Hiformer: Hierarchical multi-scale representations using transformers for medical image segmentation

M Heidari, A Kazerouni, M Soltany… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been the consensus for medical image
segmentation tasks. However, they inevitably suffer from the limitation in modeling long …

Medical image segmentation on mri images with missing modalities: A review

R Azad, N Khosravi, M Dehghanmanshadi… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Dealing with missing modalities in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and overcoming
their negative repercussions is considered a hurdle in biomedical imaging. The combination …

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 …

Dae-former: Dual attention-guided efficient transformer for medical image segmentation

R Azad, R Arimond, EK Aghdam, A Kazerouni… - … Workshop on PRedictive …, 2023 - Springer
Transformers have recently gained attention in the computer vision domain due to their
ability to model long-range dependencies. However, the self-attention mechanism, which is …

Contextual attention network: Transformer meets u-net

R Azad, M Heidari, Y Wu, D Merhof - International Workshop on Machine …, 2022 - Springer
Convolutional neural networks (CNN)(eg, UNet) have become the de facto standard and
attained immense success in medical image segmentation. However, CNN based methods …

Directional connectivity-based segmentation of medical images

Z Yang, S Farsiu - Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF conference …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Anatomical consistency in biomarker segmentation is crucial for many medical image
analysis tasks. A promising paradigm for achieving anatomically consistent segmentation …

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 …

SMU-Net: Style matching U-Net for brain tumor segmentation with missing modalities

R Azad, N Khosravi, D Merhof - International Conference on …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
Gliomas are one of the most prevalent types of primary brain tumors, accounting for more
than 30% of all cases and they develop from the glial stem or progenitor cells. In theory, the …

Attention swin u-net: Cross-contextual attention mechanism for skin lesion segmentation

EK Aghdam, R Azad, M Zarvani… - 2023 IEEE 20th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Melanoma is caused by the abnormal growth of melanocytes in human skin. Like other
cancers, this life-threatening skin cancer can be treated with early diagnosis. To support a …

CU-net: a new improved multi-input color U-net model for skin lesion semantic segmentation

R Ramadan, S Aly - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Melanoma is considered one of the most dangerous skin cancer diseases that threaten
human health and life. Early diagnosis of melanoma is a big challenge, especially with the …