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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…

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Biomedical image segmentation is crucial for accurately diagnosing and analyzing various diseases. However, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Transformers, the most commonly used architectures for this task, struggle to effectively…

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Models based on U-like structures have improved the performance of medical image segmentation. However, the single-layer decoder structure of U-Net is too "thin" to exploit enough information, resulting in large semantic differences between…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-08 Haoyuan Chen , Yufei Han , Pin Xu , Yanyi Li , Kuan Li , Jianping Yin

In the past few years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved milestones in medical image analysis. Especially, the deep neural networks based on U-shaped architecture and skip-connections have been widely applied in a variety…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-13 Hu Cao , Yueyue Wang , Joy Chen , Dongsheng Jiang , Xiaopeng Zhang , Qi Tian , Manning Wang

Currently, convolutional neural networks (CNN) (e.g., U-Net) have become the de facto standard and attained immense success in medical image segmentation. However, as a downside, CNN based methods are a double-edged sword as they fail to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-01 Reza Azad , Moein Heidari , Yuli Wu , Dorit Merhof

The hybrid architecture of convolution neural networks (CNN) and Transformer has been the most popular method for medical image segmentation. However, the existing networks based on the hybrid architecture suffer from two problems. First,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-21 Rui Sun , Tao Lei , Weichuan Zhang , Yong Wan , Yong Xia , Asoke K. Nandi

Medical image segmentation is an important step in medical image analysis, especially as a crucial prerequisite for efficient disease diagnosis and treatment. The use of deep learning for image segmentation has become a prevalent trend. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-11 Wenjian Yao , Jiajun Bai , Wei Liao , Yuheng Chen , Mengjuan Liu , Yao Xie

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

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 recent years, computer-aided diagnosis has become an increasingly popular topic. Methods based on convolutional neural networks have achieved good performance in medical image segmentation and classification. Due to the limitations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Yao Chang , Hu Menghan , Zhai Guangtao , Zhang Xiao-Ping

Accurate medical image segmentation allows for the precise delineation of anatomical structures and pathological regions, which is essential for treatment planning, surgical navigation, and disease monitoring. Both CNN-based and…

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Medical image segmentation is a critical aspect of modern medical research and clinical practice. Despite the remarkable performance of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in this domain, they inherently struggle to capture long-range…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-02 Jiashu Xu

U-Net has been the go-to architecture for medical image segmentation tasks, however computational challenges arise when extending the U-Net architecture to 3D images. We propose the Implicit U-Net architecture that adapts the efficient…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-01 Sergio Naval Marimont , Giacomo Tarroni

The combination of the U-Net based deep learning models and Transformer is a new trend for medical image segmentation. U-Net can extract the detailed local semantic and texture information and Transformer can learn the long-rang…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-05 Sheng He , Rina Bao , P. Ellen Grant , Yangming Ou

Medical image segmentation plays an essential role in developing computer-assisted diagnosis and therapy systems, yet still faces many challenges. In the past few years, the popular encoder-decoder architectures based on CNNs (e.g., U-Net)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Guoping Xu , Xingrong Wu , Xuan Zhang , Xinwei He

Fully convolutional neural networks like U-Net have been the state-of-the-art methods in medical image segmentation. Practically, a network is highly specialized and trained separately for each segmentation task. Instead of a collection of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-16 Chao Huang , Hu Han , Qingsong Yao , Shankuan Zhu , S. Kevin Zhou

U-net is an image segmentation technique developed primarily for medical image analysis that can precisely segment images using a scarce amount of training data. These traits provide U-net with a very high utility within the medical imaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-10 Nahian Siddique , Paheding Sidike , Colin Elkin , Vijay Devabhaktuni

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

Automated medical image segmentation can assist doctors to diagnose faster and more accurate. Deep learning based models for medical image segmentation have made great progress in recent years. However, the existing models fail to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-26 Lei Shi , Tianyu Gao , Zheng Zhang , Junxing Zhang

Medical image segmentation is vital to the area of medical imaging because it enables professionals to more accurately examine and understand the information offered by different imaging modalities. The technique of splitting a medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-01 Aitik Gupta , Joydip Dhar