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This paper introduces Spectral U-Net, a novel deep learning network based on spectral decomposition, by exploiting Dual Tree Complex Wavelet Transform (DTCWT) for down-sampling and inverse Dual Tree Complex Wavelet Transform (iDTCWT) for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Yaopeng Peng , Milan Sonka , Danny Z. Chen

Medical image segmentation involves identifying and separating object instances in a medical image to delineate various tissues and structures, a task complicated by the significant variations in size, shape, and density of these features.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Sina Ghorbani Kolahi , Seyed Kamal Chaharsooghi , Toktam Khatibi , Afshin Bozorgpour , Reza Azad , Moein Heidari , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Dorit Merhof

Automatic 3D reconstruction of indoor spaces from 2D floor plans necessitates high-precision semantic segmentation of structural elements, particularly walls. However, existing methods often struggle with detecting thin structures and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Dmitriy Parashchuk , Alexey Kaspshitskiy , Yuriy Karyakin

Automatic polyp segmentation is crucial for effective diagnosis and treatment in colonoscopy images. Traditional methods encounter significant challenges in accurately delineating polyps due to limitations in feature representation and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Quang Vinh Nguyen , Thanh Hoang Son Vo , Sae-Ryung Kang , Soo-Hyung Kim

Recently, the state-of-art models for medical image segmentation is U-Net and their variants. These networks, though succeeding in deriving notable results, ignore the practical problem hanging over the medical segmentation field:…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-07 Hao Ziang , Jingsi Zhang , Lixian Li

Recently, deep learning methods have been widely used for tumor segmentation of multimodal medical images with promising results. However, most existing methods are limited by insufficient representational ability, specific modality number…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-06 Jun Shi , Hongyu Kan , Shulan Ruan , Ziqi Zhu , Minfan Zhao , Liang Qiao , Zhaohui Wang , Hong An , Xudong Xue

The CNN-based methods have achieved impressive results in medical image segmentation, but they failed to capture the long-range dependencies due to the inherent locality of the convolution operation. Transformer-based methods are recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Xiaohong Huang , Zhifang Deng , Dandan Li , Xueguang Yuan

In medical image segmentation, particularly in UNet-like architectures, upsampling is primarily used to transform smaller feature maps into larger ones, enabling feature fusion between encoder and decoder features and supporting multi-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Chengkun Sun , Jinqian Pan , Renjie Liang , Zhengkang Fan , Xin Miao , Jiang Bian , Jie Xu

Biomedical image segmentation plays a central role in quantitative analysis, clinical diagnosis, and medical intervention. In the light of the fully convolutional networks (FCN) and U-Net, deep convolutional networks (DNNs) have made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Jiawei Zhang , Yuzhen Jin , Jilan Xu , Xiaowei Xu , Yanchun Zhang

Medical image segmentation is a fundamental task in computer-aided diagnosis, requiring models that balance segmentation accuracy and computational efficiency. However, existing segmentation models often struggle to effectively capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Dalia Alzu'bi , A. Ben Hamza

This paper proposes a novel image segmentation approachthat integrates fully convolutional networks (FCNs) with a level setmodel. Compared with a FCN, the integrated method can incorporatesmoothing and prior information to achieve an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Min Tang , Sepehr Valipour , Zichen Vincent Zhang , Dana Cobzas , MartinJagersand

Accurate and fast segmentation of medical images is clinically essential, yet current research methods include convolutional neural networks with fast inference speed but difficulty in learning image contextual features, and transformer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Weihu Song , Heng Yu , Jianhua Wu

The ascension of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in various fields necessitates effective UAV image segmentation, which faces challenges due to the dynamic perspectives of UAV-captured images. Traditional segmentation algorithms falter as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Deyi Ji , Wenwei Jin , Hongtao Lu , Feng Zhao

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

Various imaging artifacts, low signal-to-noise ratio, and bone surfaces appearing several millimeters in thickness have hindered the success of ultrasound (US) guided computer assisted orthopedic surgery procedures. In this work, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Puyang Wang , Vishal M. Patel , Ilker Hacihaliloglu

Segmentation of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) from Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) is a crucial prerequisite for NPC radiotherapy. However, manually segmenting of NPC is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Additionally, single-modality MRI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Huai Chen , Yuxiao Qi , Yong Yin , Tengxiang Li , Xiaoqing Liu , Xiuli Li , Guanzhong Gong , Lisheng Wang

Reliable cell segmentation and classification from biomedical images is a crucial step for both scientific research and clinical practice. A major challenge for more robust segmentation and classification methods is the large variations in…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2017-10-31 Mo Zhang , Xiang Li , Mengjia Xu , Quanzheng Li

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

Background: Colonoscopy remains the gold-standard screening for colorectal cancer. However, significant miss rates for polyps have been reported, particularly when there are multiple small adenomas. This presents an opportunity to leverage…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-23 Michael Yeung , Evis Sala , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Leonardo Rundo

While Transformer has achieved remarkable performance in various high-level vision tasks, it is still challenging to exploit the full potential of Transformer in image restoration. The crux lies in the limited depth of applying Transformer…

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