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Artificial intelligence, including deep learning models, will play a transformative role in automated medical image analysis for the diagnosis of cardiac disorders and their management. Automated accurate delineation of cardiac images is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-27 Racheal Mukisa , Arvind K. Bansal

Medical image analysis using deep learning has recently been prevalent, showing great performance for various downstream tasks including medical image segmentation and its sibling, volumetric image segmentation. Particularly, a typical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Ngoc-Vuong Ho , Tan Nguyen , Gia-Han Diep , Ngan Le , Binh-Son Hua

Deep learning has shown great potential for automated medical image segmentation to improve the precision and speed of disease diagnostics. However, the task presents significant difficulties due to variations in the scale, shape, texture,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-06 Shahzaib Iqbal , Tariq M. Khan , Syed S. Naqvi , Asim Naveed , Erik Meijering

The application of 3D ViTs to medical image segmentation has seen remarkable strides, somewhat overshadowing the budding advancements in Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based models. Large kernel depthwise convolution has emerged as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Ho Hin Lee , Quan Liu , Qi Yang , Xin Yu , Shunxing Bao , Yuankai Huo , Bennett A. Landman

A volumetric attention(VA) module for 3D medical image segmentation and detection is proposed. VA attention is inspired by recent advances in video processing, enables 2.5D networks to leverage context information along the z direction, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-07 Xudong Wang , Shizhong Han , Yunqiang Chen , Dashan Gao , Nuno Vasconcelos

Even though convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are driving progress in medical image segmentation, standard models still have some drawbacks. First, the use of multi-scale approaches, i.e., encoder-decoder architectures, leads to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Ashish Sinha , Jose Dolz

In this paper, we introduce a conceptually simple network for generating discriminative tissue-level segmentation masks for the purpose of breast cancer diagnosis. Our method efficiently segments different types of tissues in breast biopsy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Sachin Mehta , Ezgi Mercan , Jamen Bartlett , Donald Weave , Joann G. Elmore , Linda Shapiro

We introduce an approach to integrate segmentation information within a convolutional neural network (CNN). This counter-acts the tendency of CNNs to smooth information across regions and increases their spatial precision. To obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Adam W. Harley , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Iasonas Kokkinos

Automated histopathological image analysis plays a vital role in computer-aided diagnosis of various diseases. Among developed algorithms, deep learning-based approaches have demonstrated excellent performance in multiple tasks, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Nima Torbati , Anastasia Meshcheryakova , Ramona Woitek , Diana Mechtcheriakova , Amirreza Mahbod

Accurate segmentation of the liver is a prerequisite for the diagnosis of disease. Automated segmentation is an important application of computer-aided detection and diagnosis of liver disease. In recent years, automated processing of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-29 Zhiqi Lee , Sumin Qi , Chongchong Fan , Ziwei Xie

Automated detection of curvilinear structures, e.g., blood vessels or nerve fibres, from medical and biomedical images is a crucial early step in automatic image interpretation associated to the management of many diseases. Precise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-20 Lei Mou , Yitian Zhao , Huazhu Fu , Yonghuai Liu , Jun Cheng , Yalin Zheng , Pan Su , Jianlong Yang , Li Chen , Alejandro F Frang , Masahiro Akiba , Jiang Liu

Proper segmentation of organs-at-risk is important for radiation therapy, surgical planning, and diagnostic decision-making in medical image analysis. While deep learning-based segmentation architectures have made significant progress, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Riad Hassan , M. Rubaiyat Hossain Mondal , Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed , Fahad Mostafa , Md Mostafijur Rahman

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) achieved the state-of-the-art performance in medical image segmentation due to their ability to extract highly complex feature representations. However, it is argued in recent studies that traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Zhendi Gong , Andrew P. French , Guoping Qiu , Xin Chen

In the last decade, convolutional neural networks (ConvNets) have dominated and achieved state-of-the-art performances in a variety of medical imaging applications. However, the performances of ConvNets are still limited by lacking the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-15 Junyu Chen , Yufan He , Eric C. Frey , Ye Li , Yong Du

Automatic extraction of liver and tumor from CT volumes is a challenging task due to their heterogeneous and diffusive shapes. Recently, 2D and 3D deep convolutional neural networks have become popular in medical image segmentation tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Qiangguo Jin , Zhaopeng Meng , Changming Sun , Leyi Wei , Ran Su

Deep learning architecture with convolutional neural network (CNN) achieves outstanding success in the field of computer vision. Where U-Net, an encoder-decoder architecture structured by CNN, makes a great breakthrough in biomedical image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-13 Qing Xu , Zhicheng Ma , Na HE , Wenting Duan

When studying the results of a segmentation algorithm using convolutional neural networks, one wonders about the reliability and consistency of the results. This leads to questioning the possibility of using such an algorithm in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-29 Nicolas Makaroff , Laurent D. Cohen

The development of efficient segmentation strategies for medical images has evolved from its initial dependence on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to the current investigation of hybrid models that combine CNNs with Vision Transformers…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-08 Pallabi Dutta , Soham Bose , Swalpa Kumar Roy , Sushmita Mitra

Accurate image segmentation plays a crucial role in medical image analysis, yet it faces great challenges of various shapes, diverse sizes, and blurry boundaries. To address these difficulties, square kernel-based encoder-decoder…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-02 Qian Yu , Lei Qi , Luping Zhou , Lei Wang , Yilong Yin , Yinghuan Shi , Wuzhang Wang , Yang Gao

This paper develops a novel encoder-decoder deep network architecture which exploits the several contextual frames of 2D+t sequential images in a sliding window centered at current frame to segment 2D vessel masks from the current frame.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Dongdong Hao , Song Ding , Linwei Qiu , Yisong Lv , Baowei Fei , Yueqi Zhu , Binjie Qin