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Medical image segmentation has been so far achieving promising results with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). However, it is arguable that in traditional CNNs, its pooling layer tends to discard important information such as positions.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-12 Tan Nguyen , Binh-Son Hua , Ngan Le

Convolutional neural network (CNN) based methods have achieved great successes in medical image segmentation, but their capability to learn global representations is still limited due to using small effective receptive fields of convolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Pengfei Gu , Yejia Zhang , Chaoli Wang , Danny Z. Chen

Medical image segmentation is a critical task in clinical workflows, particularly for the detection and delineation of pathological regions. While convolutional architectures like U-Net have become standard for such tasks, their limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Morteza Kiani Haftlang , Mohammadhossein Malmir , Foroutan Parand , Umberto Michelucci , Safouane El Ghazouali

Hypergraphs, with their capacity to depict high-order relationships, have emerged as a significant extension of traditional graphs. Although Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have remarkable performance in graph representation learning, their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Khaled Mohammed Saifuddin , Mehmet Emin Aktas , Esra Akbas

Accurate segmentation of anatomical structures is vital for medical image analysis. The state-of-the-art accuracy is typically achieved by supervised learning methods, where gathering the requisite expert-labeled image annotations in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Yuhang Lu , Kang Zheng , Weijian Li , Yirui Wang , Adam P. Harrison , Chihung Lin , Song Wang , Jing Xiao , Le Lu , Chang-Fu Kuo , Shun Miao

In this paper, we propose an automatic brain tumor segmentation approach (e.g., PixelNet) using a pixel-level convolutional neural network (CNN). The model extracts feature from multiple convolutional layers and concatenate them to form a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-26 Mobarakol Islam , Hongliang Ren

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

Biomedical imaging is a driver of scientific discovery and core component of medical care, currently stimulated by the field of deep learning. While semantic segmentation algorithms enable 3D image analysis and quantification in many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Fabian Isensee , Paul F. Jäger , Simon A. A. Kohl , Jens Petersen , Klaus H. Maier-Hein

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have made significant advances in detecting roads from satellite images. However, existing CNN approaches are generally repurposed semantic segmentation architectures and suffer from the poor delineation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Tinghuai Wang , Guangming Wang , Kuan Eeik Tan

This paper proposes a deep Convolutional Neural Network(CNN) with strong generalization ability for structural topology optimization. The architecture of the neural network is made up of encoding and decoding parts, which provide down- and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Yiquan Zhang , Bo Peng , Xiaoyi Zhou , Cheng Xiang , Dalei Wang

Most methods for medical image segmentation use U-Net or its variants as they have been successful in most of the applications. After a detailed analysis of these "traditional" encoder-decoder based approaches, we observed that they perform…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-18 Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu , Vishwanath A. Sindagi , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Vishal M. Patel

Despite recent progress on semantic segmentation, there still exist huge challenges in medical ultra-resolution image segmentation. The methods based on multi-branch structure can make a good balance between computational burdens and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Tong Wu , Yuan Xie , Yanyun Qu , Bicheng Dai , Shuxin Chen

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have exhibited strong performance in medical image segmentation tasks by capturing high-level (local) information, such as edges and textures. However, due to the limited field of view of convolution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-02 Hao Li , Han Liu , Dewei Hu , Xing Yao , Jiacheng Wang , Ipek Oguz

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

Purpose: Automatic and accurate segmentation of fundus vessel images has become an essential prerequisite for computer-aided diagnosis of ophthalmic diseases such as diabetes mellitus. The task of high-precision retinal vessel segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-06 Xiang Li , Mingsi Liu , Lixin Duan

UNet and its latest extensions like TransUNet have been the leading medical image segmentation methods in recent years. However, these networks cannot be effectively adopted for rapid image segmentation in point-of-care applications as they…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-11 Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu , Vishal M. Patel

Transformer architecture has emerged to be successful in a number of natural language processing tasks. However, its applications to medical vision remain largely unexplored. In this study, we present UTNet, a simple yet powerful hybrid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Yunhe Gao , Mu Zhou , Dimitris Metaxas

The paper is a short review of medical image segmentation using U-Net and its variants. As we understand going through a medical images is not an easy job for any clinician either radiologist or pathologist. Analysing medical images is the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-20 Vinay Ummadi

The nnU-Net framework has played a crucial role in medical image segmentation and has become the gold standard in multitudes of applications targeting different diseases, organs, and modalities. However, so far it has been used primarily in…

The combination of the U-Net based deep learning models and Transformer is a new trend for medical image segmentation. U-Net can extract the detailed local semantic and texture information and Transformer can learn the long-rang…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-05 Sheng He , Rina Bao , P. Ellen Grant , Yangming Ou