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Melanoma is caused by the abnormal growth of melanocytes in human skin. Like other cancers, this life-threatening skin cancer can be treated with early diagnosis. To support a diagnosis by automatic skin lesion segmentation, several Fully…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam , Reza Azad , Maral Zarvani , Dorit Merhof

Segmenting highly-overlapping objects is challenging, because typically no distinction is made between real object contours and occlusion boundaries. Unlike previous two-stage instance segmentation methods, we model image formation as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Lei Ke , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

Instance segmentation is a core computer vision task with great practical significance. Recent advances, driven by large-scale benchmark datasets, have yielded good general-purpose Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based methods. Natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Przemyslaw Polewski , Jacquelyn Shelton , Wei Yao , Marco Heurich

In this paper, we present a novel neural network architecture for retinal vessel segmentation that improves over the state of the art on two benchmark datasets, is the first to run in real time on high resolution images, and its small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Tim Laibacher , Tillman Weyde , Sepehr Jalali

While large models have achieved significant progress in computer vision, challenges such as optimization complexity, the intricacy of transformer architectures, computational constraints, and practical application demands highlight the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-03 Juntao Jiang , Mengmeng Wang , Huizhong Tian , Lingbo Cheng , Yong Liu

Mammography is one of the most commonly applied tools for early breast cancer screening. Automatic segmentation of breast masses in mammograms is essential but challenging due to the low signal-to-noise ratio and the wide variety of mass…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Hui Sun , Cheng Li , Boqiang Liu , Hairong Zheng , David Dagan Feng , Shanshan Wang

Semantic segmentation of remotely sensed images plays an important role in land resource management, yield estimation, and economic assessment. U-Net, a deep encoder-decoder architecture, has been used frequently for image segmentation with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-06 Rui Li , Chenxi Duan , Shunyi Zheng , Ce Zhang , Peter M. Atkinson

IntraVascular UltraSound (IVUS) is one of the most effective imaging modalities that provides assistance to experts in order to diagnose and treat cardiovascular diseases. We address a central problem in IVUS image analysis with Fully…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-15 Ji Yang , Lin Tong , Mehdi Faraji , Anup Basu

Automated cervical nucleus segmentation based on deep learning can effectively improve the quantitative analysis of cervical cancer. However, accurate nuclei segmentation is still challenging. The classic U-net has not achieved satisfactory…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-13 Jie Zhao , Lei Dai , Mo Zhang , Fei Yu , Meng Li , Hongfeng Li , Wenjia Wang , Li Zhang

Segmentation is a crucial step in microscopy image analysis. Numerous approaches have been developed over the past years, ranging from classical segmentation algorithms to advanced deep learning models. While U-Net remains one of the most…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Illia Tsiporenko , Pavel Chizhov , Dmytro Fishman

Medical image segmentation is crucial for the development of computer-aided diagnostic and therapeutic systems, but still faces numerous difficulties. In recent years, the commonly used encoder-decoder architecture based on CNNs has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Davoud Saadati , Omid Nejati Manzari , Sattar Mirzakuchaki

Image segmentation plays an essential role in nuclei image analysis. Recently, the segment anything model has made a significant breakthrough in such tasks. However, the current model exists two major issues for cell segmentation: (1) the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-24 Qing Xu , Wenwei Kuang , Zeyu Zhang , Xueyao Bao , Haoran Chen , Wenting Duan

We develop a connection sensitive attention U-Net(CSAU) for accurate retinal vessel segmentation. This method improves the recent attention U-Net for semantic segmentation with four key improvements: (1) connection sensitive loss that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Ruirui Li , Mingming Li , Jiacheng Li , Yating Zhou

Segmenting organs in CT scan images is a necessary process for multiple downstream medical image analysis tasks. Currently, manual CT scan segmentation by radiologists is prevalent, especially for organs like the pancreas, which requires a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-22 Juwita juwita , Ghulam Mubashar Hassan , Naveed Akhtar , Amitava Datta

In the past few years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs), particularly U-Net, have been the prevailing technique in the medical image processing era. Specifically, the seminal U-Net, as well as its alternatives, have successfully managed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Reza Azad , Mohammad T. AL-Antary , Moein Heidari , Dorit Merhof

An improved model of medical image segmentation for brain tumor is discussed, which is a deep learning algorithm based on U-Net architecture. Based on the traditional U-Net, we introduce GSConv module and ECA attention mechanism to improve…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Qiyuan Tian , Zhuoyue Wang , Xiaoling Cui

Medical image segmentation can provide a reliable basis for further clinical analysis and disease diagnosis. The performance of medical image segmentation has been significantly advanced with the convolutional neural networks (CNNs).…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-02 Ruxin Wang , Shuyuan Chen , Chaojie Ji , Jianping Fan , Ye Li

This paper delves into the challenges and advancements in the field of medical image segmentation, particularly focusing on breast cancer diagnosis. The authors propose a novel Transformer-based segmentation model that addresses the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-20 Weijie He , Runyuan Bao , Yiru Cang , Jianjun Wei , Yang Zhang , Jiacheng Hu

Accurate lesion segmentation is crucial for clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. However, lesions often resemble surrounding tissues and exhibit ill-defined boundaries, leading to unstable predictions in boundary/transition regions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Shuokun Cheng , Jinghao Shi , Kun Sun

Numerous studies have affirmed that deep learning models can facilitate early diagnosis of lesions in endoscopic images. However, the lack of available datasets stymies advancements in research on nasal endoscopy, and existing models fail…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-13 Yubiao Yue , Jun Xue , Chao Wang , Haihua Liang , Zhenzhang Li