Transforming medical imaging with Transformers? A comparative review of key properties, current progresses, and future perspectives

J Li, J Chen, Y Tang, C Wang, BA Landman… - Medical image …, 2023 - Elsevier
Transformer, one of the latest technological advances of deep learning, has gained
prevalence in natural language processing or computer vision. Since medical imaging bear …

Vision Transformers in medical computer vision—A contemplative retrospection

A Parvaiz, MA Khalid, R Zafar, H Ameer, M Ali… - … Applications of Artificial …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Vision Transformers (ViTs), with the magnificent potential to unravel the information
contained within images, have evolved as one of the most contemporary and dominant …

Brain tumor segmentation based on the fusion of deep semantics and edge information in multimodal MRI

Z Zhu, X He, G Qi, Y Li, B Cong, Y Liu - Information Fusion, 2023 - Elsevier
Brain tumor segmentation in multimodal MRI has great significance in clinical diagnosis and
treatment. The utilization of multimodal information plays a crucial role in brain tumor …

Universeg: Universal medical image segmentation

VI Butoi, JJG Ortiz, T Ma, MR Sabuncu… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
While deep learning models have become the predominant method for medical image
segmentation, they are typically not capable of generalizing to unseen segmentation tasks …

[HTML][HTML] Transmed: Transformers advance multi-modal medical image classification

Y Dai, Y Gao, F Liu - Diagnostics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Over the past decade, convolutional neural networks (CNN) have shown very competitive
performance in medical image analysis tasks, such as disease classification, tumor …

[HTML][HTML] A review: Deep learning for medical image segmentation using multi-modality fusion

T Zhou, S Ruan, S Canu - Array, 2019 - Elsevier
Multi-modality is widely used in medical imaging, because it can provide multiinformation
about a target (tumor, organ or tissue). Segmentation using multimodality consists of fusing …

Multi-scale self-guided attention for medical image segmentation

A Sinha, J Dolz - IEEE journal of biomedical and health …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Even though convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are driving progress in medical image
segmentation, standard models still have some drawbacks. First, the use of multi-scale …

Recurrent mask refinement for few-shot medical image segmentation

H Tang, X Liu, S Sun, X Yan… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Although having achieved great success in medical image segmentation, deep
convolutional neural networks usually require a large dataset with manual annotations for …

A survey of the vision transformers and their CNN-transformer based variants

A Khan, Z Rauf, A Sohail, AR Khan, H Asif… - Artificial Intelligence …, 2023 - Springer
Vision transformers have become popular as a possible substitute to convolutional neural
networks (CNNs) for a variety of computer vision applications. These transformers, with their …

Multi-modal contrastive mutual learning and pseudo-label re-learning for semi-supervised medical image segmentation

S Zhang, J Zhang, B Tian, T Lukasiewicz, Z Xu - Medical Image Analysis, 2023 - Elsevier
Semi-supervised learning has a great potential in medical image segmentation tasks with a
few labeled data, but most of them only consider single-modal data. The excellent …