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U-Net has been the go-to architecture for medical image segmentation tasks, however computational challenges arise when extending the U-Net architecture to 3D images. We propose the Implicit U-Net architecture that adapts the efficient…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-01 Sergio Naval Marimont , Giacomo Tarroni

In this study, we propose LDMRes-Net, a lightweight dual-multiscale residual block-based computational neural network tailored for medical image segmentation on IoT and edge platforms. Conventional U-Net-based models face challenges in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-08 Shahzaib Iqbal , Tariq M. Khan , Syed S. Naqvi , Muhammad Usman , Imran Razzak

Medical image segmentation is pivotal in healthcare, enhancing diagnostic accuracy, informing treatment strategies, and tracking disease progression. This process allows clinicians to extract critical information from visual data, enabling…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-31 Ovais Iqbal Shah , Danish Raza Rizvi , Aqib Nazir Mir

Curvilinear structure segmentation is important in medical imaging, quantifying structures such as vessels, airways, neurons, or organ boundaries in 2D slices. Segmentation via pixel-wise classification often fails to capture the small and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-07 Manxi Lin , Zahra Bashir , Martin Grønnebæk Tolsgaard , Anders Nymark Christensen , Aasa Feragen

Accurate reorientation and segmentation of the left ventricular (LV) is essential for the quantitative analysis of myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI), in which one critical step is to reorient the reconstructed transaxial nuclear cardiac…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-17 Yangfan Ni , Duo Zhang , Gege Ma , Lijun Lu , Zhongke Huang , Wentao Zhu

Current medical image segmentation approaches have limitations in deeply exploring multi-scale information and effectively combining local detail textures with global contextual semantic information. This results in over-segmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Zhenkun Lu , Chaoyin She , Wei Wang , Qinghua Huang

In the realm of medical image segmentation, both CNN-based and Transformer-based models have been extensively explored. However, CNNs exhibit limitations in long-range modeling capabilities, whereas Transformers are hampered by their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-11 Jiacheng Ruan , Jincheng Li , Suncheng Xiang

Transfer learning improves the performance of deep learning models by initializing them with parameters pre-trained on larger datasets. Intuitively, transfer learning is more effective when pre-training is on the in-domain datasets. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Khaled Alrfou , Tian Zhao , Amir Kordijazi

We share our recent findings in an attempt to train a universal segmentation network for various cell types and imaging modalities. Our method was built on the generalized U-Net architecture, which allows the evaluation of each component…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Tianqi Guo , Yin Wang , Luis Solorio , Jan P. Allebach

Ultrasound imaging is widely used in clinical practice due to its cost-effectiveness, mobility, and safety. However, current AI research often treats disease prediction and tissue segmentation as two separate tasks and their model requires…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Zhi Chen , Le Zhang

This paper presents a deep learning framework for medical video segmentation. Convolution neural network (CNN) and transformer-based methods have achieved great milestones in medical image segmentation tasks due to their incredible semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Chengxi Zeng , Xinyu Yang , David Smithard , Majid Mirmehdi , Alberto M Gambaruto , Tilo Burghardt

Deep learning and knowledge transfer techniques have permeated the field of medical imaging and are considered as key approaches for revolutionizing diagnostic imaging practices. However, there are still challenges for the successful…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-21 Sina Akbarian , Laleh Seyyed-Kalantari , Farzad Khalvati , Elham Dolatabadi

Image segmentation is a branch of computer vision that is widely used in real world applications including biomedical image processing. With recent advancement of deep learning, image segmentation has achieved at a very high level…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-25 Nima Hassanpour , Abouzar Ghavami

Despite the success of convolutional neural networks for 3D medical-image segmentation, the architectures currently used are still not robust enough to the protocols of different scanners, and the variety of image properties they produce.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-31 Shrajan Bhandary , Zahra Babaiee , Dejan Kostyszyn , Tobias Fechter , Constantinos Zamboglou , Anca-Ligia Grosu , Radu Grosu

Image segmentation is a fundamental and challenging problem in computer vision with applications spanning multiple areas, such as medical imaging, remote sensing, and autonomous vehicles. Recently, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Ali Hatamizadeh

Transfer learning allows us to train deep architectures requiring a large number of learned parameters, even if the amount of available data is limited, by leveraging existing models previously trained for another task. Here we explore the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Natalie Best , Jordan Ott , Erik Linstead

Purpose Automated segmentation of anatomical structures in medical image analysis is a prerequisite for autonomous diagnosis as well as various computer and robot aided interventions. Recent methods based on deep convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Max-Heinrich Laves , Jens Bicker , Lüder A. Kahrs , Tobias Ortmaier

We investigate the applicability of U-Net based models for segmenting Urinary Bladder (UB) in male pelvic view UltraSound (US) images. The segmentation of UB in the US image aids radiologists in diagnosing the UB. However, UB in US images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-29 Deepak Raina , Kashish Verma , SH Chandrashekhara , Subir Kumar Saha

Accurate measurement of fetal head circumference is crucial for estimating fetal growth during routine prenatal screening. Prior to measurement, it is necessary to accurately identify and segment the region of interest, specifically the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-30 Fangyijie Wang , Guénolé Silvestre , Kathleen M. Curran

In recent years, Denoising Diffusion Models have demonstrated remarkable success in generating semantically valuable pixel-wise representations for image generative modeling. In this study, we propose a novel end-to-end framework, called…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Zhaohu Xing , Liang Wan , Huazhu Fu , Guang Yang , Lei Zhu