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In recent years, transformer-based methods have achieved remarkable progress in medical image segmentation due to their superior ability to capture long-range dependencies. However, these methods typically suffer from two major limitations.…

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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,…

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Pretraining CNN models (i.e., UNet) through self-supervision has become a powerful approach to facilitate medical image segmentation under low annotation regimes. Recent contrastive learning methods encourage similar global representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Zhangsihao Yang , Mengwei Ren , Kaize Ding , Guido Gerig , Yalin Wang

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been the de facto standard for nowadays 3D medical image segmentation. The convolutional operations used in these networks, however, inevitably have limitations in modeling the long-range dependency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Yutong Xie , Jianpeng Zhang , Chunhua Shen , Yong Xia

Convolutional Neural Networks have played a significant role in various medical imaging tasks like classification and segmentation. They provide state-of-the-art performance compared to classical image processing algorithms. However, the…

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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown remarkable progress in medical image segmentation. However, lesion segmentation remains a challenge to state-of-the-art CNN-based algorithms due to the variance in scales and shapes. On the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-31 Yanwen Li , Luyang Luo , Huangjing Lin , Pheng-Ann Heng , Hao Chen

At present, people usually use some methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for Electroencephalograph (EEG) decoding. However, CNNs have limitations in perceiving global dependencies, which is not adequate for common EEG…

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Semantic segmentation of remote sensing images plays an important role in a wide range of applications including land resource management, biosphere monitoring and urban planning. Although the accuracy of semantic segmentation in remote…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-21 Rui Li , Shunyi Zheng , Chenxi Duan , Ce Zhang , Jianlin Su , P. M. Atkinson

Medical image segmentation plays an important role in computer-aided diagnosis. Traditional convolution-based U-shape segmentation architectures are usually limited by the local receptive field. Existing vision transformers have been widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Qing Xu , Yanming Chen , Yue Li , Ziyu Liu , Zhenye Lou , Yixuan Zhang , Xiangjian He

Despite the widespread adoption of transformers in medical applications, the exploration of multi-scale learning through transformers remains limited, while hierarchical representations are considered advantageous for computer-aided medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Xiaoya Tang , Bodong Zhang , Man Minh Ho , Beatrice S. Knudsen , Tolga Tasdizen

In this paper we propose a novel deep learning-based algorithm for biomedical image segmentation which uses a sequential attention mechanism able to shift the focus of attention across the image in a selective way, allowing subareas which…

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Semantic segmentation of remote sensing images is a fundamental task in geospatial research. However, widely used Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Transformers have notable drawbacks: CNNs may be limited by insufficient remote…

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Retinal Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) segmentation is essential for diagnosing pathology. Traditional methods focus on either spatial or spectral domains, overlooking their combined dependencies. We propose a triple-encoder network…

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Accurate medical image segmentation is fundamental to precision medicine, yet robust delineation remains challenging under heterogeneous appearances, ambiguous boundaries, and large anatomical variability. Similar intensity and texture…

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Deep learning has achieved remarkable success in medical image segmentation, often reaching expert-level accuracy in delineating tumors and tissues. However, most existing approaches remain task-specific, showing strong performance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Fares Bougourzi , Fadi Dornaika , Abdenour Hadid

We introduce an approach to integrate segmentation information within a convolutional neural network (CNN). This counter-acts the tendency of CNNs to smooth information across regions and increases their spatial precision. To obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Adam W. Harley , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Iasonas Kokkinos

Weakly-supervised medical image segmentation is a challenging task that aims to reduce the annotation cost while keep the segmentation performance. In this paper, we present a novel framework, SimTxtSeg, that leverages simple text cues to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Yuxin Xie , Tao Zhou , Yi Zhou , Geng Chen

We here propose a novel hierarchical transformer model that adeptly integrates the feature extraction capabilities of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) with the advanced representational potential of Vision Transformers (ViTs).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Xiaoya Tang , Bodong Zhang , Beatrice S. Knudsen , Tolga Tasdizen

Segmentation is a fundamental task in medical image analysis. However, most existing methods focus on primary region extraction and ignore edge information, which is useful for obtaining accurate segmentation. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Zhijie Zhang , Huazhu Fu , Hang Dai , Jianbing Shen , Yanwei Pang , Ling Shao

Medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in clinical diagnosis and treatment planning, where accurate boundary delineation is essential for precise lesion localization, organ identification, and quantitative assessment. In recent…

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