English
Related papers

Related papers: Primus: Enforcing Attention Usage for 3D Medical I…

200 papers

Medical image segmentation faces challenges due to variations in anatomical structures. While convolutional neural networks (CNNs) effectively capture local features, they struggle with modeling long-range dependencies. Transformers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Lalit Maurya , Honghai Liu , Reyer Zwiggelaar

With the rapid development of deep learning, CNN-based U-shaped networks have succeeded in medical image segmentation and are widely applied for various tasks. However, their limitations in capturing global features hinder their performance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Xin Li , Wenhui Zhu , Xuanzhao Dong , Oana M. Dumitrascu , Yalin Wang

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely used in various medical imaging tasks. However, due to the intrinsic locality of convolution operation, CNNs generally cannot model long-range dependencies well, which are important…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Xuxin Chen , Ke Zhang , Neman Abdoli , Patrik W. Gilley , Ximin Wang , Hong Liu , Bin Zheng , Yuchen Qiu

Medical image recognition serves as a key way to aid in clinical diagnosis, enabling more accurate and timely identification of diseases and abnormalities. Vision transformer-based approaches have proven effective in handling various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Zunhui Xia , Hongxing Li , Libin Lan

Medical image segmentation have drawn massive attention as it is important in biomedical image analysis. Good segmentation results can assist doctors with their judgement and further improve patients' experience. Among many available…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-20 Youyang Sha , Yonghong Zhang , Xuquan Ji , Lei Hu

Medical segmentation plays an important role in clinical applications like radiation therapy and surgical guidance, but acquiring clinically acceptable results is difficult. In recent years, progress has been witnessed with the success of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Xin Zhang , Dongdong Meng , Sheng Li

In recent years, computer-aided diagnosis has become an increasingly popular topic. Methods based on convolutional neural networks have achieved good performance in medical image segmentation and classification. Due to the limitations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Yao Chang , Hu Menghan , Zhai Guangtao , Zhang Xiao-Ping

Medical image segmentation is a vital healthcare endeavor requiring precise and efficient models for appropriate diagnosis and treatment. Vision transformer (ViT)-based segmentation models have shown great performance in accomplishing this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Numan Saeed , Muhammad Ridzuan , Roba Al Majzoub , Mohammad Yaqub

Recently, deep learning with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Transformers has shown encouraging results in fully supervised medical image segmentation. However, it is still challenging for them to achieve good performance with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-02 Xiangde Luo , Minhao Hu , Tao Song , Guotai Wang , Shaoting Zhang

Medical image segmentation has advanced rapidly over the past two decades, largely driven by deep learning, which has enabled accurate and efficient delineation of cells, tissues, organs, and pathologies across diverse imaging modalities.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Guoping Xu , Jayaram K. Udupa , Jax Luo , Songlin Zhao , Yajun Yu , Scott B. Raymond , Hao Peng , Lipeng Ning , Yogesh Rathi , Wei Liu , You Zhang

We present Token-UNet, adopting the TokenLearner and TokenFuser modules to encase Transformers into UNets. While Transformers have enabled global interactions among input elements in medical imaging, current computational challenges hinder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Louis Fabrice Tshimanga , Andrea Zanola , Federico Del Pup , Manfredo Atzori

Recent escalation in the field of computer vision underpins a huddle of algorithms with the magnificent potential to unravel the information contained within images. These computer vision algorithms are being practised in medical image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-30 Arshi Parvaiz , Muhammad Anwaar Khalid , Rukhsana Zafar , Huma Ameer , Muhammad Ali , Muhammad Moazam Fraz

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

In this paper, we present PRISM, a Promptable and Robust Interactive Segmentation Model, aiming for precise segmentation of 3D medical images. PRISM accepts various visual inputs, including points, boxes, and scribbles as sparse prompts, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Hao Li , Han Liu , Dewei Hu , Jiacheng Wang , Ipek Oguz

Transformer-based methods have become the dominant approach for 3D instance segmentation. These methods predict instance masks via instance queries, ranking them by classification confidence and IoU scores to select the top prediction as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Duanchu Wang , Jing Liu , Haoran Gong , Yinghui Quan , Di Wang

Objective: Transformers, born to remedy the inadequate receptive fields of CNNs, have drawn explosive attention recently. However, the daunting computational complexity of global representation learning, together with rigid window…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Xian Lin , Li Yu , Kwang-Ting Cheng , Zengqiang Yan

Medical imaging plays a crucial role in modern healthcare by providing non-invasive visualisation of internal structures and abnormalities, enabling early disease detection, accurate diagnosis, and treatment planning. This study aims to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-25 Walid Ehab , Yongmin Li

The goal of this paper is to interactively refine the automatic segmentation on challenging structures that fall behind human performance, either due to the scarcity of available annotations or the difficulty nature of the problem itself,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Wentao Liu , Chaofan Ma , Yuhuan Yang , Weidi Xie , Ya Zhang

In healthcare, medical image segmentation is crucial for accurate disease diagnosis and the development of effective treatment strategies. Early detection can significantly aid in managing diseases and potentially prevent their progression.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Bobby Azad , Pourya Adibfar , Kaiqun Fu

In the realm of medical diagnostics, rapid advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have significantly yielded remarkable improvements in brain tumor segmentation. Encoder-Decoder architectures, such as U-Net, have played a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Eyad Gad , Seif Soliman , M. Saeed Darweesh