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Semantic segmentation, a crucial task in computer vision, often relies on labor-intensive and costly annotated datasets for training. In response to this challenge, we introduce FuseNet, a dual-stream framework for self-supervised semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Amirhossein Kazerouni , Sanaz Karimijafarbigloo , Reza Azad , Yury Velichko , Ulas Bagci , Dorit Merhof

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) and Transformer variants have emerged as the leading medical image segmentation backbones. Nonetheless, due to their limitations in either preserving global image context or efficiently processing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-26 Pengcheng Shi , Xutao Guo , Yanwu Yang , Chenfei Ye , Ting Ma

Deep neural networks have evolved as the leading approach in 3D medical image segmentation due to their outstanding performance. However, the ever-increasing model size and computation cost of deep neural networks have become the primary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Boqian Wu , Qiao Xiao , Shiwei Liu , Lu Yin , Mykola Pechenizkiy , Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Maurice Van Keulen , Elena Mocanu

Visual segmentation seeks to partition images, video frames, or point clouds into multiple segments or groups. This technique has numerous real-world applications, such as autonomous driving, image editing, robot sensing, and medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Xiangtai Li , Henghui Ding , Haobo Yuan , Wenwei Zhang , Jiangmiao Pang , Guangliang Cheng , Kai Chen , Ziwei Liu , Chen Change Loy

With the rapid development of deep learning, CNN-based U-shaped networks have succeeded in medical image segmentation and are widely applied for various tasks. However, their limitations in capturing global features hinder their performance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Xin Li , Wenhui Zhu , Xuanzhao Dong , Oana M. Dumitrascu , Yalin Wang

In recent years, significant progress has been made in the medical image analysis domain using convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In particular, deep neural networks based on a U-shaped architecture (UNet) with skip connections have been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-16 Vamsi Krishna Vasa , Wenhui Zhu , Xiwen Chen , Peijie Qiu , Xuanzhao Dong , Yalin Wang

In this paper, we focus on semantic segmentation method for point clouds of urban scenes. Our fundamental concept revolves around the collaborative utilization of diverse scene representations to benefit from different context information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Weijie Wei , Martin R. Oswald , Fatemeh Karimi Nejadasl , Theo Gevers

In recent years, U-Net and its variants have been widely used in pathology image segmentation tasks. One of the key designs of U-Net is the use of skip connections between the encoder and decoder, which helps to recover detailed information…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-18 Zongyi Li , Hongbing Lyu , Jun Wang

In the past few years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs), particularly U-Net, have been the prevailing technique in the medical image processing era. Specifically, the seminal U-Net, as well as its alternatives, have successfully managed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Reza Azad , Mohammad T. AL-Antary , Moein Heidari , Dorit Merhof

The hybrid architecture of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Transformer are very popular for medical image segmentation. However, it suffers from two challenges. First, although a CNNs branch can capture the local image features…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-21 Tao Lei , Rui Sun , Xuan Wang , Yingbo Wang , Xi He , Asoke Nandi

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

Despite recent progress on semantic segmentation, there still exist huge challenges in medical ultra-resolution image segmentation. The methods based on multi-branch structure can make a good balance between computational burdens and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Tong Wu , Yuan Xie , Yanyun Qu , Bicheng Dai , Shuxin Chen

Recent medical image segmentation models are mostly hybrid, which integrate self-attention and convolution layers into the non-isomorphic architecture. However, one potential drawback of these approaches is that they failed to provide an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-28 Jiansen Guo , Hong-Yu Zhou , Liansheng Wang , Yizhou Yu

Urban-scene Image segmentation is an important and trending topic in computer vision with wide use cases like autonomous driving [1]. Starting with the breakthrough work of Long et al. [2] that introduces Fully Convolutional Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Shorya Sharma

Accurate segmentation of the heart is essential for personalized blood flow simulations and surgical intervention planning. Segmentations need to be accurate in every spatial dimension, which is not ensured by segmenting data slice by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-25 Lee Jollans , Mariana Bustamante , Lilian Henriksson , Anders Persson , Tino Ebbers

Recent advances in transformer-based models have drawn attention to exploring these techniques in medical image segmentation, especially in conjunction with the U-Net model (or its variants), which has shown great success in medical image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-22 Xiangyi Yan , Hao Tang , Shanlin Sun , Haoyu Ma , Deying Kong , Xiaohui Xie

Accurate segmentation of the region of interest in medical images can provide an essential pathway for devising effective treatment plans for life-threatening diseases. It is still challenging for U-Net, and its state-of-the-art variants,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-09 Md. Rayhan Ahmed , Adnan Ferdous Ashrafi , Raihan Uddin Ahmed , Swakkhar Shatabda , A. K. M. Muzahidul Islam , Salekul Islam

The rise of Transformer architectures has advanced medical image segmentation, leading to hybrid models that combine Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Transformers. However, these models often suffer from excessive complexity and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-17 Yousef Sadegheih , Afshin Bozorgpour , Pratibha Kumari , Reza Azad , Dorit Merhof

Precise segmentation of medical images is fundamental for extracting critical clinical information, which plays a pivotal role in enhancing the accuracy of diagnoses, formulating effective treatment plans, and improving patient outcomes.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Jintong Hu , Siyan Chen , Zhiyi Pan , Sen Zeng , Wenming Yang

U-Nets have achieved tremendous success in medical image segmentation. Nevertheless, it may suffer limitations in global (long-range) contextual interactions and edge-detail preservation. In contrast, Transformer has an excellent ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Nan Wang , Shaohui Lin , Xiaoxiao Li , Ke Li , Yunhang Shen , Yue Gao , Lizhuang Ma