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Brain disorders are a major challenge to global health, causing millions of deaths each year. Accurate diagnosis of these diseases relies heavily on advanced medical imaging techniques such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Computed…

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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance for automatic medical image segmentation. However, they have not demonstrated sufficiently accurate and robust results for clinical use. In addition, they are…

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As a fundamental task in computer vision, semantic segmentation is widely applied in fields such as autonomous driving, remote sensing image analysis, and medical image processing. In recent years, Transformer-based segmentation methods…

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Medical image segmentation is a cornerstone of modern clinical diagnostics. While Vision Transformers that leverage shifted window-based self-attention have established new benchmarks in this field, they are often hampered by a critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Fuchen Zheng , Xinyi Chen , Weixuan Li , Quanjun Li , Junhua Zhou , Xiaojiao Guo , Xuhang Chen , Chi-Man Pun , Shoujun Zhou

In clinical practice, regions of interest in medical imaging often need to be identified through a process of precise image segmentation. The quality of this image segmentation step critically affects the subsequent clinical assessment of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-23 João B. S. Carvalho , João A. Santinha , Đorđe Miladinović , Joachim M. Buhmann

Segmentation of focal (localized) brain pathologies such as brain tumors and brain lesions caused by multiple sclerosis and ischemic strokes are necessary for medical diagnosis, surgical planning and disease development as well as other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Mohammad Havaei , Nicolas Guizard , Hugo Larochelle , Pierre-Marc Jodoin

Like other applications in computer vision, medical image segmentation has been most successfully addressed using deep learning models that rely on the convolution operation as their main building block. Convolutions enjoy important…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Davood Karimi , Serge Vasylechko , Ali Gholipour

Segmentation of brain structures from MRI is crucial for evaluating brain morphology, yet existing CNN and transformer-based methods struggle to delineate complex structures accurately. While current diffusion models have shown promise in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Qilong Xing , Zikai Song , Yuteng Ye , Yuke Chen , Youjia Zhang , Na Feng , Junqing Yu , Wei Yang

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

A variety of deep neural networks have been applied in medical image segmentation and achieve good performance. Unlike natural images, medical images of the same imaging modality are characterized by the same pattern, which indicates that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Tao Yu , Yu Qiao , Huan Long

Manual annotation of airway regions in computed tomography images is a time-consuming and expertise-dependent task. Automatic airway segmentation is therefore a prerequisite for enabling rapid bronchoscopic navigation and the clinical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-10 Qibiao Wu , Yagang Wang , Qian Zhang

The performance of single image super-resolution has achieved significant improvement by utilizing deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The features in deep CNN contain different types of information which make different contributions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Yanting Hu , Jie Li , Yuanfei Huang , Xinbo Gao

Medical image segmentation has been very challenging due to the large variation of anatomy across different cases. Recent advances in deep learning frameworks have exhibited faster and more accurate performance in image segmentation. Among…

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Biomedical image segmentation is a very important part in disease diagnosis. The term "colonic polyps" refers to polypoid lesions that occur on the surface of the colonic mucosa within the intestinal lumen. In clinical practice, early…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Chen Peng , Zhiqin Qian , Kunyu Wang , Qi Luo , Zhuming Bi , Wenjun Zhang

In clinical practice, tri-modal medical image fusion, compared to the existing dual-modal technique, can provide a more comprehensive view of the lesions, aiding physicians in evaluating the disease's shape, location, and biological…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-16 Yushen Xu , Xiaosong Li , Yuchan Jie , Haishu Tan

Accurate segmentation of skin lesions within dermoscopic images plays a crucial role in the timely identification of skin cancer for computer-aided diagnosis on mobile platforms. However, varying shapes of the lesions, lack of defined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Hamza Farooq , Zuhair Zafar , Ahsan Saadat , Tariq M Khan , Shahzaib Iqbal , Imran Razzak

In medical imaging, accurate image segmentation is crucial for quantifying diseases, assessing prognosis, and evaluating treatment outcomes. However, existing methods lack an in-depth integration of global and local features, failing to pay…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-15 Yizhi Pan , Junyi Xin , Tianhua Yang , Teeradaj Racharak , Le-Minh Nguyen , Guanqun Sun

Automated and accurate segmentation of individual vertebra in 3D CT and MRI images is essential for various clinical applications. Due to the limitations of current imaging techniques and the complexity of spinal structures, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Jian Shi , Tianqi You , Pingping Zhang , Hongli Zhang , Rui Xu , Haojie Li

In recent years, computer-aided diagnosis has become an increasingly popular topic. Methods based on convolutional neural networks have achieved good performance in medical image segmentation and classification. Due to the limitations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Yao Chang , Hu Menghan , Zhai Guangtao , Zhang Xiao-Ping

Segmentation of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) from Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) is a crucial prerequisite for NPC radiotherapy. However, manually segmenting of NPC is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Additionally, single-modality MRI…

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