Advances in medical image analysis with vision transformers: a comprehensive review

R Azad, A Kazerouni, M Heidari, EK Aghdam… - Medical Image …, 2023 - Elsevier
The remarkable performance of the Transformer architecture in natural language processing
has recently also triggered broad interest in Computer Vision. Among other merits …

A comprehensive survey on segment anything model for vision and beyond

C Zhang, L Liu, Y Cui, G Huang, W Lin, Y Yang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Artificial intelligence (AI) is evolving towards artificial general intelligence, which refers to the
ability of an AI system to perform a wide range of tasks and exhibit a level of intelligence …

Beyond self-attention: Deformable large kernel attention for medical image segmentation

R Azad, L Niggemeier, M Hüttemann… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Medical image segmentation has seen significant improvements with transformer models,
which excel in grasping far-reaching contexts and global contextual information. However …

Enhancing medical image segmentation with TransCeption: A multi-scale feature fusion approach

R Azad, Y Jia, EK Aghdam, J Cohen-Adad… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
While CNN-based methods have been the cornerstone of medical image segmentation due
to their promising performance and robustness, they suffer from limitations in capturing long …

Multi-scale hypergraph-based feature alignment network for cell localization

B Li, Y Zhang, C Zhang, X Piao, Y Hu, B Yin - Pattern Recognition, 2024 - Elsevier
Cell localization in medical image analysis is a challenging task due to the significant
variation in cell shape, size and color. Existing localization methods continue to tackle these …

Unleashing the potential of SAM for medical adaptation via hierarchical decoding

Z Cheng, Q Wei, H Zhu, Y Wang, L Qu… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Abstract The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has garnered significant attention for its
versatile segmentation abilities and intuitive prompt-based interface. However its application …

Self-sampling meta SAM: enhancing few-shot medical image segmentation with meta-learning

T Leng, Y Zhang, K Han, X Xie - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Abstract While the Segment Anything Model (SAM) excels in semantic segmentation for
general-purpose images, its performance significantly deteriorates when applied to medical …

MAXFormer: Enhanced transformer for medical image segmentation with multi-attention and multi-scale features fusion

Z Liang, K Zhao, G Liang, S Li, Y Wu, Y Zhou - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2023 - Elsevier
Convolutional neural networks (CNN), especially U-shaped networks, have become the
mainstream approach for medical image segmentation. However, due to the intrinsic locality …

An innovative solution based on TSCA-ViT for osteosarcoma diagnosis in resource-limited settings

Z He, J Liu, F Gou, J Wu - Biomedicines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Identifying and managing osteosarcoma pose significant challenges, especially in resource-
constrained developing nations. Advanced diagnostic methods involve isolating the nucleus …

Diffusion model-based text-guided enhancement network for medical image segmentation

Z Dong, G Yuan, Z Hua, J Li - Expert Systems with Applications, 2024 - Elsevier
In recent years, denoising diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in
generating pixel-level representations with semantic values for image generation modeling …