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With the rapid development of deep learning and computer vision technologies, medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in the early diagnosis of breast cancer. However, due to the characteristics of breast ultrasound images, such as…

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Precision in identifying and differentiating micro and macro blood vessels in the retina is crucial for the diagnosis of retinal diseases, although it poses a significant challenge. Current autoencoding-based segmentation approaches…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-05 Rui Yang , Shunpu Zhang

Segmentation algorithms for medical images are widely studied for various clinical and research purposes. In this paper, we propose a new and efficient method for medical image segmentation under noisy labels. The method operates under a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-18 Ziyang Wang , Zhengdong Zhang , Irina Voiculescu

We present Token-UNet, adopting the TokenLearner and TokenFuser modules to encase Transformers into UNets. While Transformers have enabled global interactions among input elements in medical imaging, current computational challenges hinder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Louis Fabrice Tshimanga , Andrea Zanola , Federico Del Pup , Manfredo Atzori

Since their emergence, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have made significant strides in medical image analysis. However, the local nature of the convolution operator may pose a limitation for capturing global and long-range…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-01 Abdul Rehman Khan , Asifullah Khan

Recent advancements in large-scale Vision Transformers have made significant strides in improving pre-trained models for medical image segmentation. However, these methods face a notable challenge in acquiring a substantial amount of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Yiqing Wang , Zihan Li , Jieru Mei , Zihao Wei , Li Liu , Chen Wang , Shengtian Sang , Alan Yuille , Cihang Xie , Yuyin Zhou

Medical image segmentation is pivotal in healthcare, enhancing diagnostic accuracy, informing treatment strategies, and tracking disease progression. This process allows clinicians to extract critical information from visual data, enabling…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-31 Ovais Iqbal Shah , Danish Raza Rizvi , Aqib Nazir Mir

The Resolution of feature maps is critical for medical image segmentation. Most of the existing Transformer-based networks for medical image segmentation are U-Net-like architecture that contains an encoder that utilizes a sequence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Chen Wei , Shenghan Ren , Kaitai Guo , Haihong Hu , Jimin Liang

Most state-of-the-art methods for medical image segmentation adopt the encoder-decoder architecture. However, this U-shaped framework still has limitations in capturing the non-local multi-scale information with a simple skip connection. To…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-27 Haonan Wang , Peng Cao , Xiaoli Liu , Jinzhu Yang , Osmar Zaiane

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

Computer aided pathological analysis has been the gold standard for tumor diagnosis, however domain shift is a significant problem in histopathology. It may be caused by variability in anatomical structures, tissue preparation, and imaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-25 Abdul Qayyum , Moona Mazher Imran Razzak , Steven A Niederer

Recently, U-shaped networks have dominated the field of medical image segmentation due to their simple and easily tuned structure. However, existing U-shaped segmentation networks: 1) mostly focus on designing complex self-attention modules…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-24 Junlong Cheng , Chengrui Gao , Fengjie Wang , Min Zhu

While computer vision has proven valuable for medical image segmentation, its application faces challenges such as limited dataset sizes and the complexity of effectively leveraging unlabeled images. To address these challenges, we present…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-15 Zhaoshan Liua , Qiujie Lv , Chau Hung Lee , Lei Shen

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

Vision Transformers (ViT)s have recently become popular due to their outstanding modeling capabilities, in particular for capturing long-range information, and scalability to dataset and model sizes which has led to state-of-the-art…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-06 Ali Hatamizadeh , Ziyue Xu , Dong Yang , Wenqi Li , Holger Roth , Daguang Xu

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 critical for accurate diagnostics and treatment planning, but remains challenging due to complex anatomical structures and limited annotated training data. CNN-based segmentation methods excel at local feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Nishchal Sapkota , Haoyan Shi , Yejia Zhang , Xianshi Ma , Bofang Zheng , Fabian Vazquez , Pengfei Gu , Danny Z. Chen

In the past decades, deep neural networks, particularly convolutional neural networks, have achieved state-of-the-art performance in a variety of medical image segmentation tasks. Recently, the introduction of the vision transformer (ViT)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Peijie Qiu , Jin Yang , Sayantan Kumar , Soumyendu Sekhar Ghosh , Aristeidis Sotiras

In the realm of medical diagnostics, rapid advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have significantly yielded remarkable improvements in brain tumor segmentation. Encoder-Decoder architectures, such as U-Net, have played a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Eyad Gad , Seif Soliman , M. Saeed Darweesh

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