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Radiotherapy (RT) combined with cetuximab is the standard treatment for patients with inoperable head and neck cancers. Segmentation of head and neck (H&N) tumors is a prerequisite for radiotherapy planning but a time-consuming process. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-16 Gary Y. Li , Junyu Chen , Se-In Jang , Kuang Gong , Quanzheng Li

Accurate and automated lesion segmentation in Positron Emission Tomography / Computed Tomography (PET/CT) imaging is essential for cancer diagnosis and therapy planning. This paper presents a Swin Transformer UNet 3D (SwinUNet3D) framework…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-07 Shovini Guha , Dwaipayan Nandi

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

The application of self-supervised learning (SSL) and Vision Transformers (ViTs) approaches demonstrates promising results in the field of 2D medical imaging, but the use of these methods on 3D volumetric images is fraught with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Evgeny Alves Limarenko , Anastasiia Studenikina

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

Modeling spatiotemporal brain dynamics from high-dimensional data, such as functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), is a formidable task in neuroscience. Existing approaches for fMRI analysis utilize hand-crafted features, but the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Peter Yongho Kim , Junbeom Kwon , Sunghwan Joo , Sangyoon Bae , Donggyu Lee , Yoonho Jung , Shinjae Yoo , Jiook Cha , Taesup Moon

The development of deep learning models in medical image analysis is majorly limited by the lack of large-sized and well-annotated datasets. Unsupervised learning does not require labels and is more suitable for solving medical image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Zi'an Xu , Yin Dai , Fayu Liu , Weibing Chen , Yue Liu , Lifu Shi , Sheng Liu , Yuhang Zhou

The adoption of Vision Transformers (ViTs) based architectures represents a significant advancement in 3D Medical Image (MI) segmentation, surpassing traditional Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models by enhancing global contextual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Shehan Perera , Pouyan Navard , Alper Yilmaz

In this paper, we aim to redesign the vision Transformer (ViT) as a new backbone to realize semantic image transmission, termed wireless image transmission transformer (WITT). Previous works build upon convolutional neural networks (CNNs),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Ke Yang , Sixian Wang , Jincheng Dai , Kailin Tan , Kai Niu , Ping Zhang

This paper presents a deep learning framework for medical video segmentation. Convolution neural network (CNN) and transformer-based methods have achieved great milestones in medical image segmentation tasks due to their incredible semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Chengxi Zeng , Xinyu Yang , David Smithard , Majid Mirmehdi , Alberto M Gambaruto , Tilo Burghardt

For medical image semantic segmentation (MISS), Vision Transformers have emerged as strong alternatives to convolutional neural networks thanks to their inherent ability to capture long-range correlations. However, existing research uses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Qianying Liu , Chaitanya Kaul , Jun Wang , Christos Anagnostopoulos , Roderick Murray-Smith , Fani Deligianni

Neural networks have become the standard technique for medical diagnostics, especially in cancer detection and classification. This work evaluates the performance of Vision Transformers architectures, including Swin Transformer and MaxViT,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Óscar A. Martín , Javier Sánchez

Vision Transformers (ViT)s have recently become popular due to their outstanding modeling capabilities, in particular for capturing long-range information, and scalability to dataset and model sizes which has led to state-of-the-art…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-06 Ali Hatamizadeh , Ziyue Xu , Dong Yang , Wenqi Li , Holger Roth , Daguang Xu

In recent years, weakly supervised semantic segmentation using image-level labels as supervision has received significant attention in the field of computer vision. Most existing methods have addressed the challenges arising from the lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Rozhan Ahmadi , Shohreh Kasaei

Diffusion MRI is a non-invasive, in-vivo biomedical imaging method for mapping tissue microstructure. Applications include structural connectivity imaging of the human brain and detecting microstructural neural changes. However, acquiring…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-09 Amir Sadikov , Xinlei Pan , Hannah Choi , Lanya T. Cai , Pratik Mukherjee

This paper provides a novel 3D medical image segmentation model structure called nnY-Net. This name comes from the fact that our model adds a cross-attention module at the bottom of the U-net structure to form a Y structure. We integrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Haixu Liu , Zerui Tao , Wenzhen Dong , Qiuzhuang Sun

It is well believed that Transformer performs better in semantic segmentation compared to convolutional neural networks. Nevertheless, the original Vision Transformer may lack of inductive biases of local neighborhoods and possess a high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Wentao Shi , Jing Xu , Pan Gao

Medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in various healthcare applications, enabling accurate diagnosis, treatment planning, and disease monitoring. Traditionally, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) dominated this domain,…

Methods: Nine SSL methods spanning four pretext-task families were pretrained from scratch using the same 10{,}412 3D CT scans (1.89~M 2D axial slices) covering varied disease sites. The pretrained Swin Transformer encoder from each method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Jue Jiang , Harini Veeraraghavan

Medical imaging segmentation plays a significant role in the automatic recognition and analysis of lesions. State-of-the-art methods, particularly those utilizing transformers, have been prominently adopted in 3D semantic segmentation due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Shengbo Tan , Zeyu Zhang , Ying Cai , Daji Ergu , Lin Wu , Binbin Hu , Pengzhang Yu , Yang Zhao