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Convolutional neural networks have primarily led 3D medical image segmentation but may be limited by small receptive fields. Transformer models excel in capturing global relationships through self-attention but are challenged by high…

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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…

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Vascular structures in the retina contain important information for the detection and analysis of ocular diseases, including age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma. Commonly used modalities in diagnosis of these…

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UNet and its variants have been widely used in medical image segmentation. However, these models, especially those based on Transformer architectures, pose challenges due to their large number of parameters and computational loads, making…

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Skin lesion segmentation is a crucial step in dermatology for guiding clinical decision-making. However, existing methods for accurate, robust, and resource-efficient lesion analysis have limitations, including low performance and high…

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The caliber and configuration of retinal blood vessels serve as important biomarkers for various diseases and medical conditions. A thorough analysis of the retinal vasculature requires the segmentation of the blood vessels and their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-13 José Morano , Guilherme Aresta , Hrvoje Bogunović

Retinal vessel segmentation is of great clinical significance for the diagnosis of many eye-related diseases, but it is still a formidable challenge due to the intricate vascular morphology. With the skillful characterization of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-09 Zihong Sun , Hong Wang , Qi Xie , Yefeng Zheng , Deyu Meng

The retinal vascular condition is a reliable biomarker of several ophthalmologic and cardiovascular diseases, so automatic vessel segmentation may be crucial to diagnose and monitor them. In this paper, we propose a novel method that…

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In the field of medical image segmentation, variant models based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Visual Transformers (ViTs) as the base modules have been very widely developed and applied. However, CNNs are often limited in…

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Accurate organ and lesion segmentation is a critical prerequisite for computer-aided diagnosis. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), constrained by their local receptive fields, often struggle to capture complex global anatomical…

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The reliable segmentation of retinal vasculature can provide the means to diagnose and monitor the progression of a variety of diseases affecting the blood vessel network, including diabetes and hypertension. We leverage the power of…

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Many deep learning based methods have been proposed for retinal vessel segmentation, however few of them focus on the connectivity of segmented vessels, which is quite important for a practical computer-aided diagnosis system on retinal…

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The vascular structure of blood vessels is important in diagnosing retinal conditions such as glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy. Accurate segmentation of these vessels can help in detecting retinal objects such as the optic disc and optic…

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In the field of medical image segmentation, models based on both CNN and Transformer have been thoroughly investigated. However, CNNs have limited modeling capabilities for long-range dependencies, making it challenging to exploit the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Mingya Zhang , Zhihao Chen , Yiyuan Ge , Xianping Tao

The morphology of retinal blood vessels can indicate various diseases in the human body, and researchers have been working on automatic scanning and segmentation of retinal images to aid diagnosis. This project compares the performance of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-20 Ifeyinwa Linda Anene , Yongmin Li

State Space Models (SSMs) have recently demonstrated outstanding performance in long-sequence modeling, particularly in natural language processing. However, their direct application to medical image segmentation poses several challenges.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Bin Xie , Yan Yan , Gady Agam

Medical image segmentation is pivotal in healthcare, enhancing diagnostic accuracy, informing treatment strategies, and tracking disease progression. This process allows clinicians to extract critical information from visual data, enabling…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-31 Ovais Iqbal Shah , Danish Raza Rizvi , Aqib Nazir Mir

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

Retinal vascular segmentation, a widely researched topic in biomedical image processing, aims to reduce the workload of ophthalmologists in treating and detecting retinal disorders. Segmenting retinal vessels presents unique challenges;…

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