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Medical image segmentation faces challenges due to variations in anatomical structures. While convolutional neural networks (CNNs) effectively capture local features, they struggle with modeling long-range dependencies. Transformers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Lalit Maurya , Honghai Liu , Reyer Zwiggelaar

U-Net and its variants have been widely used in medical image segmentation. However, most current U-Net variants confine their improvement strategies to building more complex encoder, while leaving the decoder unchanged or adopting a simple…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-30 Weibin Yang , Longwei Xu , Pengwei Wang , Dehua Geng , Yusong Li , Mingyuan Xu , Zhiqi Dong

Semantic segmentation has a broad range of applications in a variety of domains including land coverage analysis, autonomous driving, and medical image analysis. Convolutional neural networks (CNN) and Vision Transformers (ViTs) provide the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Hans Thisanke , Chamli Deshan , Kavindu Chamith , Sachith Seneviratne , Rajith Vidanaarachchi , Damayanthi Herath

Medical image segmentation is crucial for disease diagnosis and monitoring. Though effective, the current segmentation networks such as UNet struggle with capturing long-range features. More accurate models such as TransUNet, Swin-UNet, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Khaled Alrfou , Tian Zhao

This paper presents an adaptive convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture that can automate diverse topology optimization (TO) problems having different underlying physics. The architecture uses the encoder-decoder networks with dense…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Khaish Singh Chadha , Prabhat Kumar

Owing to flexible architectures of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), CNNs are successfully used for image denoising. However, they suffer from the following drawbacks: (i) deep network architecture is very difficult to train. (ii)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Chunwei Tian , Yong Xu , Lunke Fei , Junqian Wang , Jie Wen , Nan Luo

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for biomedical image analysis are often of very large size, resulting in high memory requirement and high latency of operations. Searching for an acceptable compressed representation of the base CNN for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Suraj Mishra , Peixian Liang , Adam Czajka , Danny Z. Chen , X. Sharon Hu

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

Semantic image segmentation is a principal problem in computer vision, where the aim is to correctly classify each individual pixel of an image into a semantic label. Its widespread use in many areas, including medical imaging and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Vladimir Nekrasov , Janghoon Ju , Jaesik Choi

Gastro-Intestinal Tract cancer is considered a fatal malignant condition of the organs in the GI tract. Due to its fatality, there is an urgent need for medical image segmentation techniques to segment organs to reduce the treatment time…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Praneeth Nemani , Satyanarayana Vollala

Transformers exhibit great advantages in handling computer vision tasks. They model image classification tasks by utilizing a multi-head attention mechanism to process a series of patches consisting of split images. However, for complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Haichao Zhang , Kuangrong Hao , Witold Pedrycz , Lei Gao , Xuesong Tang , Bing Wei

Medical image segmentation is a critical aspect of modern medical research and clinical practice. Despite the remarkable performance of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in this domain, they inherently struggle to capture long-range…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-02 Jiashu Xu

Model compression and acceleration are attracting increasing attentions due to the demand for embedded devices and mobile applications. Research on efficient convolutional neural networks (CNNs) aims at removing feature redundancy by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Jinhua Liang , Tao Zhang , Guoqing Feng

In today's digital age, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), a subset of Deep Learning (DL), are widely used for various computer vision tasks such as image classification, object detection, and image segmentation. There are numerous types…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Abolfazl Younesi , Mohsen Ansari , MohammadAmin Fazli , Alireza Ejlali , Muhammad Shafique , Jörg Henkel

For the task of change detection (CD) in remote sensing images, deep convolution neural networks (CNNs)-based methods have recently aggregated transformer modules to improve the capability of global feature extraction. However, they suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Weiming Li , Lihui Xue , Xueqian Wang , Gang Li

In recent years, significant advancements have been made in deep learning for medical image segmentation, particularly with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and transformer models. However, CNNs face limitations in capturing long-range…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Juntao Jiang , Jiangning Zhang , Weixuan Liu , Muxuan Gao , Xiaobin Hu , Zhucun Xue , Yong Liu , Shuicheng Yan

Automatic medical image segmentation, an essential component of medical image analysis, plays an importantrole in computer-aided diagnosis. For example, locating and segmenting the liver can be very helpful in livercancer diagnosis and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-28 Xi Fang , Bo Du , Sheng Xu , Bradford J. Wood , Pingkun Yan

In construction quality monitoring, accurately detecting and segmenting cracks in concrete structures is paramount for safety and maintenance. Current convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated strong performance in crack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Kaiwei Yu , I-Ming Chen , Jing Wu

Breast cancer is one of the common cancers that endanger the health of women globally. Accurate target lesion segmentation is essential for early clinical intervention and postoperative follow-up. Recently, many convolutional neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-23 Gongping Chen , Lu Zhou , Jianxun Zhang , Xiaotao Yin , Liang Cui , Yu Dai

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have revolutionized computer vision by leveraging self-attention to model long-range dependencies. However, ViTs face challenges such as high computational costs due to the quadratic scaling of self-attention and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Zhoujie Qian