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Inspired by the success of Transformers in Computer vision, Transformers have been widely investigated for medical imaging segmentation. However, most of Transformer architecture are using the recent transformer architectures as encoder or…

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Medical image segmentation is essential for clinical applications such as disease diagnosis, treatment planning, and disease development monitoring because it provides precise morphological and spatial information on anatomical structures…

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Since their emergence, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have made significant strides in medical image analysis. However, the local nature of the convolution operator may pose a limitation for capturing global and long-range…

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Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for image classification successively alternate convolutions and downsampling operations, such as pooling layers or strided convolutions, resulting in lower resolution features the deeper the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Ioannis Vezakis , Antonios Vezakis , Sofia Gourtsoyianni , Vassilis Koutoulidis , George K. Matsopoulos , Dimitrios Koutsouris

Fully convolutional neural networks like U-Net have been the state-of-the-art methods in medical image segmentation. Practically, a network is highly specialized and trained separately for each segmentation task. Instead of a collection of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-16 Chao Huang , Hu Han , Qingsong Yao , Shankuan Zhu , S. Kevin Zhou

Convolution neural networks (CNNs) have succeeded in compressive image sensing. However, due to the inductive bias of locality and weight sharing, the convolution operations demonstrate the intrinsic limitations in modeling the long-range…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-03 Dongjie Ye , Zhangkai Ni , Hanli Wang , Jian Zhang , Shiqi Wang , Sam Kwong

Deep learning has achieved remarkable success in medical image segmentation, often reaching expert-level accuracy in delineating tumors and tissues. However, most existing approaches remain task-specific, showing strong performance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Fares Bougourzi , Fadi Dornaika , Abdenour Hadid

Deep neural networks have been widely used in medical image analysis and medical image segmentation is one of the most important tasks. U-shaped neural networks with encoder-decoder are prevailing and have succeeded greatly in various…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-09 Juntao Jiang , Xiyu Chen , Guanzhong Tian , Yong Liu

Transformer, the model of choice for natural language processing, has drawn scant attention from the medical imaging community. Given the ability to exploit long-term dependencies, transformers are promising to help atypical convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Hong-Yu Zhou , Jiansen Guo , Yinghao Zhang , Lequan Yu , Liansheng Wang , Yizhou Yu

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) work very well for supervised learning problems when the training dataset is representative of the variations expected to be encountered at test time. In medical image segmentation, this premise is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-26 Neerav Karani , Ertunc Erdil , Krishna Chaitanya , Ender Konukoglu

Medical ultrasound image segmentation presents a formidable challenge in the realm of computer vision. Traditional approaches rely on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Transformer-based methods to address the intricacies of medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Weixin Xu , Ziliang Wang

Deep learning has successfully been leveraged for medical image segmentation. It employs convolutional neural networks (CNN) to learn distinctive image features from a defined pixel-wise objective function. However, this approach can lead…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-05 Kibrom Berihu Girum , Gilles Créhange , Alain Lalande

Multi-modal 3D medical image segmentation aims to accurately identify tumor regions across different modalities, facing challenges from variations in image intensity and tumor morphology. Traditional convolutional neural network (CNN)-based…

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Object segmentation and structure localization are important steps in automated image analysis pipelines for microscopy images. We present a convolution neural network (CNN) based deep learning architecture for segmentation of objects in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Shan E Ahmed Raza , Linda Cheung , Muhammad Shaban , Simon Graham , David Epstein , Stella Pelengaris , Michael Khan , Nasir M. Rajpoot

Semantic segmentation of remotely sensed urban scene images is required in a wide range of practical applications, such as land cover mapping, urban change detection, environmental protection, and economic assessment.Driven by rapid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Libo Wang , Rui Li , Ce Zhang , Shenghui Fang , Chenxi Duan , Xiaoliang Meng , Peter M. Atkinson

Transformers have been extensively studied in medical image segmentation to build pairwise long-range dependence. Yet, relatively limited well-annotated medical image data makes transformers struggle to extract diverse global features,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-13 Xian Lin , Zengqiang Yan , Xianbo Deng , Chuansheng Zheng , Li Yu

Accurate medical image segmentation is essential for clinical quantification, disease diagnosis, treatment planning and many other applications. Both convolution-based and transformer-based u-shaped architectures have made significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Libin Lan , Pengzhou Cai , Lu Jiang , Xiaojuan Liu , Yongmei Li , Yudong Zhang

The encoder-decoder networks are commonly used in medical image segmentation due to their remarkable performance in hierarchical feature fusion. However, the expanding path for feature decoding and spatial recovery does not consider the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-22 Ying Wen , Kai Xie , Lianghua He

Currently, this paper is under review in IEEE. Transformers have intrigued the vision research community with their state-of-the-art performance in natural language processing. With their superior performance, transformers have found their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Preetam Ghosh , Swalpa Kumar Roy , Bikram Koirala , Behnood Rasti , Paul Scheunders

Accurate medical image segmentation allows for the precise delineation of anatomical structures and pathological regions, which is essential for treatment planning, surgical navigation, and disease monitoring. Both CNN-based and…

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