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Precise segmentation of bladder walls and tumor regions is an essential step towards non-invasive identification of tumor stage and grade, which is critical for treatment decision and prognosis of patients with bladder cancer (BC). However,…

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Nuclear segmentation is an important step for profiling aberrant regions of histology sections. However, segmentation is a complex problem as a result of variations in nuclear geometry (e.g., size, shape), nuclear type (e.g., epithelial,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-16 Mina Khoshdeli , Bahram Parvin

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

AI-assisted nuclei segmentation in histopathological images is a crucial task in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer diseases. It decreases the time required to manually screen microscopic tissue images and can resolve the conflict…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Hesham Ali , Idriss Tondji , Mennatullah Siam

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,…

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Accurate image segmentation of the liver is a challenging problem owing to its large shape variability and unclear boundaries. Although the applications of fully convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown groundbreaking results,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Minyoung Chung , Jingyu Lee , Jeongjin Lee , Yeong-Gil Shin

Compression is a standard procedure for making convolutional neural networks (CNNs) adhere to some specific computing resource constraints. However, searching for a compressed architecture typically involves a series of time-consuming…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-08 Suraj Mishra , Danny Z. Chen , X. Sharon Hu

In this work, we propose a multi-modal Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) approach for brain tumor segmentation. We investigate how to combine different modalities efficiently in the CNN framework.We adapt various fusion methods, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Mehmet Aygün , Yusuf Hüseyin Şahin , Gözde Ünal

Vision transformers are effective deep learning models for vision tasks, including medical image segmentation. However, they lack efficiency and translational invariance, unlike convolutional neural networks (CNNs). To model long-range…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 Liam Chalcroft , Ruben Lourenço Pereira , Mikael Brudfors , Andrew S. Kayser , Mark D'Esposito , Cathy J. Price , Ioannis Pappas , John Ashburner

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

Early detection is crucial for successful cancer treatment and increasing survivability rates, particularly in the most common forms. Ten different cancers have been identified in most of these advances that effectively use CNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Hossein Molaeian , Kaveh Karamjani , Sina Teimouri , Saeed Roshani , Sobhan Roshani

Early detection and classifying brain tumors using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) images is highly important but difficult to extract in medical images. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are good at capturing both local texture and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Syed Ibad Hasnain , Muhammad Faris , Hafiza Syeda Yusra Tirmizi , Rabail Khowaja , Hafsa Israr

Digital histology images are amenable to the application of convolutional neural network (CNN) for analysis due to the sheer size of pixel data present in them. CNNs are generally used for representation learning from small image patches…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-24 Muhammad Shaban , Ruqayya Awan , Muhammad Moazam Fraz , Ayesha Azam , David Snead , Nasir M. Rajpoot

Within the world of machine learning there exists a wide range of different methods with respective advantages and applications. This paper seeks to present and discuss one such method, namely Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). CNNs are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Lars Lien Ankile , Morgan Feet Heggland , Kjartan Krange

Recent advances of semantic image segmentation greatly benefit from deeper and larger Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models. Compared to image segmentation in the wild, properties of both medical images themselves and of existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Xin Chen , Ke Ding

Histology imaging is an essential diagnosis method to finalize the grade and stage of cancer of different tissues, especially for breast cancer diagnosis. Specialists often disagree on the final diagnosis on biopsy tissue due to the complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Yongxiang Huang , Albert Chi-shing Chung

Accurate segmentation of vascular structures in coronary angiography remains a core challenge in medical image analysis due to the complexity of elongated, thin, and low-contrast vessels. Classical convolutional neural networks (CNNs) often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Nabil Hezil , Suraj Singh , Vita Vlasova , Oleg Rogov , Ahmed Bouridane , Rifat Hamoudi

Accurate identification and localisation of brain tumours from medical images remain challenging due to tumour variability and structural complexity. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), particularly ResNet and Unet, have made significant…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Peixin Dai , Jingsi Zhang , Zhitao Shu

Medical image segmentation faces challenges due to variations in anatomical structures. While convolutional neural networks (CNNs) effectively capture local features, they struggle with modeling long-range dependencies. Transformers…

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Accurate segmenting nuclei instances is a crucial step in computer-aided image analysis to extract rich features for cellular estimation and following diagnosis as well as treatment. While it still remains challenging because the wide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Yanning Zhou , Omer Fahri Onder , Qi Dou , Efstratios Tsougenis , Hao Chen , Pheng-Ann Heng