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Incorporating various mass shapes and sizes in training deep learning architectures has made breast mass segmentation challenging. Moreover, manual segmentation of masses of irregular shapes is time-consuming and error-prone. Though Deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-17 Sharif Amit Kamran , Khondker Fariha Hossain , Alireza Tavakkoli , George Bebis , Sal Baker

Medical image segmentation is a fundamental task in computer-aided diagnosis, requiring models that balance segmentation accuracy and computational efficiency. However, existing segmentation models often struggle to effectively capture…

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Although transformer is preferred in natural language processing, some studies has only been applied to the field of medical imaging in recent years. For its long-term dependency, the transformer is expected to contribute to unconventional…

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Recent advancements in large-scale Vision Transformers have made significant strides in improving pre-trained models for medical image segmentation. However, these methods face a notable challenge in acquiring a substantial amount of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Yiqing Wang , Zihan Li , Jieru Mei , Zihao Wei , Li Liu , Chen Wang , Shengtian Sang , Alan Yuille , Cihang Xie , Yuyin Zhou

The fully convolutional network (FCN) with an encoder-decoder architecture has been the standard paradigm for semantic segmentation. The encoder-decoder architecture utilizes an encoder to capture multilevel feature maps, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Libo Wang , Rui Li , Chenxi Duan , Ce Zhang , Xiaoliang Meng , Shenghui Fang

Precision in identifying and differentiating micro and macro blood vessels in the retina is crucial for the diagnosis of retinal diseases, although it poses a significant challenge. Current autoencoding-based segmentation approaches…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-05 Rui Yang , Shunpu Zhang

Medical image segmentation plays an essential role in developing computer-assisted diagnosis and therapy systems, yet still faces many challenges. In the past few years, the popular encoder-decoder architectures based on CNNs (e.g., U-Net)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Guoping Xu , Xingrong Wu , Xuan Zhang , Xinwei He

Advancements in medical imaging and endovascular grafting have facilitated minimally invasive treatments for aortic diseases. Accurate 3D segmentation of the aorta and its branches is crucial for interventions, as inaccurate segmentation…

Accurate medical image segmentation is essential for clinical quantification, disease diagnosis, treatment planning and many other applications. Both convolution-based and transformer-based u-shaped architectures have made significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Libin Lan , Pengzhou Cai , Lu Jiang , Xiaojuan Liu , Yongmei Li , Yudong Zhang

Medical image segmentation is critical for accurate diagnostics and treatment planning, but remains challenging due to complex anatomical structures and limited annotated training data. CNN-based segmentation methods excel at local feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Nishchal Sapkota , Haoyan Shi , Yejia Zhang , Xianshi Ma , Bofang Zheng , Fabian Vazquez , Pengfei Gu , Danny Z. Chen

Accurate and fast segmentation of medical images is clinically essential, yet current research methods include convolutional neural networks with fast inference speed but difficulty in learning image contextual features, and transformer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Weihu Song , Heng Yu , Jianhua Wu

Recent advances in Vision Transformers (ViTs) have significantly enhanced medical image segmentation by facilitating the learning of global relationships. However, these methods face a notable challenge in capturing diverse local and global…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-11 Szymon Płotka , Maciej Chrabaszcz , Przemyslaw Biecek

Automated medical image segmentation is becoming increasingly crucial to modern clinical practice, driven by the growing demand for precise diagnosis, the push towards personalized treatment plans, and the advancements in machine learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-13 Tan-Hanh Pham , Xianqi Li , Kim-Doang Nguyen

Accurate image segmentation plays a crucial role in medical image analysis, yet it faces great challenges of various shapes, diverse sizes, and blurry boundaries. To address these difficulties, square kernel-based encoder-decoder…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-02 Qian Yu , Lei Qi , Luping Zhou , Lei Wang , Yilong Yin , Yinghuan Shi , Wuzhang Wang , Yang Gao

Accurate medical image segmentation demands the integration of multi-scale information, spanning from local features to global dependencies. However, it is challenging for existing methods to model long-range global information, where…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-07 Jiarun Liu , Hao Yang , Hong-Yu Zhou , Yan Xi , Lequan Yu , Yizhou Yu , Yong Liang , Guangming Shi , Shaoting Zhang , Hairong Zheng , Shanshan Wang

Semantic segmentation of remote sensing imagery is a fundamental task in computer vision, supporting a wide range of applications such as land use classification, urban planning, and environmental monitoring. However, this task is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Qinfeng Zhu , Han Li , Liang He , Lei Fan

Accurate medical image segmentation is critical for disease quantification and treatment evaluation. While traditional Unet architectures and their transformer-integrated variants excel in automated segmentation tasks. However, they lack…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-09 Guanqun Sun , Yizhi Pan , Weikun Kong , Zichang Xu , Jianhua Ma , Teeradaj Racharak , Le-Minh Nguyen , Junyi Xin

This paper provides a novel 3D medical image segmentation model structure called nnY-Net. This name comes from the fact that our model adds a cross-attention module at the bottom of the U-net structure to form a Y structure. We integrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Haixu Liu , Zerui Tao , Wenzhen Dong , Qiuzhuang Sun

Medical image segmentation requires balancing local precision for boundary-critical clinical applications, global context for anatomical coherence, and computational efficiency for deployment on limited data and hardware a trilemma that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Md. Sanaullah Chowdhury Lameya Sabrin

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been the consensus for medical image segmentation tasks. However, they suffer from the limitation in modeling long-range dependencies and spatial correlations due to the nature of convolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Moein Heidari , Amirhossein Kazerouni , Milad Soltany , Reza Azad , Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam , Julien Cohen-Adad , Dorit Merhof