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Purpose Medical imaging diagnosis faces challenges, including low-resolution images due to machine artifacts and patient movement. This paper presents the Frequency-Guided U-Net (GFNet), a novel approach for medical image segmentation that…

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Deep neural networks have evolved as the leading approach in 3D medical image segmentation due to their outstanding performance. However, the ever-increasing model size and computation cost of deep neural networks have become the primary…

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Medical image analysis faces significant challenges due to limited annotation data, particularly in three-dimensional carotid artery segmentation tasks, where existing datasets exhibit spatially discontinuous slice annotations with only a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Haoxuan Li , Wei Song , Aofan Liu , Peiwu Qin

Aside from offering state-of-the-art performance in medical image generation, denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DPM) can also serve as a representation learner to capture semantic information and potentially be used as an image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-09 Chun-Mei Feng

Medical image segmentation plays a pivotal role in automated diagnostic and treatment planning systems. In this work, we present DAUNet, a novel lightweight UNet variant that integrates Deformable V2 Convolutions and Parameter-Free…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Adnan Munir , Muhammad Shahid Jabbar , Shujaat Khan

Semantic segmentation, a crucial task in computer vision, often relies on labor-intensive and costly annotated datasets for training. In response to this challenge, we introduce FuseNet, a dual-stream framework for self-supervised semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Amirhossein Kazerouni , Sanaz Karimijafarbigloo , Reza Azad , Yury Velichko , Ulas Bagci , Dorit Merhof

Rainy weather will have a significant impact on the regular operation of the imaging system. Based on this premise, image rain removal has always been a popular branch of low-level visual tasks, especially methods using deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Bingcai Wei

Background: Accurate segmentation of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) lesions is challenging due to their complex patterns in medical imaging. Objective: This study aims to develop a precise segmentation method for DLBCL using…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Huan Huang , Liheng Qiu , Shenmiao Yang , Longxi Li , Jiaofen Nan , Yanting Li , Chuang Han , Fubao Zhu , Chen Zhao , Weihua Zhou

Medical image segmentation, a crucial task in computer vision, facilitates the automated delineation of anatomical structures and pathologies, supporting clinicians in diagnosis, treatment planning, and disease monitoring. Notably,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Fuchen Zheng , Xinyi Chen , Xuhang Chen , Haolun Li , Xiaojiao Guo , Weihuang Liu , Chi-Man Pun , Shoujun Zhou

Incomplete multi-modal medical image segmentation faces critical challenges from modality imbalance, including imbalanced modality missing rates and heterogeneous modality contributions. Due to their reliance on idealized assumptions of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Libin Lan , Hongxing Li , Zunhui Xia , Yudong Zhang

Retinal blood vessel segmentation is crucial for diagnosing ocular and cardiovascular diseases. Although the introduction of U-Net in 2015 by Olaf Ronneberger significantly advanced this field, yet issues like limited training data,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-04 Md Tauhidul Islam , Wu Da-Wen , Tang Qing-Qing , Zhao Kai-Yang , Yin Teng , Li Yan-Fei , Shang Wen-Yi , Liu Jing-Yu , Zhang Hai-Xian

Early detection of lung cancer is crucial as it increases the chances of successful treatment. Automatic lung image segmentation assists doctors in identifying diseases such as lung cancer, COVID-19, and respiratory disorders. However, lung…

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Medical image segmentation leverages topological connectivity theory to enhance edge precision and regional consistency. However, existing deep networks integrating connectivity often forcibly inject it as an additional feature module,…

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Medical image segmentation is critical for diagnosing and treating spinal disorders. However, the presence of high noise, ambiguity, and uncertainty makes this task highly challenging. Factors such as unclear anatomical boundaries,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-13 Zhiqing Zhang , Guojia Fan , Tianyong Liu , Nan Li , Yuyang Liu , Ziyu Liu , Canwei Dong , Shoujun Zhou

In this paper, we present a novel neural network using multi scale feature fusion at various scales for accurate and efficient semantic image segmentation. We used ResNet based feature extractor, dilated convolutional layers in downsampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Abhinav Sagar , RajKumar Soundrapandiyan

Medical image segmentation is essential for clinical applications such as disease diagnosis, treatment planning, and disease development monitoring because it provides precise morphological and spatial information on anatomical structures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Moin Safdar , Shahzaib Iqbal , Mubeen Ghafoor , Tariq M. Khan , Imran Razzak , Thantrira Porntaveetus , Hamid Alinejad-Rokny

Surface defect inspection is an important task in industrial inspection. Deep learning-based methods have demonstrated promising performance in this domain. Nevertheless, these methods still suffer from misjudgment when encountering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Xiaoheng Jiang , Shilong Tian , Zhiwen Zhu , Yang Lu , Hao Liu , Li Chen , Shupan Li , Mingliang Xu

Current state-of-the-art medical image segmentation methods prioritize accuracy but often at the expense of increased computational demands and larger model sizes. Applying these large-scale models to the relatively limited scale of medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Jiahui Zhong , Wenhong Tian , Yuanlun Xie , Zhijia Liu , Jie Ou , Taoran Tian , Lei Zhang

Semantic Segmentation plays a pivotal role in many applications related to medical image and video analysis. However, designing a neural network architecture for medical image and surgical video segmentation is challenging due to the…

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Accurately segmenting lesions in ultrasound images is challenging due to the difficulty in distinguishing boundaries between lesions and surrounding tissues. While deep learning has improved segmentation accuracy, there is limited focus on…

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