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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been the de facto standard in a diverse set of computer vision tasks for many years. Especially, deep neural networks based on seminal architectures such as U-shaped models with skip-connections or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-02 Reza Azad , Moein Heidari , Moein Shariatnia , Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam , Sanaz Karimijafarbigloo , Ehsan Adeli , Dorit Merhof

Recently, dense connections have attracted substantial attention in computer vision because they facilitate gradient flow and implicit deep supervision during training. Particularly, DenseNet, which connects each layer to every other layer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Jose Dolz , Karthik Gopinath , Jing Yuan , Herve Lombaert , Christian Desrosiers , Ismail Ben Ayed

Deep convolutional neural networks are widely used in medical image segmentation but require many labeled images for training. Annotating three-dimensional medical images is a time-consuming and costly process. To overcome this limitation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Weiyi Xie , Nathalie Willems , Nikolas Lessmann , Tom Gibbons , Daniele De Massari

Medical image segmentation is crucial for many healthcare tasks, including disease diagnosis and treatment planning. One key area is the segmentation of skin lesions, which is vital for diagnosing skin cancer and monitoring patients. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Salah Eddine Bekhouche , Gaby Maroun , Fadi Dornaika , Abdenour Hadid

In this study, the performance of existing U-shaped neural network architectures was enhanced for medical image segmentation by adding Transformer. Although Transformer architectures are powerful at extracting global information, its…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-12 Songkai Sun , Qingshan She , Yuliang Ma , Rihui Li , Yingchun Zhang

Accurate medical image segmentation is fundamental to precision medicine, yet robust delineation remains challenging under heterogeneous appearances, ambiguous boundaries, and large anatomical variability. Similar intensity and texture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Zhiquan Chen , Haitao Wang , Guowei Zou , Hejun Wu

Deep neural networks have usually to be compressed and accelerated for their usage in low-power, e.g. mobile, devices. Recently, massively-parallel hardware accelerators were developed that offer high throughput and low latency at low power…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Thomas Pfeil

Due to the scarcity and specific imaging characteristics in medical images, light-weighting Vision Transformers (ViTs) for efficient medical image segmentation is a significant challenge, and current studies have not yet paid attention to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-05 Fenghe Tang , Bingkun Nian , Jianrui Ding , Quan Quan , Jie Yang , Wei Liu , S. Kevin Zhou

Deep learning has revolutionized medical image analysis, playing a vital role in modern clinical applications. However, the deployment of large-scale models in real-world clinical settings remains challenging due to high computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Cuong Manh Nguyen , Truong-Son Hy

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 imaging is essential for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases, with medical image segmentation as a subtask receiving high attention. However, automatic medical image segmentation models are typically task-specific and struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Ruochen Gao , Donghang Lyu , Marius Staring

With the development of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), many efforts have been made to handle medical image segmentation. Traditional methods such as nnUNet train specific segmentation models on the individual datasets. Plenty of recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Xiaobao Wei , Jiajun Cao , Yizhu Jin , Ming Lu , Guangyu Wang , Shanghang Zhang

Semi-supervised learning is increasingly popular in medical image segmentation due to its ability to leverage large amounts of unlabeled data to extract additional information. However, most existing semi-supervised segmentation methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Rong Wu , Dehua Li , Cong Zhang

Supervised learning algorithms based on Convolutional Neural Networks have become the benchmark for medical image segmentation tasks, but their effectiveness heavily relies on a large amount of labeled data. However, annotating medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-20 Tao Wang , Yuanbin Chen , Xinlin Zhang , Yuanbo Zhou , Junlin Lan , Bizhe Bai , Tao Tan , Min Du , Qinquan Gao , Tong Tong

Medical image segmentation is a critical task that plays a vital role in diagnosis, treatment planning, and disease monitoring. Accurate segmentation of anatomical structures and abnormalities from medical images can aid in the early…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Reza Azad , Amirhossein Kazerouni , Alaa Sulaiman , Afshin Bozorgpour , Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam , Abin Jose , Dorit Merhof

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

Implicit neural representations (INRs) have achieved remarkable successes in learning expressive yet compact signal representations. However, they are not naturally amenable to predictive tasks such as segmentation, where they must learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Kushal Vyas , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Guha Balakrishnan

Image segmentation is one of the major computer vision tasks, which is applicable in a variety of domains, such as autonomous navigation of an unmanned aerial vehicle. However, image segmentation cannot easily materialize on tiny embedded…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Byungchul Chae , Jiae Kim , Seonyeong Heo

The recent amalgamation of transformer and convolutional designs has led to steady improvements in accuracy and efficiency of the models. In this work, we introduce FastViT, a hybrid vision transformer architecture that obtains the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Pavan Kumar Anasosalu Vasu , James Gabriel , Jeff Zhu , Oncel Tuzel , Anurag Ranjan

While CNN-based methods have been the cornerstone of medical image segmentation due to their promising performance and robustness, they suffer from limitations in capturing long-range dependencies. Transformer-based approaches are currently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Reza Azad , Yiwei Jia , Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam , Julien Cohen-Adad , Dorit Merhof