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Automatic segmentation of the prostate cancer from the multi-modal magnetic resonance images is of critical importance for the initial staging and prognosis of patients. However, how to use the multi-modal image features more efficiently is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-10 Guokai Zhang , Xiaoang Shen , Ye Luo , Jihao Luo , Zeju Wang , Weigang Wang , Binghui Zhao , Jianwei Lu

We develop a connection sensitive attention U-Net(CSAU) for accurate retinal vessel segmentation. This method improves the recent attention U-Net for semantic segmentation with four key improvements: (1) connection sensitive loss that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Ruirui Li , Mingming Li , Jiacheng Li , Yating Zhou

More than 90\% of colorectal cancer is gradually transformed from colorectal polyps. In clinical practice, precise polyp segmentation provides important information in the early detection of colorectal cancer. Therefore, automatic polyp…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Xiaoqi Zhao , Lihe Zhang , Huchuan Lu

Objective: To develop a novel deep learning framework for the automated segmentation of colonic polyps in colonoscopy images, overcoming the limitations of current approaches in preserving precise polyp boundaries, incorporating multi-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Chandravardhan Singh Raghaw , Aryan Yadav , Jasmer Singh Sanjotra , Shalini Dangi , Nagendra Kumar

Medical image segmentation can provide detailed information for clinical analysis which can be useful for scenarios where the detailed location of a finding is important. Knowing the location of disease can play a vital role in treatment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Abhishek Srivastava , Sukalpa Chanda , Debesh Jha , Michael A. Riegler , Pål Halvorsen , Dag Johansen , Umapada Pal

The attention mechanism can refine the extracted feature maps and boost the classification performance of the deep network, which has become an essential technique in computer vision and natural language processing. However, the memory and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Rui Li , Shunyi Zheng , Chenxi Duan , Jianlin Su , Ce Zhang

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

Accurate segmentation of organs or lesions from medical images is crucial for reliable diagnosis of diseases and organ morphometry. In recent years, convolutional encoder-decoder solutions have achieved substantial progress in the field of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Bingzhi Chen , Yishu Liu , Zheng Zhang , Guangming Lu , Adams Wai Kin Kong

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

Chest radiographs are the most commonly performed radiological examinations for lesion detection. Recent advances in deep learning have led to encouraging results in various thoracic disease detection tasks. Particularly, the architecture…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-27 Qing Xu , Wenting Duan

Accurate polyp segmentation in colonoscopy is essential for cancer prevention but remains challenging due to: (1) high morphological variability (from flat to protruding lesions), (2) strong visual similarity to normal structures such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Abdul Joseph Fofanah , Lian Wen , Alpha Alimamy Kamara , Zhongyi Zhang , David Chen , Albert Patrick Sankoh

The advancements in deep learning technologies have produced immense contributions to biomedical image analysis applications. With breast cancer being the common deadliest disease among women, early detection is the key means to improve…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-04 Narinder Singh Punn , Sonali Agarwal

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

Lesion segmentation, in contrast to natural scene segmentation, requires handling subtle variations in texture and color, frequent imaging artifacts (such as hairs, rulers, and bubbles), and a critical need for precise boundary localization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Vikram Singh , Kabir Malhotra , Rohan Desai , Ananya Shankaracharya , Priyadarshini Chatterjee , Krishnan Menon Iyer

Medical image segmentation plays an important role in computer-aided diagnosis. Attention mechanisms that distinguish important parts from irrelevant parts have been widely used in medical image segmentation tasks. This paper systematically…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-30 Yutong Xie , Bing Yang , Qingbiao Guan , Jianpeng Zhang , Qi Wu , Yong Xia

According to WHO[1], since the 1970s, diagnosis of melanoma skin cancer has been more frequent. However, if detected early, the 5-year survival rate for melanoma can increase to 99 percent. In this regard, skin lesion segmentation can be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Pooya Mohammadi Kazaj , MohammadHossein Koosheshi , Ali Shahedi , Alireza Vafaei Sadr

Colorectal Cancer(CRC) poses a great risk to public health. It is the third most common cause of cancer in the US. Development of colorectal polyps is one of the earliest signs of cancer. Early detection and resection of polyps can greatly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-19 Debayan Bhattacharya , Christian Betz , Dennis Eggert , Alexander Schlaefer

Medical image segmentation has witnessed significant advancements with the emergence of deep learning. However, the reliance of most neural network models on a substantial amount of annotated data remains a challenge for medical image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Xiaoxiao Wu , Xiaowei Chen , Zhenguo Gao , Shulei Qu , Yuanyuan Qiu

Lung segmentation in chest X-ray images is of paramount importance as it plays a crucial role in the diagnosis and treatment of various lung diseases. This paper presents a novel approach for lung segmentation in chest X-ray images by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-08 Mohammad Ali Labbaf Khaniki , Mohammad Manthouri

Polyp segmentation for colonoscopy images is of vital importance in clinical practice. It can provide valuable information for colorectal cancer diagnosis and surgery. While existing methods have achieved relatively good performance, polyp…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Xiaolu Kang , Zhuoqi Ma , Kang Liu , Yunan Li , Qiguang Miao