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Medical image segmentation is a crucial task in the field of medical image analysis. Harmonizing the convolution and multi-head self-attention mechanism is a recent research focus in this field, with various combination methods proposed.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-28 Lichao Wang , Jiahao Huang , Xiaodan Xing , Guang Yang

Medical image segmentation plays an important role in various clinical applications; however, existing deep learning models face trade-offs between efficiency and accuracy. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) capture local details well but…

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Segmentation of brain tumors and their subregions remains a challenging task due to their weak features and deformable shapes. In this paper, three patterns (cross-skip, skip-1 and skip-2) of distributed dense connections (DDCs) are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-04 Hanxiao Zhang , Jingxiong Li , Mali Shen , Yaqi Wang , Guang-Zhong Yang

In recent advancement towards computer based diagnostics system, the classification of brain tumor images is a challenging task. This paper mainly focuses on elevating the classification accuracy of brain tumor images with transfer learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-20 Pramit Dutta , Khaleda Akhter Sathi , Md. Saiful Islam

Recent applications of deep convolutional neural networks in medical imaging raise concerns about their interpretability. While most explainable deep learning applications use post hoc methods (such as GradCAM) to generate feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Yuanyuan Wei , Roger Tam , Xiaoying Tang

Automatic segmentation of brain glioma from multimodal MRI scans plays a key role in clinical trials and practice. Unfortunately, manual segmentation is very challenging, time-consuming, costly, and often inaccurate despite human expertise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-08 Minh H. Vu , Tufve Nyholm , Tommy Löfstedt

Automatically segmenting sub-regions of gliomas (necrosis, edema and enhancing tumor) and accurately predicting overall survival (OS) time from multimodal MRI sequences have important clinical significance in diagnosis, prognosis and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-17 Xiaoqing Guo , Chen Yang , Pak Lun Lam , Peter Y. M. Woo , Yixuan Yuan

Manual or automatic delineation of the esophageal tumor in CT images is known to be very challenging. This is due to the low contrast between the tumor and adjacent tissues, the anatomical variation of the esophagus, as well as the…

Melanoma is caused by the abnormal growth of melanocytes in human skin. Like other cancers, this life-threatening skin cancer can be treated with early diagnosis. To support a diagnosis by automatic skin lesion segmentation, several Fully…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam , Reza Azad , Maral Zarvani , Dorit Merhof

Brain tumor segmentation is a fundamental step in assessing a patient's cancer progression. However, manual segmentation demands significant expert time to identify tumors in 3D multimodal brain MRI scans accurately. This reliance on manual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-07 Fadillah Maani , Anees Ur Rehman Hashmi , Numan Saeed , Mohammad Yaqub

Fast MRI aims to reconstruct a high fidelity image from partially observed measurements. Exuberant development in fast MRI using deep learning has been witnessed recently. Meanwhile, novel deep learning paradigms, e.g., Transformer based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Jiahao Huang , Xiaodan Xing , Zhifan Gao , Guang Yang

Brain tumor segmentation is crucial for diagnosis and treatment planning, yet challenges such as class imbalance and limited model generalization continue to hinder progress. This work presents a reproducible evaluation of U-Net…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Saumya B

Non-invasive techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are widely employed in brain tumor diagnostics. However, manual segmentation of brain tumors from 3D MRI volumes is a time-consuming task that requires trained expert…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-24 Benjamin Maas , Erfan Zabeh , Soroush Arabshahi

Brain tumors pose a serious health threat due to their rapid growth and potential for metastasis. While medical imaging has advanced significantly, accurately identifying and characterizing these tumors remains a challenge. This study…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Mahin Mohammadi , Saman Jamshidi

PET-CT lesion segmentation is challenging due to noise sensitivity, small and variable lesion morphology, and interference from physiological high-metabolic signals. Current mainstream approaches follow the practice of one network solving…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-11 Xinglong Liang , Jiaju Huang , Luyi Han , Tianyu Zhang , Xin Wang , Yuan Gao , Chunyao Lu , Lishan Cai , Tao Tan , Ritse Mann

Accurate and interpretable classification of brain tumors from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is critical for effective diagnosis and treatment planning. This study presents an ensemble-based deep learning framework that combines…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Melika Filvantorkaman , Mohsen Piri , Maral Filvan Torkaman , Ashkan Zabihi , Hamidreza Moradi

Brain tumor diagnosis is a challenging task for clinicians in the modern world. Among the major reasons for cancer-related death is the brain tumor. Gliomas, a category of central nervous system (CNS) tumors, encompass diverse subregions.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Kiranmayee Janardhan , Christy Bobby T

Accurate and reliable brain tumor segmentation, particularly when dealing with missing modalities, remains a critical challenge in medical image analysis. Previous studies have not fully resolved the challenges of tumor boundary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Shenghao Zhu , Yifei Chen , Weihong Chen , Yuanhan Wang , Chang Liu , Shuo Jiang , Feiwei Qin , Changmiao Wang

Accurate medical imaging segmentation is critical for precise and effective medical interventions. However, despite the success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in medical image segmentation, they still face challenges in handling…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-14 Adrian Celaya , Beatrice Riviere , David Fuentes

Due to the success of CNN-based and Transformer-based models in various computer vision tasks, recent works study the applicability of CNN-Transformer hybrid architecture models in 3D multi-modality medical segmentation tasks. Introducing…

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