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Medical image segmentation plays a pivotal role in disease diagnosis and treatment planning, particularly in resource-constrained clinical settings where lightweight and generalizable models are urgently needed. However, existing…

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This study aims to address the problem of incomplete information in unimodal images for semantic segmentation and object detection tasks. Existing multimodal fusion methods suffer from limited capability in discriminative modeling of…

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The advancement of medical image segmentation techniques has been propelled by the adoption of deep learning techniques, particularly UNet-based approaches, which exploit semantic information to improve the accuracy of segmentations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Ranmin Wang , Limin Zhuang , Hongkun Chen , Boyan Xu , Ruichu Cai

Performing a real-time and accurate instrument segmentation from videos is of great significance for improving the performance of robotic-assisted surgery. We identify two important clues for surgical instrument perception, including local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Jiacheng Wang , Yueming Jin , Liansheng Wang , Shuntian Cai , Pheng-Ann Heng , Jing Qin

Medical image segmentation, particularly in multi-domain scenarios, requires precise preservation of anatomical structures across diverse representations. While deep learning has advanced this field, existing models often struggle with…

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Models based on U-like structures have improved the performance of medical image segmentation. However, the single-layer decoder structure of U-Net is too "thin" to exploit enough information, resulting in large semantic differences between…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-08 Haoyuan Chen , Yufei Han , Pin Xu , Yanyi Li , Kuan Li , Jianping Yin

Medical imaging plays a crucial role in modern healthcare by providing non-invasive visualisation of internal structures and abnormalities, enabling early disease detection, accurate diagnosis, and treatment planning. This study aims to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-25 Walid Ehab , Yongmin Li

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

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

Accurate reorientation and segmentation of the left ventricular (LV) is essential for the quantitative analysis of myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI), in which one critical step is to reorient the reconstructed transaxial nuclear cardiac…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-17 Yangfan Ni , Duo Zhang , Gege Ma , Lijun Lu , Zhongke Huang , Wentao Zhu

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…

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Three-dimensional medical image segmentation is a fundamental yet computationally demanding task due to the cubic growth of voxel processing and the redundant computation on homogeneous regions. To address these limitations, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Sen Zeng , Hong Zhou , Zheng Zhu , Yang Liu

For 3D medical image (e.g. CT and MRI) segmentation, the difficulty of segmenting each slice in a clinical case varies greatly. Previous research on volumetric medical image segmentation in a slice-by-slice manner conventionally use the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Wenxuan Wang , Chen Chen , Jing Wang , Sen Zha , Yan Zhang , Jiangyun Li

Medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in advancing healthcare systems for disease diagnosis and treatment planning. The u-shaped architecture, popularly known as U-Net, has proven highly successful for various medical image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Jieneng Chen , Jieru Mei , Xianhang Li , Yongyi Lu , Qihang Yu , Qingyue Wei , Xiangde Luo , Yutong Xie , Ehsan Adeli , Yan Wang , Matthew Lungren , Lei Xing , Le Lu , Alan Yuille , Yuyin Zhou

In clinical practice, medical image segmentation provides useful information on the contours and dimensions of target organs or tissues, facilitating improved diagnosis, analysis, and treatment. In the past few years, convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Jinhong Wang , Jintai Chen , Danny Chen , Jian Wu

Transformer architecture has emerged to be successful in a number of natural language processing tasks. However, its applications to medical vision remain largely unexplored. In this study, we present UTNet, a simple yet powerful hybrid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Yunhe Gao , Mu Zhou , Dimitris Metaxas

Medical image segmentation is a critical task in medical imaging analysis. Traditional CNN-based methods struggle with modeling long-range dependencies, while Transformer-based models, despite their success, suffer from quadratic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-07 Yibo Zhang

In recent years, Denoising Diffusion Models have demonstrated remarkable success in generating semantically valuable pixel-wise representations for image generative modeling. In this study, we propose a novel end-to-end framework, called…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Zhaohu Xing , Liang Wan , Huazhu Fu , Guang Yang , Lei Zhu

In recent years, significant advancements have been made in deep learning for medical image segmentation, particularly with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and transformer models. However, CNNs face limitations in capturing long-range…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Juntao Jiang , Jiangning Zhang , Weixuan Liu , Muxuan Gao , Xiaobin Hu , Zhucun Xue , Yong Liu , Shuicheng Yan

Skin cancer poses a significant public health challenge, necessitating efficient diagnostic tools. We introduce UCM-Net, a novel skin lesion segmentation model combining Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLP) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN).…

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