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Automatic medical image segmentation, an essential component of medical image analysis, plays an importantrole in computer-aided diagnosis. For example, locating and segmenting the liver can be very helpful in livercancer diagnosis and…

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Medical image analysis continues to hold interesting challenges given the subtle characteristics of certain diseases and the significant overlap in appearance between diseases. In this work, we explore the concept of self-attention for…

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Medical image segmentation is pivotal in healthcare, enhancing diagnostic accuracy, informing treatment strategies, and tracking disease progression. This process allows clinicians to extract critical information from visual data, enabling…

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Segmentation of medical images constitutes an essential component of medical image analysis, providing the foundation for precise diagnosis and efficient therapeutic interventions in clinical practices. Despite substantial progress, most…

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Semantic segmentation, a crucial task in computer vision, often relies on labor-intensive and costly annotated datasets for training. In response to this challenge, we introduce FuseNet, a dual-stream framework for self-supervised semantic…

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Automated segmentation of anatomical sub-regions with high precision has become a necessity to enable the quantification and characterization of cells/ tissues in histology images. Currently, a machine learning model to analyze…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-05 Hosein Barzekar , Hai Ngu , Han Hui Lin , Mohsen Hejrati , Steven Ray Valdespino , Sarah Chu , Baris Bingol , Somaye Hashemifar , Soumitra Ghosh

Semantic segmentation of electron microscopy (EM) is an essential step to efficiently obtain reliable morphological statistics. Despite the great success achieved using deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), they still produce coarse…

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Image segmentation is pivotal in medical image analysis, facilitating clinical diagnosis, treatment planning, and disease evaluation. Deep learning has significantly advanced automatic segmentation methodologies by providing superior…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Zhengyong Huang , Ning Jiang , Xingwen Sun , Lihua Zhang , Peng Chen , Jens Domke , Yao Sui

Residual network (ResNet) and densely connected network (DenseNet) have significantly improved the training efficiency and performance of deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) mainly for object classification tasks. In this paper, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-29 Mina Jafari , Dorothee Auer , Susan Francis , Jonathan Garibaldi , Xin Chen

Although the U-Net architecture has been extensively used for segmentation of medical images, we address two of its shortcomings in this work. Firstly, the accuracy of vanilla U-Net degrades when the target regions for segmentation exhibit…

We propose Dual Cross-Attention (DCA), a simple yet effective attention module that is able to enhance skip-connections in U-Net-based architectures for medical image segmentation. DCA addresses the semantic gap between encoder and decoder…

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We propose a novel technique to incorporate attention within convolutional neural networks using feature maps generated by a separate convolutional autoencoder. Our attention architecture is well suited for incorporation with deep…

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Medical image analysis often faces significant challenges due to limited expert-annotated data, hindering both model generalization and clinical adoption. We propose an expert-guided explainable few-shot learning framework that integrates…

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From the simple measurement of tissue attributes in pathology workflow to designing an explainable diagnostic/prognostic AI tool, access to accurate semantic segmentation of tissue regions in histology images is a prerequisite. However,…

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Objective: Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune, and demyelinating disease that leads to lesions in the central nervous system. This disease can be tracked and diagnosed using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Up to now a multitude of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-07 Mehdi SadeghiBakhi , Hamidreza Pourreza , Hamidreza Mahyar

Medical image segmentation is a critical process in the field of medical imaging, playing a pivotal role in diagnosis, treatment, and research. It involves partitioning of an image into multiple regions, representing distinct anatomical or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Charulkumar Chodvadiya , Navyansh Mahla , Kinshuk Gaurav Singh , Kshitij Sharad Jadhav

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

Manual segmentation of medical images is labor intensive and especially challenging for images with poor contrast or resolution. The presence of disease exacerbates this further, increasing the need for an automated solution. To this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-26 Selena Huisman , Matteo Maspero , Marielle Philippens , Joost Verhoeff , Szabolcs David

Semantic segmentation is the task to cluster pixels on an image belonging to the same class. It is widely used in the real-world applications including autonomous driving, medical imaging analysis, industrial inspection, smartphone camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Baohua Sun , Weixiong Lin , Hao Sha , Jiapeng Su

As an essential prerequisite for developing a medical intelligent assistant system, medical image segmentation has received extensive research and concentration from the neural network community. A series of UNet-like networks with…

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