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Recently, deep convolutional neural networks have achieved great success for medical image segmentation. However, unlike segmentation of natural images, most medical images such as MRI and CT are volumetric data. In order to make full use…

Deep learning models such as convolutional neural net- work have been widely used in 3D biomedical segmentation and achieve state-of-the-art performance. However, most of them often adapt a single modality or stack multiple modalities as…

Early detection of dysplasia of the cervix is critical for cervical cancer treatment. However, automatic cervical dysplasia diagnosis via visual inspection, which is more appropriate in low-resource settings, remains a challenging problem.…

Transfer learning represents a recent paradigm shift in the way we build artificial intelligence (AI) systems. In contrast to training task-specific models, transfer learning involves pre-training deep learning models on a large corpus of…

Direct image-to-graph transformation is a challenging task that involves solving object detection and relationship prediction in a single model. Due to this task's complexity, large training datasets are rare in many domains, making the…

Vision foundation models are increasingly moving beyond 2D to volumetric domains such as 3D medical imaging, where unified pretraining across different imaging modalities (i.e. CT, MRI, and PET) could provide foundational models for diverse…

Reconstructed 3D ultrasound volume provides more context information compared to a sequence of 2D scanning frames, which is desirable for various clinical applications such as ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy. Nevertheless, 3D volume…

In volume-to-volume translations in medical images, existing models often struggle to capture the inherent volumetric distribution using 3D voxelspace representations, due to high computational dataset demands. We present Score-Fusion, a…

Multi-organ segmentation is one of most successful applications of deep learning in medical image analysis. Deep convolutional neural nets (CNNs) have shown great promise in achieving clinically applicable image segmentation performance on…

Medical head CT-scan imaging has been successfully combined with deep learning for medical diagnostics of head diseases and lesions[1]. State of the art classification models and algorithms for this task usually are based on 3d convolution…

Convolutional neural networks are state-of-the-art for various segmentation tasks. While for 2D images these networks are also computationally efficient, 3D convolutions have huge storage requirements and require long training time. To…

Most 3D neural networks are trained from scratch owing to the lack of large-scale labeled 3D datasets. In this paper, we present a novel 3D pretraining method by leveraging 2D networks learned from rich 2D datasets. We propose the…

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…

There has been a debate on whether to use 2D or 3D deep neural networks for volumetric organ segmentation. Both 2D and 3D models have their advantages and disadvantages. In this paper, we present an alternative framework, which trains 2D…

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…

Over the past decade, convolutional neural networks (CNN) have shown very competitive performance in medical image analysis tasks, such as disease classification, tumor segmentation, and lesion detection. CNN has great advantages in…

Recently, transfer learning and self-supervised learning have gained significant attention within the medical field due to their ability to mitigate the challenges posed by limited data availability, improve model generalisation, and reduce…

We propose a new convolution called Dynamic Region-Aware Convolution (DRConv), which can automatically assign multiple filters to corresponding spatial regions where features have similar representation. In this way, DRConv outperforms…

Standard 3D convolution operations require much larger amounts of memory and computation cost than 2D convolution operations. The fact has hindered the development of deep neural nets in many 3D vision tasks. In this paper, we investigate…

This paper investigates a 2D to 3D image translation method with a straightforward technique, enabling correlated 2D X-ray to 3D CT-like reconstruction. We observe that existing approaches, which integrate information across multiple 2D…