English
Related papers

Related papers: Attention Augmented ConvNeXt UNet For Rectal Tumou…

200 papers

Breast tumor segmentation is one of the key steps that helps us characterize and localize tumor regions. However, variable tumor morphology, blurred boundary, and similar intensity distributions bring challenges for accurate segmentation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-23 Gongping Chen , Lei Li , JianXun Zhang , Yu Dai

Biomedical image segmentation is crucial for accurately diagnosing and analyzing various diseases. However, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Transformers, the most commonly used architectures for this task, struggle to effectively…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-09 Rong Zhou , Zhengqing Yuan , Zhiling Yan , Weixiang Sun , Kai Zhang , Yiwei Li , Yanfang Ye , Xiang Li , Lifang He , Lichao Sun

Objective. Limited access to breast cancer diagnosis globally leads to delayed treatment. Ultrasound, an effective yet underutilized method, requires specialized training for sonographers, which hinders its widespread use. Approach. Volume…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Donya Khaledyan , Thomas J. Marini , Avice OConnell , Steven Meng , Jonah Kan , Galen Brennan , Yu Zhao , Timothy M. Baran , Kevin J. Parker

In preoperative imaging, the demarcation of rectal cancer with magnetic resonance images provides an important basis for cancer staging and treatment planning. Recently, deep learning has greatly improved the state-of-the-art method in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Joohyung Lee , Ji Eun Oh , Min Ju Kim , Bo Yun Hur , Dae Kyung Sohn

This contribution presents a deep learning method for the segmentation of prostate zones in MRI images based on U-Net using additive and feature pyramid attention modules, which can improve the workflow of prostate cancer detection and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Pablo Cesar Quihui-Rubio , Daniel Flores-Araiza , Miguel Gonzalez-Mendoza , Christian Mata , Gilberto Ochoa-Ruiz

Automated fetal head segmentation in ultrasound images is critical for accurate biometric measurements in prenatal care. While existing deep learning approaches have achieved a reasonable performance, they struggle with issues like low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Ammar Bhilwarawala , Mainak Bandyopadhyay

Renal tumors, especially renal cell carcinoma (RCC), show significant heterogeneity, posing challenges for diagnosis using radiology images such as MRI, echocardiograms, and CT scans. U-Net based deep learning techniques are emerging as a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Fnu Neha , Arvind K. Bansal

Automatic tumor or lesion segmentation is a crucial step in medical image analysis for computer-aided diagnosis. Although the existing methods based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved the state-of-the-art performance,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-01 Shuchao Pang , Anan Du , Mehmet A. Orgun , Yan Wang , Quan Z. Sheng , Shoujin Wang , Xiaoshui Huang , Zhenmei Yu

This study investigates the effectiveness of U-Net architectures integrated with various convolutional neural network (CNN) backbones for automated lung cancer detection and segmentation in chest CT images, addressing the critical need for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Alireza Golkarieh , Kiana Kiashemshaki , Sajjad Rezvani Boroujeni , Nasibeh Asadi Isakan

KiTs19 challenge paves the way to haste the improvement of solid kidney tumor semantic segmentation methodologies. Accurate segmentation of kidney tumor in computer tomography (CT) images is a challenging task due to the non-uniform motion,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-12 D. Sabarinathan , M. Parisa Beham , S. M. Md. Mansoor Roomi

Medical image segmentation can provide detailed information for clinical analysis which can be useful for scenarios where the detailed location of a finding is important. Knowing the location of disease can play a vital role in treatment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Abhishek Srivastava , Sukalpa Chanda , Debesh Jha , Michael A. Riegler , Pål Halvorsen , Dag Johansen , Umapada Pal

Fully convolutional networks (FCNs), including UNet and VNet, are widely-used network architectures for semantic segmentation in recent studies. However, conventional FCN is typically trained by the cross-entropy or Dice loss, which only…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-26 Kelei He , Chunfeng Lian , Ehsan Adeli , Jing Huo , Yang Gao , Bing Zhang , Junfeng Zhang , Dinggang Shen

Colorectal cancer contributes significantly to cancer-related mortality. Timely identification and elimination of polyps through colonoscopy screening is crucial in order to decrease mortality rates. Accurately detecting polyps in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-08 Owen Singh , Sandeep Singh Sengar

Automatic cell segmentation is an essential step in the pipeline of computer-aided diagnosis (CAD), such as the detection and grading of breast cancer. Accurate segmentation of cells can not only assist the pathologists to make a more…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Muyi Sun , Zeyi Yao , Guanhong Zhang

Accurate detection of oral cancer is crucial for improving patient outcomes. However, the field faces two key challenges: the scarcity of deep learning-based image segmentation research specifically targeting oral cancer and the lack of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-05 Ahmed Albishri , Syed Jawad Hussain Shah , Yugyung Lee , Rong Wang

Introduction: The present study on the development and evaluation of an automated brain tumor segmentation technique based on deep learning using the 3D U-Net model. Objectives: The objective is to leverage state-of-the-art convolutional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-10 Suman Sourabh , Murugappan Valliappan , Narayana Darapaneni , Anwesh R P

Automated brain tumour segmentation has the potential of making a massive improvement in disease diagnosis, surgery, monitoring and surveillance. However, this task is extremely challenging. Here, we describe our automated segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-13 Indrajit Mazumdar

Segmenting medical images accurately and reliably is important for disease diagnosis and treatment. It is a challenging task because of the wide variety of objects' sizes, shapes, and scanning modalities. Recently, many convolutional neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-17 Ange Lou , Shuyue Guan , Hanseok Ko , Murray Loew

We present an efficient deep learning approach for the challenging task of tumor segmentation in multisequence MR images. In recent years, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have achieved state-of-the-art performances in a large variety of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Pawel Mlynarski , Hervé Delingette , Antonio Criminisi , Nicholas Ayache

Due to cellular heterogeneity, cell nuclei classification, segmentation, and detection from pathological images are challenging tasks. In the last few years, Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNN) approaches have been shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Md Zahangir Alom , Chris Yakopcic , Tarek M. Taha , Vijayan K. Asari