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Generalization capabilities of learning-based medical image segmentation across domains are currently limited by the performance degradation caused by the domain shift, particularly for ultrasound (US) imaging. The quality of US images…

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Deep learning models tend to underperform in the presence of domain shifts. Domain transfer has recently emerged as a promising approach wherein images exhibiting a domain shift are transformed into other domains for augmentation or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-27 Weinan Song , Gaurav Fotedar , Nima Tajbakhsh , Ziheng Zhou , Lei He , Xiaowei Ding

Medical imaging plays a crucial role in modern healthcare by providing non-invasive visualisation of internal structures and abnormalities, enabling early disease detection, accurate diagnosis, and treatment planning. This study aims to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-25 Walid Ehab , Yongmin Li

In this paper, we present UNet++, a new, more powerful architecture for medical image segmentation. Our architecture is essentially a deeply-supervised encoder-decoder network where the encoder and decoder sub-networks are connected through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Zongwei Zhou , Md Mahfuzur Rahman Siddiquee , Nima Tajbakhsh , Jianming Liang

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…

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

Deep learning has shown its great promise in various biomedical image segmentation tasks. Existing models are typically based on U-Net and rely on an encoder-decoder architecture with stacked local operators to aggregate long-range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Zhengyang Wang , Na Zou , Dinggang Shen , Shuiwang Ji

Medical image segmentation is crucial for the development of computer-aided diagnostic and therapeutic systems, but still faces numerous difficulties. In recent years, the commonly used encoder-decoder architecture based on CNNs has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Davoud Saadati , Omid Nejati Manzari , Sattar Mirzakuchaki

Transformer-based networks applied to image patches have achieved cutting-edge performance in many vision tasks. However, lacking the built-in bias of convolutional neural networks (CNN) for local image statistics, they require large…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-06 Erik Gösche , Reza Eghbali , Florian Knoll , Andreas M Rauschecker

Automatic medical image segmentation is a crucial topic in the medical domain and successively a critical counterpart in the computer-aided diagnosis paradigm. U-Net is the most widespread image segmentation architecture due to its…

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

Biomedical image segmentation plays a central role in quantitative analysis, clinical diagnosis, and medical intervention. In the light of the fully convolutional networks (FCN) and U-Net, deep convolutional networks (DNNs) have made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Jiawei Zhang , Yuzhen Jin , Jilan Xu , Xiaowei Xu , Yanchun Zhang

U-Net has been the go-to architecture for medical image segmentation tasks, however computational challenges arise when extending the U-Net architecture to 3D images. We propose the Implicit U-Net architecture that adapts the efficient…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-01 Sergio Naval Marimont , Giacomo Tarroni

Purpose: Medical images acquired using different scanners and protocols can differ substantially in their appearance. This phenomenon, scanner domain shift, can result in a drop in the performance of deep neural networks which are trained…

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The ability to extrapolate gene expression dynamics in living single cells requires robust cell segmentation, and one of the challenges is the amorphous or irregularly shaped cell boundaries. To address this issue, we modified the U-Net…

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Accurate segmentation of different sub-regions of gliomas including peritumoral edema, necrotic core, enhancing and non-enhancing tumor core from multimodal MRI scans has important clinical relevance in diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Xue Feng , Nicholas Tustison , Craig Meyer

Automatic medical image segmentation has made great progress benefit from the development of deep learning. However, most existing methods are based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which fail to build long-range dependencies and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Ailiang Lin , Bingzhi Chen , Jiayu Xu , Zheng Zhang , Guangming Lu

The recent prevalence of deep neural networks has lead semantic segmentation networks to achieve human-level performance in the medical field when sufficient training data is provided. Such networks however fail to generalize when tasked…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Serban Stan , Mohammad Rostami

Reliable cell segmentation and classification from biomedical images is a crucial step for both scientific research and clinical practice. A major challenge for more robust segmentation and classification methods is the large variations in…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2017-10-31 Mo Zhang , Xiang Li , Mengjia Xu , Quanzheng Li

Many modern datasets mix points, edges, regions, groups, objects, events, hyperedges, and relations. Yet neural architectures often force such data into grids, graphs, or sequences, obscuring higher-order structure and making…