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In recent years, convolutional neural networks for semantic segmentation of breast ultrasound (BUS) images have shown great success; however, two major challenges still exist. 1) Most current approaches inherently lack the ability to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Kyle Lucke , Aleksandar Vakanski , Min Xian

The release of nnU-Net marked a paradigm shift in 3D medical image segmentation, demonstrating that a properly configured U-Net architecture could still achieve state-of-the-art results. Despite this, the pursuit of novel architectures, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Fabian Isensee , Tassilo Wald , Constantin Ulrich , Michael Baumgartner , Saikat Roy , Klaus Maier-Hein , Paul F. Jaeger

While modern segmentation models often prioritize performance over practicality, we advocate a design philosophy prioritizing simplicity and efficiency, and attempted high performance segmentation model design. This paper presents…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Xiang Yu , Yayan Chen , Guannan He , Qing Zeng , Yue Qin , Meiling Liang , Dandan Luo , Yimei Liao , Zeyu Ren , Cheng Kang , Delong Yang , Bocheng Liang , Bin Pu , Ying Yuan , Shengli Li

Accurate medical image segmentation especially for echocardiographic images with unmissable noise requires elaborate network design. Compared with manual design, Neural Architecture Search (NAS) realizes better segmentation results due to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-29 Renqi Chen , Jingjing Luo , Fan Nian , Yuhui Cen , Yiheng Peng , Zekuan Yu

Image segmentation serves as a critical tool across a range of applications, encompassing autonomous driving's pedestrian detection and pre-operative tumor delineation in the medical sector. Among these applications, we focus on the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-08 Youssef Sultan , Yongqiang Wang , James Scanlon , Lisa D'lima

Medical image segmentation is of great significance in analysis of illness. The use of deep neural networks in medical image segmentation can help doctors extract regions of interest from complex medical images, thereby improving diagnostic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Zhuoyi Fang , Kexuan Shi , Jiajia Liu , Qiang Han

The medical imaging literature has witnessed remarkable progress in high-performing segmentation models based on convolutional neural networks. Despite the new performance highs, the recent advanced segmentation models still require large,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-13 Nima Tajbakhsh , Laura Jeyaseelan , Qian Li , Jeffrey Chiang , Zhihao Wu , Xiaowei Ding

Medical image segmentation is a critical achievement in modern medical science, developed over decades of research. It allows for the exact delineation of anatomical and pathological features in two- or three-dimensional pictures by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-06 Chukwuemeka Arua Kalu , Adaobi Chiazor Emegoakor , Fortune Okafor , Augustine Okoh Uchenna , Chijioke Kelvin Ukpai , Godsent Erere Onyeugbo

Automated medical image segmentation is becoming increasingly crucial to modern clinical practice, driven by the growing demand for precise diagnosis, the push towards personalized treatment plans, and the advancements in machine learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-13 Tan-Hanh Pham , Xianqi Li , Kim-Doang Nguyen

Many recent medical segmentation systems rely on powerful deep learning models to solve highly specific tasks. To maximize performance, it is standard practice to evaluate numerous pipelines with varying model topologies, optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Mathias Perslev , Erik Bjørnager Dam , Akshay Pai , Christian Igel

U-net is an image segmentation technique developed primarily for medical image analysis that can precisely segment images using a scarce amount of training data. These traits provide U-net with a very high utility within the medical imaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-10 Nahian Siddique , Paheding Sidike , Colin Elkin , Vijay Devabhaktuni

In recent years, significant progress has been made in developing more accurate and efficient machine learning algorithms for segmentation of medical and natural images. In this review article, we highlight the imperative role of machine…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-07 Hyunseok Seo , Masoud Badiei Khuzani , Varun Vasudevan , Charles Huang , Hongyi Ren , Ruoxiu Xiao , Xiao Jia , Lei Xing

The task of medical image segmentation presents unique challenges, necessitating both localized and holistic semantic understanding to accurately delineate areas of interest, such as critical tissues or aberrant features. This complexity is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-22 Pranav Singh , Luoyao Chen , Mei Chen , Jinqian Pan , Raviteja Chukkapalli , Shravan Chaudhari , Jacopo Cirrone

The state-of-the-art models for medical image segmentation are variants of U-Net and fully convolutional networks (FCN). Despite their success, these models have two limitations: (1) their optimal depth is apriori unknown, requiring…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-30 Zongwei Zhou , Md Mahfuzur Rahman Siddiquee , Nima Tajbakhsh , Jianming Liang

While computer vision has proven valuable for medical image segmentation, its application faces challenges such as limited dataset sizes and the complexity of effectively leveraging unlabeled images. To address these challenges, we present…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-15 Zhaoshan Liua , Qiujie Lv , Chau Hung Lee , Lei Shen

Deep learning (DL) has achieved remarkable progress in the field of medical imaging. However, adapting DL models to medical tasks remains a significant challenge, primarily due to two key factors: (1) architecture selection, as different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Lotfi Abdelkrim Mecharbat , Ibrahim Almakky , Martin Takac , Mohammad Yaqub

Recently, neural architecture search (NAS) has been applied to automatically search high-performance networks for medical image segmentation. The NAS search space usually contains a network topology level (controlling connections among…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Yufan He , Dong Yang , Holger Roth , Can Zhao , Daguang Xu

For 3D medical image (e.g. CT and MRI) segmentation, the difficulty of segmenting each slice in a clinical case varies greatly. Previous research on volumetric medical image segmentation in a slice-by-slice manner conventionally use the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Wenxuan Wang , Chen Chen , Jing Wang , Sen Zha , Yan Zhang , Jiangyun Li

The nnU-Net framework has played a crucial role in medical image segmentation and has become the gold standard in multitudes of applications targeting different diseases, organs, and modalities. However, so far it has been used primarily in…

Accurate medical image segmentation allows for the precise delineation of anatomical structures and pathological regions, which is essential for treatment planning, surgical navigation, and disease monitoring. Both CNN-based and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Libin Lan , Yanxin Li , Xiaojuan Liu , Juan Zhou , Jianxun Zhang , Nannan Huang , Yudong Zhang