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Semantic segmentation of brain tumors is a fundamental medical image analysis task involving multiple MRI imaging modalities that can assist clinicians in diagnosing the patient and successively studying the progression of the malignant…

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We present Token-UNet, adopting the TokenLearner and TokenFuser modules to encase Transformers into UNets. While Transformers have enabled global interactions among input elements in medical imaging, current computational challenges hinder…

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The accurate segmentation of medical images is crucial for diagnosing and treating diseases. Recent studies demonstrate that vision transformer-based methods have significantly improved performance in medical image segmentation, primarily…

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Multimodal medical image segmentation faces significant challenges in the context of gastric cancer lesion analysis. This clinical context is defined by the scarcity of independent multimodal datasets and the imperative to amalgamate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-28 Jiaming Liang , Lihuan Dai , Xiaoqi Sheng , Xiangguang Chen , Chun Yao , Guihua Tao , Qibin Leng , Hongmin Cai , Xi Zhong

Transformer-based models, capable of learning better global dependencies, have recently demonstrated exceptional representation learning capabilities in computer vision and medical image analysis. Transformer reformats the image into…

Computer-aided segmentation methods can assist medical personnel in improving diagnostic outcomes. While recent advancements like UNet and its variants have shown promise, they face a critical challenge: balancing accuracy with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-03 Abhijit Das , Debesh Jha , Vandan Gorade , Koushik Biswas , Hongyi Pan , Zheyuan Zhang , Daniela P. Ladner , Yury Velichko , Amir Borhani , Ulas Bagci

Processing 3D data efficiently has always been a challenge. Spatial operations on large-scale point clouds, stored as sparse data, require extra cost. Attracted by the success of transformers, researchers are using multi-head attention for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Mahdi Saleh , Yige Wang , Nassir Navab , Benjamin Busam , Federico Tombari

Recent advancements in medical imaging have resulted in more complex and diverse images, with challenges such as high anatomical variability, blurred tissue boundaries, low organ contrast, and noise. Traditional segmentation methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-01 Yufeng Jiang , Zongxi Li , Xiangyan Chen , Haoran Xie , Jing Cai

In the realm of medical diagnostics, rapid advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have significantly yielded remarkable improvements in brain tumor segmentation. Encoder-Decoder architectures, such as U-Net, have played a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Eyad Gad , Seif Soliman , M. Saeed Darweesh

We propose an attention mechanism for 3D medical image segmentation. The method, named segmentation-by-detection, is a cascade of a detection module followed by a segmentation module. The detection module enables a region of interest to…

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Transformer-based models have emerged as a leading architecture for natural language processing, natural language generation, and image generation tasks. A fundamental element of the transformer architecture is self-attention, which allows…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Venmugil Elango

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,…

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Accurate segmentation of multiple organs and the differentiation of pathological tissues in medical imaging are crucial but challenging, especially for nuanced classifications and ambiguous organ boundaries. To tackle these challenges, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Chengkun Sun , Russell Stevens Terry , Jiang Bian , Jie Xu

Recent advances in transformer-based models have drawn attention to exploring these techniques in medical image segmentation, especially in conjunction with the U-Net model (or its variants), which has shown great success in medical image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-22 Xiangyi Yan , Hao Tang , Shanlin Sun , Haoyu Ma , Deying Kong , Xiaohui Xie

This paper proposes a 3D attention-based U-Net architecture for multi-region segmentation of brain tumors using a single stacked multi-modal volume created by combining three non-native MRI volumes. The attention mechanism added to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-11 Maryann M. Gitonga

The field of Radiation Oncology is uniquely positioned to benefit from the use of artificial intelligence to fully automate the creation of radiation treatment plans for cancer therapy. This time-consuming and specialized task combines…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Kuancheng Wang , Hai Siong Tan , Rafe Mcbeth

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

Skin cancer segmentation poses a significant challenge in medical image analysis. Numerous existing solutions, predominantly CNN-based, face issues related to a lack of global contextual understanding. Alternatively, some approaches resort…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Shehan Perera , Yunus Erzurumlu , Deepak Gulati , Alper Yilmaz

Accurate medical image segmentation is an integral part of the medical image analysis pipeline that requires the ability to merge local and global information. While vision transformers are able to capture global interactions using vanilla…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Elisha Dayag , Nhat Thanh Tran , Jack Xin

Medical image segmentation is essential for clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. Although transformer-based methods have achieved remarkable results, their high computational cost hinders clinical deployment. To address this issue, we…

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