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Despite the remarkable performance of supervised medical image segmentation models, relying on a large amount of labeled data is impractical in real-world situations. Semi-supervised learning approaches aim to alleviate this challenge using…
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Due to the irregular shapes,various sizes and indistinguishable boundaries between the normal and infected tissues, it is still a challenging task to accurately segment the infected lesions of COVID-19 on CT images. In this paper, a novel…
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Finding automatically multiple lesions in large images is a common problem in medical image analysis. Solving this problem can be challenging if, during optimization, the automated method cannot access information about the location of the…
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Video Capsule Endoscopy (VCE) has become an indispensable diagnostic tool for gastrointestinal (GI) disorders due to its non-invasive nature and ability to capture high-resolution images of the small intestine. However, the enormous volume…
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