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The rise of Transformer architectures has advanced medical image segmentation, leading to hybrid models that combine Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Transformers. However, these models often suffer from excessive complexity and…

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The recent vision transformer(i.e.for image classification) learns non-local attentive interaction of different patch tokens. However, prior arts miss learning the cross-scale dependencies of different pixels, the semantic correspondence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Yuanfeng Ji , Ruimao Zhang , Huijie Wang , Zhen Li , Lingyun Wu , Shaoting Zhang , Ping Luo

Medical image segmentation is a relevant task as it serves as the first step for several diagnosis processes, thus it is indispensable in clinical usage. Whilst major success has been reported using supervised techniques, they assume a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Lihao Liu , Angelica I Aviles-Rivero , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Currently, convolutional neural networks (CNN) (e.g., U-Net) have become the de facto standard and attained immense success in medical image segmentation. However, as a downside, CNN based methods are a double-edged sword as they fail to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-01 Reza Azad , Moein Heidari , Yuli Wu , Dorit Merhof

Recently, deep convolutional neural networks have achieved great success for medical image segmentation. However, unlike segmentation of natural images, most medical images such as MRI and CT are volumetric data. In order to make full use…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-08 Yichi Zhang , Qingcheng Liao , Le Ding , Jicong Zhang

Medical image segmentation (MIS) is a fundamental component of computer-assisted diagnosis and clinical decision support systems. Over the past decade, numerous architectures specifically tailored to medical imaging have emerged to address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Vanessa Borst , Samuel Kounev

Deep learning, particularly convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Transformers, has significantly advanced 3D medical image segmentation. While CNNs are highly effective at capturing local features, their limited receptive fields may…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-20 Chenyuan Bian , Nan Xia , Xia Yang , Feifei Wang , Fengjiao Wang , Bin Wei , Qian Dong

Recent medical image segmentation models are mostly hybrid, which integrate self-attention and convolution layers into the non-isomorphic architecture. However, one potential drawback of these approaches is that they failed to provide an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-28 Jiansen Guo , Hong-Yu Zhou , Liansheng Wang , Yizhou Yu

Accurate and efficient 3D medical image segmentation is essential for clinical AI, where models must remain reliable under stringent memory, latency, and data availability constraints. Transformer-based methods achieve strong accuracy but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Kavyansh Tyagi , Vishwas Rathi , Puneet Goyal

Accurate segmentation of medical images is crucial for diagnostic purposes, including cell segmentation, tumor identification, and organ localization. Traditional convolutional neural network (CNN)-based approaches struggled to achieve…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-26 Daniya Najiha Abdul Kareem , Mustansar Fiaz , Noa Novershtern , Hisham Cholakkal

The accurate segmentation of medical images is critical for various healthcare applications. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs), especially Fully Convolutional Networks (FCNs) like U-Net, have shown remarkable success in medical image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Omid Nejati Manzari , Javad Mirzapour Kaleybar , Hooman Saadat , Shahin Maleki

The UNet architecture, based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), has demonstrated its remarkable performance in medical image analysis. However, it faces challenges in capturing long-range dependencies due to the limited receptive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-28 Liang Xu , Mingxiao Chen , Yi Cheng , Pengfei Shao , Shuwei Shen , Peng Yao , Ronald X. Xu

We propose a novel transformer model, capable of segmenting medical images of varying modalities. Challenges posed by the fine grained nature of medical image analysis mean that the adaptation of the transformer for their analysis is still…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-31 Athanasios Tragakis , Chaitanya Kaul , Roderick Murray-Smith , Dirk Husmeier

Cancer is an abnormal growth with potential to invade locally and metastasize to distant organs. Accurate auto-segmentation of the tumor and surrounding normal tissues is required for radiotherapy treatment plan optimization. Recent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-31 Syed Haider Ali , Asrar Ahmad , Muhammad Ali , Asifullah Khan , Nadeem Shaukat

Combining information from multi-view images is crucial to improve the performance and robustness of automated methods for disease diagnosis. However, due to the non-alignment characteristics of multi-view images, building correlation and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Di Liu , Yunhe Gao , Qilong Zhangli , Ligong Han , Xiaoxiao He , Zhaoyang Xia , Song Wen , Qi Chang , Zhennan Yan , Mu Zhou , Dimitris Metaxas

Deformable image registration is crucial for aligning medical images in a nonlinear fashion across different modalities, allowing for precise spatial correspondence between varying anatomical structures. This paper presents NestedMorph, a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-11 Gurucharan Marthi Krishna Kumar , Janine Mendola , Amir Shmuel

In this work, we present Eformer - Edge enhancement based transformer, a novel architecture that builds an encoder-decoder network using transformer blocks for medical image denoising. Non-overlapping window-based self-attention is used in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-10 Achleshwar Luthra , Harsh Sulakhe , Tanish Mittal , Abhishek Iyer , Santosh Yadav

This study introduces an AI-driven skin lesion classification algorithm built on an enhanced Transformer architecture, addressing the challenges of accuracy and robustness in medical image analysis. By integrating a multi-scale feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Jiacheng Hu , Yanlin Xiang , Yang Lin , Junliang Du , Hanchao Zhang , Houze Liu

The ability to adapt medical image segmentation networks for a novel class such as an unseen anatomical or pathological structure, when only a few labelled examples of this class are available from local healthcare providers, is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Yiwen Li , Yunguan Fu , Qianye Yang , Zhe Min , Wen Yan , Henkjan Huisman , Dean Barratt , Victor Adrian Prisacariu , Yipeng Hu

3D image segmentation plays an important role in biomedical image analysis. Many 2D and 3D deep learning models have achieved state-of-the-art segmentation performance on 3D biomedical image datasets. Yet, 2D and 3D models have their own…

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