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 …

A multi-branch hybrid transformer network for corneal endothelial cell segmentation

Y Zhang, R Higashita, H Fu, Y Xu, Y Zhang… - … Image Computing and …, 2021 - Springer
Corneal endothelial cell segmentation plays a vital role in quantifying clinical indicators such
as cell density, coefficient of variation, and hexagonality. However, the corneal …

Segmentation of corneal endothelium images using a U-Net-based convolutional neural network

A Fabijańska - Artificial intelligence in medicine, 2018 - Elsevier
Diagnostic information regarding the health status of the corneal endothelium may be
obtained by analyzing the size and the shape of the endothelial cells in specular microscopy …

CNN-watershed: A watershed transform with predicted markers for corneal endothelium image segmentation

A Kucharski, A Fabijańska - Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 2021 - Elsevier
Quantitive information about corneal endothelium cells' morphometry is vital for assessing
cornea pathologies. Nevertheless, in clinical, everyday routine dominates qualitative …

Fully convolutional architecture vs sliding-window CNN for corneal endothelium cell segmentation

JP Vigueras-Guillén, B Sari, SF Goes, HG Lemij… - BMC Biomedical …, 2019 - Springer
Background Corneal endothelium (CE) images provide valuable clinical information
regarding the health state of the cornea. Computation of the clinical morphometric …

Advantages of transformer and its application for medical image segmentation: a survey

Q Pu, Z Xi, S Yin, Z Zhao, L Zhao - BioMedical Engineering OnLine, 2024 - Springer
Purpose Convolution operator-based neural networks have shown great success in medical
image segmentation over the past decade. The U-shaped network with a codec structure is …

A review on digital image processing techniques for in-vivo confocal images of the cornea

R Herrera-Pereda, AT Crispi, D Babin, W Philips… - Medical Image …, 2021 - Elsevier
This work reviews the scientific literature regarding digital image processing for in vivo
confocal microscopy images of the cornea. We present and discuss a selection of prominent …

Fully automatic evaluation of the corneal endothelium from in vivo confocal microscopy

B Selig, KA Vermeer, B Rieger, T Hillenaar… - BMC medical …, 2015 - Springer
Background Manual and semi-automatic analyses of images, acquired in vivo by confocal
microscopy, are often used to determine the quality of corneal endothelium in the human …

Corneal endothelial cell segmentation by classifier-driven merging of oversegmented images

JP Vigueras-Guillén, ER Andrinopoulou… - … on Medical Imaging, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Corneal endothelium images obtained by in vivo specular microscopy provide important
information to assess the health status of the cornea. Estimation of clinical parameters, such …