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Owing to the success of transformer models, recent works study their applicability in 3D medical segmentation tasks. Within the transformer models, the self-attention mechanism is one of the main building blocks that strives to capture…

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The 3D scene understanding is mainly considered as a crucial requirement in computer vision and robotics applications. One of the high-level tasks in 3D scene understanding is semantic segmentation of RGB-Depth images. With the availability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Fahimeh Fooladgar , Shohreh Kasaei

Accurate segmentation of organs or lesions from medical images is crucial for reliable diagnosis of diseases and organ morphometry. In recent years, convolutional encoder-decoder solutions have achieved substantial progress in the field of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Bingzhi Chen , Yishu Liu , Zheng Zhang , Guangming Lu , Adams Wai Kin Kong

Automated segmentation of the vertebral column in Computed Tomography (CT) scans is a prerequisite for pathological assessment and surgical planning. However, state-of-the-art methods, particularly those based on Transformers or large-scale…

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This paper proposes a 3D attention-based U-Net architecture for multi-region segmentation of brain tumors using a single stacked multi-modal volume created by combining three non-native MRI volumes. The attention mechanism added to the…

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This paper proposes a novel attention model for semantic segmentation, which aggregates multi-scale and context features to refine prediction. Specifically, the skeleton convolutional neural network framework takes in multiple different…

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Multimodal medical image fusion is a crucial task that combines complementary information from different imaging modalities into a unified representation, thereby enhancing diagnostic accuracy and treatment planning. While deep learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-19 Meng Zhou , Yuxuan Zhang , Xiaolan Xu , Jiayi Wang , Farzad Khalvati

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…

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Transformer models have achieved promising performances in point cloud segmentation. However, most existing attention schemes provide the same feature learning paradigm for all points equally and overlook the enormous difference in size…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Junjie Zhou , Yongping Xiong , Chinwai Chiu , Fangyu Liu , Xiangyang Gong

This paper provides a novel 3D medical image segmentation model structure called nnY-Net. This name comes from the fact that our model adds a cross-attention module at the bottom of the U-net structure to form a Y structure. We integrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Haixu Liu , Zerui Tao , Wenzhen Dong , Qiuzhuang Sun

Spine segmentation, based on ultrasound volume projection imaging (VPI), plays a vital role for intelligent scoliosis diagnosis in clinical applications. However, this task faces several significant challenges. Firstly, the global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Hao Xie , Zixun Huang , Yushen Zuo , Yakun Ju , Frank H. F. Leung , N. F. Law , Kin-Man Lam , Yong-Ping Zheng , Sai Ho Ling

Medical image segmentation has witnessed significant advancements with the emergence of deep learning. However, the reliance of most neural network models on a substantial amount of annotated data remains a challenge for medical image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Xiaoxiao Wu , Xiaowei Chen , Zhenguo Gao , Shulei Qu , Yuanyuan Qiu

Identifying biomarkers in medical images is vital for a wide range of biotech applications. However, recent Transformer and CNN based methods often struggle with variations in morphology and staining, which limits their feature extraction…

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Medical image segmentation is crucial for diagnosis and treatment planning. Traditional CNN-based models, like U-Net, have shown promising results but struggle to capture long-range dependencies and global context. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Marzia Binta Nizam , Marian Zlateva , James Davis

Processing 3D data efficiently has always been a challenge. Spatial operations on large-scale point clouds, stored as sparse data, require extra cost. Attracted by the success of transformers, researchers are using multi-head attention for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Mahdi Saleh , Yige Wang , Nassir Navab , Benjamin Busam , Federico Tombari

As a fundamental part of computational healthcare, Computer Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) provide volumetric data, making the development of algorithms for 3D image analysis a necessity. Despite being computationally…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-26 C. I. Ugwu , S. Casarin , O. Lanz

Learning to reliably perceive and understand the scene is an integral enabler for robots to operate in the real-world. This problem is inherently challenging due to the multitude of object types as well as appearance changes caused by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Abhinav Valada , Rohit Mohan , Wolfram Burgard

Various deep learning methods have been proposed to segment breast lesion from ultrasound images. However, similar intensity distributions, variable tumor morphology and blurred boundaries present challenges for breast lesions segmentation,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-23 Gongping Chen , Yu Dai , Jianxun Zhang , Moi Hoon Yap

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown excellent performance in object recognition tasks and dense classification problems such as semantic segmentation. However, training deep neural networks on large and sparse datasets is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Lorenz Berger , Eoin Hyde , M. Jorge Cardoso , Sebastien Ourselin

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…

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