FAFuse: A Four-Axis Fusion framework of CNN and Transformer for medical image segmentation

S Xu, D Xiao, B Yuan, Y Liu, X Wang, N Li, L Shi… - Computers in Biology …, 2023 - Elsevier
Medical image segmentation is crucial for accurate diagnosis and treatment in the medical
field. In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Transformers have been …

MAXFormer: Enhanced transformer for medical image segmentation with multi-attention and multi-scale features fusion

Z Liang, K Zhao, G Liang, S Li, Y Wu, Y Zhou - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2023 - Elsevier
Convolutional neural networks (CNN), especially U-shaped networks, have become the
mainstream approach for medical image segmentation. However, due to the intrinsic locality …

Medical transformer: Gated axial-attention for medical image segmentation

JMJ Valanarasu, P Oza, I Hacihaliloglu… - Medical image computing …, 2021 - Springer
Over the past decade, deep convolutional neural networks have been widely adopted for
medical image segmentation and shown to achieve adequate performance. However, due …

BEFUnet: A Hybrid CNN-Transformer Architecture for Precise Medical Image Segmentation

ON Manzari, JM Kaleybar, H Saadat… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The accurate segmentation of medical images is critical for various healthcare applications.
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs), especially Fully Convolutional Networks (FCNs) like …

CoTrFuse: a novel framework by fusing CNN and transformer for medical image segmentation

Y Chen, T Wang, H Tang, L Zhao… - Physics in Medicine …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Medical image segmentation is a crucial and intricate process in medical image processing
and analysis. With the advancements in artificial intelligence, deep learning techniques …

Contrans: Improving transformer with convolutional attention for medical image segmentation

A Lin, J Xu, J Li, G Lu - … Conference on Medical Image Computing and …, 2022 - Springer
Over the past few years, convolution neural networks (CNNs) and vision transformers (ViTs)
have been two dominant architectures in medical image segmentation. Although CNNs can …

Ctnet: rethinking convolutional neural networks and vision transformer for medical image segmentation

Z Zhang, S Jiang, X Pan - Signal, Image and Video Processing, 2024 - Springer
Convolutional architectures have demonstrated remarkable success in various vision tasks,
offering efficient learning through their inherent induction bias. However, they might be …

[PDF][PDF] TC-Fuse: A Transformers Fusing CNNs Network for Medical Image Segmentation

P Geng, J Lu, Y Zhang, S Ma, Z Tang… - … -Computer Modeling in …, 2023 - cdn.techscience.cn
In medical image segmentation task, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are difficult to
capture long-range dependencies, but transformers can model the long-range …

Dual encoder network with transformer-CNN for multi-organ segmentation

Z Hong, M Chen, W Hu, S Yan, A Qu, L Chen… - Medical & biological …, 2023 - Springer
Medical image segmentation is a critical step in many imaging applications. Automatic
segmentation has gained extensive concern using a convolutional neural network (CNN) …

CASF-Net: Cross-attention and cross-scale fusion network for medical image segmentation

J Zheng, H Liu, Y Feng, J Xu, L Zhao - Computer Methods and Programs in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background: Automatic segmentation of medical images has progressed greatly owing to
the development of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, there are two …