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Medical image segmentation - the prerequisite of numerous clinical needs - has been significantly prospered by recent advances in convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, it exhibits general limitations on modeling explicit long-range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Yundong Zhang , Huiye Liu , Qiang Hu

Medical image segmentation remains particularly challenging for complex and low-contrast anatomical structures. In this paper, we introduce the U-Transformer network, which combines a U-shaped architecture for image segmentation with self-…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-15 Olivier Petit , Nicolas Thome , Clément Rambour , Luc Soler

Medical ultrasound image segmentation presents a formidable challenge in the realm of computer vision. Traditional approaches rely on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Transformer-based methods to address the intricacies of medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Weixin Xu , Ziliang Wang

High-quality pixel-level annotations of medical images are essential for supervised segmentation tasks, but obtaining such annotations is costly and requires medical expertise. To address this challenge, we propose a novel coarse-to-fine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Anghong Du , Nay Aung , Theodoros N. Arvanitis , Stefan K. Piechnik , Joao A C Lima , Steffen E. Petersen , Le Zhang

Medical image segmentation has witnessed significant advancements with the emergence of deep learning. However, the reliance of most neural network models on a substantial amount of annotated data remains a challenge for medical image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Xiaoxiao Wu , Xiaowei Chen , Zhenguo Gao , Shulei Qu , Yuanyuan Qiu

Breast ultrasound imaging is a valuable tool for early breast cancer detection, but automated tumor segmentation is challenging due to inherent noise, variations in scale of lesions, and fuzzy boundaries. To address these challenges, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Muhammad Azeem Aslam , Asim Naveed , Nisar Ahmed

Medical images are characterized by intricate and complex features, requiring interpretation by physicians with medical knowledge and experience. Classical neural networks can reduce the workload of physicians, but can only handle these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Yangyang Li , Zhengya Qia , Yuelin Lia , Haorui Yanga , Ronghua Shanga , Licheng Jiaoa

Automated histopathological image analysis plays a vital role in computer-aided diagnosis of various diseases. Among developed algorithms, deep learning-based approaches have demonstrated excellent performance in multiple tasks, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Nima Torbati , Anastasia Meshcheryakova , Ramona Woitek , Diana Mechtcheriakova , Amirreza Mahbod

Efficiently capturing multi-scale information and building long-range dependencies among pixels are essential for medical image segmentation because of the various sizes and shapes of the lesion regions or organs. In this paper, we present…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-18 Hao Shao , Quansheng Zeng , Qibin Hou , Jufeng Yang

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

In the field of medical CT image processing, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been the dominant technique.Encoder-decoder CNNs utilise locality for efficiency, but they cannot simulate distant pixel interactions properly.Recent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-03 Hongyang He , Feng Ziliang , Yuanhang Zheng , Shudong Huang , HaoBing Gao

Automatic medical image segmentation, an essential component of medical image analysis, plays an importantrole in computer-aided diagnosis. For example, locating and segmenting the liver can be very helpful in livercancer diagnosis and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-28 Xi Fang , Bo Du , Sheng Xu , Bradford J. Wood , Pingkun Yan

Accurate medical image segmentation requires effective modeling of both long-range dependencies and fine-grained boundary details. While transformers mitigate the issue of insufficient semantic information arising from the limited receptive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Yanxin Li , Hui Wan , Libin Lan

Medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in various healthcare applications, enabling accurate diagnosis, treatment planning, and disease monitoring. Traditionally, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) dominated this domain,…

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) work very well for supervised learning problems when the training dataset is representative of the variations expected to be encountered at test time. In medical image segmentation, this premise is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-26 Neerav Karani , Ertunc Erdil , Krishna Chaitanya , Ender Konukoglu

The development of efficient segmentation strategies for medical images has evolved from its initial dependence on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to the current investigation of hybrid models that combine CNNs with Vision Transformers…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-08 Pallabi Dutta , Soham Bose , Swalpa Kumar Roy , Sushmita Mitra

Biomedical image segmentation plays a significant role in computer-aided diagnosis. However, existing CNN based methods rely heavily on massive manual annotations, which are very expensive and require huge human resources. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Ruifei Zhang , Sishuo Liu , Yizhou Yu , Guanbin Li

The accurate segmentation of medical images is crucial for diagnosing and treating diseases. Recent studies demonstrate that vision transformer-based methods have significantly improved performance in medical image segmentation, primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Wentao Wang , Xi Xiao , Mingjie Liu , Qing Tian , Xuanyao Huang , Qizhen Lan , Swalpa Kumar Roy , Tianyang Wang

Algorithmic image-based diagnosis and prognosis of neurodegenerative diseases on longitudinal data has drawn great interest from computer vision researchers. The current state-of-the-art models for many image classification tasks are based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-04 Jie Zhang , Qingyang Li , Richard J. Caselli , Jieping Ye , Yalin Wang

Accurate segmentation of organs or lesions from medical images is crucial for reliable diagnosis of diseases and organ morphometry. In recent years, convolutional encoder-decoder solutions have achieved substantial progress in the field of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Bingzhi Chen , Yishu Liu , Zheng Zhang , Guangming Lu , Adams Wai Kin Kong