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Medical image segmentation, particularly tumor segmentation, is a critical task in medical imaging, with U-Net being a widely adopted convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture for this purpose. However, U-Net's high computational and…

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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

The U-Net architecture, built upon the fully convolutional network, has proven to be effective in biomedical image segmentation. However, U-Net applies skip connections to merge semantically different low- and high-level convolutional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-28 Hasib Zunair , A. Ben Hamza

Light-weight convolutional neural networks (CNNs) suffer performance degradation as their low computational budgets constrain both the depth (number of convolution layers) and the width (number of channels) of CNNs, resulting in limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Yinpeng Chen , Xiyang Dai , Mengchen Liu , Dongdong Chen , Lu Yuan , Zicheng Liu

In the past few years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs), particularly U-Net, have been the prevailing technique in the medical image processing era. Specifically, the seminal U-Net, as well as its alternatives, have successfully managed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Reza Azad , Mohammad T. AL-Antary , Moein Heidari , Dorit Merhof

Medical image segmentation has been very challenging due to the large variation of anatomy across different cases. Recent advances in deep learning frameworks have exhibited faster and more accurate performance in image segmentation. Among…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-12 Maryam Asadi-Aghbolaghi , Reza Azad , Mahmood Fathy , Sergio Escalera

In the past decade, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown prominence for semantic segmentation. Although CNN models have very impressive performance, the ability to capture global representation is still insufficient, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Guoan Xu , Juncheng Li , Guangwei Gao , Huimin Lu , Jian Yang , Dong Yue

The accurate segmentation of medical images is critical for various healthcare applications. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs), especially Fully Convolutional Networks (FCNs) like U-Net, have shown remarkable success in medical image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Omid Nejati Manzari , Javad Mirzapour Kaleybar , Hooman Saadat , Shahin Maleki

Medical image segmentation faces persistent challenges due to severe class imbalance and the frequency-specific distribution of anatomical structures. Most conventional CNN-based methods operate in the spatial domain and struggle to capture…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-26 Ruiqi Xing

Deep learning has shown great potential for automated medical image segmentation to improve the precision and speed of disease diagnostics. However, the task presents significant difficulties due to variations in the scale, shape, texture,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-06 Shahzaib Iqbal , Tariq M. Khan , Syed S. Naqvi , Asim Naveed , Erik Meijering

The segmentation of medical images is important for the improvement and creation of healthcare systems, particularly for early disease detection and treatment planning. In recent years, the use of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-12 Siddharth Tiwari

There is large consent that successful training of deep networks requires many thousand annotated training samples. In this paper, we present a network and training strategy that relies on the strong use of data augmentation to use the…

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Accurate medical image segmentation is essential for clinical quantification, disease diagnosis, treatment planning and many other applications. Both convolution-based and transformer-based u-shaped architectures have made significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Libin Lan , Pengzhou Cai , Lu Jiang , Xiaojuan Liu , Yongmei Li , Yudong Zhang

The tradeoff between receptive field size and efficiency is a crucial issue in low level vision. Plain convolutional networks (CNNs) generally enlarge the receptive field at the expense of computational cost. Recently, dilated filtering has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Pengju Liu , Hongzhi Zhang , Kai Zhang , Liang Lin , Wangmeng Zuo

Deep learning (DL) based semantic segmentation methods have been providing state-of-the-art performance in the last few years. More specifically, these techniques have been successfully applied to medical image classification, segmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Md Zahangir Alom , Mahmudul Hasan , Chris Yakopcic , Tarek M. Taha , Vijayan K. Asari

Deep neural network models have a complex architecture and are overparameterized. The number of parameters is more than the whole dataset, which is highly resource-consuming. This complicates their application and limits its usage on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Vasiliy Alekseev , Ilya Lukashevich , Ilia Zharikov , Ilya Vasiliev

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

Computer-aided medical image segmentation has been applied widely in diagnosis and treatment to obtain clinically useful information of shapes and volumes of target organs and tissues. In the past several years, convolutional neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Yixuan Wu , Kuanlun Liao , Jintai Chen , Jinhong Wang , Danny Z. Chen , Honghao Gao , Jian Wu

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for image classification successively alternate convolutions and downsampling operations, such as pooling layers or strided convolutions, resulting in lower resolution features the deeper the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Ioannis Vezakis , Antonios Vezakis , Sofia Gourtsoyianni , Vassilis Koutoulidis , George K. Matsopoulos , Dimitrios Koutsouris

Embedding Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) into edge devices for inference is a very challenging task because such lightweight hardware is not born to handle this heavyweight software, which is the common overhead from the modern…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Ching-Chen Wang , Ching-Te Chiu , Jheng-Yi Chang