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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

We present Token-UNet, adopting the TokenLearner and TokenFuser modules to encase Transformers into UNets. While Transformers have enabled global interactions among input elements in medical imaging, current computational challenges hinder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Louis Fabrice Tshimanga , Andrea Zanola , Federico Del Pup , Manfredo Atzori

Medical image segmentation is a critical aspect of modern medical research and clinical practice. Despite the remarkable performance of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in this domain, they inherently struggle to capture long-range…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-02 Jiashu Xu

Skin lesion segmentation (SLS) plays an important role in skin lesion analysis. Vision transformers (ViTs) are considered an auspicious solution for SLS, but they require more training data compared to convolutional neural networks (CNNs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Siyi Du , Nourhan Bayasi , Ghassan Hamarneh , Rafeef Garbi

While convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and vision transformers (ViTs) have advanced medical image segmentation, they face inherent limitations such as local receptive fields in CNNs and high computational complexity in ViTs. This paper…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-02 Pooya Ashtari , Shahryar Noei , Fateme Nateghi Haredasht , Jonathan H. Chen , Giuseppe Jurman , Aleksandra Pizurica , Sabine Van Huffel

Referring image segmentation is a fundamental vision-language task that aims to segment out an object referred to by a natural language expression from an image. One of the key challenges behind this task is leveraging the referring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Zhao Yang , Jiaqi Wang , Yansong Tang , Kai Chen , Hengshuang Zhao , Philip H. S. Torr

It is a challenging task to learn discriminative representation from images and videos, due to large local redundancy and complex global dependency in these visual data. Convolution neural networks (CNNs) and vision transformers (ViTs) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Kunchang Li , Yali Wang , Junhao Zhang , Peng Gao , Guanglu Song , Yu Liu , Hongsheng Li , Yu Qiao

CNNs, most notably the UNet, are the default architecture for biomedical segmentation. Transformer-based approaches, such as UNETR, have been proposed to replace them, benefiting from a global field of view, but suffering from larger…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Anwai Archit , Constantin Pape

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have recently dominated a range of computer vision tasks, yet it suffers from low training data efficiency and inferior local semantic representation capability without appropriate inductive bias. Convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Cong Wang , Hongmin Xu , Xiong Zhang , Li Wang , Zhitong Zheng , Haifeng Liu

Background:Convolutional Neural Networks(CNN) and Vision Transformers(ViT) are the main techniques used in Medical image segmentation. However, CNN is limited to local contextual information, and ViT's quadratic complexity results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Xuanyu Liu , Huiyun Yao , Jinggui Gao , Zhongyi Guo , Xue Zhang , Yulin Dong

We propose a privacy-preserving semantic-segmentation method for applying perceptual encryption to images used for model training in addition to test images. This method also provides almost the same accuracy as models without any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Homare Sueyoshi , Kiyoshi Nishikawa , Hitoshi Kiya

Accurate segmentation of ultrasound images is essential for reliable medical diagnoses but is challenged by poor image quality and scarce labeled data. Prior approaches have relied on manually designed, complex network architectures to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Renqi Chen , Xinzhe Zheng , Haoyang Su , Kehan Wu

Convolutional neural network (CNN), in particular the Unet, is a powerful method for medical image segmentation. To date Unet has demonstrated state-of-art performance in many complex medical image segmentation tasks, especially under the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-31 Wenjun Yan , Yuanyuan Wang , Shengjia Gu , Lu Huang , Fuhua Yan , Liming Xia , Qian Tao

Semantic segmentation of remotely sensed urban scene images is required in a wide range of practical applications, such as land cover mapping, urban change detection, environmental protection, and economic assessment.Driven by rapid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Libo Wang , Rui Li , Ce Zhang , Shenghui Fang , Chenxi Duan , Xiaoliang Meng , Peter M. Atkinson

In the evolving landscape of 6G networks, semantic communications are poised to revolutionize data transmission by prioritizing the transmission of semantic meaning over raw data accuracy. This paper presents a Vision Transformer…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-24 Muhammad Ahmed Mohsin , Muhammad Jazib , Zeeshan Alam , Muhmmad Farhan Khan , Muhammad Saad , Muhammad Ali Jamshed

In recent years, significant progress has been made in the medical image analysis domain using convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In particular, deep neural networks based on a U-shaped architecture (UNet) with skip connections have been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-16 Vamsi Krishna Vasa , Wenhui Zhu , Xiwen Chen , Peijie Qiu , Xuanzhao Dong , Yalin Wang

Medical image segmentation (MIS) aims to finely segment various organs. It requires grasping global information from both parts and the entire image for better segmenting, and clinically there are often certain requirements for segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Dongwei Gan , Ming Chang , Juan Chen

Deep learning, especially convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Transformer architectures, have become the focus of extensive research in medical image segmentation, achieving impressive results. However, CNNs come with inductive biases…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-20 Xiao Liu , Peng Gao , Tao Yu , Fei Wang , Ru-Yue Yuan

This paper investigates the capability of plain Vision Transformers (ViTs) for semantic segmentation using the encoder-decoder framework and introduces \textbf{SegViTv2}. In this study, we introduce a novel Attention-to-Mask (\atm) module…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Bowen Zhang , Liyang Liu , Minh Hieu Phan , Zhi Tian , Chunhua Shen , Yifan Liu

Vision Transformer (ViT) has become one of the most popular neural architectures due to its great scalability, computational efficiency, and compelling performance in many vision tasks. However, ViT has shown inferior performance to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Junfei Xiao , Yutong Bai , Alan Yuille , Zongwei Zhou