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This study proposes a 3D semantic segmentation method for the spine based on the improved SwinUNETR to improve segmentation accuracy and robustness. Aiming at the complex anatomical structure of spinal images, this paper introduces a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yanlin Xiang , Qingyuan He , Ting Xu , Ran Hao , Jiacheng Hu , Hanchao Zhang

Textured 3D meshes jointly represent geometry, topology, and appearance, yet their irregular structure poses significant challenges for deep-learning-based semantic segmentation. While a few recent methods operate directly on meshes without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Mohammadreza Heidarianbaei , Max Mehltretter , Franz Rottensteiner

Accurate multi-class tubular modeling is critical for precise lesion localization and optimal treatment planning. Deep learning methods enable automated shape modeling by prioritizing volumetric overlap accuracy. However, the inherent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Minghui Zhang , Yaoyu Liu , Xin You , Hanxiao Zhang , Yun Gu

Given the prominence of current 3D sensors, a fine-grained analysis on the basic point cloud data is worthy of further investigation. Particularly, real point cloud scenes can intuitively capture complex surroundings in the real world, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Shi Qiu , Saeed Anwar , Nick Barnes

A uniform distribution of the image force field around the object fasts the convergence speed of the segmentation process. However, to achieve this aim, it causes the force constructed from the heat diffusion model unable to indicate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-05-08 Hongyu Lu , Yutian Wang , Shanglian Bao

Segmenting curvilinear structures in medical images is essential for analyzing morphological patterns in clinical applications. Integrating topological properties, such as connectivity, improves segmentation accuracy and consistency.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Zhuangzhi Gao , Feixiang Zhou , He Zhao , Xiuju Chen , Xiaoxin Li , Qinkai Yu , Yitian Zhao , Alena Shantsila , Gregory Y. H. Lip , Eduard Shantsila , Yalin Zheng

Diffeomorphic deformable image registration is crucial in many medical image studies, as it offers unique, special properties including topology preservation and invertibility of the transformation. Recent deep learning-based deformable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Tony C. W. Mok , Albert C. S. Chung

Dynamic convolution demonstrates outstanding representation capabilities, which are crucial for natural image segmentation. However, it fails when applied to medical image segmentation (MIS) and infrared small target segmentation (IRSTS)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Bingkun Nian , Fenghe Tang , Jianrui Ding , Jie Yang , Zhonglong Zheng , Shaohua Kevin Zhou , Wei Liu

Morphological methods play a crucial role in remote sensing image processing, due to their ability to capture and preserve small structural details. However, most of the existing deep learning models for semantic segmentation are based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Jun Xie , Wenxiao Li , Faqiang Wang , Liqiang Zhang , Zhengyang Hou , Jun Liu

Accurate segmentation of tubular, network-like structures, such as vessels, neurons, or roads, is relevant to many fields of research. For such structures, the topology is their most important characteristic; particularly preserving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Suprosanna Shit , Johannes C. Paetzold , Anjany Sekuboyina , Ivan Ezhov , Alexander Unger , Andrey Zhylka , Josien P. W. Pluim , Ulrich Bauer , Bjoern H. Menze

Deep neural networks are widely used for understanding 3D point clouds. At each point convolution layer, features are computed from local neighborhoods of 3D points and combined for subsequent processing in order to extract semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Jiayun Wang , Rudrasis Chakraborty , Stella X. Yu

Convolutional neural networks are widely used in various segmentation tasks in medical images. However, they are challenged to learn global features adaptively due to the inherent locality of convolutional operations. In contrast, MLP…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-25 Jin Yang , Xiaobing Yu , Peijie Qiu

Existing research highlights the crucial role of topological priors in image segmentation, particularly in preserving essential structures such as connectivity and genus. Accurately capturing these topological features often requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Wenxiao Li , Xue-Cheng Tai , Jun Liu

Gigapixel medical images provide massive data, both morphological textures and spatial information, to be mined. Due to the large data scale in histology, deep learning methods play an increasingly significant role as feature extractors.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-16 Yiqing Shen , Bingxin Zhou , Xinye Xiong , Ruitian Gao , Yu Guang Wang

With the rapid advances of autonomous driving, it becomes critical to equip its sensing system with more holistic 3D perception. However, existing works focus on parsing either the objects (e.g. cars and pedestrians) or scenes (e.g. trees…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Fangzhou Hong , Hui Zhou , Xinge Zhu , Hongsheng Li , Ziwei Liu

Deep learning-based image registration methods have shown state-of-the-art performance and rapid inference speeds. Despite these advances, many existing approaches fall short in capturing spatially varying information in non-local regions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Xinxing Cheng , Tianyang Zhang , Wenqi Lu , Qingjie Meng , Alejandro F. Frangi , Jinming Duan

Recovering point clouds involves the sequential process of sampling and restoration, yet existing methods struggle to effectively leverage both topological and geometric attributes. To address this, we propose an end-to-end architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Kaiyue Zhou , Zelong Tan , Hongxiao Wang , Ya-Li Li , Shengjin Wang

Deep learning-based medical image segmentation techniques have shown promising results when evaluated based on conventional metrics such as the Dice score or Intersection-over-Union. However, these fully automatic methods often fail to meet…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-06 Liu Li , Qiang Ma , Cheng Ouyang , Johannes C. Paetzold , Daniel Rueckert , Bernhard Kainz

To reconstruct a 3D scene from a set of calibrated views, traditional multi-view stereo techniques rely on two distinct stages: local depth maps computation and global depth maps fusion. Recent studies concentrate on deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Jaesung Choe , Sunghoon Im , Francois Rameau , Minjun Kang , In So Kweon

We present an approach to semantic scene analysis using deep convolutional networks. Our approach is based on tangent convolutions - a new construction for convolutional networks on 3D data. In contrast to volumetric approaches, our method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Maxim Tatarchenko , Jaesik Park , Vladlen Koltun , Qian-Yi Zhou