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In recent years, Denoising Diffusion Models have demonstrated remarkable success in generating semantically valuable pixel-wise representations for image generative modeling. In this study, we propose a novel end-to-end framework, called…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Zhaohu Xing , Liang Wan , Huazhu Fu , Guang Yang , Lei Zhu

U-Net models with encoder, decoder, and skip-connections components have demonstrated effectiveness in a variety of vision tasks. The skip-connections transmit fine-grained information from the encoder to the decoder. It is necessary to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Lingxiao Yin , Wei Tao , Dongyue Zhao , Tadayuki Ito , Kinya Osa , Masami Kato , Tse-Wei Chen

Image segmentation is a fundamental task in image analysis and clinical practice. The current state-of-the-art techniques are based on U-shape type encoder-decoder networks with skip connections, called U-Net. Despite the powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Chun-Wun Cheng , Christina Runkel , Lihao Liu , Raymond H Chan , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Angelica I Aviles-Rivero

Electron microscopic connectomics is an ambitious research direction with the goal of studying comprehensive brain connectivity maps by using high-throughput, nano-scale microscopy. One of the main challenges in connectomics research is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Tran Minh Quan , David G. C. Hildebrand , Won-Ki Jeong

Medical image segmentation faces significant challenges in preserving fine-grained details and precise boundaries due to complex anatomical structures and pathological regions. These challenges primarily stem from two key limitations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Bohan Huang , Qianyun Bao , Haoyuan Ma

Semantic segmentation of remotely sensed images plays an important role in land resource management, yield estimation, and economic assessment. U-Net, a deep encoder-decoder architecture, has been used frequently for image segmentation with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-06 Rui Li , Chenxi Duan , Shunyi Zheng , Ce Zhang , Peter M. Atkinson

In this study, the performance of existing U-shaped neural network architectures was enhanced for medical image segmentation by adding Transformer. Although Transformer architectures are powerful at extracting global information, its…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-12 Songkai Sun , Qingshan She , Yuliang Ma , Rihui Li , Yingchun Zhang

In this paper, we present Crossing Aggregation Network (CAggNet), a novel densely connected semantic segmentation approach for medical image analysis. The crossing aggregation network improves the idea from deep layer aggregation and makes…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-10 Xu Cao , Yanghao Lin

Models based on U-like structures have improved the performance of medical image segmentation. However, the single-layer decoder structure of U-Net is too "thin" to exploit enough information, resulting in large semantic differences between…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-08 Haoyuan Chen , Yufei Han , Pin Xu , Yanyi Li , Kuan Li , Jianping Yin

The U-shaped architecture has emerged as a crucial paradigm in the design of medical image segmentation networks. However, due to the inherent local limitations of convolution, a fully convolutional segmentation network with U-shaped…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-04 Fenghe Tang , Jianrui Ding , Lingtao Wang , Chunping Ning , S. Kevin Zhou

Despite the growing success of Convolution neural networks (CNN) in the recent past in the task of scene segmentation, the standard models lack some of the important features that might result in sub-optimal segmentation outputs. The widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Soham Chattopadhyay , Hritam Basak

Purpose: Manual medical image segmentation is an exhausting and time-consuming task along with high inter-observer variability. In this study, our objective is to improve the multi-resolution image segmentation performance of U-Net…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-20 Simindokht Jahangard , Mohammad Hossein Zangooei , Maysam Shahedi

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

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 remains particularly challenging for complex and low-contrast anatomical structures. In this paper, we introduce the U-Transformer network, which combines a U-shaped architecture for image segmentation with self-…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-15 Olivier Petit , Nicolas Thome , Clément Rambour , Luc Soler

A number of methods based on deep learning have been applied to medical image segmentation and have achieved state-of-the-art performance. Due to the importance of chest x-ray data in studying COVID-19, there is a demand for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-27 Lipei Zhang , Aozhi Liu , Jing Xiao , Paul Taylor

Retinal blood vessel segmentation is crucial for diagnosing ocular and cardiovascular diseases. Although the introduction of U-Net in 2015 by Olaf Ronneberger significantly advanced this field, yet issues like limited training data,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-04 Md Tauhidul Islam , Wu Da-Wen , Tang Qing-Qing , Zhao Kai-Yang , Yin Teng , Li Yan-Fei , Shang Wen-Yi , Liu Jing-Yu , Zhang Hai-Xian

Remote sensing semantic segmentation requires models that can jointly capture fine spatial details and high-level semantic context across complex scenes. While classical encoder-decoder architectures such as U-Net remain strong baselines,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Md Aminur Hossain , Ayush V. Patel , Siddhant Gole , Sanjay K. Singh , Biplab Banerjee

Semantic segmentation is one of the core tasks in the field of computer vision, and its goal is to accurately classify each pixel in an image. The traditional Unet model achieves efficient feature extraction and fusion through an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Xuan Li , Quanchao Lu , Yankaiqi Li , Muqing Li , Yijiashun Qi

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