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Recently, a growing interest has been seen in deep learning-based semantic segmentation. UNet, which is one of deep learning networks with an encoder-decoder architecture, is widely used in medical image segmentation. Combining multi-scale…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-21 Huimin Huang , Lanfen Lin , Ruofeng Tong , Hongjie Hu , Qiaowei Zhang , Yutaro Iwamoto , Xianhua Han , Yen-Wei Chen , Jian Wu

Accurate and reliable image segmentation is an essential part of biomedical image analysis. In this paper, we consider the problem of biomedical image segmentation using deep convolutional neural networks. We propose a new end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Amirhossein Dadashzadeh , Alireza Tavakoli Targhi

Medical image segmentation - the prerequisite of numerous clinical needs - has been significantly prospered by recent advances in convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, it exhibits general limitations on modeling explicit long-range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Yundong Zhang , Huiye Liu , Qiang Hu

Accurate skin-lesion segmentation remains a key technical challenge for computer-aided diagnosis of skin cancer. Convolutional neural networks, while effective, are constrained by limited receptive fields and thus struggle to model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Pengyang Yu , Haoquan Wang , Gerard Marks , Tahar Kechadi , Laurence T. Yang , Sahraoui Dhelim , Nyothiri Aung

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 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

In clinical practice, medical image segmentation provides useful information on the contours and dimensions of target organs or tissues, facilitating improved diagnosis, analysis, and treatment. In the past few years, convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Jinhong Wang , Jintai Chen , Danny Chen , Jian Wu

In recent advancements in medical image analysis, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and Vision Transformers (ViT) have set significant benchmarks. While the former excels in capturing local features through its convolution operations, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Ziyang Wang , Jian-Qing Zheng , Yichi Zhang , Ge Cui , Lei Li

Background:Convolutional Neural Networks(CNN) and Vision Transformers(ViT) are the main techniques used in Medical image segmentation. However, CNN is limited to local contextual information, and ViT's quadratic complexity results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Xuanyu Liu , Huiyun Yao , Jinggui Gao , Zhongyi Guo , Xue Zhang , Yulin Dong

The UNet architecture, based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), has demonstrated its remarkable performance in medical image analysis. However, it faces challenges in capturing long-range dependencies due to the limited receptive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-28 Liang Xu , Mingxiao Chen , Yi Cheng , Pengfei Shao , Shuwei Shen , Peng Yao , Ronald X. Xu

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

The hybrid architecture of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Transformer are very popular for medical image segmentation. However, it suffers from two challenges. First, although a CNNs branch can capture the local image features…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-21 Tao Lei , Rui Sun , Xuan Wang , Yingbo Wang , Xi He , Asoke Nandi

Recently, U-shaped networks have dominated the field of medical image segmentation due to their simple and easily tuned structure. However, existing U-shaped segmentation networks: 1) mostly focus on designing complex self-attention modules…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-24 Junlong Cheng , Chengrui Gao , Fengjie Wang , Min Zhu

Recently, deep learning has become much more popular in computer vision area. The Convolution Neural Network (CNN) has brought a breakthrough in images segmentation areas, especially, for medical images. In this regard, U-Net is the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Ange Lou , Shuyue Guan , Murray Loew

Biomedical image segmentation is a critical task in medical diagnosis and treatment planning, enabling precise delineation of anatomical structures and pathological regions. Despite significant advancements, challenges persist due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Joao Batista Florindo , Amanda Pontes de Oliveira Ornelas

Anatomical segmentation is a fundamental task in medical image computing, generally tackled with fully convolutional neural networks which produce dense segmentation masks. These models are often trained with loss functions such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-28 Nicolás Gaggion , Lucas Mansilla , Candelaria Mosquera , Diego H. Milone , Enzo Ferrante

Although convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are promoting the development of medical image semantic segmentation, the standard model still has some shortcomings. First, the feature mapping from the encoder and decoder sub-networks in the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-22 Yutong Cai , Yong Wang

Accurate segmentation of the region of interest in medical images can provide an essential pathway for devising effective treatment plans for life-threatening diseases. It is still challenging for U-Net, and its state-of-the-art variants,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-09 Md. Rayhan Ahmed , Adnan Ferdous Ashrafi , Raihan Uddin Ahmed , Swakkhar Shatabda , A. K. M. Muzahidul Islam , Salekul Islam

Medical image segmentation, particularly in multi-domain scenarios, requires precise preservation of anatomical structures across diverse representations. While deep learning has advanced this field, existing models often struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Afshin Bozorgpour , Sina Ghorbani Kolahi , Reza Azad , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Dorit Merhof

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been successfully applied to medical image classification, segmentation, and related tasks. Among the many CNNs architectures, U-Net and its improved versions based are widely used and achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Henry H. Yu , Xue Feng , Hao Sun , Ziwen Wang