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Medical image segmentation is a critical task in clinical workflows, particularly for the detection and delineation of pathological regions. While convolutional architectures like U-Net have become standard for such tasks, their limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Morteza Kiani Haftlang , Mohammadhossein Malmir , Foroutan Parand , Umberto Michelucci , Safouane El Ghazouali

Image segmentation, a key task in computer vision, has traditionally relied on convolutional neural networks (CNNs), yet these models struggle with capturing complex spatial dependencies, objects with varying scales, need for manually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Deepjyoti Chetia , Debasish Dutta , Sanjib Kr Kalita

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

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-09 Rong Zhou , Zhengqing Yuan , Zhiling Yan , Weixiang Sun , Kai Zhang , Yiwei Li , Yanfang Ye , Xiang Li , Lifang He , Lichao Sun

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

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

Medical image segmentation have drawn massive attention as it is important in biomedical image analysis. Good segmentation results can assist doctors with their judgement and further improve patients' experience. Among many available…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-20 Youyang Sha , Yonghong Zhang , Xuquan Ji , Lei Hu

Identifying biomarkers in medical images is vital for a wide range of biotech applications. However, recent Transformer and CNN based methods often struggle with variations in morphology and staining, which limits their feature extraction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-09 Saad Wazir , Daeyoung Kim

The paper is a short review of medical image segmentation using U-Net and its variants. As we understand going through a medical images is not an easy job for any clinician either radiologist or pathologist. Analysing medical images is the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-20 Vinay Ummadi

Though U-Net has achieved tremendous success in medical image segmentation tasks, it lacks the ability to explicitly model long-range dependencies. Therefore, Vision Transformers have emerged as alternative segmentation structures recently,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-12 Hongyi Wang , Shiao Xie , Lanfen Lin , Yutaro Iwamoto , Xian-Hua Han , Yen-Wei Chen , Ruofeng Tong

Histopathology has played an essential role in cancer diagnosis. With the rapid advances in convolutional neural networks (CNN). Various CNN-based automated pathological image segmentation approaches have been developed in computer-assisted…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-23 Cam Nguyen , Zuhayr Asad , Yuankai Huo

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

Segmentation is one of the most significant steps in image processing. Segmenting an image is a technique that makes it possible to separate a digital image into various areas based on the different characteristics of pixels in the image.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-20 Sina Derakhshandeh , Ali Mahloojifar

Medical image segmentation is important for computer-aided diagnosis. Good segmentation demands the model to see the big picture and fine details simultaneously, i.e., to learn image features that incorporate large context while keep high…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-03 Shaohua Li , Xiuchao Sui , Xiangde Luo , Xinxing Xu , Yong Liu , Rick Goh

Accurate segmentation of the stroke lesions using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is associated with difficulties due to the complicated anatomy of the brain and the different properties of the lesions. This study introduces the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Muhammad Nouman , Mohamed Mabrok , Essam A. Rashed

Image-guided mouse irradiation is essential to understand interventions involving radiation prior to human studies. Our objective is to employ Swin UNEt Transformers (Swin UNETR) to segment native micro-CT and contrast-enhanced micro-CT…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-05-30 Lu Jiang , Di Xu , Qifan Xu , Arion Chatziioannou , Keisuke S. Iwamoto , Susanta Hui , Ke Sheng

Medical image segmentation remains particularly challenging for complex and low-contrast anatomical structures. In this paper, we introduce the U-Transformer network, which combines a U-shaped architecture for image segmentation with self-…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-15 Olivier Petit , Nicolas Thome , Clément Rambour , Luc Soler

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

Accurate medical image segmentation is critical for disease quantification and treatment evaluation. While traditional Unet architectures and their transformer-integrated variants excel in automated segmentation tasks. However, they lack…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-09 Guanqun Sun , Yizhi Pan , Weikun Kong , Zichang Xu , Jianhua Ma , Teeradaj Racharak , Le-Minh Nguyen , Junyi Xin

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