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Segmentation of 3D medical images is a critical task for accurate diagnosis and treatment planning. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have dominated the field, achieving significant success in 3D medical image segmentation. However, CNNs…

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Long-term time series forecasting is a vital task and has a wide range of real applications. Recent methods focus on capturing the underlying patterns from one single domain (e.g. the time domain or the frequency domain), and have not taken…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Yuxiao Luo , Ziyu Lyu , Xingyu Huang

The hybrid architecture of convolution neural networks (CNN) and Transformer has been the most popular method for medical image segmentation. However, the existing networks based on the hybrid architecture suffer from two problems. First,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-21 Rui Sun , Tao Lei , Weichuan Zhang , Yong Wan , Yong Xia , Asoke K. Nandi

Accurate segmentation of tubular structures in medical images, such as vessels and airway trees, is crucial for computer-aided diagnosis, radiotherapy, and surgical planning. However, significant challenges exist in algorithm design when…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-11 Yi Huang , Ke Zhang , Wei Liu , Yuanyuan Wang , Vishal M. Patel , Le Lu , Xu Han , Dakai Jin , Ke Yan

Medical image segmentation is a critical aspect of modern medical research and clinical practice. Despite the remarkable performance of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in this domain, they inherently struggle to capture long-range…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-02 Jiashu Xu

Adenoid hypertrophy stands as a common cause of obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome in children. It is characterized by snoring, nasal congestion, and growth disorders. Computed Tomography (CT) emerges as a pivotal medical imaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Rulin Zhou , Yingjie Feng , Guankun Wang , Xiaopin Zhong , Zongze Wu , Qiang Wu , Xi Zhang

Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) must reliably detect thin obstacles such as wires, poles, and branches to navigate safely in real-world environments. These structures remain difficult to perceive because they occupy few pixels,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Negar Fathi

Aerial image segmentation is the basis for applications such as automatically creating maps or tracking deforestation. In true orthophotos, which are often used in these applications, many objects and regions can be approximated well by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Daniel Gritzner , Jörn Ostermann

Medical image segmentation, which aims to automatically extract anatomical or pathological structures, plays a key role in computer-aided diagnosis and disease analysis. Despite the problem has been widely studied, existing methods are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-01 Han Zhang , Lok Ming Lui

Breast ultrasound (BUS) image segmentation plays a crucial role in a computer-aided diagnosis system, which is regarded as a useful tool to help increase the accuracy of breast cancer diagnosis. Recently, many deep learning methods have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-24 Zhenyuan Ning , Ke Wang , Shengzhou Zhong , Qianjin Feng , Yu Zhang

Accurate airway segmentation from chest computed tomography (CT) scans is essential for quantitative lung analysis, yet manual annotation is impractical and many automated U-Net-based methods yield disconnected components that hinder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 John M. Oyer , Ali Namvar , Benjamin A. Hoff , Wassim W. Labaki , Ella A. Kazerooni , Charles R. Hatt , Fernando J. Martinez , MeiLan K. Han , Craig J. Galbán , Sundaresh Ram

3D Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been widely adopted for airway segmentation. The performance of 3D CNNs is greatly influenced by the dataset while the public airway datasets are mainly clean CT scans with coarse annotation,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-08 Minghui Zhang , Xin Yu , Hanxiao Zhang , Hao Zheng , Weihao Yu , Hong Pan , Xiangran Cai , Yun Gu

Segmentation of organs of interest in medical CT images is beneficial for diagnosis of diseases. Though recent methods based on Fully Convolutional Neural Networks (F-CNNs) have shown success in many segmentation tasks, fusing features from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Yanli Yuan , Bingbing Wang , Chuan Zhang , Jingyi Xu , Ximeng Liu , Liehuang Zhu

Medical ultrasound image segmentation presents a formidable challenge in the realm of computer vision. Traditional approaches rely on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Transformer-based methods to address the intricacies of medical…

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Segmentation of lung tissue in computed tomography (CT) images is a precursor to most pulmonary image analysis applications. Semantic segmentation methods using deep learning have exhibited top-tier performance in recent years, however…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-27 Niloufar Delfan , Hamid Abrishami Moghaddam , Mohammadreza Modaresi , Kimia Afshari , Kasra Nezamabadi , Neda Pak , Omid Ghaemi , Mohamad Forouzanfar

Biomedical image segmentation is crucial for accurately diagnosing and analyzing various diseases. However, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Transformers, the most commonly used architectures for this task, struggle to effectively…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-09 Rong Zhou , Zhengqing Yuan , Zhiling Yan , Weixiang Sun , Kai Zhang , Yiwei Li , Yanfang Ye , Xiang Li , Lifang He , Lichao Sun

Detailed pulmonary airway segmentation is a clinically important task for endobronchial intervention and treatment of peripheral located lung cancer lesions. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are promising tools for medical image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Minghui Zhang , Guang-Zhong Yang , Yun Gu

Ultrasound imaging is safe, relatively affordable, and capable of real-time performance. One application of this technology is to visualize and to characterize human tongue shape and motion during a real-time speech to study healthy or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-09 M. Hamed Mozaffari , Won-Sook Lee

Our work expands the use of capsule networks to the task of object segmentation for the first time in the literature. This is made possible via the introduction of locally-constrained routing and transformation matrix sharing, which reduces…

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Precise Tooth Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) image segmentation is crucial for orthodontic treatment planning. In this paper, we propose FDNet, a Feature Decoupled Segmentation Network, to excel in the face of the variable dental…

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