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Medical image segmentation is essential for clinical applications such as disease diagnosis, treatment planning, and disease development monitoring because it provides precise morphological and spatial information on anatomical structures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Moin Safdar , Shahzaib Iqbal , Mubeen Ghafoor , Tariq M. Khan , Imran Razzak , Thantrira Porntaveetus , Hamid Alinejad-Rokny

Medical image segmentation plays a pivotal role in disease diagnosis and treatment planning, particularly in resource-constrained clinical settings where lightweight and generalizable models are urgently needed. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Chengqi Dong , Fenghe Tang , Rongge Mao , Xinpei Gao , S. Kevin Zhou

Background and Purpose: Convolutional neural network is widely used for image recognition in the medical area at nowadays. However, overall accuracy in predicting lung tumor is low and the processing time is high as the error occurred while…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-15 Bhoj Raj Pandit , Abeer Alsadoon , P. W. C. Prasad , Sarmad Al Aloussi , Tarik A. Rashid , Omar Hisham Alsadoon , Oday D. Jerew

Chest X-ray imaging is a critical diagnostic tool for identifying pulmonary diseases. However, manual interpretation of these images is time-consuming and error-prone. Automated systems utilizing convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Saurabh Agarwal , K. V. Arya , Yogesh Kumar Meena

Automatic airway segmentation from chest computed tomography (CT) scans plays an important role in pulmonary disease diagnosis and computer-assisted therapy. However, low contrast at peripheral branches and complex tree-like structures…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-26 Jinquan Guo , Rongda Fu , Lin Pan , Shaohua Zheng , Liqin Huang , Bin Zheng , Bingwei He

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

Lung segmentation in chest X-ray images is a critical task in medical image analysis, enabling accurate diagnosis and treatment of various lung diseases. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for lung segmentation by integrating…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-22 Mohammad Ali Labbaf Khaniki , Nazanin Mahjourian , Mohammad Manthouri

Breast ultrasound (BUS) image segmentation plays a crucial role in a computer-aided diagnosis system, which is regarded as a useful tool to help increase the accuracy of breast cancer diagnosis. Recently, many deep learning methods have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-24 Zhenyuan Ning , Ke Wang , Shengzhou Zhong , Qianjin Feng , Yu Zhang

A chest radiograph, commonly called chest x-ray (CxR), plays a vital role in the diagnosis of various lung diseases, such as lung cancer, tuberculosis, pneumonia, and many more. Automated segmentation of the lungs is an important step to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-20 Anushikha Singh , Brejesh Lall , B. K. Panigrahi , Anjali Agrawal , Anurag Agrawal , DJ Christopher , Balamugesh Thangakunam

Medical image segmentation is one of the most fundamental tasks concerning medical information analysis. Various solutions have been proposed so far, including many deep learning-based techniques, such as U-Net, FC-DenseNet, etc. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-08 Zihan Li , Dihan Li , Cangbai Xu , Weice Wang , Qingqi Hong , Qingde Li , Jie Tian

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019, medical imaging has emerged as a primary modality for diagnosing COVID-19 pneumonia. In clinical settings, the segmentation of lung infections from computed tomography images enables…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-01 Yijie Dang , Weijun Ma , Xiaohu Luo , Huaizhu Wang

The irregular and challenging characteristics of lung adenocarcinoma nodules in computed tomography (CT) images complicate staging diagnosis, making accurate segmentation critical for clinicians to extract detailed lesion information. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-20 Yuke Wu , Xiang Liu , Yunyu Shi , Xinyi Chen , Zhenglei Wang , YuQing Xu , Shuo Hong Wang

Lung cancer, a severe form of malignant tumor that originates in the tissues of the lungs, can be fatal if not detected in its early stages. It ranks among the top causes of cancer-related mortality worldwide. Detecting lung cancer manually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Santanu Roy , Shweta Singh , Palak Sahu , Ashvath Suresh , Debashish Das

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

Medical image segmentation is of great significance in analysis of illness. The use of deep neural networks in medical image segmentation can help doctors extract regions of interest from complex medical images, thereby improving diagnostic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Zhuoyi Fang , Kexuan Shi , Jiajia Liu , Qiang Han

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-17 Yousef Sadegheih , Afshin Bozorgpour , Pratibha Kumari , Reza Azad , Dorit Merhof

Accurate lung lesion segmentation from Computed Tomography (CT) images is crucial to the analysis and diagnosis of lung diseases such as COVID-19 and lung cancer. However, the smallness and variety of lung nodules and the lack of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-15 Changwei Wang , Rongtao Xu , Shibiao Xu , Weiliang Meng , Jun Xiao , Xiaopeng Zhang

Lung cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, and early detection is crucial for improving patient outcomes. Nevertheless, early diagnosis of cancer is a major challenge, particularly in low-resource settings where…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Samiul Based Shuvo , Tasnia Binte Mamun

Accurate segmentation of skin lesions in dermatoscopic images is crucial for the early diagnosis of skin cancer and improving the survival rate of patients. However, it is still a challenging task due to the irregularity of lesion areas,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-02 Qisen Ma , Keming Mao , Gao Wang , Lisheng Xu , Yuhai Zhao

Purpose Automated segmentation of anatomical structures in medical image analysis is a prerequisite for autonomous diagnosis as well as various computer and robot aided interventions. Recent methods based on deep convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Max-Heinrich Laves , Jens Bicker , Lüder A. Kahrs , Tobias Ortmaier