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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…

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Medical image segmentation is a critical task in computer vision, with UNet serving as a milestone architecture. The typical component of UNet family is the skip connection, however, their skip connections face two significant limitations:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Quansong He , Xiangde Min , Kaishen Wang , Tao He

Semantic image segmentation is an essential component of modern autonomous driving systems, as an accurate understanding of the surrounding scene is crucial to navigation and action planning. Current state-of-the-art approaches in semantic…

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Accurate retinal vessel segmentation is an important task for many computer-aided diagnosis systems. Yet, it is still a challenging problem due to the complex vessel structures of an eye. Numerous vessel segmentation methods have been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-23 Ali Karaali , Rozenn Dahyot , Donal J. Sexton

Deep learning has made a breakthrough in medical image segmentation in recent years due to its ability to extract high-level features without the need for prior knowledge. In this context, U-Net is one of the most advanced medical image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-07 Prithul Sarker , Sushmita Sarker , George Bebis , Alireza Tavakkoli

The high cure rate of cancer is inextricably linked to physicians' accuracy in diagnosis and treatment, therefore a model that can accomplish high-precision tumor segmentation has become a necessity in many applications of the medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-26 Zeqiu. Yu , Shuo. Han , Ziheng. Song

In view of the recent paradigm shift in deep AI based image processing methods, medical image processing has advanced considerably. In this study, we propose a novel deep neural network (DNN), entitled InceptNet, in the scope of medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Amirhossein Sajedi , Mohammad Javad Fadaeieslam

This study addresses the essential task of medical image segmentation, which involves the automatic identification and delineation of anatomical structures and pathological regions in medical images. Accurate segmentation is crucial in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Seyedeh Sahar Taheri Otaghsara , Reza Rahmanzadeh

Segmentation plays a crucial role in diagnosis. Studying the retinal vasculatures from fundus images help identify early signs of many crucial illnesses such as diabetic retinopathy. Due to the varying shape, size, and patterns of retinal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-07 Shreshth Saini , Geetika Agrawal

Wounds, such as foot ulcers, pressure ulcers, leg ulcers, and infected wounds, come up with substantial problems for healthcare professionals. Prompt and accurate segmentation is crucial for effective treatment. However, contemporary…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-22 Md. Zihad Bin Jahangir , Sumaiya Akter , MD Abdullah Al Nasim , Kishor Datta Gupta , Roy George

Automatic retinal layer segmentation with medical images, such as optical coherence tomography (OCT) images, serves as an important tool for diagnosing ophthalmic diseases. However, it is challenging to achieve accurate segmentation due to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-26 Xiang He , Weiye Song , Yiming Wang , Fabio Poiesi , Ji Yi , Manishi Desai , Quanqing Xu , Kongzheng Yang , Yi Wan

Vessel image segmentation plays a pivotal role in medical diagnostics, aiding in the early detection and treatment of vascular diseases. While segmentation based on deep learning has shown promising results, effectively segmenting small…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-24 Ruiqiang Xiao , Zhuoyue Wan

Accurately segmenting a variety of clinically significant lesions from whole body computed tomography (CT) scans is a critical task on precision oncology imaging, denoted as universal lesion segmentation (ULS). Manual annotation is the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-05 Youbao Tang , Jinzheng Cai , Ke Yan , Lingyun Huang , Guotong Xie , Jing Xiao , Jingjing Lu , Gigin Lin , Le Lu

Lesion segmentation, in contrast to natural scene segmentation, requires handling subtle variations in texture and color, frequent imaging artifacts (such as hairs, rulers, and bubbles), and a critical need for precise boundary localization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Vikram Singh , Kabir Malhotra , Rohan Desai , Ananya Shankaracharya , Priyadarshini Chatterjee , Krishnan Menon Iyer

Segmentation is a fundamental task in medical image analysis. However, most existing methods focus on primary region extraction and ignore edge information, which is useful for obtaining accurate segmentation. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Zhijie Zhang , Huazhu Fu , Hang Dai , Jianbing Shen , Yanwei Pang , Ling Shao

This study provides a comparative analysis of deep learning models including UNet, Res-UNet, Attention Res-UNet, and nnUNet, and evaluates their performance in brain tumour, polyp, and multi-class heart segmentation tasks. The analysis…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-08 Lina Huang , Alina Miron , Kate Hone , Yongmin Li

Over half a million individuals are diagnosed with head and neck cancer each year worldwide. Radiotherapy is an important curative treatment for this disease, but it requires manual time consuming delineation of radio-sensitive organs at…

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

Automatic medical image segmentation is a crucial topic in the medical domain and successively a critical counterpart in the computer-aided diagnosis paradigm. U-Net is the most widespread image segmentation architecture due to its…

Medical image segmentation is vital to the area of medical imaging because it enables professionals to more accurately examine and understand the information offered by different imaging modalities. The technique of splitting a medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-01 Aitik Gupta , Joydip Dhar