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Attention mechanisms have raised significant interest in the research community, since they promise significant improvements in the performance of neural network architectures. However, in any specific problem, we still lack a principled…

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Extreme Multi-label text Classification (XMC) is a task of finding the most relevant labels from a large label set. Nowadays deep learning-based methods have shown significant success in XMC. However, the existing methods (e.g.,…

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In recent years, the long-range attention mechanism of vision transformers has driven significant performance breakthroughs across various computer vision tasks. However, the traditional self-attention mechanism, which processes both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Tianyi Zhang , Baoxin Li , Jae-sun Seo , Yu Cao

Lung segmentation in chest X-ray images is a critical task in medical image analysis, enabling accurate diagnosis and treatment of various lung diseases. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for lung segmentation by integrating…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-22 Mohammad Ali Labbaf Khaniki , Nazanin Mahjourian , Mohammad Manthouri

Medical image segmentation involves identifying and separating object instances in a medical image to delineate various tissues and structures, a task complicated by the significant variations in size, shape, and density of these features.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Sina Ghorbani Kolahi , Seyed Kamal Chaharsooghi , Toktam Khatibi , Afshin Bozorgpour , Reza Azad , Moein Heidari , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Dorit Merhof

The vanilla self-attention mechanism in Transformers can be viewed as a two-layer fast-weight MLP, whose weights are dynamically induced by inputs and whose hidden dimension is equal to the sequence length $N$. As the context extends, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Qishuai Wen , Zhiyuan Huang , Xianghan Meng , Wei He , Chun-Guang Li

Clinical trials are the gold standard for assessing the effectiveness and safety of drugs for treating diseases. Given the vast design space of drug molecules, elevated financial cost, and multi-year timeline of these trials, research on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Yiqing Zhang , Xiaozhong Liu , Fabricio Murai

A precise assessment of the risk of breast lesions can greatly lower it and assist physicians in choosing the best course of action. To categorise breast lesions, the majority of current computer-aided systems only use characteristics from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-25 Muhaisin Tiyumba Nantogmah , Abdul-Barik Alhassan , Salamudeen Alhassan

Channel attention mechanisms endeavor to recalibrate channel weights to enhance representation abilities of networks. However, mainstream methods often rely solely on global average pooling as the feature squeezer, which significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Yangbo Jiang , Zhiwei Jiang , Le Han , Zenan Huang , Nenggan Zheng

Extreme multi-label text classification (XMTC) addresses the problem of tagging each text with the most relevant labels from an extreme-scale label set. Traditional methods use bag-of-words (BOW) representations without context information…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Ronghui You , Zihan Zhang , Suyang Dai , Shanfeng Zhu

The favorable performance of Vision Transformers (ViTs) is often attributed to the multi-head self-attention (MSA). The MSA enables global interactions at each layer of a ViT model, which is a contrasting feature against Convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Nam Hyeon-Woo , Kim Yu-Ji , Byeongho Heo , Dongyoon Han , Seong Joon Oh , Tae-Hyun Oh

Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) offer a robust and interpretable approach to image classification, making them a promising choice for microscopy image analysis. However, a performance gap remains between NCA and larger, more complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Chen Yang , Michael Deutges , Jingsong Liu , Han Li , Nassir Navab , Carsten Marr , Ario Sadafi

Even though convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are driving progress in medical image segmentation, standard models still have some drawbacks. First, the use of multi-scale approaches, i.e., encoder-decoder architectures, leads to a…

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Recently, chest X-ray report generation, which aims to automatically generate descriptions of given chest X-ray images, has received growing research interests. The key challenge of chest X-ray report generation is to accurately capture and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Fenglin Liu , Changchang Yin , Xian Wu , Shen Ge , Yuexian Zou , Ping Zhang , Yuexian Zou , Xu Sun

The rapid increase in the number of Computed Tomography (CT) scan examinations has created an urgent need for automated tools, such as organ segmentation, anomaly classification, and report generation, to assist radiologists with their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Theo Di Piazza , Carole Lazarus , Olivier Nempont , Loic Boussel

The chest X-rays (CXRs) is one of the views most commonly ordered by radiologists (NHS),which is critical for diagnosis of many different thoracic diseases. Accurately detecting thepresence of multiple diseases from CXRs is still a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Hieu H. Pham , Tung T. Le , Dat T. Ngo , Dat Q. Tran , Ha Q. Nguyen

Automated diagnostic assistants in healthcare necessitate accurate AI models that can be trained with limited labeled data, can cope with severe class imbalances and can support simultaneous prediction of multiple disease conditions. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Deepta Rajan , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , Alexandros Karargyris , Satyananda Kashyap

Mixture of Block Attention (MoBA) (Lu et al., 2025) is a promising building block for efficiently processing long contexts in LLMs by enabling queries to sparsely attend to a small subset of key-value blocks, drastically reducing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Guangxuan Xiao , Junxian Guo , Kasra Mazaheri , Song Han

Transformers have achieved remarkable success in medical image analysis owing to their powerful capability to use flexible self-attention mechanism. However, due to lacking intrinsic inductive bias in modeling visual structural information,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-18 Yiyue Hu , Lei Zhang , Nan Mu , Lei Liu

The examination of chest X-ray images is a crucial component in detecting various thoracic illnesses. This study introduces a new image description generation model that integrates a Vision Transformer (ViT) encoder with cross-modal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-24 Lakshita Agarwal , Bindu Verma