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This study proposes a 3D semantic segmentation method for the spine based on the improved SwinUNETR to improve segmentation accuracy and robustness. Aiming at the complex anatomical structure of spinal images, this paper introduces a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yanlin Xiang , Qingyuan He , Ting Xu , Ran Hao , Jiacheng Hu , Hanchao Zhang

This work presents a novel module, namely multi-branch concat (MBC), to process the input tensor and obtain the multi-scale feature map. The proposed MBC module brings new degrees of freedom (DoF) for the design of attention networks by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Keke Zu , Hu Zhang , Jian Lu , Lei Zhang , Chen Xu

Accurate lumbar spine segmentation is crucial for diagnosing spinal disorders. Existing methods typically use coarse-grained segmentation strategies that lack the fine detail needed for precise diagnosis. Additionally, their reliance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Sheng Lian , Jianlong Cai , Dengfeng Pan , Guang-Yong Chen , Hao Xu , Fan Zhang , Guodong Fan , Shuo Li

The growing popularity of robotic minimally invasive surgeries has made deep learning-based surgical training a key area of research. A thorough understanding of the surgical scene components is crucial, which semantic segmentation models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-31 Muraam Abdel-Ghani , Mahmoud Ali , Mohamed Ali , Fatmaelzahraa Ahmed , Muhammad Arsalan , Abdulaziz Al-Ali , Shidin Balakrishnan

Segmentation of organs of interest in medical CT images is beneficial for diagnosis of diseases. Though recent methods based on Fully Convolutional Neural Networks (F-CNNs) have shown success in many segmentation tasks, fusing features from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Yanli Yuan , Bingbing Wang , Chuan Zhang , Jingyi Xu , Ximeng Liu , Liehuang Zhu

Real-world applications have high demands for semantic segmentation methods. Although semantic segmentation has made remarkable leap-forwards with deep learning, the performance of real-time methods is not satisfactory. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Juncai Peng , Yi Liu , Shiyu Tang , Yuying Hao , Lutao Chu , Guowei Chen , Zewu Wu , Zeyu Chen , Zhiliang Yu , Yuning Du , Qingqing Dang , Baohua Lai , Qiwen Liu , Xiaoguang Hu , Dianhai Yu , Yanjun Ma

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

Automatic segmentation of multiple organs and tumors from 3D medical images such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) scans using deep learning methods can aid in diagnosing and treating cancer. However, organs…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-25 Hao Li , Yang Nan , Javier Del Ser , Guang Yang

To automatically detect Anterior Mediastinum Lesions (AMLs) in the Anterior Mediastinum (AM), the primary requirement will be an automatic segmentation model specifically designed for the AM. The prevalence of AML is extremely low, making…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Sina Soleimani-Fard , Won Gi Jeong , Francis Ferri Ripalda , Hasti Sasani , Younhee Choi , S Deiva , Gong Yong Jin , Seok-bum Ko

Precise segmentation and anatomical identification of the vertebrae provides the basis for automatic analysis of the spine, such as detection of vertebral compression fractures or other abnormalities. Most dedicated spine CT and MR scans as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Nikolas Lessmann , Bram van Ginneken , Pim A. de Jong , Ivana Išgum

The analysis of retinal images for the diagnosis of various diseases is one of the emerging areas of research. Recently, the research direction has been inclined towards investigating several changes in retinal blood vessels in subjects…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Mehwish Mehmood , Shahzaib Iqbal , Tariq Mahmood Khan , Ivor Spence , Muhammad Fahim

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and their variations have shown effectiveness in facial expression recognition (FER). However, they face challenges when dealing with high computational complexity and multi-view head poses in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Ali Ezati , Mohammadreza Dezyani , Rajib Rana , Roozbeh Rajabi , Ahmad Ayatollahi

Breast ultrasound imaging is a valuable tool for early breast cancer detection, but automated tumor segmentation is challenging due to inherent noise, variations in scale of lesions, and fuzzy boundaries. To address these challenges, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Muhammad Azeem Aslam , Asim Naveed , Nisar Ahmed

State-of-the-art transformer-based video instance segmentation (VIS) approaches typically utilize either single-scale spatio-temporal features or per-frame multi-scale features during the attention computations. We argue that such an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Omkar Thawakar , Sanath Narayan , Jiale Cao , Hisham Cholakkal , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Muhammad Haris Khan , Salman Khan , Michael Felsberg , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

This paper presents an efficient multi-scale vision Transformer, called ResT, that capably served as a general-purpose backbone for image recognition. Unlike existing Transformer methods, which employ standard Transformer blocks to tackle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Qinglong Zhang , Yubin Yang

Accurate delineation of individual cells in microscopy videos is essential for studying cellular dynamics, yet separating touching or overlapping instances remains a persistent challenge. Although foundation-model for segmentation such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Thomas Mendelson , Joshua Francois , Galit Lahav , Tammy Riklin-Raviv

3D instance segmentation methods typically rely on high-quality point clouds or posed RGB-D scans, requiring complex multi-stage processing pipelines, and are highly sensitive to reconstruction noise. While recent feed-forward transformers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Jinyuan Qu , Hongyang Li , Lei Zhang

Deep learning-based medical image segmentation technology aims at automatic recognizing and annotating objects on the medical image. Non-local attention and feature learning by multi-scale methods are widely used to model network, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Bo Wang , Lei Wang , Junyang Chen , Zhenghua Xu , Thomas Lukasiewicz , Zhigang Fu

Lumbar disc degeneration, a progressive structural wear and tear of lumbar intervertebral disc, is regarded as an essential role on low back pain, a significant global health concern. Automated lumbar spine geometry reconstruction from MR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Linchen Qian , Jiasong Chen , Linhai Ma , Timur Urakov , Weiyong Gu , Liang Liang

Pose estimation is a critical task in computer vision with a wide range of applications from activity monitoring to human-robot interaction. However,most of the existing methods are computationally expensive or have complex architecture.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Marsha Mariya Kappan , Eduardo Benitez Sandoval , Erik Meijering , Francisco Cruz