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Robust segmentation for non-elongated tissues in medical images is hard to realize due to the large variation of the shape, size, and appearance of these tissues in different patients. In this paper, we present an end-to-end trainable deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-06 Qian Yu , Yinghuan Shi , Yefeng Zheng , Yang Gao , Jianbing Zhu , Yakang Dai

Manually inspecting polyps from a colonoscopy for colorectal cancer or performing a biopsy on skin lesions for skin cancer are time-consuming, laborious, and complex procedures. Automatic medical image segmentation aims to expedite this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-27 Akib Mohammed Khan , Alif Ashrafee , Fahim Shahriar Khan , Md. Bakhtiar Hasan , Md. Hasanul Kabir

In recent years, the denoising diffusion model has achieved remarkable success in image segmentation modeling. With its powerful nonlinear modeling capabilities and superior generalization performance, denoising diffusion models have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Weiping Ding , Sheng Geng , Haipeng Wang , Jiashuang Huang , Tianyi Zhou

Accurately segmenting brain tumors from MRI scans is important for developing effective treatment plans and improving patient outcomes. This study introduces a new implementation of the Columbia-University-Net (CU-Net) architecture for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Qimin Zhang , Weiwei Qi , Huili Zheng , Xinyu Shen

$\bf{Purpose:}$ The goal of this study was (i) to use artificial intelligence to automate the traditionally labor-intensive process of manual segmentation of tumor regions in pathology slides performed by a pathologist and (ii) to validate…

U-Net is a widely adopted neural network in the domain of medical image segmentation. Despite its quick embracement by the medical imaging community, its performance suffers on complicated datasets. The problem can be ascribed to its simple…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-07 Mehreen Mubashar , Hazrat Ali , Christer Gronlund , Shoaib Azmat

The diagnosis of brain cancer relies heavily on medical imaging techniques, with MRI being the most commonly used. It is necessary to perform automatic segmentation of brain tumors on MRI images. This project intends to build an MRI…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-28 Yuxiang Hu , Haowei Yang , Ting Xu , Shuyao He , Jiajie Yuan , Haozhang Deng

While large models have achieved significant progress in computer vision, challenges such as optimization complexity, the intricacy of transformer architectures, computational constraints, and practical application demands highlight the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-03 Juntao Jiang , Mengmeng Wang , Huizhong Tian , Lingbo Cheng , Yong Liu

We propose an attention mechanism for 3D medical image segmentation. The method, named segmentation-by-detection, is a cascade of a detection module followed by a segmentation module. The detection module enables a region of interest to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Min Tang , Zichen Zhang , Dana Cobzas , Martin Jagersand , Jacob L. Jaremko

A number of methods based on deep learning have been applied to medical image segmentation and have achieved state-of-the-art performance. Due to the importance of chest x-ray data in studying COVID-19, there is a demand for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-27 Lipei Zhang , Aozhi Liu , Jing Xiao , Paul Taylor

We present a novel neural network architecture, US-Net, for robust nuclei instance segmentation in histopathology images. The proposed framework integrates the nuclei detection and segmentation networks by sharing their outputs through the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Zhaoyang Xu , Faranak Sobhani , Carlos Fernandez Moro , Qianni Zhang

Since medical image data sets contain few samples and singular features, lesions are viewed as highly similar to other tissues. The traditional neural network has a limited ability to learn features. Even if a host of feature maps is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Hongfeng You , Long Yu , Shengwei Tian , Xiang Ma , Yan Xing , Xiaojie Ma

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

Large-scale models pre-trained on large-scale datasets have profoundly advanced the development of deep learning. However, the state-of-the-art models for medical image segmentation are still small-scale, with their parameters only in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Ziyan Huang , Haoyu Wang , Zhongying Deng , Jin Ye , Yanzhou Su , Hui Sun , Junjun He , Yun Gu , Lixu Gu , Shaoting Zhang , Yu Qiao

X-Ray image enhancement, along with many other medical image processing applications, requires the segmentation of images into bone, soft tissue, and open beam regions. We apply a machine learning approach to this problem, presenting an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Joseph Bullock , Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro , Arnau Quera-Bofarull

Accurate medical image segmentation allows for the precise delineation of anatomical structures and pathological regions, which is essential for treatment planning, surgical navigation, and disease monitoring. Both CNN-based and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Libin Lan , Yanxin Li , Xiaojuan Liu , Juan Zhou , Jianxun Zhang , Nannan Huang , Yudong Zhang

In recent years, significant advancements have been made in deep learning for medical image segmentation, particularly with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and transformer models. However, CNNs face limitations in capturing long-range…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Juntao Jiang , Jiangning Zhang , Weixuan Liu , Muxuan Gao , Xiaobin Hu , Zhucun Xue , Yong Liu , Shuicheng Yan

This study addresses the essential task of medical image segmentation, which involves the automatic identification and delineation of anatomical structures and pathological regions in medical images. Accurate segmentation is crucial in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Seyedeh Sahar Taheri Otaghsara , Reza Rahmanzadeh

In this paper, we focus on three problems in deep learning based medical image segmentation. Firstly, U-net, as a popular model for medical image segmentation, is difficult to train when convolutional layers increase even though a deeper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Wanli Chen , Yue Zhang , Junjun He , Yu Qiao , Yifan Chen , Hongjian Shi , Xiaoying Tang

The advancements in deep learning technologies have produced immense contributions to biomedical image analysis applications. With breast cancer being the common deadliest disease among women, early detection is the key means to improve…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-04 Narinder Singh Punn , Sonali Agarwal