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Two-stage and query-based instance segmentation methods have achieved remarkable results. However, their segmented masks are still very coarse. In this paper, we present Mask Transfiner for high-quality and efficient instance segmentation.…

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Medical image segmentation is crucial for many healthcare tasks, including disease diagnosis and treatment planning. One key area is the segmentation of skin lesions, which is vital for diagnosing skin cancer and monitoring patients. In…

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In this paper, we propose a novel text promptable surgical instrument segmentation approach to overcome challenges associated with diversity and differentiation of surgical instruments in minimally invasive surgeries. We redefine the task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Zijian Zhou , Oluwatosin Alabi , Meng Wei , Tom Vercauteren , Miaojing Shi

Segmentation of organs or lesions from medical images plays an essential role in many clinical applications such as diagnosis and treatment planning. Though Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have achieved the state-of-the-art performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Xiangde Luo , Guotai Wang , Tao Song , Jingyang Zhang , Michael Aertsen , Jan Deprest , Sebastien Ourselin , Tom Vercauteren , Shaoting Zhang

In medical image segmentation, specialized computer vision techniques, notably transformers grounded in attention mechanisms and residual networks employing skip connections, have been instrumental in advancing performance. Nonetheless,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Fuchen Zheng , Xuhang Chen , Weihuang Liu , Haolun Li , Yingtie Lei , Jiahui He , Chi-Man Pun , Shounjun Zhou

Referring Medical Image Sequence Segmentation (Ref-MISS) is a novel and challenging task that aims to segment anatomical structures in medical image sequences (\emph{e.g.} endoscopy, ultrasound, CT, and MRI) based on natural language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Runtian Yuan , Mohan Chen , Jilan Xu , Ling Zhou , Qingqiu Li , Yuejie Zhang , Rui Feng , Tao Zhang , Shang Gao

Medical image segmentation is an important step in medical image analysis, especially as a crucial prerequisite for efficient disease diagnosis and treatment. The use of deep learning for image segmentation has become a prevalent trend. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-11 Wenjian Yao , Jiajun Bai , Wei Liao , Yuheng Chen , Mengjuan Liu , Yao Xie

We propose a Transformer architecture for volumetric segmentation, a challenging task that requires keeping a complex balance in encoding local and global spatial cues, and preserving information along all axes of the volume. Encoder of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-04 Himashi Peiris , Munawar Hayat , Zhaolin Chen , Gary Egan , Mehrtash Harandi

Recent advancements in deep learning-based interactive segmentation methods have significantly improved pathology image segmentation. Most existing approaches utilize user-provided positive and negative clicks to guide the segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Tiantong Wang , Minfan Zhao , Jun Shi , Hannan Wang , Yue Dai

Biomedical image segmentation plays a significant role in computer-aided diagnosis. However, existing CNN based methods rely heavily on massive manual annotations, which are very expensive and require huge human resources. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Ruifei Zhang , Sishuo Liu , Yizhou Yu , Guanbin Li

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology is a promising solution to improve the performance of existing wireless communications. To achieve its cost-effectiveness advantage, there inevitably exist certain hardware impairments in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Yiming Liu , Rui Wang , Zhu Han

Despite the increasing use of deep learning in medical image segmentation, the limited availability of annotated training data remains a major challenge due to the time-consuming data acquisition and privacy regulations. In the context of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Aghiles Kebaili , Jérôme Lapuyade-Lahorgue , Pierre Vera , Su Ruan

Semantic image synthesis (SIS) refers to the problem of generating realistic imagery given a semantic segmentation mask that defines the spatial layout of object classes. Most of the approaches in the literature, other than the quality of…

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Medical image segmentation (MIS) aims to finely segment various organs. It requires grasping global information from both parts and the entire image for better segmenting, and clinically there are often certain requirements for segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Dongwei Gan , Ming Chang , Juan Chen

Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques for image-based segmentation have garnered much attention in recent years. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown impressive results and potential towards fully automated segmentation in…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Fereshteh Yousefirizi , Abhinav K. Jha , Julia Brosch-Lenz , Babak Saboury , Arman Rahmim

In this Technical Report we propose a set of improvements with respect to the KernelBoost classifier presented in [Becker et al., MICCAI 2013]. We start with a scheme inspired by Auto-Context, but that is suitable in situations where the…

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Manual annotation of medical images is a labor-intensive and time-consuming process, posing a significant bottleneck in the development and deployment of robust medical imaging AI systems. This paper introduces a novel hands-free Human-AI…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Yizhe Zhang

In this work, we propose a new paradigm of iterative model-based reconstruction algorithms for providing real-time solution for zooming-in and refining a region of interest in medical and clinical tomographic images. This algorithmic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Junqi Tang , Guixian Xu , Jinglai Li

Automatic segmentation of medical images based on multi-modality is an important topic for disease diagnosis. Although the convolutional neural network (CNN) has been proven to have excellent performance in image segmentation tasks, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Xuejian Li , Shiqiang Ma , Jijun Tang , Fei Guo

Lesion segmentation in medical imaging has been an important topic in clinical research. Researchers have proposed various detection and segmentation algorithms to address this task. Recently, deep learning-based approaches have…

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