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Recently, a growing interest has been seen in deep learning-based semantic segmentation. UNet, which is one of deep learning networks with an encoder-decoder architecture, is widely used in medical image segmentation. Combining multi-scale…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-21 Huimin Huang , Lanfen Lin , Ruofeng Tong , Hongjie Hu , Qiaowei Zhang , Yutaro Iwamoto , Xianhua Han , Yen-Wei Chen , Jian Wu

Medical image segmentation is an essential prerequisite for developing healthcare systems, especially for disease diagnosis and treatment planning. On various medical image segmentation tasks, the u-shaped architecture, also known as U-Net,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Jieneng Chen , Yongyi Lu , Qihang Yu , Xiangde Luo , Ehsan Adeli , Yan Wang , Le Lu , Alan L. Yuille , Yuyin Zhou

Methods based on convolutional neural networks have improved the performance of biomedical image segmentation. However, most of these methods cannot efficiently segment objects of variable sizes and train on small and biased datasets, which…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-01 Abhishek Srivastava , Debesh Jha , Sukalpa Chanda , Umapada Pal , Håvard D. Johansen , Dag Johansen , Michael A. Riegler , Sharib Ali , Pål Halvorsen

Despite deep convolutional neural networks achieved impressive progress in medical image computing and analysis, its paradigm of supervised learning demands a large number of annotations for training to avoid overfitting and achieving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Liyan Sun , Chenxin Li , Xinghao Ding , Yue Huang , Guisheng Wang , Yizhou Yu

In recent years, 3D convolutional neural networks have become the dominant approach for volumetric medical image segmentation. However, compared to their 2D counterparts, 3D networks introduce substantially more training parameters and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-01 Yuan Wang , Laura Blackie , Irene Miguel-Aliaga , Wenjia Bai

X-Ray image enhancement, along with many other medical image processing applications, requires the segmentation of images into bone, soft tissue, and open beam regions. We apply a machine learning approach to this problem, presenting an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Joseph Bullock , Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro , Arnau Quera-Bofarull

In the field of healthcare, precise skin lesion segmentation is crucial for the early detection and accurate diagnosis of skin diseases. Despite significant advances in deep learning for image processing, existing methods have yet to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Siyu Wang , Hua Wang , Huiyu Li , Fan Zhang

The diagnosis of medical diseases faces challenges such as the misdiagnosis of small lesions. Deep learning, particularly multimodal approaches, has shown great potential in the field of medical disease diagnosis. However, the differences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Jianxun Yu , Ruiquan Ge , Zhipeng Wang , Cheng Yang , Chenyu Lin , Xianjun Fu , Jikui Liu , Ahmed Elazab , Changmiao Wang

Existing few-shot medical image segmentation (FSMIS) models fail to address a practical issue in medical imaging: the domain shift caused by different imaging techniques, which limits the applicability to current FSMIS tasks. To overcome…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Yuntian Bo , Yazhou Zhu , Lunbo Li , Haofeng Zhang

Anatomical segmentation is a fundamental task in medical image computing, generally tackled with fully convolutional neural networks which produce dense segmentation masks. These models are often trained with loss functions such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-28 Nicolás Gaggion , Lucas Mansilla , Candelaria Mosquera , Diego H. Milone , Enzo Ferrante

The hybrid architecture of convolution neural networks (CNN) and Transformer has been the most popular method for medical image segmentation. However, the existing networks based on the hybrid architecture suffer from two problems. First,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-21 Rui Sun , Tao Lei , Weichuan Zhang , Yong Wan , Yong Xia , Asoke K. Nandi

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) achieved the state-of-the-art performance in medical image segmentation due to their ability to extract highly complex feature representations. However, it is argued in recent studies that traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Zhendi Gong , Andrew P. French , Guoping Qiu , Xin Chen

Medical image segmentation has made significant progress in recent years. Deep learning-based methods are recognized as data-hungry techniques, requiring large amounts of data with manual annotations. However, manual annotation is expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Yi Lin , Yufan Chen , Kwang-Ting Cheng , Hao Chen

Medical image segmentation is a critical task that plays a vital role in diagnosis, treatment planning, and disease monitoring. Accurate segmentation of anatomical structures and abnormalities from medical images can aid in the early…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Reza Azad , Amirhossein Kazerouni , Alaa Sulaiman , Afshin Bozorgpour , Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam , Abin Jose , Dorit Merhof

Accurate medical image segmentation is essential for diagnosis and treatment planning of diseases. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance for automatic medical image segmentation. However, they are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Ran Gu , Guotai Wang , Tao Song , Rui Huang , Michael Aertsen , Jan Deprest , Sébastien Ourselin , Tom Vercauteren , Shaoting Zhang

With the rapid advances of image editing techniques in recent years, image manipulation detection has attracted considerable attention since the increasing security risks posed by tampered images. To address these challenges, a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Fengsheng Wang , Leyi Wei

Most of the current top-down multi-person pose estimation lightweight methods are based on multi-branch parallel pure CNN network architecture, which often struggle to capture the global context required for detecting semantically complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Biao Guo , Cong Zhou , Fangmin Guo , Xiaonan Luo , Guibo Luo , Feng Zhang

Transformer architecture has emerged to be successful in a number of natural language processing tasks. However, its applications to medical vision remain largely unexplored. In this study, we present UTNet, a simple yet powerful hybrid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Yunhe Gao , Mu Zhou , Dimitris Metaxas

For medical image semantic segmentation (MISS), Vision Transformers have emerged as strong alternatives to convolutional neural networks thanks to their inherent ability to capture long-range correlations. However, existing research uses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Qianying Liu , Chaitanya Kaul , Jun Wang , Christos Anagnostopoulos , Roderick Murray-Smith , Fani Deligianni

Multi-modal brain tumor segmentation remains challenging for practical deployment due to the high computational costs of mainstream models. In this work, we propose GMLN-BTS, a Graph-based Multi-modal interaction Lightweight Network for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-06 Guohao Huo , Ruiting Dai , Zitong Wang , Junxin Kong , Hao Tang