Reinforcement learning in medical image analysis: Concepts, applications, challenges, and future directions

M Hu, J Zhang, L Matkovic, T Liu… - Journal of Applied …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Motivation Medical image analysis involves a series of tasks used to assist physicians in
qualitative and quantitative analyses of lesions or anatomical structures which can …

2D medical image synthesis using transformer-based denoising diffusion probabilistic model

S Pan, T Wang, RLJ Qiu, M Axente… - Physics in Medicine …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Artificial intelligence (AI) methods have gained popularity in medical imaging
research. The size and scope of the training image datasets needed for successful AI model …

A recent survey of vision transformers for medical image segmentation

A Khan, Z Rauf, AR Khan, S Rathore, SH Khan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in various healthcare applications,
enabling accurate diagnosis, treatment planning, and disease monitoring. Traditionally …

Polyp-sam: Transfer sam for polyp segmentation

Y Li, M Hu, X Yang - Medical Imaging 2024: Computer-Aided …, 2024 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Automatic segmentation of colon polyps can significantly reduce the misdiagnosis of colon
cancer and improve physician annotation efficiency. While many methods have been …

Abdomen CT multi‐organ segmentation using token‐based MLP‐Mixer

S Pan, CW Chang, T Wang, J Wynne, M Hu… - Medical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Manual contouring is very labor‐intensive, time‐consuming, and subject to intra‐
and inter‐observer variability. An automated deep learning approach to fast and accurate …

Breastsam: A study of segment anything model for breast tumor detection in ultrasound images

M Hu, Y Li, X Yang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.12447, 2023 - arxiv.org
Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers among women worldwide, with early
detection significantly increasing survival rates. Ultrasound imaging is a critical diagnostic …

Towards more precise automatic analysis: a comprehensive survey of deep learning-based multi-organ segmentation

X Liu, L Qu, Z Xie, J Zhao, Y Shi, Z Song - arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.00232, 2023 - arxiv.org
Accurate segmentation of multiple organs of the head, neck, chest, and abdomen from
medical images is an essential step in computer-aided diagnosis, surgical navigation, and …

An optimized framework for cone‐beam computed tomography‐based online evaluation for proton therapy

CW Chang, R Nilsson, S Andersson… - Medical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Clinical evidence has demonstrated that proton therapy can achieve
comparable tumor control probabilities compared to conventional photon therapy but with …

MDDU-Net: A multi-scale dense connectivity hybrid dilated convolutional U-Net for segmentation in prostate ultrasound images

L Wang, Y Cui, Y Zhang, C Guo - Expert Systems with Applications, 2025 - Elsevier
Ultrasound is one of the most commonly used imaging tools in prostate biopsy and
brachytherapy. However, due to issues such as blurred image boundaries, similar intensity …

End-to-end brain tumor detection using a graph-feature-based classifier

M Hu, J Wang, CW Chang, T Liu… - Medical Imaging 2023 …, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Brain tumors are caused by abnormal cell growth and can cause pain and reduced survival
rates. The early detection of brain tumors is pivotal in improving outcomes. Recently …