planning. Manual delineation is time-consuming and prone to inter-observer variability, while current automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Mohammad Jafari Vayeghan , Niloufar Delfan , Mehdi Tale Masouleh , Mansour Parvaresh Rizi , Behzad Moshiri

This article presents a convolutional neural network for the automatic segmentation of brain tumors in multimodal 3D MR images based on a U-net architecture.We evaluate the use of a densely connected convolutional network encoder (DenseNet)…

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We propose combining memory saving techniques with traditional U-Net architectures to increase the complexity of the models on the Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) challenge. The BraTS challenge consists of a 3D segmentation of a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-22 Mihir Pendse , Vithursan Thangarasa , Vitaliy Chiley , Ryan Holmdahl , Joel Hestness , Dennis DeCoste

In this paper, we introduce U-Net v2, a new robust and efficient U-Net variant for medical image segmentation. It aims to augment the infusion of semantic information into low-level features while simultaneously refining high-level features…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Yaopeng Peng , Milan Sonka , Danny Z. Chen

Semantic image segmentation is the process of labeling each pixel of an image with its corresponding class. An encoder-decoder based approach, like U-Net and its variants, is a popular strategy for solving medical image segmentation tasks.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-30 Debesh Jha , Michael A. Riegler , Dag Johansen , Pål Halvorsen , Håvard D. Johansen

Deep learning has made a breakthrough in medical image segmentation in recent years due to its ability to extract high-level features without the need for prior knowledge. In this context, U-Net is one of the most advanced medical image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-07 Prithul Sarker , Sushmita Sarker , George Bebis , Alireza Tavakkoli

U-Net is a widely adopted neural network in the domain of medical image segmentation. Despite its quick embracement by the medical imaging community, its performance suffers on complicated datasets. The problem can be ascribed to its simple…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-07 Mehreen Mubashar , Hazrat Ali , Christer Gronlund , Shoaib Azmat

Tumor segmentation from multi-modal brain MRI images is a challenging task due to the limited samples, high variance in shapes and uneven distribution of tumor morphology. The performance of automated medical image segmentation has been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-13 Tianyi Ren , Ethan Honey , Harshitha Rebala , Abhishek Sharma , Agamdeep Chopra , Mehmet Kurt

Segmentation of pulmonary infiltrates can help assess severity of COVID-19, but manual segmentation is labor and time-intensive. Using neural networks to segment pulmonary infiltrates would enable automation of this task. However, training…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-26 Keno K. Bressem , Stefan M. Niehues , Bernd Hamm , Marcus R. Makowski , Janis L. Vahldiek , Lisa C. Adams

Segmentation of brain structures on MRI is the primary step for further quantitative analysis of brain diseases. Manual segmentation is still considered the gold standard in terms of accuracy; however, such data is extremely time-consuming…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-16 Mengyu Li , Magnus Magnusson , Thilo van Eimeren , Lotta M. Ellingsen

Transfer learning leverages pre-trained model features from a large dataset to save time and resources when training new models for various tasks, potentially enhancing performance. Due to the lack of large datasets in the medical imaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-10 Gabriel Efrain Humpire-Mamani , Colin Jacobs , Mathias Prokop , Bram van Ginneken , Nikolas Lessmann

Breast ultrasound (BUS) image segmentation plays a crucial role in a computer-aided diagnosis system, which is regarded as a useful tool to help increase the accuracy of breast cancer diagnosis. Recently, many deep learning methods have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-24 Zhenyuan Ning , Ke Wang , Shengzhou Zhong , Qianjin Feng , Yu Zhang