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Medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. Although models based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Transformers have achieved remarkable success in medical image segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-04 Jiashu Xu

The hybrid architecture of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Transformer are very popular for medical image segmentation. However, it suffers from two challenges. First, although a CNNs branch can capture the local image features…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-21 Tao Lei , Rui Sun , Xuan Wang , Yingbo Wang , Xi He , Asoke Nandi

Medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in various clinical applications. A major challenge in medical image segmentation is achieving accurate delineation of regions of interest in the presence of noise, low contrast, or complex…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-20 Yucheng Zeng

Segmentation of organs of interest in medical CT images is beneficial for diagnosis of diseases. Though recent methods based on Fully Convolutional Neural Networks (F-CNNs) have shown success in many segmentation tasks, fusing features from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Yanli Yuan , Bingbing Wang , Chuan Zhang , Jingyi Xu , Ximeng Liu , Liehuang Zhu

Convolutional neural network (CNN) based methods have achieved great successes in medical image segmentation, but their capability to learn global representations is still limited due to using small effective receptive fields of convolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Pengfei Gu , Yejia Zhang , Chaoli Wang , Danny Z. Chen

Precise segmentation of medical images is fundamental for extracting critical clinical information, which plays a pivotal role in enhancing the accuracy of diagnoses, formulating effective treatment plans, and improving patient outcomes.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Jintong Hu , Siyan Chen , Zhiyi Pan , Sen Zeng , Wenming Yang

This paper explores the segmentation of very small medical objects with significant clinical value. While Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), particularly UNet-like models, and recent Transformers have shown substantial progress in image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-27 Lingjie Kong , Qiaoling Wei , Chengming Xu , Han Chen , Yanwei Fu

Currently, convolutional neural networks (CNN) (e.g., U-Net) have become the de facto standard and attained immense success in medical image segmentation. However, as a downside, CNN based methods are a double-edged sword as they fail to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-01 Reza Azad , Moein Heidari , Yuli Wu , Dorit Merhof

Background:Convolutional Neural Networks(CNN) and Vision Transformers(ViT) are the main techniques used in Medical image segmentation. However, CNN is limited to local contextual information, and ViT's quadratic complexity results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Xuanyu Liu , Huiyun Yao , Jinggui Gao , Zhongyi Guo , Xue Zhang , Yulin Dong

Medical image segmentation is crucial for accurate clinical diagnoses, yet it faces challenges such as low contrast between lesions and normal tissues, unclear boundaries, and high variability across patients. Deep learning has improved…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-09 Houze Liu , Tong Zhou , Yanlin Xiang , Aoran Shen , Jiacheng Hu , Junliang Du

Precise segmentation of brain tumors, particularly contrast-enhancing regions visible in post-contrast MRI (areas highlighted by contrast agent injection), is crucial for accurate clinical diagnosis and treatment planning but remains…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-13 Minye Shao , Zeyu Wang , Haoran Duan , Yawen Huang , Bing Zhai , Shizheng Wang , Yang Long , Yefeng Zheng

To address the limitations of Transformer decoders in capturing edge details, recognizing local textures and modeling spatial continuity, this paper proposes a novel decoder framework specifically designed for medical image segmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Fan Zhang , Zhiwei Gu , Hua Wang

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-09 Rong Zhou , Zhengqing Yuan , Zhiling Yan , Weixiang Sun , Kai Zhang , Yiwei Li , Yanfang Ye , Xiang Li , Lifang He , Lichao Sun

Accurate medical image segmentation is essential for diagnosis and treatment planning of diseases. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance for automatic medical image segmentation. However, they are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Ran Gu , Guotai Wang , Tao Song , Rui Huang , Michael Aertsen , Jan Deprest , Sébastien Ourselin , Tom Vercauteren , Shaoting Zhang

Tooth segmentation is a critical technology in the field of medical image segmentation, with applications ranging from orthodontic treatment to human body identification and dental pathology assessment. Despite the development of numerous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Dongping Zhang , Zheng Li , Fangao Zeng , Yutong Wei

Automatic segmentation of fine-grained brain structures remains a challenging task. Current segmentation methods mainly utilize 2D and 3D deep neural networks. The 2D networks take image slices as input to produce coarse segmentation in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Yuemeng Li , Hangfan Liu , Hongming Li , Yong Fan

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

Medical image segmentation is a crucial method for assisting professionals in diagnosing various diseases through medical imaging. However, various factors such as noise, blurriness, and low contrast often hinder the accurate diagnosis of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Jeonghyun Noh , Wangsu Jeon , Jinsun Park

Biomedical image segmentation plays a significant role in computer-aided diagnosis. However, existing CNN based methods rely heavily on massive manual annotations, which are very expensive and require huge human resources. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Ruifei Zhang , Sishuo Liu , Yizhou Yu , Guanbin Li

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