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Breast cancer classification remains a challenging task due to inter-class ambiguity and intra-class variability. Existing deep learning-based methods try to confront this challenge by utilizing complex nonlinear projections. However, these…

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Cancer segmentation in whole-slide images is a fundamental step for viable tumour burden estimation, which is of great value for cancer assessment. However, factors like vague boundaries or small regions dissociated from viable tumour areas…

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The accurate segmentation of medical images is a crucial step in obtaining reliable morphological statistics. However, training a deep neural network for this task requires a large amount of labeled data to ensure high-accuracy results. To…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-04 Xianjun Han , Qianqian Chen , Zhaoyang Xie , Xuejun Li , Hongyu Yang

The recent integration of attention mechanisms into segmentation networks improves their representational capabilities through a great emphasis on more informative features. However, these attention mechanisms ignore an implicit sub-task of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Zilong Zhong , Zhong Qiu Lin , Rene Bidart , Xiaodan Hu , Ibrahim Ben Daya , Zhifeng Li , Wei-Shi Zheng , Jonathan Li , Alexander Wong

The pancreatic disease taxonomy includes ten types of masses (tumors or cysts)[20,8]. Previous work focuses on developing segmentation or classification methods only for certain mass types. Differential diagnosis of all mass types is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-10 Tianyi Zhao , Kai Cao , Jiawen Yao , Isabella Nogues , Le Lu , Lingyun Huang , Jing Xiao , Zhaozheng Yin , Ling Zhang

Saliency detection is one of the basic challenges in computer vision. How to extract effective features is a critical point for saliency detection. Recent methods mainly adopt integrating multi-scale convolutional features indiscriminately.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Ting Zhao , Xiangqian Wu

Medical image processing tasks such as segmentation often require capturing non-local information. As organs, bones, and tissues share common characteristics such as intensity, shape, and texture, the contextual information plays a critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Samuel Joutard , Reuben Dorent , Amanda Isaac , Sebastien Ourselin , Tom Vercauteren , Marc Modat

Recently, numerous pancreas segmentation methods have achieved promising performance on local single-source datasets. However, these methods don't adequately account for generalizability issues, and hence typically show limited performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Jun Li , Hongzhang Zhu , Tao Chen , Xiaohua Qian

Deep Learning based techniques have gained significance over the past few years in the field of medicine. They are used in various applications such as classifying medical images, segmentation and identification. The existing architectures…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-16 Gaurav Prasanna , John Rohit Ernest , Lalitha G , Sathiya Narayanan

Clinically, automated polyp segmentation techniques have the potential to significantly improve the efficiency and accuracy of medical diagnosis, thereby reducing the risk of colorectal cancer in patients. Unfortunately, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Junzhuo Liu , Qiaosong Chen , Ye Zhang , Zhixiang Wang , Deng Xin , Jin Wang

Medical image segmentation has witnessed significant advancements with the emergence of deep learning. However, the reliance of most neural network models on a substantial amount of annotated data remains a challenge for medical image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Xiaoxiao Wu , Xiaowei Chen , Zhenguo Gao , Shulei Qu , Yuanyuan Qiu

Shape information is a strong and valuable prior in segmenting organs in medical images. However, most current deep learning based segmentation algorithms have not taken shape information into consideration, which can lead to bias towards…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Yuan Yao , Fengze Liu , Zongwei Zhou , Yan Wang , Wei Shen , Alan Yuille , Yongyi Lu

In the field of healthcare, precise skin lesion segmentation is crucial for the early detection and accurate diagnosis of skin diseases. Despite significant advances in deep learning for image processing, existing methods have yet to…

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Accurate medical image segmentation is essential for diagnosis and treatment planning of diseases. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance for automatic medical image segmentation. However, they are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Ran Gu , Guotai Wang , Tao Song , Rui Huang , Michael Aertsen , Jan Deprest , Sébastien Ourselin , Tom Vercauteren , Shaoting Zhang

Liver tumor segmentation plays an important role in hepatocellular carcinoma diagnosis and surgical planning. In this paper, we propose a novel Semantic Feature Attention Network (SFAN) for liver tumor segmentation from Computed Tomography…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-04 Yao Zhang , Cheng Zhong , Yang Zhang , Zhongchao Shi , Zhiqiang He

This paper proposes a novel attention model for semantic segmentation, which aggregates multi-scale and context features to refine prediction. Specifically, the skeleton convolutional neural network framework takes in multiple different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Shiqi Yang , Gang Peng

Automated and accurate 3D medical image segmentation plays an essential role in assisting medical professionals to evaluate disease progresses and make fast therapeutic schedules. Although deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-01 Jianpeng Zhang , Yutong Xie , Yan Wang , Yong Xia

In this paper, we focus on the challenging multicategory instance segmentation problem in remote sensing images (RSIs), which aims at predicting the categories of all instances and localizing them with pixel-level masks. Although many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Tianyang Zhang , Xiangrong Zhang , Peng Zhu , Xu Tang , Chen Li , Licheng Jiao , Huiyu Zhou

Due to the high heterogeneity and clinical characteristics of cancer, there are significant differences in multi-omic data and clinical characteristics among different cancer subtypes. Therefore, accurate classification of cancer subtypes…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-08-23 Liangrui Pan , Dazheng Liu , Zhichao Feng , Wenjuan Liu , Shaoliang Peng

Early detection and accurate diagnosis can predict the risk of malignant disease transformation, thereby increasing the probability of effective treatment. Identifying mild syndrome with small pathological regions serves as an ominous…

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