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Image segmentation is a primary task in many medical applications. Recently, many deep networks derived from U-Net have been extensively used in various medical image segmentation tasks. However, in most of the cases, networks similar to…

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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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Medical image segmentation is an essential prerequisite for developing healthcare systems, especially for disease diagnosis and treatment planning. On various medical image segmentation tasks, the u-shaped architecture, also known as U-Net,…

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Automated medical image segmentation can assist doctors to diagnose faster and more accurate. Deep learning based models for medical image segmentation have made great progress in recent years. However, the existing models fail to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-26 Lei Shi , Tianyu Gao , Zheng Zhang , Junxing Zhang

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

Recently, U-shaped networks have dominated the field of medical image segmentation due to their simple and easily tuned structure. However, existing U-shaped segmentation networks: 1) mostly focus on designing complex self-attention modules…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-24 Junlong Cheng , Chengrui Gao , Fengjie Wang , Min Zhu

Medical image segmentation is a critical task in clinical workflows, particularly for the detection and delineation of pathological regions. While convolutional architectures like U-Net have become standard for such tasks, their limited…

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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

Automatic medical image segmentation, an essential component of medical image analysis, plays an importantrole in computer-aided diagnosis. For example, locating and segmenting the liver can be very helpful in livercancer diagnosis and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-28 Xi Fang , Bo Du , Sheng Xu , Bradford J. Wood , Pingkun Yan

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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U-Net and its variants have been widely used in medical image segmentation. However, most current U-Net variants confine their improvement strategies to building more complex encoder, while leaving the decoder unchanged or adopting a simple…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-30 Weibin Yang , Longwei Xu , Pengwei Wang , Dehua Geng , Yusong Li , Mingyuan Xu , Zhiqi Dong

Semantic segmentation is crucial for medical image analysis, enabling precise disease diagnosis and treatment planning. However, many advanced models employ complex architectures, limiting their use in resource-constrained clinical…

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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

An efficient and effective decoding mechanism is crucial in medical image segmentation, especially in scenarios with limited computational resources. However, these decoding mechanisms usually come with high computational costs. To address…

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In this paper, we propose a novel medical image segmentation using iterative deep learning framework. We have combined an iterative learning approach and an encoder-decoder network to improve segmentation results, which enables to precisely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-14 Jung Uk Kim , Hak Gu Kim , Yong Man Ro

Deep learning has successfully been leveraged for medical image segmentation. It employs convolutional neural networks (CNN) to learn distinctive image features from a defined pixel-wise objective function. However, this approach can lead…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-05 Kibrom Berihu Girum , Gilles Créhange , Alain Lalande

In the field of healthcare, precise skin lesion segmentation is crucial for the early detection and accurate diagnosis of skin diseases. Despite significant advances in deep learning for image processing, existing methods have yet to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Siyu Wang , Hua Wang , Huiyu Li , Fan Zhang

The Encoder-Decoder architecture is a main stream deep learning model for biomedical image segmentation. The encoder fully compresses the input and generates encoded features, and the decoder then produces dense predictions using encoded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Peixian Liang , Jianxu Chen , Hao Zheng , Lin Yang , Yizhe Zhang , Danny Z. Chen

Medical image segmentation is usually regarded as one of the most important intermediate steps in clinical situations and medical imaging research. Thus, accurately assessing the segmentation quality of the automatically generated…

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Medical image segmentation of anatomical structures and pathology is crucial in modern clinical diagnosis, disease study, and treatment planning. To date, great progress has been made in deep learning-based segmentation techniques, but most…

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