U-net and its variants for medical image segmentation: A review of theory and applications

N Siddique, S Paheding, CP Elkin… - Ieee …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
U-net is an image segmentation technique developed primarily for image segmentation
tasks. These traits provide U-net with a high utility within the medical imaging community …

Retinal vessel segmentation using deep learning: a review

C Chen, JH Chuah, R Ali, Y Wang - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a comprehensive review of retinal blood vessel segmentation based on
deep learning. The geometric characteristics of retinal vessels reflect the health status of …

Bridge-Net: Context-involved U-net with patch-based loss weight mapping for retinal blood vessel segmentation

Y Zhang, M He, Z Chen, K Hu, X Li, X Gao - Expert Systems with …, 2022 - Elsevier
Retinal blood vessel segmentation in fundus images plays an important role in the early
diagnosis and treatment of retinal diseases. In recent years, the segmentation methods …

BCU-Net: Bridging ConvNeXt and U-Net for medical image segmentation

H Zhang, X Zhong, G Li, W Liu, J Liu, D Ji, X Li… - Computers in Biology …, 2023 - Elsevier
Medical image segmentation enables doctors to observe lesion regions better and make
accurate diagnostic decisions. Single-branch models such as U-Net have achieved great …

Wave-Net: A lightweight deep network for retinal vessel segmentation from fundus images

Y Liu, J Shen, L Yang, H Yu, G Bian - Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2023 - Elsevier
Accurate segmentation of retinal vessels from fundus images is fundamental for the
diagnosis of numerous diseases of eye, and an automated vessel segmentation method can …

GDF-Net: A multi-task symmetrical network for retinal vessel segmentation

J Li, G Gao, L Yang, Y Liu - Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 2023 - Elsevier
Retinal fundus vessels contain rich geometric features, including both thick and thin vessels,
which is particularly important for accurate clinical diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases …

MAGF-Net: A multiscale attention-guided fusion network for retinal vessel segmentation

J Li, G Gao, Y Liu, L Yang - Measurement, 2023 - Elsevier
Retinal fundus images contain plenty of morphological information, so it is particularly
important to realize precise segmentation of the retinal vessels for clinical diagnosis. With …

U-Net and its variants for medical image segmentation: theory and applications

N Siddique, P Sidike, C Elkin… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
U-net is an image segmentation technique developed primarily for medical image analysis
that can precisely segment images using a scarce amount of training data. These traits …

[HTML][HTML] Review of semantic segmentation of medical images using modified architectures of UNET

M Krithika Alias AnbuDevi, K Suganthi - Diagnostics, 2022 - mdpi.com
In biomedical image analysis, information about the location and appearance of tumors and
lesions is indispensable to aid doctors in treating and identifying the severity of diseases …

[HTML][HTML] U-Net 网络医学图像分割应用综述

周涛, 董雅丽, 霍兵强, 刘珊, 马宗军 - 2021 - cjig.cn
摘要病灶精确分割对患者病情评估和治疗方案制定有重要意义, 由于医学图像中病灶与周围组织
的对比度低, 同一疾病病灶边缘和形状存在很大差异, 从而增加了分割难度. U-Net …