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

N Siddique, S Paheding, CP Elkin… - IEEE access, 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 …

A survey on U-shaped networks in medical image segmentations

L Liu, J Cheng, Q Quan, FX Wu, YP Wang, J Wang - Neurocomputing, 2020 - Elsevier
The U-shaped network is one of the end-to-end convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In
electron microscope segmentation of ISBI challenge 2012, the concise architecture and …

Dense nested attention network for infrared small target detection

B Li, C Xiao, L Wang, Y Wang, Z Lin… - … on Image Processing, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Single-frame infrared small target (SIRST) detection aims at separating small targets from
clutter backgrounds. With the advances of deep learning, CNN-based methods have yielded …

Medical image segmentation review: The success of u-net

R Azad, EK Aghdam, A Rauland, Y Jia… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.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 …

Ms RED: A novel multi-scale residual encoding and decoding network for skin lesion segmentation

D Dai, C Dong, S Xu, Q Yan, Z Li, C Zhang, N Luo - Medical image analysis, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) for dermatological diseases offers one of the
most notable showcases where deep learning technologies display their impressive …

Improving nowcasting of convective development by incorporating polarimetric radar variables into a deep‐learning model

X Pan, Y Lu, K Zhao, H Huang… - Geophysical Research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Nowcasting of convective storms is urgently needed yet rather challenging. Current
nowcasting methods are mostly based on radar echo extrapolation, which suffer from the …

TransDose: Transformer-based radiotherapy dose prediction from CT images guided by super-pixel-level GCN classification

Z Jiao, X Peng, Y Wang, J Xiao, D Nie, X Wu… - Medical Image …, 2023 - Elsevier
Radiotherapy is a mainstay treatment for cancer in clinic. An excellent radiotherapy
treatment plan is always based on a high-quality dose distribution map which is produced by …

IVD-Net: Intervertebral disc localization and segmentation in MRI with a multi-modal UNet

J Dolz, C Desrosiers, I Ben Ayed - International workshop and challenge …, 2018 - Springer
Accurate localization and segmentation of intervertebral disc (IVD) is crucial for the
assessment of spine disease diagnosis. Despite the technological advances in medical …

Multi-receptive-field CNN for semantic segmentation of medical images

L Liu, FX Wu, YP Wang, J Wang - IEEE Journal of Biomedical …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The context-based convolutional neural network (CNN) is one of the most well-known CNNs
to improve the performance of semantic segmentation. It has achieved remarkable success …

Neuroimaging and deep learning for brain stroke detection-A review of recent advancements and future prospects

R Karthik, R Menaka, A Johnson, S Anand - Computer Methods and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background and objective In recent years, deep learning algorithms have created a massive
impact on addressing research challenges in different domains. The medical field also …