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The recent explosive interest on transformers has suggested their potential to become powerful "universal" models for computer vision tasks, such as classification, detection, and segmentation. While those attempts mainly study the…

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Although transformer is preferred in natural language processing, some studies has only been applied to the field of medical imaging in recent years. For its long-term dependency, the transformer is expected to contribute to unconventional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Jing Xu

Transfer learning is a standard technique to improve performance on tasks with limited data. However, for medical imaging, the value of transfer learning is less clear. This is likely due to the large domain mismatch between the usual…

Transformer networks have seen great success in natural language processing and machine vision, where task objectives such as next word prediction and image classification benefit from nuanced context sensitivity across high-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Yuxuan Li , James L. McClelland

This work does not introduce a new method. Instead, we present an interesting finding that questions the necessity of the inductive bias of locality in modern computer vision architectures. Concretely, we find that vanilla Transformers can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Duy-Kien Nguyen , Mahmoud Assran , Unnat Jain , Martin R. Oswald , Cees G. M. Snoek , Xinlei Chen

Attention layers, as commonly used in transformers, form the backbone of modern deep learning, yet there is no mathematical description of their benefits and deficiencies as compared with other architectures. In this work we establish both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Clayton Sanford , Daniel Hsu , Matus Telgarsky

One of the main challenges of Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is to extract features from persistent diagrams directly usable by machine learning algorithms. Indeed, persistence diagrams are intrinsically (multi-)sets of points in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Raphael Reinauer , Matteo Caorsi , Nicolas Berkouk

U-Net is currently the most widely used architecture for medical image segmentation. Benefiting from its unique encoder-decoder architecture and skip connections, it can effectively extract features from input images to segment target…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Yanlin Wu , Tao Li , Zhihong Wang , Hong Kang , Along He

Transformers have achieved significant success in medical image segmentation, owing to its capability to capture long-range dependencies. Previous works incorporate convolutional layers into the encoder module of transformers, thereby…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-18 Long Zeng , Kaigui Wu

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

Transformers have demonstrated effectiveness in in-context solving data-fitting problems from various (latent) models, as reported by Garg et al. However, the absence of an inherent iterative structure in the transformer architecture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Liu Yang , Kangwook Lee , Robert Nowak , Dimitris Papailiopoulos

Accurate segmentation of organs or lesions from medical images is crucial for reliable diagnosis of diseases and organ morphometry. In recent years, convolutional encoder-decoder solutions have achieved substantial progress in the field of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Bingzhi Chen , Yishu Liu , Zheng Zhang , Guangming Lu , Adams Wai Kin Kong

Video segmentation encompasses a wide range of categories of problem formulation, e.g., object, scene, actor-action and multimodal video segmentation, for delineating task-specific scene components with pixel-level masks. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Rezaul Karim , Richard P. Wildes

Image Classification is a fundamental task in the field of computer vision that frequently serves as a benchmark for gauging advancements in Computer Vision. Over the past few years, significant progress has been made in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Mahmoud Khalil , Ahmad Khalil , Alioune Ngom

Deep learning based approaches are now widely used across biophysics to help automate a variety of tasks including image segmentation, feature selection, and deconvolution. However, the presence of multiple competing deep learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-31 J Shepard Bryan , Pedro Pessoa , Meyam Tavakoli , Steve Presse

Recently vision transformers have been shown to be competitive with convolution-based methods (CNNs) broadly across multiple vision tasks. The less restrictive inductive bias of transformers endows greater representational capacity in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Farrukh Rahman , Ömer Mubarek , Zsolt Kira

Although transformers have become the neural architectures of choice for natural language processing, they require orders of magnitude more training data, GPU memory, and computations in order to compete with convolutional neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Pranav Jeevan , Amit Sethi

Convolutional blocks have played a crucial role in advancing medical image segmentation by excelling in dense prediction tasks. However, their inability to effectively capture long-range dependencies has limited their performance.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Siddhartha Mallick , Aayushman Ghosh , Jayanta Paul , Jaya Sil

Histopathology has played an essential role in cancer diagnosis. With the rapid advances in convolutional neural networks (CNN). Various CNN-based automated pathological image segmentation approaches have been developed in computer-assisted…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-23 Cam Nguyen , Zuhayr Asad , Yuankai Huo

Transformer becomes prevalent in computer vision, especially for high-level vision tasks. However, adopting Transformer in the generative adversarial network (GAN) framework is still an open yet challenging problem. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Rui Xu , Xiangyu Xu , Kai Chen , Bolei Zhou , Chen Change Loy