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UNet and its latest extensions like TransUNet have been the leading medical image segmentation methods in recent years. However, these networks cannot be effectively adopted for rapid image segmentation in point-of-care applications as they…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-11 Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu , Vishal M. Patel

Accurate segmentation of lesions plays a critical role in medical image analysis and diagnosis. Traditional segmentation approaches that rely solely on visual features often struggle with the inherent uncertainty in lesion distribution and…

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Prominent solutions for medical image segmentation are typically tailored for automatic or interactive setups, posing challenges in facilitating progress achieved in one task to another.$_{\!}$ This$_{\!}$ also$_{\!}$ necessitates$_{\!}$…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yuhang Ding , Liulei Li , Wenguan Wang , Yi Yang

The U-shaped architecture has emerged as a crucial paradigm in the design of medical image segmentation networks. However, due to the inherent local limitations of convolution, a fully convolutional segmentation network with U-shaped…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-04 Fenghe Tang , Jianrui Ding , Lingtao Wang , Chunping Ning , S. Kevin Zhou

Identifying biomarkers in medical images is vital for a wide range of biotech applications. However, recent Transformer and CNN based methods often struggle with variations in morphology and staining, which limits their feature extraction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-09 Saad Wazir , Daeyoung Kim

Recent advances in transformer-based models have drawn attention to exploring these techniques in medical image segmentation, especially in conjunction with the U-Net model (or its variants), which has shown great success in medical image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-22 Xiangyi Yan , Hao Tang , Shanlin Sun , Haoyu Ma , Deying Kong , Xiaohui Xie

Utilizing transformer architectures for semantic segmentation of high-resolution images is hindered by the attention's quadratic computational complexity in the number of tokens. A solution to this challenge involves decreasing the number…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Daniel Kienzle , Marco Kantonis , Robin Schön , Rainer Lienhart

Transformer-based models, capable of learning better global dependencies, have recently demonstrated exceptional representation learning capabilities in computer vision and medical image analysis. Transformer reformats the image into…

In medical images, various types of lesions often manifest significant differences in their shape and texture. Accurate medical image segmentation demands deep learning models with robust capabilities in multi-scale and boundary feature…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-20 Zhenhuan Zhou , Along He , Yanlin Wu , Rui Yao , Xueshuo Xie , Tao Li

Automatic medical image segmentation is a crucial topic in the medical domain and successively a critical counterpart in the computer-aided diagnosis paradigm. U-Net is the most widespread image segmentation architecture due to its…

Vision Transformer models have shown impressive effectiveness in the surgical video understanding tasks through long-range dependency modeling. However, current methods suffer from prohibitive computational costs due to processing massive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Xixi Jiang , Chen Yang , Dong Zhang , Pingcheng Dong , Xin Yang , Kwang-Ting Cheng

Accurate segmentation of anatomical structures and abnormalities in medical images is crucial for computer-aided diagnosis and analysis. While deep learning techniques excel at this task, their computational demands pose challenges.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Syed Javed , Tariq M. Khan , Abdul Qayyum , Hamid Alinejad-Rokny , Arcot Sowmya , Imran Razzak

The development of efficient segmentation strategies for medical images has evolved from its initial dependence on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to the current investigation of hybrid models that combine CNNs with Vision Transformers…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-08 Pallabi Dutta , Soham Bose , Swalpa Kumar Roy , Sushmita Mitra

Deep neural networks have evolved as the leading approach in 3D medical image segmentation due to their outstanding performance. However, the ever-increasing model size and computation cost of deep neural networks have become the primary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Boqian Wu , Qiao Xiao , Shiwei Liu , Lu Yin , Mykola Pechenizkiy , Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Maurice Van Keulen , Elena Mocanu

Segmentation of 3D medical images is a critical task for accurate diagnosis and treatment planning. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have dominated the field, achieving significant success in 3D medical image segmentation. However, CNNs…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-11 Canxuan Gang

Owing to the success of transformer models, recent works study their applicability in 3D medical segmentation tasks. Within the transformer models, the self-attention mechanism is one of the main building blocks that strives to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Abdelrahman Shaker , Muhammad Maaz , Hanoona Rasheed , Salman Khan , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

The encoder-decoder framework is state-of-the-art for offline semantic image segmentation. Since the rise in autonomous systems, real-time computation is increasingly desirable. In this paper, we introduce fast segmentation convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Rudra P K Poudel , Stephan Liwicki , Roberto Cipolla

Over the past two decades, machine analysis of medical imaging has advanced rapidly, opening up significant potential for several important medical applications. As complicated diseases increase and the number of cases rises, the role of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-08 Fares Bougourzi , Fadi Dornaika , Cosimo Distante , Abdelmalik Taleb-Ahmed

The recent vision transformer(i.e.for image classification) learns non-local attentive interaction of different patch tokens. However, prior arts miss learning the cross-scale dependencies of different pixels, the semantic correspondence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Yuanfeng Ji , Ruimao Zhang , Huijie Wang , Zhen Li , Lingyun Wu , Shaoting Zhang , Ping Luo

Medical image segmentation is an important step in medical image analysis, especially as a crucial prerequisite for efficient disease diagnosis and treatment. The use of deep learning for image segmentation has become a prevalent trend. The…

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