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Recently, a growing interest has been seen in deep learning-based semantic segmentation. UNet, which is one of deep learning networks with an encoder-decoder architecture, is widely used in medical image segmentation. Combining multi-scale…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-21 Huimin Huang , Lanfen Lin , Ruofeng Tong , Hongjie Hu , Qiaowei Zhang , Yutaro Iwamoto , Xianhua Han , Yen-Wei Chen , Jian Wu

Accurate segmentation of brain tumour sub-regions from multi-parametric MRI is critical for treatment planning yet remains challenging due to morphological variability, class imbalance, and overlapping appearances of tumour regions across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Hasaan Maqsood , Saif Ur Rehman Khan , Sebastian Vollmer , Andreas Dengel , Muhammad Nabeel Asim

Medical image segmentation commonly relies on U-shaped encoder-decoder architectures such as U-Net, where skip connections preserve fine spatial detail by injecting high-resolution encoder features into the decoder. However, these skip…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Chun-Wun Cheng , Yanqi Cheng , Peiyuan Jing , Guang Yang , Javier A. Montoya-Zegarra , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Angelica I. Aviles-Rivero

This paper proposes a method MTL-Swin-Unet which is multi-task learning using transformers for classification and semantic segmentation. For spurious-correlation problems, this method allows us to enhance the image representation with two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Kodai Hirata , Tsuyoshi Okita

Accurate brain tumour segmentation is a crucial step towards improving disease diagnosis and proper treatment planning. In this paper, we propose a deep-learning based method to segment a brain tumour into its subregions: whole tumour,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-17 Mina Ghaffari , Arcot Sowmya , Ruth Oliver

Residual network (ResNet) and densely connected network (DenseNet) have significantly improved the training efficiency and performance of deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) mainly for object classification tasks. In this paper, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-29 Mina Jafari , Dorothee Auer , Susan Francis , Jonathan Garibaldi , Xin Chen

With the development of computer technology, various models have emerged in artificial intelligence. The transformer model has been applied to the field of computer vision (CV) after its success in natural language processing (NLP).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Ruina Sun , Yuexin Pang

Cancer of the brain is deadly and requires careful surgical segmentation. The brain tumors were segmented using U-Net using a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). When looking for overlaps of necrotic, edematous, growing, and healthy tissue,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 MD Abdullah Al Nasim , Abdullah Al Munem , Maksuda Islam , Md Aminul Haque Palash , MD. Mahim Anjum Haque , Faisal Muhammad Shah

In this paper, we propose a novel medical image segmentation using iterative deep learning framework. We have combined an iterative learning approach and an encoder-decoder network to improve segmentation results, which enables to precisely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-14 Jung Uk Kim , Hak Gu Kim , Yong Man Ro

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

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

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in medical image segmentation tasks. A common feature in most top-performing CNNs is an encoder-decoder architecture inspired by the U-Net. For multi-region…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-07 Syed Talha Bukhari , Hassan Mohy-ud-Din

The analysis of retinal images for the diagnosis of various diseases is one of the emerging areas of research. Recently, the research direction has been inclined towards investigating several changes in retinal blood vessels in subjects…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Mehwish Mehmood , Shahzaib Iqbal , Tariq Mahmood Khan , Ivor Spence , Muhammad Fahim

The conversion from 2D X-ray to 3D shape holds significant potential for improving diagnostic efficiency and safety. However, existing reconstruction methods often rely on hand-crafted features, manual intervention, and prior knowledge,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Kuan Liu , Zongyuan Ying , Jie Jin , Dongyan Li , Ping Huang , Wenjian Wu , Zhe Chen , Jin Qi , Yong Lu , Lianfu Deng , Bo Chen

Multi-modal brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plays a crucial role in clinical diagnostics by providing complementary information across different imaging modalities. However, a common challenge in clinical practice is missing MRI…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-04 Haowen Pang , Weiyan Guo , Chuyang Ye

In the field of medical images, although various works find Swin Transformer has promising effectiveness on pixelwise dense prediction, whether pre-training these models without using extra dataset can further boost the performance for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Xinrong Hu , Dewen Zeng , Yawen Wu , Xueyang Li , Yiyu Shi

U-Net has been providing state-of-the-art performance in many medical image segmentation problems. Many modifications have been proposed for U-Net, such as attention U-Net, recurrent residual convolutional U-Net (R2-UNet), and U-Net with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Juntang Zhuang

Traditional deep learning methods in medical imaging often focus solely on segmentation or classification, limiting their ability to leverage shared information. Multi-task learning (MTL) addresses this by combining both tasks through…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Phuoc-Nguyen Bui , Duc-Tai Le , Junghyun Bum , Hyunseung Choo

Image segmentation is a fundamental task in both image analysis and medical applications. State-of-the-art methods predominantly rely on encoder-decoder architectures with a U-shaped design, commonly referred to as U-Net. Recent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-05 Chun-Wun Cheng , Yining Zhao , Yanqi Cheng , Javier A. Montoya-Zegarra , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Angelica I Aviles-Rivero

State-of-the-art methods for Transformer-based semantic segmentation typically adopt Transformer decoders that are used to extract additional embeddings from image embeddings via cross-attention, refine either or both types of embeddings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Qishuai Wen , Chun-Guang Li