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Access to the proper infrastructure is critical when performing medical image segmentation with Deep Learning. This requirement makes it difficult to run state-of-the-art segmentation models in resource-constrained scenarios like primary…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-08 John Kalkhof , Camila González , Anirban Mukhopadhyay

Artificial intelligence, including deep learning models, will play a transformative role in automated medical image analysis for the diagnosis of cardiac disorders and their management. Automated accurate delineation of cardiac images is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-27 Racheal Mukisa , Arvind K. Bansal

Medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in computer-aided diagnosis. However, existing methods heavily rely on fully supervised training, which requires a large amount of labeled data with time-consuming pixel-wise annotations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yunqi Gu , Tao Zhou , Yizhe Zhang , Yi Zhou , Kelei He , Chen Gong , Huazhu Fu

The UNet model consists of fully convolutional network (FCN) layers arranged as contracting encoder and upsampling decoder maps. Nested arrangements of these encoder and decoder maps give rise to extensions of the UNet model, such as UNete…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-11 Yilong Yang , Srinandan Dasmahapatra , Sasan Mahmoodi

Semantic segmentation of remote sensing images plays an important role in a wide range of applications including land resource management, biosphere monitoring and urban planning. Although the accuracy of semantic segmentation in remote…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-21 Rui Li , Shunyi Zheng , Chenxi Duan , Ce Zhang , Jianlin Su , P. M. Atkinson

Segmentation is a fundamental task in medical image analysis. However, most existing methods focus on primary region extraction and ignore edge information, which is useful for obtaining accurate segmentation. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Zhijie Zhang , Huazhu Fu , Hang Dai , Jianbing Shen , Yanwei Pang , Ling Shao

U-Net is currently the most widely used architecture for medical image segmentation. Benefiting from its unique encoder-decoder architecture and skip connections, it can effectively extract features from input images to segment target…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Yanlin Wu , Tao Li , Zhihong Wang , Hong Kang , Along He

With the rapid development of deep learning, CNN-based U-shaped networks have succeeded in medical image segmentation and are widely applied for various tasks. However, their limitations in capturing global features hinder their performance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Xin Li , Wenhui Zhu , Xuanzhao Dong , Oana M. Dumitrascu , Yalin Wang

Residual network (ResNet) and densely connected network (DenseNet) have significantly improved the training efficiency and performance of deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) mainly for object classification tasks. In this paper, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-29 Mina Jafari , Dorothee Auer , Susan Francis , Jonathan Garibaldi , Xin Chen

Due to the large-scale image size and object variations, current CNN-based and Transformer-based approaches for remote sensing image semantic segmentation are suboptimal for capturing the long-range dependency or limited to the complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Mushui Liu , Jun Dan , Ziqian Lu , Yunlong Yu , Yingming Li , Xi Li

Accurate medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in overall diagnosis and is one of the most essential tasks in the diagnostic pipeline. CNN-based models, despite their extensive use, suffer from a local receptive field and fail to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-02 Zulkaif Sajjad , Furqan Shaukat , Junaid Mir

We propose Video-TransUNet, a deep architecture for instance segmentation in medical CT videos constructed by integrating temporal feature blending into the TransUNet deep learning framework. In particular, our approach amalgamates strong…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-23 Chengxi Zeng , Xinyu Yang , Majid Mirmehdi , Alberto M Gambaruto , Tilo Burghardt

In the field of medical CT image processing, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been the dominant technique.Encoder-decoder CNNs utilise locality for efficiency, but they cannot simulate distant pixel interactions properly.Recent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-03 Hongyang He , Feng Ziliang , Yuanhang Zheng , Shudong Huang , HaoBing Gao

The anatomical location of imaging features is of crucial importance for accurate diagnosis in many medical tasks. Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have had huge successes in computer vision, but they lack the natural ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Mohsen Ghafoorian , Nico Karssemeijer , Tom Heskes , Inge van Uden , Clara Sanchez , Geert Litjens , Frank-Erik de Leeuw , Bram van Ginneken , Elena Marchiori , Bram Platel

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

To address the limitations of Transformer decoders in capturing edge details, recognizing local textures and modeling spatial continuity, this paper proposes a novel decoder framework specifically designed for medical image segmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Fan Zhang , Zhiwei Gu , Hua Wang

Medical image segmentation is one of the most fundamental tasks concerning medical information analysis. Various solutions have been proposed so far, including many deep learning-based techniques, such as U-Net, FC-DenseNet, etc. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-08 Zihan Li , Dihan Li , Cangbai Xu , Weice Wang , Qingqi Hong , Qingde Li , Jie Tian

U-Net and its extensions have achieved great success in medical image segmentation. However, due to the inherent local characteristics of ordinary convolution operations, U-Net encoder cannot effectively extract global context information.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Fenghe Tang , Lingtao Wang , Chunping Ning , Min Xian , Jianrui Ding

Purpose Medical imaging diagnosis faces challenges, including low-resolution images due to machine artifacts and patient movement. This paper presents the Frequency-Guided U-Net (GFNet), a novel approach for medical image segmentation that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-03 Haytham Al Ewaidat , Youness El Brag , Ahmad Wajeeh Yousef E'layan , Ali Almakhadmeh

We propose a novel technique to incorporate attention within convolutional neural networks using feature maps generated by a separate convolutional autoencoder. Our attention architecture is well suited for incorporation with deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-11 Chaitanya Kaul , Suresh Manandhar , Nick Pears