Transformers in medical imaging: A survey

F Shamshad, S Khan, SW Zamir, MH Khan… - Medical Image …, 2023 - Elsevier
Following unprecedented success on the natural language tasks, Transformers have been
successfully applied to several computer vision problems, achieving state-of-the-art results …

Transforming medical imaging with Transformers? A comparative review of key properties, current progresses, and future perspectives

J Li, J Chen, Y Tang, C Wang, BA Landman… - Medical image …, 2023 - Elsevier
Transformer, one of the latest technological advances of deep learning, has gained
prevalence in natural language processing or computer vision. Since medical imaging bear …

Kidney tumor semantic segmentation using deep learning: A survey of state-of-the-art

A Abdelrahman, S Viriri - Journal of imaging, 2022 - mdpi.com
Cure rates for kidney cancer vary according to stage and grade; hence, accurate diagnostic
procedures for early detection and diagnosis are crucial. Some difficulties with manual …

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 …

A survey on attention mechanisms for medical applications: are we moving toward better Algorithms?

T Gonçalves, I Rio-Torto, LF Teixeira… - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The increasing popularity of attention mechanisms in deep learning algorithms for computer
vision and natural language processing made these models attractive to other research …

Transformer-based 3D U-Net for pulmonary vessel segmentation and artery-vein separation from CT images

Y Wu, S Qi, M Wang, S Zhao, H Pang, J Xu… - Medical & Biological …, 2023 - Springer
Transformer-based methods have led to the revolutionizing of multiple computer vision
tasks. Inspired by this, we propose a transformer-based network with a channel-enhanced …

Vison transformer adapter-based hyperbolic embeddings for multi-lesion segmentation in diabetic retinopathy

Z Wang, H Lu, H Yan, H Kan, L Jin - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is a major cause of blindness worldwide. Early detection and
treatment are crucial to prevent vision loss, making accurate and timely diagnosis critical …

Segmentation of kidney mass using AgDenseU-Net 2.5 D model

P Sun, Z Mo, F Hu, X Song, T Mo, B Yu, Y Zhang… - Computers in Biology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Kidney and Kidney Tumor Segmentation Challenge 2021 (KiTS21) released a
kidney CT dataset with 300 patients. Unlike KiTS19, KiTS21 provided a cyst category …

Optimizing Inference Distribution for Efficient Kidney Tumor Segmentation Using a UNet-PWP Deep-Learning Model with XAI on CT Scan Images

PK Rao, S Chatterjee, M Janardhan, K Nagaraju… - Diagnostics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Kidney tumors represent a significant medical challenge, characterized by their often-
asymptomatic nature and the need for early detection to facilitate timely and effective …

3DSN-Net: A 3-D scale-aware convnet with nonlocal context guidance for kidney and tumor segmentation from CT volumes

H Wu, B Zhang, Z Li, J Qin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatic kidney and tumor segmentation from CT volumes is a critical prerequisite/tool for
diagnosis and surgical treatment (such as partial nephrectomy). However, it remains a …