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Histopathology nuclei segmentation is crucial for quantitative tissue analysis and cancer diagnosis. Although existing segmentation methods have achieved strong performance, they are often computationally heavy and show limited…

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Medical image segmentation plays a pivotal role in disease diagnosis and treatment planning, particularly in resource-constrained clinical settings where lightweight and generalizable models are urgently needed. However, existing…

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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…

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Accurate nuclei segmentation in histopathological images is crucial for cancer diagnosis. Automating this process offers valuable support to clinical experts, as manual annotation is time-consuming and prone to human errors. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Ayush Roy , Payel Pramanik , Dmitrii Kaplun , Sergei Antonov , Ram Sarkar

Nucleus segmentation is a challenging task due to the crowded distribution and blurry boundaries of nuclei. Recent approaches represent nuclei by means of polygons to differentiate between touching and overlapping nuclei and have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Shengcong Chen , Changxing Ding , Minfeng Liu , Jun Cheng , Dacheng Tao

In healthcare, medical image segmentation is crucial for accurate disease diagnosis and the development of effective treatment strategies. Early detection can significantly aid in managing diseases and potentially prevent their progression.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Bobby Azad , Pourya Adibfar , Kaiqun Fu

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

Medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in advancing healthcare systems for disease diagnosis and treatment planning. The u-shaped architecture, popularly known as U-Net, has proven highly successful for various medical image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Jieneng Chen , Jieru Mei , Xianhang Li , Yongyi Lu , Qihang Yu , Qingyue Wei , Xiangde Luo , Yutong Xie , Ehsan Adeli , Yan Wang , Matthew Lungren , Lei Xing , Le Lu , Alan Yuille , Yuyin Zhou

In this study, we introduce \textbf{AttendSeg}, a low-precision, highly compact deep neural network tailored for on-device semantic segmentation. AttendSeg possesses a self-attention network architecture comprising of light-weight attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Xiaoyu Wen , Mahmoud Famouri , Andrew Hryniowski , Alexander Wong

Segmentation has been a major task in neuroimaging. A large number of automated methods have been developed for segmenting healthy and diseased brain tissues. In recent years, deep learning techniques have attracted a lot of attention as a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-05 Jimit Doshi , Guray Erus , Mohamad Habes , Christos Davatzikos

In medical image segmentation, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and transformers are dominant. For CNNs, given the local receptive fields of convolutional layers, long-range spatial correlations are captured through consecutive…

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Computed Tomography (CT) based precise prostate segmentation for treatment planning is challenging due to (1) the unclear boundary of the prostate derived from CT's poor soft tissue contrast and (2) the limitation of convolutional neural…

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The hybrid architecture of convolution neural networks (CNN) and Transformer has been the most popular method for medical image segmentation. However, the existing networks based on the hybrid architecture suffer from two problems. First,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-21 Rui Sun , Tao Lei , Weichuan Zhang , Yong Wan , Yong Xia , Asoke K. Nandi

Accurate medical image segmentation allows for the precise delineation of anatomical structures and pathological regions, which is essential for treatment planning, surgical navigation, and disease monitoring. Both CNN-based and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Libin Lan , Yanxin Li , Xiaojuan Liu , Juan Zhou , Jianxun Zhang , Nannan Huang , Yudong Zhang

We propose a software platform that integrates methods and tools for multi-objective parameter auto- tuning in tissue image segmentation workflows. The goal of our work is to provide an approach for improving the accuracy of nucleus/cell…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Luis F. R. Taveira , Tahsin Kurc , Alba C. M. A. Melo , Jun Kong , Erich Bremer , Joel H. Saltz , George Teodoro

Segmentation and accurate localization of nuclei in histopathological images is a very challenging problem, with most existing approaches adopting a supervised strategy. These methods usually rely on manual annotations that require a lot of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-17 Mihir Sahasrabudhe , Stergios Christodoulidis , Roberto Salgado , Stefan Michiels , Sherene Loi , Fabrice André , Nikos Paragios , Maria Vakalopoulou

In recent years, transformer-based methods have achieved remarkable progress in medical image segmentation due to their superior ability to capture long-range dependencies. However, these methods typically suffer from two major limitations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Zunhui Xia , Hongxing Li , Libin Lan

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been the de facto standard in a diverse set of computer vision tasks for many years. Especially, deep neural networks based on seminal architectures such as U-shaped models with skip-connections or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-02 Reza Azad , Moein Heidari , Moein Shariatnia , Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam , Sanaz Karimijafarbigloo , Ehsan Adeli , Dorit Merhof

Transformer, which can benefit from global (long-range) information modeling using self-attention mechanisms, has been successful in natural language processing and 2D image classification recently. However, both local and global features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Wenxuan Wang , Chen Chen , Meng Ding , Jiangyun Li , Hong Yu , Sen Zha