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Diffusion models have shown impressive performance for generative modelling of images. In this paper, we present a novel semantic segmentation method based on diffusion models. By modifying the training and sampling scheme, we show that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Julia Wolleb , Robin Sandkühler , Florentin Bieder , Philippe Valmaggia , Philippe C. Cattin

Ultrasound imaging is challenging to interpret due to non-uniform intensities, low contrast, and inherent artifacts, necessitating extensive training for non-specialists. Advanced representation with clear tissue structure separation could…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Oleksandra Tmenova , Yordanka Velikova , Mahdi Saleh , Nassir Navab

This paper summarizes the method used in our submission to Task 1 of the International Skin Imaging Collaboration's (ISIC) Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection challenge held in 2018. We used a fully automated method to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Joshua Peter Ebenezer , Jagath C. Rajapakse

Segmentation of brain tumors is a critical step in treatment planning, yet manual segmentation is both time-consuming and subjective, relying heavily on the expertise of radiologists. In Sub-Saharan Africa, this challenge is magnified by…

Cell counting is a ubiquitous, yet tedious task that would greatly benefit from automation. From basic biological questions to clinical trials, cell counts provide key quantitative feedback that drive research. Unfortunately, cell counting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Carlos X. Hernández , Mohammad M. Sultan , Vijay S. Pande

In this paper, we present UNet++, a new, more powerful architecture for medical image segmentation. Our architecture is essentially a deeply-supervised encoder-decoder network where the encoder and decoder sub-networks are connected through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Zongwei Zhou , Md Mahfuzur Rahman Siddiquee , Nima Tajbakhsh , Jianming Liang

Medical image segmentation is vital for clinical diagnosis, yet current deep learning methods often demand extensive expert effort, i.e., either through annotating large training datasets or providing prompts at inference time for each new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Xingjian Li , Qifeng Wu , Adithya S. Ubaradka , Yiran Ding , Colleen Que , Runmin Jiang , Jianhua Xing , Tianyang Wang , Min Xu

Multiplex Imaging (MI) enables the simultaneous visualization of multiple biological markers in separate imaging channels at subcellular resolution, providing valuable insights into cell-type heterogeneity and spatial organization. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-07 Simon Gutwein , Daria Lazic , Thomas Walter , Sabine Taschner-Mandl , Roxane Licandro

Medical image segmentation is a difficult but important task for many clinical operations such as cardiac bi-ventricular volume estimation. More recently, there has been a shift to utilizing deep learning and fully convolutional neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-17 Jesse Sun , Fatemeh Darbehani , Mark Zaidi , Bo Wang

Camera-equipped unmanned vehicles (UVs) have received a lot of attention in data collection for construction monitoring applications. To develop an autonomous platform, the UV should be able to process multiple modules (e.g.,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Khashayar Asadi , Pengyu Chen , Kevin Han , Tianfu Wu , Edgar Lobaton

In this work, we propose a Neural Architecture Search (NAS) for retinal layer segmentation in Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) scans. We incorporate the Unet architecture in the NAS framework as its backbone for the segmentation of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-30 Saba Heidari Gheshlaghi , Omid Dehzangi , Ali Dabouei , Annahita Amireskandari , Ali Rezai , Nasser M Nasrabadi

Semantic image segmentation is one of fastest growing areas in computer vision with a variety of applications. In many areas, such as robotics and autonomous vehicles, semantic image segmentation is crucial, since it provides the necessary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Georgios Takos

Recently, the state-of-art models for medical image segmentation is U-Net and their variants. These networks, though succeeding in deriving notable results, ignore the practical problem hanging over the medical segmentation field:…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-07 Hao Ziang , Jingsi Zhang , Lixian Li

Deep neural networks show high accuracy in theproblem of semantic and instance segmentation of biomedicaldata. However, this approach is computationally expensive. Thecomputational cost may be reduced with network simplificationafter…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-18 Alexander Karimov , Artem Razumov , Ruslana Manbatchurina , Ksenia Simonova , Irina Donets , Anastasia Vlasova , Yulia Khramtsova , Konstantin Ushenin

Lymphoma detection and segmentation from whole-body Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography (PET/CT) volumes are crucial for surgical indication and radiotherapy. Designing automatic segmentation methods capable of effectively…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-29 Ling Huang , Thierry Denoeux , David Tonnelet , Pierre Decazes , Su Ruan

Medical image segmentation is a critical task in computer vision, with UNet serving as a milestone architecture. The typical component of UNet family is the skip connection, however, their skip connections face two significant limitations:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Quansong He , Xiangde Min , Kaishen Wang , Tao He

Developing clinically useful cell-level analysis tools in digital pathology remains challenging due to limitations in dataset granularity, inconsistent annotations, high computational demands, and difficulties integrating new technologies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Nikita Shvetsov , Thomas K. Kilvaer , Masoud Tafavvoghi , Anders Sildnes , Kajsa Møllersen , Lill-Tove Rasmussen Busund , Lars Ailo Bongo

This review presents various image segmentation methods using complex networks. Image segmentation is one of the important steps in image analysis as it helps analyze and understand complex images. At first, it has been tried to classify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Amin Rezaei , Fatemeh Asadi

State-of-the-art segmentation methods rely on very deep networks that are not always easy to train without very large training datasets and tend to be relatively slow to run on standard GPUs. In this paper, we introduce a novel recurrent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Wei Wang , Kaicheng Yu , Joachim Hugonot , Pascal Fua , Mathieu Salzmann

Single cell segmentation is critical and challenging in live cell imaging data analysis. Traditional image processing methods and tools require time-consuming and labor-intensive efforts of manually fine-tuning parameters. Slight variations…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-04-24 Weikang Wang , David A. Taft , Yi-Jiun Chen , Jingyu Zhang , Callen T. Wallace , Min Xu , Simon C. Watkins , Jianhua Xing