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In clinical settings, where acquisition conditions and patient populations change over time, continual learning is key for ensuring the safe use of deep neural networks. Yet most existing work focuses on convolutional architectures and…

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Transformer models rely on self-attention to capture token dependencies but face challenges in effectively integrating positional information while allowing multi-head attention (MHA) flexibility. Prior methods often model semantic and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Jintian Shao , Hongyi Huang , Jiayi Wu , Beiwen Zhang , ZhiYu Wu , You Shan , MingKai Zheng

This paper introduces a novel attention mechanism, called dual attention, which is both efficient and effective. The dual attention mechanism consists of two parallel components: local attention generated by Convolutional Neural Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Zhengkai Jiang , Liang Liu , Jiangning Zhang , Yabiao Wang , Mingang Chen , Chengjie Wang

The quality of patient care associated with diagnostic radiology is proportionate to a physician workload. Segmentation is a fundamental limiting precursor to both diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Advances in machine learning (ML) aim…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-30 Ahmed Ghorbel , Ahmed Aldahdooh , Shadi Albarqouni , Wassim Hamidouche

Medical image segmentation remains particularly challenging for complex and low-contrast anatomical structures. In this paper, we introduce the U-Transformer network, which combines a U-shaped architecture for image segmentation with self-…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-15 Olivier Petit , Nicolas Thome , Clément Rambour , Luc Soler

Attention is a general reasoning mechanism than can flexibly deal with image information, but its memory requirements had made it so far impractical for high resolution image generation. We present Grid Partitioned Attention (GPA), a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Nikolay Jetchev , Gökhan Yildirim , Christian Bracher , Roland Vollgraf

Recently, transformers have shown great potential in image classification and established state-of-the-art results on the ImageNet benchmark. However, compared to CNNs, transformers converge slowly and are prone to overfitting in low-data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Yuxuan Zhou , Wangmeng Xiang , Chao Li , Biao Wang , Xihan Wei , Lei Zhang , Margret Keuper , Xiansheng Hua

Medical image segmentation has witnessed significant advancements with the emergence of deep learning. However, the reliance of most neural network models on a substantial amount of annotated data remains a challenge for medical image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Xiaoxiao Wu , Xiaowei Chen , Zhenguo Gao , Shulei Qu , Yuanyuan Qiu

Most approaches for semantic segmentation use only information from color cameras to parse the scenes, yet recent advancements show that using depth data allows to further improve performances. In this work, we focus on transformer-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Francesco Barbato , Giulia Rizzoli , Pietro Zanuttigh

Tabular data inherently exhibits significant feature heterogeneity, but existing transformer-based methods lack specialized mechanisms to handle this property. To bridge the gap, we propose MAYA, an encoder-decoder transformer-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Xuechen Li , Yupeng Li , Jian Liu , Xiaolin Jin , Xin Hu

Transformers have made remarkable progress towards modeling long-range dependencies within the medical image analysis domain. However, current transformer-based models suffer from several disadvantages: (1) existing methods fail to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Chenyu You , Ruihan Zhao , Fenglin Liu , Siyuan Dong , Sandeep Chinchali , Ufuk Topcu , Lawrence Staib , James S. Duncan

Due to the scarcity of annotated data and the substantial computational costs of model, conventional tuning methods in medical image segmentation face critical challenges. Current approaches to adapting pretrained models, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Chenlin Xu , Lei Zhang , Lituan Wang , Xinyu Pu , Pengfei Ma , Guangwu Qian , Zizhou Wang , Yan Wang

Recently, image restoration transformers have achieved comparable performance with previous state-of-the-art CNNs. However, how to efficiently leverage such architectures remains an open problem. In this work, we present Dual-former whose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Sixiang Chen , Tian Ye , Yun Liu , Erkang Chen

Local Transformer-based classification models have recently achieved promising results with relatively low computational costs. However, the effect of aggregating spatial global information of local Transformer-based architecture is not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Krushi Patel , Andres M. Bur , Fengjun Li , Guanghui Wang

Following their success in natural language processing (NLP), there has been a shift towards transformer models in computer vision. While transformers perform well and offer promising multi-tasking performance, due to their high compute…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Maximilian Augustin , Syed Shakib Sarwar , Mostafa Elhoushi , Sai Qian Zhang , Yuecheng Li , Barbara De Salvo

Sparse vision transformers have gained popularity as efficient encoders for medical volumetric segmentation, with Swin emerging as a prominent choice. Swin uses local attention to reduce complexity and yields excellent performance for many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 David Hagerman , Roman Naeem , Jakob Lindqvist , Carl Lindström , Fredrik Kahl , Lennart Svensson

Many studies have been conducted to improve the efficiency of Transformer from quadric to linear. Among them, the low-rank-based methods aim to learn the projection matrices to compress the sequence length. However, the projection matrices…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Bosheng Qin , Juncheng Li , Siliang Tang , Yueting Zhuang

Accurate medical image segmentation is critical for disease quantification and treatment evaluation. While traditional Unet architectures and their transformer-integrated variants excel in automated segmentation tasks. However, they lack…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-09 Guanqun Sun , Yizhi Pan , Weikun Kong , Zichang Xu , Jianhua Ma , Teeradaj Racharak , Le-Minh Nguyen , Junyi Xin

Existing transformer-based image backbones typically propagate feature information in one direction from lower to higher-levels. This may not be ideal since the localization ability to delineate accurate object boundaries, is most prominent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Gary Leung , Jun Gao , Xiaohui Zeng , Sanja Fidler

Transformers have demonstrated great potential in computer vision tasks. To avoid dense computations of self-attentions in high-resolution visual data, some recent Transformer models adopt a hierarchical design, where self-attentions are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Jinpeng Li , Yichao Yan , Shengcai Liao , Xiaokang Yang , Ling Shao