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Identifying biomarkers in medical images is vital for a wide range of biotech applications. However, recent Transformer and CNN based methods often struggle with variations in morphology and staining, which limits their feature extraction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-09 Saad Wazir , Daeyoung Kim

The U-Net was presented in 2015. With its straight-forward and successful architecture it quickly evolved to a commonly used benchmark in medical image segmentation. The adaptation of the U-Net to novel problems, however, comprises several…

In recent years Deep Learning has brought about a breakthrough in Medical Image Segmentation. U-Net is the most prominent deep network in this regard, which has been the most popular architecture in the medical imaging community. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Nabil Ibtehaz , M. Sohel Rahman

Automatic segmentation of multi-sequence (multi-modal) cardiac MR (CMR) images plays a significant role in diagnosis and management for a variety of cardiac diseases. However, the performance of relevant algorithms is significantly affected…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-08 Haochuan Jiang , Chengjia Wang , Agisilaos Chartsias , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

Most methods for medical image segmentation use U-Net or its variants as they have been successful in most of the applications. After a detailed analysis of these "traditional" encoder-decoder based approaches, we observed that they perform…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-18 Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu , Vishwanath A. Sindagi , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Vishal M. Patel

Early detection of lung cancer is crucial as it increases the chances of successful treatment. Automatic lung image segmentation assists doctors in identifying diseases such as lung cancer, COVID-19, and respiratory disorders. However, lung…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Sadjad Rezvani , Mansoor Fateh , Yeganeh Jalali , Amirreza Fateh

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

Many deep learning based methods have been proposed for retinal vessel segmentation, however few of them focus on the connectivity of segmented vessels, which is quite important for a practical computer-aided diagnosis system on retinal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-28 Rui Xu , Tiantian Liu , Xinchen Ye , Yen-Wei Chen

Segmenting ultrasound images is critical for various medical applications, but it offers significant challenges due to ultrasound images' inherent noise and unpredictability. To address these challenges, we proposed EUIS-Net, a CNN network…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-23 Shahzaib Iqbal , Hasnat Ahmed , Muhammad Sharif , Madiha Hena , Tariq M. Khan , Imran Razzak

[Objective] This study aims to introduce a novel back projection-induced U-Net-shaped architecture, called ReconU-Net, for deep learning-based direct positron emission tomography (PET) image reconstruction. Additionally, our objective is to…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-07-25 Fumio Hashimoto , Kibo Ote

Automated medical image segmentation is becoming increasingly crucial to modern clinical practice, driven by the growing demand for precise diagnosis, the push towards personalized treatment plans, and the advancements in machine learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-13 Tan-Hanh Pham , Xianqi Li , Kim-Doang Nguyen

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Computer Tomography (CT) are routinely used together to detect tumors. PET/CT segmentation models can automate tumor delineation, however, current multimodal models do not fully exploit the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-14 Zdravko Marinov , Simon Reiß , David Kersting , Jens Kleesiek , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Accurate segmentation of the stroke lesions using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is associated with difficulties due to the complicated anatomy of the brain and the different properties of the lesions. This study introduces the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Muhammad Nouman , Mohamed Mabrok , Essam A. Rashed

In the past few years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved milestones in medical image analysis. Especially, the deep neural networks based on U-shaped architecture and skip-connections have been widely applied in a variety…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-13 Hu Cao , Yueyue Wang , Joy Chen , Dongsheng Jiang , Xiaopeng Zhang , Qi Tian , Manning Wang

Skip connections are central to U-Net architectures for image denoising, but standard concatenation doubles channel dimensionality and obscures information flow, allowing uncontrolled noise transfer. We propose the Additive U-Net, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Vikram R Lakkavalli

Image segmentation is a primary task in many medical applications. Recently, many deep networks derived from U-Net have been extensively used in various medical image segmentation tasks. However, in most of the cases, networks similar to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Balamurali Murugesan , Kaushik Sarveswaran , Sharath M Shankaranarayana , Keerthi Ram , Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam

This paper proposes a high-precision semantic segmentation method based on an improved TransUNet architecture to address the challenges of complex lesion structures, blurred boundaries, and significant scale variations in skin lesion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-21 Xin Wang , Xiaopei Zhang , Xingang Wang

Segmentation of livers and liver tumors is one of the most important steps in radiation therapy of hepatocellular carcinoma. The segmentation task is often done manually, making it tedious, labor intensive, and subject to intra-/inter-…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-04 Hyunseok Seo , Charles Huang , Maxime Bassenne , Ruoxiu Xiao , Lei Xing

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

Assessing the location and extent of lesions caused by chronic stroke is critical for medical diagnosis, surgical planning, and prognosis. In recent years, with the rapid development of 2D and 3D convolutional neural networks (CNN), the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-17 Yongjin Zhou , Weijian Huang , Pei Dong , Yong Xia , Shanshan Wang