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Medical image segmentation involves identifying and separating object instances in a medical image to delineate various tissues and structures, a task complicated by the significant variations in size, shape, and density of these features.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Sina Ghorbani Kolahi , Seyed Kamal Chaharsooghi , Toktam Khatibi , Afshin Bozorgpour , Reza Azad , Moein Heidari , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Dorit Merhof

Characteristics such as low contrast and significant organ shape variations are often exhibited in medical images. The improvement of segmentation performance in medical imaging is limited by the generally insufficient adaptive capabilities…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-09 Hejun Huang , Zuguo Chen , Ying Zou , Ming Lu , Chaoyang Chen

Accurate medical image segmentation demands the integration of multi-scale information, spanning from local features to global dependencies. However, it is challenging for existing methods to model long-range global information, where…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-07 Jiarun Liu , Hao Yang , Hong-Yu Zhou , Yan Xi , Lequan Yu , Yizhou Yu , Yong Liang , Guangming Shi , Shaoting Zhang , Hairong Zheng , Shanshan Wang

Mamba, a State Space Model (SSM), has recently shown competitive performance to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Transformers in Natural Language Processing and general sequence modeling. Various attempts have been made to adapt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Trung Dinh Quoc Dang , Huy Hoang Nguyen , Aleksei Tiulpin

In the field of medical image segmentation, models based on both CNN and Transformer have been thoroughly investigated. However, CNNs have limited modeling capabilities for long-range dependencies, making it challenging to exploit the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Mingya Zhang , Zhihao Chen , Yiyuan Ge , Xianping Tao

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

In this paper, we propose a self-prior guided Mamba-UNet network (SMamba-UNet) for medical image super-resolution. Existing methods are primarily based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) or Transformers. CNNs-based methods fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Zexin Ji , Beiji Zou , Xiaoyan Kui , Pierre Vera , Su Ruan

Transformer-based segmentation methods face the challenge of efficient inference when dealing with high-resolution images. Recently, several linear attention architectures, such as Mamba and RWKV, have attracted much attention as they can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Haobo Yuan , Xiangtai Li , Lu Qi , Tao Zhang , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Shuicheng Yan , Chen Change Loy

Mamba, a special case of the State Space Model, is gaining popularity as an alternative to template-based deep learning approaches in medical image analysis. While transformers are powerful architectures, they have drawbacks, including…

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

In the field of medical image segmentation, models based on both CNN and Transformer have been thoroughly investigated. However, CNNs have limited modeling capabilities for long-range dependencies, making it challenging to exploit the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-15 Mingya Zhang , Yue Yu , Limei Gu , Tingsheng Lin , Xianping Tao

The Transformer architecture has opened a new paradigm in the domain of deep learning with its ability to model long-range dependencies and capture global context and has outpaced the traditional Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) in many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Badhan Kumar Das , Ajay Singh , Saahil Islam , Gengyan Zhao , Andreas Maier

Balancing fine-grained local modeling with long-range dependency capture under computational constraints remains a central challenge in sequence modeling. While Transformers provide strong token mixing, they suffer from quadratic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Youjin Wang , Jiaqiao Zhao , Rong Fu , Run Zhou , Ruizhe Zhang , Jiani Liang , Suisuai Cao , Feng Zhou

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is critical for neurodevelopmental research, however access to high-field (HF) systems in low- and middle-income countries is severely hindered by their cost. Ultra-low-field (ULF) systems mitigate such…

Accurate medical image segmentation requires effective modeling of both long-range dependencies and fine-grained boundary details. While transformers mitigate the issue of insufficient semantic information arising from the limited receptive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Yanxin Li , Hui Wan , Libin Lan

Mamba-based models, VMamba and Vim, are a recent family of vision encoders that offer promising performance improvements in many computer vision tasks. This paper compares Mamba-based models with traditional Convolutional Neural Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Ali Nasiri-Sarvi , Mahdi S. Hosseini , Hassan Rivaz

Recent learned image compression (LIC) leverages Mamba-style state-space models (SSMs) for global receptive fields with linear complexity. However, the standard Mamba adopts content-agnostic, predefined raster (or multi-directional) scans…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Yunuo Chen , Zezheng Lyu , Bing He , Hongwei Hu , Qi Wang , Yuan Tian , Li Song , Wenjun Zhang , Guo Lu

Reconstructing degraded images is a critical task in image processing. Although CNN and Transformer-based models are prevalent in this field, they exhibit inherent limitations, such as inadequate long-range dependency modeling and high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Rui Deng , Tianpei Gu

In the domain of 3D biomedical image segmentation, Mamba exhibits the superior performance for it addresses the limitations in modeling long-range dependencies inherent to CNNs and mitigates the abundant computational overhead associated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Weitong Wu , Zhaohu Xing , Jing Gong , Qin Peng , Lei Zhu

Currently, convolutional neural networks (CNN) (e.g., U-Net) have become the de facto standard and attained immense success in medical image segmentation. However, as a downside, CNN based methods are a double-edged sword as they fail to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-01 Reza Azad , Moein Heidari , Yuli Wu , Dorit Merhof