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Instance segmentation aims to delineate each individual object of interest in an image. State-of-the-art approaches achieve this goal by either partitioning semantic segmentations or refining coarse representations of detected objects. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Long Chen , Yuli Wu , Dorit Merhof

Recently, many methods based on hand-designed convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved promising results in automatic retinal vessel segmentation. However, these CNNs remain constrained in capturing retinal vessels in complex…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-14 Jiahong Wei , Zhun Fan

Delineating infarcted tissue in ischemic stroke lesions is crucial to determine the extend of damage and optimal treatment for this life-threatening condition. However, this problem remains challenging due to high variability of ischemic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Jose Dolz , Ismail Ben Ayed , Christian Desrosiers

Object detection and semantic segmentation are two main themes in object retrieval from high-resolution remote sensing images, which have recently achieved remarkable performance by surfing the wave of deep learning and, more notably,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Lichao Mou , Xiao Xiang Zhu

We present a novel neural network architecture, US-Net, for robust nuclei instance segmentation in histopathology images. The proposed framework integrates the nuclei detection and segmentation networks by sharing their outputs through the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Zhaoyang Xu , Faranak Sobhani , Carlos Fernandez Moro , Qianni Zhang

Melanoma, a dangerous type of skin cancer resulting from abnormal skin cell growth, can be treated if detected early. Various approaches using Fully Convolutional Networks (FCNs) have been proposed, with the U-Net architecture being…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-23 Sania Eskandari , Janet Lumpp , Luis Sanchez Giraldo

Recent rising interests in patient-specific thoracic surgical planning and simulation require efficient and robust creation of digital anatomical models from automatic medical image segmentation algorithms. Deep learning (DL) is now…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-16 Arash Harirpoush , Amirhossein Rasoulian , Marta Kersten-Oertel , Yiming Xiao

Edge detection is crucial in medical image processing, enabling precise extraction of structural information to support lesion identification and image analysis. Traditional edge detection models typically rely on complex Convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Fuzhang Li , Chuan Lin

U-Net has been the go-to architecture for medical image segmentation tasks, however computational challenges arise when extending the U-Net architecture to 3D images. We propose the Implicit U-Net architecture that adapts the efficient…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-01 Sergio Naval Marimont , Giacomo Tarroni

Multi-instance video object segmentation is to segment specific instances throughout a video sequence in pixel level, given only an annotated first frame. In this paper, we implement an effective fully convolutional networks with U-Net…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Heguang Liu , Jingle Jiang

Medical image segmentation, particularly tumor segmentation, is a critical task in medical imaging, with U-Net being a widely adopted convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture for this purpose. However, U-Net's high computational and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-13 Christiaan Boerkamp , Akhil John Thomas

In recent years, significant progress has been made in the medical image analysis domain using convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In particular, deep neural networks based on a U-shaped architecture (UNet) with skip connections have been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-16 Vamsi Krishna Vasa , Wenhui Zhu , Xiwen Chen , Peijie Qiu , Xuanzhao Dong , Yalin Wang

Currently, developments of deep learning techniques are providing instrumental to identify, classify, and quantify patterns in medical images. Segmentation is one of the important applications in medical image analysis. In this regard,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Ange Lou , Shuyue Guan , Murray Loew

Foundation models pre-trained on large-scale natural image datasets offer a powerful paradigm for medical image segmentation. However, effectively transferring their learned representations for precise clinical applications remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Haoyue Li , Yifan Gao , Feng Yuan , Xiaosong Wang , Xin Gao

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 is essential for medical image analysis to identify and localize diseases, monitor morphological changes, and extract discriminative features for further diagnosis. Skin cancer is one of the most common types of cancer…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-02 Hritam Basak , Rohit Kundu , Ram Sarkar

Deep learning has shown its great promise in various biomedical image segmentation tasks. Existing models are typically based on U-Net and rely on an encoder-decoder architecture with stacked local operators to aggregate long-range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Zhengyang Wang , Na Zou , Dinggang Shen , Shuiwang Ji

Instance segmentation is a form of image detection which has a range of applications, such as object refinement, medical image analysis, and image/video editing, all of which demand a high degree of accuracy. However, this precision is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Muhammed Korkmaz , T. Metin Sezgin

Uncertainty quantification is vital for safety-critical Deep Learning applications like medical image segmentation. We introduce BA U-Net, an uncertainty-aware model for MRI segmentation that integrates Bayesian Neural Networks with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Lohith Konathala

Accurate lesion segmentation in ultrasound images is essential for preventive screening and clinical diagnosis, yet remains challenging due to low contrast, blurry boundaries, and significant scale variations. Although existing deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Chen Wang , Yixin Zhu , Yongbin Zhu , Fengyuan Shi , Qi Li , Jun Wang , Zuozhu Liu , Keli Hu