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Accurate and efficient 3D medical image segmentation is essential for clinical AI, where models must remain reliable under stringent memory, latency, and data availability constraints. Transformer-based methods achieve strong accuracy but…

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Semantic segmentation of 3D LiDAR point clouds is important in urban remote sensing for understanding real-world street environments. This task, by projecting LiDAR point clouds and 3D semantic labels as sparse maps, can be reformulated as…

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Image matting is a fundamental computer vision problem and has many applications. Previous algorithms have poor performance when an image has similar foreground and background colors or complicated textures. The main reasons are prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Ning Xu , Brian Price , Scott Cohen , Thomas Huang

Cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) is a common way of diagnosing dental related diseases. Accurate segmentation of 3D tooth is of importance for the treatment. Although deep learning based methods have achieved convincing results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Chunshi Wang , Bin Zhao , Shuxue Ding

Dual energy CT (DECT) enhances tissue characterization because it can produce images of basis materials such as soft-tissue and bone. DECT is of great interest in applications to medical imaging, security inspection and nondestructive…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 Qiaoqiao Ding , Tianye Niu , Xiaoqun Zhang , Yong Long

Since the advent of U-Net, fully convolutional deep neural networks and its many variants have completely changed the modern landscape of deep learning based medical image segmentation. However, the over dependence of these methods on pixel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-20 Simon Bohlender , Ilkay Oksuz , Anirban Mukhopadhyay

The rapid advancements in machine learning, graphics processing technologies and the availability of medical imaging data have led to a rapid increase in the use of deep learning models in the medical domain. This was exacerbated by the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-10-14 Satya P. Singh , Lipo Wang , Sukrit Gupta , Haveesh Goli , Parasuraman Padmanabhan , Balázs Gulyás

3D point clouds are rich in geometric structure information, while 2D images contain important and continuous texture information. Combining 2D information to achieve better 3D semantic segmentation has become mainstream in 3D scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Chaolong Yang , Yuyao Yan , Weiguang Zhao , Jianan Ye , Xi Yang , Amir Hussain , Kaizhu Huang

Mammography images are widely used to detect non-palpable breast lesions or nodules, preventing cancer and providing the opportunity to plan interventions when necessary. The identification of some structures of interest is essential to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-21 Cesar A. Sierra-Franco , Jan Hurtado , Victor de A. Thomaz , Leonardo C. da Cruz , Santiago V. Silva , Alberto B. Raposo

Medical image segmentation remains challenging due to limited annotations for training, ambiguous anatomical features, and domain shifts. While vision-language models such as CLIP offer strong cross-modal representations, their potential…

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3D semantic segmentation is a critical task in many real-world applications, such as autonomous driving, robotics, and mixed reality. However, the task is extremely challenging due to ambiguities coming from the unstructured, sparse, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Adriano Cardace , Pierluigi Zama Ramirez , Samuele Salti , Luigi Di Stefano

Medical imaging plays a crucial role in modern healthcare by providing non-invasive visualisation of internal structures and abnormalities, enabling early disease detection, accurate diagnosis, and treatment planning. This study aims to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-25 Walid Ehab , Yongmin Li

3D image segmentation is one of the most important and ubiquitous problems in medical image processing. It provides detailed quantitative analysis for accurate disease diagnosis, abnormal detection, and classification. Currently deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Zhenxi Zhang , Jie Li , Zhusi Zhong , Zhicheng Jiao , Xinbo Gao

Image models are central to all image processing tasks. The great advancements in digital image processing would not have been made possible without powerful models which, themselves, have evolved over time. In the past decade, patch-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-10 Davood Karimi

Fairness is an important topic for medical image analysis, driven by the challenge of unbalanced training data among diverse target groups and the societal demand for equitable medical quality. In response to this issue, our research adopts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Wenyi Li , Haoran Xu , Guiyu Zhang , Huan-ang Gao , Mingju Gao , Mengyu Wang , Hao Zhao

In computer vision and medical imaging, the problem of matching structures finds numerous applications from automatic annotation to data reconstruction. The data however, while corresponding to the same anatomy, are often very different in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Pierre-Louis Antonsanti , Joan Glaunès , Thomas Benseghir , Vincent Jugnon , Irène Kaltenmark

Deep learning has shown promising contributions in medical image segmentation with powerful learning and feature representation abilities. However, it has limitations for reasoning with and combining imperfect (imprecise, uncertain, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Ling Huang

Image segmentation is a central topic in image processing and computer vision and a key issue in many applications, e.g., in medical imaging, microscopy, document analysis and remote sensing. According to the human perception, image…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-24 Laura Antonelli , Valentina De Simone , Daniela di Serafino

Most image segmentation algorithms are trained on binary masks formulated as a classification task per pixel. However, in applications such as medical imaging, this "black-and-white" approach is too constraining because the contrast between…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-19 Charley Gros , Andreanne Lemay , Julien Cohen-Adad

Recently, the state-of-art models for medical image segmentation is U-Net and their variants. These networks, though succeeding in deriving notable results, ignore the practical problem hanging over the medical segmentation field:…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-07 Hao Ziang , Jingsi Zhang , Lixian Li