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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and transformers are widely employed in constructing UNet architectures for medical image segmentation tasks. However, CNNs struggle to model long-range dependencies, while transformers suffer from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-26 Shaolei Zhang , Jinyan Liu , Tianyi Qian , Xuesong Li

Medical image segmentation is essential in diagnostics, treatment planning, and healthcare, with deep learning offering promising advancements. Notably, the convolutional neural network (CNN) excels in capturing local image features,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-30 Chao Ma , Ziyang Wang

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Transformers have shown advanced accuracy in crack detection under certain conditions. Yet, the fixed local attention can compromise the generalisation of CNNs, and the quadratic complexity of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Zhaohui Chen , Elyas Asadi Shamsabadi , Sheng Jiang , Luming Shen , Daniel Dias-da-Costa

Accurate medical image segmentation is an integral part of the medical image analysis pipeline that requires the ability to merge local and global information. While vision transformers are able to capture global interactions using vanilla…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Elisha Dayag , Nhat Thanh Tran , Jack Xin

State Space Models (SSMs) have recently demonstrated outstanding performance in long-sequence modeling, particularly in natural language processing. However, their direct application to medical image segmentation poses several challenges.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Bin Xie , Yan Yan , Gady Agam

Accurate organ and lesion segmentation is a critical prerequisite for computer-aided diagnosis. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), constrained by their local receptive fields, often struggle to capture complex global anatomical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Haodong Chen , Xianfei Han , Qwen

Medical image segmentation plays an important role in various clinical applications; however, existing deep learning models face trade-offs between efficiency and accuracy. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) capture local details well but…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-20 Saqib Qamar , Mohd Fazil , Parvez Ahmad , Shakir Khan , Abu Taha Zamani

In the field of medical image segmentation, variant models based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Visual Transformers (ViTs) as the base modules have been very widely developed and applied. However, CNNs are often limited in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Renkai Wu , Yinghao Liu , Pengchen Liang , Qing Chang

Segmentation is a crucial step in microscopy image analysis. Numerous approaches have been developed over the past years, ranging from classical segmentation algorithms to advanced deep learning models. While U-Net remains one of the most…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Illia Tsiporenko , Pavel Chizhov , Dmytro Fishman

Segmentation of liver structures in multi-phase contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CECT) plays a crucial role in computer-aided diagnosis and treatment planning. In this study, we investigate the performance of UNet-based architectures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Doan-Van-Anh Ly , Thanh-Hai Le , Thi-Thu-Hien Pham

The retroperitoneum hosts a variety of tumors, including rare benign and malignant types, which pose diagnostic and treatment challenges due to their infrequency and proximity to vital structures. Estimating tumor volume is difficult due to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-04 Moein Heidari , Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam , Alexander Manzella , Daniel Hsu , Rebecca Scalabrino , Wenjin Chen , David J. Foran , Ilker Hacihaliloglu

Combining CNNs or ViTs, with RNNs for spatiotemporal forecasting, has yielded unparalleled results in predicting temporal and spatial dynamics. However, modeling extensive global information remains a formidable challenge; CNNs are limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Yujin Tang , Peijie Dong , Zhenheng Tang , Xiaowen Chu , Junwei Liang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Transformers have been the most popular architectures for biomedical image segmentation, but both of them have limited ability to handle long-range dependencies because of inherent locality or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-10 Jun Ma , Feifei Li , Bo Wang

Mamba is emerging as a novel approach to overcome the challenges faced by Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Vision Transformers (ViTs) in computer vision. While CNNs excel at extracting local features, they often struggle to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Md Maklachur Rahman , Abdullah Aman Tutul , Ankur Nath , Lamyanba Laishram , Soon Ki Jung , Tracy Hammond

CNN- and Transformer-based architectures have achieved strong performance in medical image segmentation, but CNNs are limited in modeling long-range dependencies, while Transformers often suffer from quadratic computational and memory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Diego Adame , Fabian Vazquez , Jose A. Nunez , Huimin Li , Jinghao Yang , Erik Enriquez , DongChul Kim , Haoteng Tang , Bin Fu , Pengfei Gu

Biomedical image segmentation is crucial for accurately diagnosing and analyzing various diseases. However, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Transformers, the most commonly used architectures for this task, struggle to effectively…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-09 Rong Zhou , Zhengqing Yuan , Zhiling Yan , Weixiang Sun , Kai Zhang , Yiwei Li , Yanfang Ye , Xiang Li , Lifang He , Lichao Sun

In data-scarce scenarios, deep learning models often overfit to noise and irrelevant patterns, which limits their ability to generalize to unseen samples. To address these challenges in medical image segmentation, we introduce Diff-UMamba,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Dhruv Jain , Romain Modzelewski , Romain Herault , Clement Chatelain , Eva Torfeh , Sebastien Thureau

Vision Mamba has recently received attention as an alternative to Vision Transformers (ViTs) for image classification. The network size of Vision Mamba scales linearly with input image resolution, whereas ViTs scale quadratically, a feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Ali Kashefi , Tapan Mukerji

Recent advancements in medical imaging have resulted in more complex and diverse images, with challenges such as high anatomical variability, blurred tissue boundaries, low organ contrast, and noise. Traditional segmentation methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-01 Yufeng Jiang , Zongxi Li , Xiangyan Chen , Haoran Xie , Jing Cai

While numerous architectures for medical image segmentation have been proposed, achieving competitive performance with state-of-the-art models networks such as nnUNet, still leave room for further innovation. In this work, we introduce…