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Medical image segmentation plays a vital role in various clinical applications, enabling accurate delineation and analysis of anatomical structures or pathological regions. Traditional CNNs have achieved remarkable success in this field.…

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Automatic medical image segmentation has made great progress benefit from the development of deep learning. However, most existing methods are based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which fail to build long-range dependencies and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Ailiang Lin , Bingzhi Chen , Jiayu Xu , Zheng Zhang , Guangming Lu

Medical image segmentation is of great significance in analysis of illness. The use of deep neural networks in medical image segmentation can help doctors extract regions of interest from complex medical images, thereby improving diagnostic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Zhuoyi Fang , Kexuan Shi , Jiajia Liu , Qiang Han

Automatic medical image segmentation is a crucial topic in the medical domain and successively a critical counterpart in the computer-aided diagnosis paradigm. U-Net is the most widespread image segmentation architecture due to its…

Medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. Although models based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Transformers have achieved remarkable success in medical image segmentation…

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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

Fully convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have proven to be effective at representing and classifying textural information, thus transforming image intensity into output class masks that achieve semantic image segmentation. In medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Ali Hatamizadeh , Demetri Terzopoulos , Andriy Myronenko

Medical image segmentation, which aims to automatically extract anatomical or pathological structures, plays a key role in computer-aided diagnosis and disease analysis. Despite the problem has been widely studied, existing methods are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-01 Han Zhang , Lok Ming Lui

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been the de facto standard in a diverse set of computer vision tasks for many years. Especially, deep neural networks based on seminal architectures such as U-shaped models with skip-connections or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-02 Reza Azad , Moein Heidari , Moein Shariatnia , Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam , Sanaz Karimijafarbigloo , Ehsan Adeli , Dorit Merhof

In clinical practice, medical image analysis often requires efficient execution on resource-constrained mobile devices. However, existing mobile models-primarily optimized for natural images-tend to perform poorly on medical tasks due to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Fenghe Tang , Bingkun Nian , Jianrui Ding , Wenxin Ma , Quan Quan , Chengqi Dong , Jie Yang , Wei Liu , S. Kevin Zhou

X-ray computed microtomography ({\mu}-CT) is a non-destructive technique that can generate high-resolution 3D images of the internal anatomy of medical and biological samples. These images enable clinicians to examine internal anatomy and…

Semantic image segmentation is the process of labeling each pixel of an image with its corresponding class. An encoder-decoder based approach, like U-Net and its variants, is a popular strategy for solving medical image segmentation tasks.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-30 Debesh Jha , Michael A. Riegler , Dag Johansen , Pål Halvorsen , Håvard D. Johansen

With the rapid development of deep learning, CNN-based U-shaped networks have succeeded in medical image segmentation and are widely applied for various tasks. However, their limitations in capturing global features hinder their performance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Xin Li , Wenhui Zhu , Xuanzhao Dong , Oana M. Dumitrascu , Yalin Wang

Medical image segmentation is crucial for the development of computer-aided diagnostic and therapeutic systems, but still faces numerous difficulties. In recent years, the commonly used encoder-decoder architecture based on CNNs has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Davoud Saadati , Omid Nejati Manzari , Sattar Mirzakuchaki

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) work very well for supervised learning problems when the training dataset is representative of the variations expected to be encountered at test time. In medical image segmentation, this premise is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-26 Neerav Karani , Ertunc Erdil , Krishna Chaitanya , Ender Konukoglu

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been successfully applied to medical image classification, segmentation, and related tasks. Among the many CNNs architectures, U-Net and its improved versions based are widely used and achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Henry H. Yu , Xue Feng , Hao Sun , Ziwen Wang

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

Medical Image Segmentation (MIS) includes diverse tasks, from bone to organ segmentation, each with its own challenges in finding the best segmentation model. The state-of-the-art AutoML-related MIS-framework nnU-Net automates many aspects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Jannis Becktepe , Leona Hennig , Steffen Oeltze-Jafra , Marius Lindauer

In this article, we look into some essential aspects of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with the focus on medical image segmentation. First, we discuss the CNN architecture, thereby highlighting the spatial origin of the data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Jeroen Bertels , David Robben , Robin Lemmens , Dirk Vandermeulen

Convolutional neural network (CNN), in particular the Unet, is a powerful method for medical image segmentation. To date Unet has demonstrated state-of-art performance in many complex medical image segmentation tasks, especially under the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-31 Wenjun Yan , Yuanyuan Wang , Shengjia Gu , Lu Huang , Fuhua Yan , Liming Xia , Qian Tao