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 …

[HTML][HTML] TransUNet: Rethinking the U-Net architecture design for medical image segmentation through the lens of transformers

J Chen, J Mei, X Li, Y Lu, Q Yu, Q Wei, X Luo, Y Xie… - Medical Image …, 2024 - Elsevier
Medical image segmentation is crucial for healthcare, yet convolution-based methods like U-
Net face limitations in modeling long-range dependencies. To address this, Transformers …

Sparse Dynamic Volume TransUNet with multi-level edge fusion for brain tumor segmentation

Z Zhu, M Sun, G Qi, Y Li, X Gao, Y Liu - Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract 3D MRI Brain Tumor Segmentation is of great significance in clinical diagnosis and
treatment. Accurate segmentation results are critical for localization and spatial distribution …

Fast and low-GPU-memory abdomen CT organ segmentation: the flare challenge

J Ma, Y Zhang, S Gu, X An, Z Wang, C Ge, C Wang… - Medical Image …, 2022 - Elsevier
Automatic segmentation of abdominal organs in CT scans plays an important role in clinical
practice. However, most existing benchmarks and datasets only focus on segmentation …

CKD-TransBTS: clinical knowledge-driven hybrid transformer with modality-correlated cross-attention for brain tumor segmentation

J Lin, J Lin, C Lu, H Chen, H Lin, B Zhao… - IEEE transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Brain tumor segmentation (BTS) in magnetic resonance image (MRI) is crucial for brain
tumor diagnosis, cancer management and research purposes. With the great success of the …

3d transunet: Advancing medical image segmentation through vision transformers

J Chen, J Mei, X Li, Y Lu, Q Yu, Q Wei, X Luo… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in advancing healthcare systems for
disease diagnosis and treatment planning. The u-shaped architecture, popularly known as …

Deep evidential fusion with uncertainty quantification and reliability learning for multimodal medical image segmentation

L Huang, S Ruan, P Decazes, T Denœux - Information Fusion, 2025 - Elsevier
Single-modality medical images generally do not contain enough information to reach an
accurate and reliable diagnosis. For this reason, physicians commonly rely on multimodal …

One model to synthesize them all: Multi-contrast multi-scale transformer for missing data imputation

J Liu, S Pasumarthi, B Duffy, E Gong… - … on Medical Imaging, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-contrast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is widely used in clinical practice as each
contrast provides complementary information. However, the availability of each imaging …

Bridged-U-Net-ASPP-EVO and deep learning optimization for brain tumor segmentation

R Yousef, S Khan, G Gupta, BM Albahlal, SA Alajlan… - Diagnostics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Brain tumor segmentation from Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) is considered a big
challenge due to the complexity of brain tumor tissues, and segmenting these tissues from …

High-resolution Swin transformer for automatic medical image segmentation

C Wei, S Ren, K Guo, H Hu, J Liang - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
The resolution of feature maps is a critical factor for accurate medical image segmentation.
Most of the existing Transformer-based networks for medical image segmentation adopt a U …