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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

In the field of multi-organ medical image segmentation, recent methods frequently employ Transformers to capture long-range dependencies from image features. However, these methods overlook the high computational cost of Transformers and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Dayu Tan , Cheng Kong , Yansen Su , Hai Chen , Dongliang Yang , Junfeng Xia , Chunhou Zheng

The manifestation of symptoms associated with lung diseases can vary in different depths for individual patients, highlighting the significance of 3D information in CT scans for medical image classification. While Vision Transformer has…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-28 Zihao Jin , Yingying Fang , Jiahao Huang , Caiwen Xu , Simon Walsh , Guang Yang

We propose a novel transformer model, capable of segmenting medical images of varying modalities. Challenges posed by the fine grained nature of medical image analysis mean that the adaptation of the transformer for their analysis is still…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-31 Athanasios Tragakis , Chaitanya Kaul , Roderick Murray-Smith , Dirk Husmeier

Aerial Image Segmentation is a top-down perspective semantic segmentation and has several challenging characteristics such as strong imbalance in the foreground-background distribution, complex background, intra-class heterogeneity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Kashu Yamazaki , Taisei Hanyu , Minh Tran , Adrian de Luis , Roy McCann , Haitao Liao , Chase Rainwater , Meredith Adkins , Jackson Cothren , Ngan Le

Understanding the morphological structure of medical images and precisely segmenting the region of interest or abnormality is an important task that can assist in diagnosis. However, the unique properties of medical imaging make clear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Sungmin Kang , Jaeha Song , Jihie Kim

The design choices in Transformer feed-forward neural networks have resulted in significant computational and parameter overhead. In this work, we emphasize the importance of hidden dimensions in designing lightweight FFNs, a factor often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Tong Zheng , Bei Li , Huiwen Bao , Jiale Wang , Weiqiao Shan , Tong Xiao , Jingbo Zhu

Pretraining with large-scale 3D volumes has a potential for improving the segmentation performance on a target medical image dataset where the training images and annotations are limited. Due to the high cost of acquiring pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Guotai Wang , Jianghao Wu , Xiangde Luo , Xinglong Liu , Kang Li , Shaoting Zhang

We propose a dual pathway, 11-layers deep, three-dimensional Convolutional Neural Network for the challenging task of brain lesion segmentation. The devised architecture is the result of an in-depth analysis of the limitations of current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Konstantinos Kamnitsas , Christian Ledig , Virginia F. J. Newcombe , Joanna P. Simpson , Andrew D. Kane , David K. Menon , Daniel Rueckert , Ben Glocker

Achieving high-quality High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging on resource-constrained edge devices is a critical challenge in computer vision, as its performance directly impacts downstream tasks such as intelligent surveillance and autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Yu-Shen Huang , Tzu-Han Chen , Cheng-Yen Hsiao , Shaou-Gang Miaou

Detection Transformers represent end-to-end object detection approaches based on a Transformer encoder-decoder architecture, exploiting the attention mechanism for global relation modeling. Although Detection Transformers deliver results on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Bastian Wittmann , Fernando Navarro , Suprosanna Shit , Bjoern Menze

The success of Transformer in computer vision has attracted increasing attention in the medical imaging community. Especially for medical image segmentation, many excellent hybrid architectures based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-26 Wentao Liu , Tong Tian , Weijin Xu , Huihua Yang , Xipeng Pan , Songlin Yan , Lemeng Wang

Visual segmentation seeks to partition images, video frames, or point clouds into multiple segments or groups. This technique has numerous real-world applications, such as autonomous driving, image editing, robot sensing, and medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Xiangtai Li , Henghui Ding , Haobo Yuan , Wenwei Zhang , Jiangmiao Pang , Guangliang Cheng , Kai Chen , Ziwei Liu , Chen Change Loy

In this work, we present Eformer - Edge enhancement based transformer, a novel architecture that builds an encoder-decoder network using transformer blocks for medical image denoising. Non-overlapping window-based self-attention is used in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-10 Achleshwar Luthra , Harsh Sulakhe , Tanish Mittal , Abhishek Iyer , Santosh Yadav

The convolutional neural network-based methods have become more and more popular for medical image segmentation due to their outstanding performance. However, they struggle with capturing long-range dependencies, which are essential for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-30 Hongkun Sun , Jing Xu , Yuping Duan

The segmentation of medical images is important for the improvement and creation of healthcare systems, particularly for early disease detection and treatment planning. In recent years, the use of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-12 Siddharth Tiwari

Biomedical image segmentation is a critical task in medical diagnosis and treatment planning, enabling precise delineation of anatomical structures and pathological regions. Despite significant advancements, challenges persist due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Joao Batista Florindo , Amanda Pontes de Oliveira Ornelas

Medical image segmentation is crucial for disease diagnosis and monitoring. Though effective, the current segmentation networks such as UNet struggle with capturing long-range features. More accurate models such as TransUNet, Swin-UNet, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Khaled Alrfou , Tian Zhao

While modern segmentation models often prioritize performance over practicality, we advocate a design philosophy prioritizing simplicity and efficiency, and attempted high performance segmentation model design. This paper presents…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Xiang Yu , Yayan Chen , Guannan He , Qing Zeng , Yue Qin , Meiling Liang , Dandan Luo , Yimei Liao , Zeyu Ren , Cheng Kang , Delong Yang , Bocheng Liang , Bin Pu , Ying Yuan , Shengli Li

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