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Automated medical image segmentation is becoming increasingly crucial to modern clinical practice, driven by the growing demand for precise diagnosis, the push towards personalized treatment plans, and the advancements in machine learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-13 Tan-Hanh Pham , Xianqi Li , Kim-Doang Nguyen

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Moin Safdar , Shahzaib Iqbal , Mubeen Ghafoor , Tariq M. Khan , Imran Razzak , Thantrira Porntaveetus , Hamid Alinejad-Rokny

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown remarkable progress in medical image segmentation. However, lesion segmentation remains a challenge to state-of-the-art CNN-based algorithms due to the variance in scales and shapes. On the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-31 Yanwen Li , Luyang Luo , Huangjing Lin , Pheng-Ann Heng , Hao Chen

Even though convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are driving progress in medical image segmentation, standard models still have some drawbacks. First, the use of multi-scale approaches, i.e., encoder-decoder architectures, leads to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Ashish Sinha , Jose Dolz

Medical image segmentation can provide a reliable basis for further clinical analysis and disease diagnosis. The performance of medical image segmentation has been significantly advanced with the convolutional neural networks (CNNs).…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-02 Ruxin Wang , Shuyuan Chen , Chaojie Ji , Jianping Fan , Ye Li

Segmentation of 3D medical images is a critical task for accurate diagnosis and treatment planning. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have dominated the field, achieving significant success in 3D medical image segmentation. However, CNNs…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-11 Canxuan Gang

Medical image segmentation is an important step in medical image analysis. With the rapid development of convolutional neural network in image processing, deep learning has been used for medical image segmentation, such as optic disc…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Zaiwang Gu , Jun Cheng , Huazhu Fu , Kang Zhou , Huaying Hao , Yitian Zhao , Tianyang Zhang , Shenghua Gao , Jiang Liu

Convolutional blocks have played a crucial role in advancing medical image segmentation by excelling in dense prediction tasks. However, their inability to effectively capture long-range dependencies has limited their performance.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Siddhartha Mallick , Aayushman Ghosh , Jayanta Paul , Jaya Sil

Medical image segmentation has witnessed significant advancements with the emergence of deep learning. However, the reliance of most neural network models on a substantial amount of annotated data remains a challenge for medical image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Xiaoxiao Wu , Xiaowei Chen , Zhenguo Gao , Shulei Qu , Yuanyuan Qiu

We propose a novel transformer model, capable of segmenting medical images of varying modalities. Challenges posed by the fine grained nature of medical image analysis mean that the adaptation of the transformer for their analysis is still…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-31 Athanasios Tragakis , Chaitanya Kaul , Roderick Murray-Smith , Dirk Husmeier

Medical image segmentation plays an important role in computer-aided diagnosis. Existing methods mainly utilize spatial attention to highlight the region of interest. However, due to limitations of medical imaging devices, medical images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Jiaxuan Li , Qing Xu , Xiangjian He , Ziyu Liu , Daokun Zhang , Ruili Wang , Rong Qu , Guoping Qiu

Medical image segmentation is one of the most fundamental tasks concerning medical information analysis. Various solutions have been proposed so far, including many deep learning-based techniques, such as U-Net, FC-DenseNet, etc. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-08 Zihan Li , Dihan Li , Cangbai Xu , Weice Wang , Qingqi Hong , Qingde Li , Jie Tian

Medical image segmentation is an essential prerequisite for developing healthcare systems, especially for disease diagnosis and treatment planning. On various medical image segmentation tasks, the u-shaped architecture, also known as U-Net,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Jieneng Chen , Yongyi Lu , Qihang Yu , Xiangde Luo , Ehsan Adeli , Yan Wang , Le Lu , Alan L. Yuille , Yuyin Zhou

Transfer learning is widely used for training machine learning models. Here, we study the role of transfer learning for training fully convolutional networks (FCNs) for medical image segmentation. Our experiments show that although transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Davood Karimi , Simon K. Warfield , Ali Gholipour

Medical image segmentation has made significant progress in recent years. Deep learning-based methods are recognized as data-hungry techniques, requiring large amounts of data with manual annotations. However, manual annotation is expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Yi Lin , Yufan Chen , Kwang-Ting Cheng , Hao Chen

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been successful in solving tasks in computer vision including medical image segmentation due to their ability to automatically extract features from unstructured data. However, CNNs are sensitive to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-18 Minh Tran , Viet-Khoa Vo-Ho , Kyle Quinn , Hien Nguyen , Khoa Luu , Ngan Le

Accurate segmentation of skin lesions within dermoscopic images plays a crucial role in the timely identification of skin cancer for computer-aided diagnosis on mobile platforms. However, varying shapes of the lesions, lack of defined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Hamza Farooq , Zuhair Zafar , Ahsan Saadat , Tariq M Khan , Shahzaib Iqbal , Imran Razzak

In recent years, transformer-based methods have achieved remarkable progress in medical image segmentation due to their superior ability to capture long-range dependencies. However, these methods typically suffer from two major limitations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Zunhui Xia , Hongxing Li , Libin Lan

The encoder-decoder model is a commonly used Deep Neural Network (DNN) model for medical image segmentation. Conventional encoder-decoder models make pixel-wise predictions focusing heavily on local patterns around the pixel. This makes it…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-01 Young Seok Jeon , Hongfei Yang , Mengling Feng

We propose a new residual block for convolutional neural networks and demonstrate its state-of-the-art performance in medical image segmentation. We combine attention mechanisms with group convolutions to create our group attention…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-09 Chaitanya Kaul , Nick Pears , Hang Dai , Roderick Murray-Smith , Suresh Manandhar