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Medical image segmentation, particularly tumor segmentation, is a critical task in medical imaging, with U-Net being a widely adopted convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture for this purpose. However, U-Net's high computational and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-13 Christiaan Boerkamp , Akhil John Thomas

Accurate automatic medical image segmentation relies on high-quality, dense annotations, which are costly and time-consuming. Weakly supervised learning provides a more efficient alternative by leveraging sparse and coarse annotations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Dongdong Meng , Sheng Li , Hao Wu , Suqing Tian , Wenjun Ma , Guoping Wang , Xueqing Yan

Quantum machine learning (QML) is promising for potential speedups and improvements in conventional machine learning (ML) tasks (e.g., classification/regression). The search for ideal QML models is an active research field. This includes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-07 Mahabubul Alam , Swaroop Ghosh

Quantum image processing is a research field that explores the use of quantum computing and algorithms for image processing tasks such as image encoding and edge detection. Although classical edge detection algorithms perform reasonably…

Accurate classification of microscopic blood cells is still a critical task in medical image analysis, where subtle variations and limited data can challenge conventional deep learning models. As such, we investigate in this work the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Guilherme Cruz , Nouhaila Innan , Alberto Marchisio , Gabriel Falcao , Muhammad Shafique

Solving variational image segmentation problems with hidden physics is often expensive and requires different algorithms and manually tunes model parameter. The deep learning methods based on the U-Net structure have obtained outstanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Hui Zhu , Shi Shu , Jianping Zhang

Efficient model inference is an important and practical issue in the deployment of deep neural network on resource constraint platforms. Network quantization addresses this problem effectively by leveraging low-bit representation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Tianshu Chu , Qin Luo , Jie Yang , Xiaolin Huang

With the rapid development of classical and quantum machine learning, a large number of machine learning frameworks have been proposed. However, existing machine learning frameworks usually only focus on classical or quantum, rather than…

The quantized neural network (QNN) is an efficient approach for network compression and can be widely used in the implementation of FPGAs. This paper proposes a novel learning framework for n-bit QNNs, whose weights are constrained to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Jun Chen , Liang Liu , Yong Liu , Xianfang Zeng

In recent years, with the development of quantum machine learning, quantum neural networks (QNNs) have gained increasing attention in the field of natural language processing (NLP) and have achieved a series of promising results. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Yixiong Chen , Weichuan Fang

Quantum Neural Networks (QNNs), now offered as QNN-as-a-Service (QNNaaS), have become key targets for model extraction attacks. Existing methods use ensemble learning to train substitute QNNs, but our analysis reveals significant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Zhenxiao Fu , Fan Chen

We introduce CQnet, a neural network with origins in the CQ algorithm for solving convex split-feasibility problems and forward-backward splitting. CQnet's trajectories are interpretable as particles that are tracking a changing constraint…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Bas Peters

Hybrid quantum-classical models offer a promising route for learning from complex data; however, their application to multi-band remote sensing imagery often relies on generic, data-agnostic quantum circuits that fail to account for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Md Aminur Hossain , Ayush V. Patel , Biplab Banerjee

In the past decade, remarkable progress has been achieved in deep learning related systems and applications. In the post Moore's Law era, however, the limit of semiconductor fabrication technology along with the increasing data size have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-04 Samuel A. Stein , Betis Baheri , Daniel Chen , Ying Mao , Qiang Guan , Ang Li , Shuai Xu , Caiwen Ding

Quantum machine learning, focusing on quantum neural networks (QNNs), remains a vastly uncharted field of study. Current QNN models primarily employ variational circuits on an ansatz or a quantum feature map, often requiring multiple…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-02 Utkarsh Singh , Aaron Z. Goldberg , Khabat Heshami

Quantization neural networks (QNNs) are very attractive to the industry because their extremely cheap calculation and storage overhead, but their performance is still worse than that of networks with full-precision parameters. Most of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Chuanjian Liu , Kai Han , Yunhe Wang , Hanting Chen , Qi Tian , Chunjing Xu

The recent emergence of the hybrid quantum-classical neural network (HQCNN) architecture has garnered considerable attention due to the potential advantages associated with integrating quantum principles to enhance various facets of machine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-03 Zuyu Xu , Kang Shen , Pengnian Cai , Tao Yang , Yuanming Hu , Shixian Chen , Yunlai Zhu , Zuheng Wu , Yuehua Dai , Jun Wang , Fei Yang

The rapid development of quantum computers promises transformative impacts across diverse fields of science and technology. Quantum neural networks (QNNs), as a forefront application, hold substantial potential. Despite the multitude of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Lucas Friedrich , Jonas Maziero

This work studies the feasibility of applying quantum kernel methods to a real consumer classification task in the NISQ regime. We present a hybrid pipeline that combines a quantum-kernel Support Vector Machine (Q-SVM) with a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Laura Sáez-Ortuño , Santiago Forgas-Coll , Massimiliano Ferrara

A mangrove mapping (MM) algorithm is an essential classification tool for environmental monitoring. The recent literature shows that compared with other index-based MM methods that treat pixels as spatially independent, convolutional neural…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-03 Chia-Hsiang Lin , Po-Wei Tang , Alfredo R. Huete