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 …

A survey on cell nuclei instance segmentation and classification: Leveraging context and attention

JD Nunes, D Montezuma, D Oliveira, T Pereira… - Medical Image …, 2024 - Elsevier
Nuclear-derived morphological features and biomarkers provide relevant insights regarding
the tumour microenvironment, while also allowing diagnosis and prognosis in specific …

Fastsam3d: An efficient segment anything model for 3d volumetric medical images

Y Shen, J Li, X Shao, B Inigo Romillo, A Jindal… - … Conference on Medical …, 2024 - Springer
Segment anything models (SAMs) are gaining attention for their zero-shot generalization
capability in segmenting objects of unseen classes and in unseen domains when properly …

Transnuseg: A lightweight multi-task transformer for nuclei segmentation

Z He, M Unberath, J Ke, Y Shen - International Conference on Medical …, 2023 - Springer
Nuclei appear small in size, yet, in real clinical practice, the global spatial information and
correlation of the color or brightness contrast between nuclei and background, have been …

[HTML][HTML] Moe-nuseg: Enhancing nuclei segmentation in histology images with a two-stage mixture of experts network

X Wu, Y Shen, Q Zhao, Y Kang, W Zhang - Alexandria Engineering Journal, 2025 - Elsevier
Accurate nuclei segmentation is essential for extracting quantitative information from
histology images to support disease diagnosis and treatment decisions. However, precise …

[HTML][HTML] CompSegNet: An enhanced U-shaped architecture for nuclei segmentation in H&E histopathology images

M Traoré, E Hancer, R Samet, Z Yıldırım… - … Signal Processing and …, 2024 - Elsevier
In histopathology, nuclei within images hold vital diagnostic information. Automated
segmentation of nuclei can alleviate pathologists' workload and enhance diagnostic …

A 2.5 D multi-path fusion network framework with focusing on z-axis 3D joint for medical image segmentation

F Xia, Y Peng, J Wang, X Chen - Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 2024 - Elsevier
Accurate segmentation of organs and tumors from medical images is to diagnose and treat
diseases more accurately. Many organs, such as the representative pancreas and spleen …

CB-HVTNet: A channel-boosted hybrid vision transformer network for lymphocyte assessment in histopathological images

ML Ali, Z Rauf, A Khan, A Sohail, R Ullah… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Transformers, due to their ability to learn long range dependencies, have overcome the
shortcomings of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for global perspective learning …

Learnable color space conversion and fusion for stain normalization in pathology images

J Ke, Y Zhou, Y Shen, Y Guo, N Liu, X Han… - Medical Image Analysis, 2025 - Elsevier
Variations in hue and contrast are common in H&E-stained pathology images due to
differences in slide preparation across various institutions. Such stain variations, while not …

CNSeg: a dataset for cervical nuclear segmentation

J Zhao, Y He, SH Zhou, J Qin, Y Xie - Computer Methods and Programs in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background and objective Nuclear segmentation in cervical cell images is a crucial
technique for automatic cytopathology diagnosis. Experimental evaluation of nuclear …