Advances in medical image analysis with vision transformers: a comprehensive review

R Azad, A Kazerouni, M Heidari, EK Aghdam… - Medical Image …, 2024 - Elsevier
The remarkable performance of the Transformer architecture in natural language processing
has recently also triggered broad interest in Computer Vision. Among other merits …

Medical image segmentation review: The success of u-net

R Azad, EK Aghdam, A Rauland, Y Jia… - … on Pattern Analysis …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatic medical image segmentation is a crucial topic in the medical domain and
successively a critical counterpart in the computer-aided diagnosis paradigm. U-Net is the …

The multimodality cell segmentation challenge: toward universal solutions

J Ma, R Xie, S Ayyadhury, C Ge, A Gupta, R Gupta… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Cell segmentation is a critical step for quantitative single-cell analysis in microscopy images.
Existing cell segmentation methods are often tailored to specific modalities or require …

Dae-former: Dual attention-guided efficient transformer for medical image segmentation

R Azad, R Arimond, EK Aghdam, A Kazerouni… - … Workshop on PRedictive …, 2023 - Springer
Transformers have recently gained attention in the computer vision domain due to their
ability to model long-range dependencies. However, the self-attention mechanism, which is …

Enhancing medical image segmentation with TransCeption: A multi-scale feature fusion approach

R Azad, Y Jia, EK Aghdam, J Cohen-Adad… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
While CNN-based methods have been the cornerstone of medical image segmentation due
to their promising performance and robustness, they suffer from limitations in capturing long …

xLSTM-UNet can be an Effective 2D & 3D Medical Image Segmentation Backbone with Vision-LSTM (ViL) better than its Mamba Counterpart

T Chen, C Ding, L Zhu, T Xu, D Ji, Y Wang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Vision Transformers (ViT) have been pivotal in
biomedical image segmentation, yet their ability to manage long-range dependencies …

cyto‐Knet: An instance segmentation approach for multiple myeloma plasma cells using conditional kernels

M Salvi, N Michielli, KM Meiburger… - … Journal of Imaging …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Multiple myeloma disrupts normal blood cell production, requiring early detection due to the
increased risk of bone metastases. Although various artificial intelligence (AI) methods have …

Guided-attention and gated-aggregation network for medical image segmentation

M Fiaz, M Noman, H Cholakkal, RM Anwer, J Hanna… - Pattern Recognition, 2024 - Elsevier
Recently, transformers have been widely used in medical image segmentation to capture
long-range and global dependencies using self-attention. However, they often struggle to …

DBEF-Net: Diffusion-Based Boundary-Enhanced Fusion Network for medical image segmentation

Z Huang, J Li, N Mao, G Yuan, J Li - Expert Systems with Applications, 2024 - Elsevier
Medical image segmentation aims to locate lesions within a given image to assist doctors in
diagnosis and treatment, playing a crucial role in improving patient outcomes. Recently, the …

[HTML][HTML] Cyto R-CNN and CytoNuke Dataset: Towards reliable whole-cell segmentation in bright-field histological images

J Raufeisen, K Xie, F Hörst, T Braunschweig, J Li… - Computer Methods and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background and objective: Cell segmentation in bright-field histological slides is a crucial
topic in medical image analysis. Having access to accurate segmentation allows …