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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…

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Polyp segmentation is a crucial step towards computer-aided diagnosis of colorectal cancer. However, most of the polyp segmentation methods require pixel-wise annotated datasets. Annotated datasets are tedious and time-consuming to produce,…

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Despite the widespread adoption of transformers in medical applications, the exploration of multi-scale learning through transformers remains limited, while hierarchical representations are considered advantageous for computer-aided medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Xiaoya Tang , Bodong Zhang , Man Minh Ho , Beatrice S. Knudsen , Tolga Tasdizen

The segmentation of medical images is important for the improvement and creation of healthcare systems, particularly for early disease detection and treatment planning. In recent years, the use of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and…

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Medical image segmentation is important for computer-aided diagnosis. Good segmentation demands the model to see the big picture and fine details simultaneously, i.e., to learn image features that incorporate large context while keep high…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-03 Shaohua Li , Xiuchao Sui , Xiangde Luo , Xinxing Xu , Yong Liu , Rick Goh

Medical image segmentation has made significant progress in recent years. Deep learning-based methods are recognized as data-hungry techniques, requiring large amounts of data with manual annotations. However, manual annotation is expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Yi Lin , Yufan Chen , Kwang-Ting Cheng , Hao Chen

Abdominal multi-organ segmentation in computed tomography (CT) is crucial for many clinical applications including disease detection and treatment planning. Deep learning methods have shown unprecedented performance in this perspective.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-29 Mingjin Chen , Yongkang He , Yongyi Lu

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

Recent advances in vision transformers (ViTs) have achieved great performance in visual recognition tasks. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) exploit spatial inductive bias to learn visual representations, but these networks are spatially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Youpeng Zhao , Huadong Tang , Yingying Jiang , Yong A , Qiang Wu

Transformers have made remarkable progress towards modeling long-range dependencies within the medical image analysis domain. However, current transformer-based models suffer from several disadvantages: (1) existing methods fail to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Chenyu You , Ruihan Zhao , Fenglin Liu , Siyuan Dong , Sandeep Chinchali , Ufuk Topcu , Lawrence Staib , James S. Duncan

Transformer architectures, including nnFormer,have demonstrated promising results in volumetric medical image segmentation by being able to capture long-range spatial interactions. Although they have high performance, these models need…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 R. M. Krishna Sureddi , T. Satyanarayana Murthy , Nomula Varsha Reddy , Adi Kanishka , Nalla Manvika Reddy

The portrait matting task aims to extract an alpha matte with complete semantics and finely-detailed contours. In comparison to CNN-based approaches, transformers with self-attention module have a better capacity to capture long-range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Zitao Wang , Qiguang Miao , Peipei Zhao , Yue Xi

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

Polyp segmentation is a key aspect of colorectal cancer prevention, enabling early detection and guiding subsequent treatments. Intelligent diagnostic tools, including deep learning solutions, are widely explored to streamline and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-24 Zhikai Li , Murong Yi , Ali Uneri , Sihan Niu , Craig Jones

Transformer models have demonstrated the capability to produce highly accurate segmentation of organs and tumors. However, model training requires high-quality curated datasets to ensure robust generalization to unseen datasets. Hence, we…

Medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in clinical diagnosis and treatment planning, where accurate boundary delineation is essential for precise lesion localization, organ identification, and quantitative assessment. In recent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Peiting Tian , Xi Chen , Haixia Bi , Fan Li

Medical image segmentation is a cornerstone of modern clinical diagnostics. While Vision Transformers that leverage shifted window-based self-attention have established new benchmarks in this field, they are often hampered by a critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Fuchen Zheng , Xinyi Chen , Weixuan Li , Quanjun Li , Junhua Zhou , Xiaojiao Guo , Xuhang Chen , Chi-Man Pun , Shoujun Zhou

Transformers have recently gained attention in the computer vision domain due to their ability to model long-range dependencies. However, the self-attention mechanism, which is the core part of the Transformer model, usually suffers from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Reza Azad , René Arimond , Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam , Amirhossein Kazerouni , Dorit Merhof

As a fundamental task in computer vision, semantic segmentation is widely applied in fields such as autonomous driving, remote sensing image analysis, and medical image processing. In recent years, Transformer-based segmentation methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Tai An , Weiqiang Huang , Da Xu , Qingyuan He , Jiacheng Hu , Yujia Lou

Few-shot segmentation (FSS) aims to segment objects of new categories given only a handful of annotated samples. Previous works focus their efforts on exploring the support information while paying less attention to the mining of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Yuan Wang , Naisong Luo , Tianzhu Zhang