Topology-preserving deep image segmentation

X Hu, F Li, D Samaras, C Chen - Advances in neural …, 2019 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Segmentation algorithms are prone to make topological errors on fine-scale struc-tures, eg,
broken connections. We propose a novel method that learns to segment with correct …

Transnorm: Transformer provides a strong spatial normalization mechanism for a deep segmentation model

R Azad, MT Al-Antary, M Heidari, D Merhof - IEEe Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the past few years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs), particularly U-Net, have been
the prevailing technique in the medical image processing era. Specifically, the U-Net model …

Rethinking boundary detection in deep learning models for medical image segmentation

Y Lin, D Zhang, X Fang, Y Chen, KT Cheng… - … Information Processing in …, 2023 - Springer
Medical image segmentation is a fundamental task in the community of medical image
analysis. In this paper, a novel network architecture, referred to as Convolution, Transformer …

Learning topological interactions for multi-class medical image segmentation

S Gupta, X Hu, J Kaan, M Jin, M Mpoy, K Chung… - … on Computer Vision, 2022 - Springer
Deep learning methods have achieved impressive performance for multi-class medical
image segmentation. However, they are limited in their ability to encode topological …

Learning to combine bottom-up and top-down segmentation

A Levin, Y Weiss - International Journal of Computer Vision, 2009 - Springer
Bottom-up segmentation based only on low-level cues is a notoriously difficult problem. This
difficulty has lead to recent top-down segmentation algorithms that are based on class …

Paddleseg: A high-efficient development toolkit for image segmentation

Y Liu, L Chu, G Chen, Z Wu, Z Chen, B Lai… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Image Segmentation plays an essential role in computer vision and image processing with
various applications from medical diagnosis to autonomous car driving. A lot of …

Mumford–Shah loss functional for image segmentation with deep learning

B Kim, JC Ye - IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent state-of-the-art image segmentation algorithms are mostly based on deep neural
networks, thanks to their high performance and fast computation time. However, these …

Paintseg: Painting pixels for training-free segmentation

X Li, CC Lin, Y Chen, Z Liu, J Wang… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
The paper introduces PaintSeg, a new unsupervised method for segmenting objects without
any training. We propose an adversarial masked contrastive painting (AMCP) process …

Topology-aware segmentation using discrete morse theory

X Hu, Y Wang, L Fuxin, D Samaras, C Chen - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
In the segmentation of fine-scale structures from natural and biomedical images, per-pixel
accuracy is not the only metric of concern. Topological correctness, such as vessel …

Beyond the pixel-wise loss for topology-aware delineation

A Mosinska, P Marquez-Neila… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Delineation of curvilinear structures is an important problem in Computer Vision with
multiple practical applications. With the advent of Deep Learning, many current approaches …