U-net and its variants for medical image segmentation: A review of theory and applications

N Siddique, S Paheding, CP Elkin… - IEEE access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
U-net is an image segmentation technique developed primarily for image segmentation
tasks. These traits provide U-net with a high utility within the medical imaging community …

Multi-task deep learning for medical image computing and analysis: A review

Y Zhao, X Wang, T Che, G Bao, S Li - Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2023 - Elsevier
The renaissance of deep learning has provided promising solutions to various tasks. While
conventional deep learning models are constructed for a single specific task, multi-task deep …

Polyp-pvt: Polyp segmentation with pyramid vision transformers

B Dong, W Wang, DP Fan, J Li, H Fu, L Shao - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Most polyp segmentation methods use CNNs as their backbone, leading to two key issues
when exchanging information between the encoder and decoder: 1) taking into account the …

Pranet: Parallel reverse attention network for polyp segmentation

DP Fan, GP Ji, T Zhou, G Chen, H Fu, J Shen… - … conference on medical …, 2020 - Springer
Colonoscopy is an effective technique for detecting colorectal polyps, which are highly
related to colorectal cancer. In clinical practice, segmenting polyps from colonoscopy …

Cross-level feature aggregation network for polyp segmentation

T Zhou, Y Zhou, K He, C Gong, J Yang, H Fu, D Shen - Pattern Recognition, 2023 - Elsevier
Accurate segmentation of polyps from colonoscopy images plays a critical role in the
diagnosis and cure of colorectal cancer. Although effectiveness has been achieved in the …

Shallow attention network for polyp segmentation

J Wei, Y Hu, R Zhang, Z Li, SK Zhou, S Cui - Medical Image Computing …, 2021 - Springer
Accurate polyp segmentation is of great importance for colorectal cancer diagnosis.
However, even with a powerful deep neural network, there still exists three big challenges …

Simcvd: Simple contrastive voxel-wise representation distillation for semi-supervised medical image segmentation

C You, Y Zhou, R Zhao, L Staib… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automated segmentation in medical image analysis is a challenging task that requires a
large amount of manually labeled data. However, most existing learning-based approaches …

Semi-supervised medical image segmentation via a tripled-uncertainty guided mean teacher model with contrastive learning

K Wang, B Zhan, C Zu, X Wu, J Zhou, L Zhou… - Medical Image …, 2022 - Elsevier
Due to the difficulty in accessing a large amount of labeled data, semi-supervised learning is
becoming an attractive solution in medical image segmentation. To make use of unlabeled …

Mutual consistency learning for semi-supervised medical image segmentation

Y Wu, Z Ge, D Zhang, M Xu, L Zhang, Y Xia, J Cai - Medical Image Analysis, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, we propose a novel mutual consistency network (MC-Net+) to effectively
exploit the unlabeled data for semi-supervised medical image segmentation. The MC-Net+ …

Camouflaged object detection via context-aware cross-level fusion

G Chen, SJ Liu, YJ Sun, GP Ji, YF Wu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Camouflaged object detection (COD) aims to identify the objects that conceal themselves in
natural scenes. Accurate COD suffers from a number of challenges associated with low …