Deep learning techniques for medical image segmentation: achievements and challenges

MH Hesamian, W Jia, X He, P Kennedy - Journal of digital imaging, 2019 - Springer
Deep learning-based image segmentation is by now firmly established as a robust tool in
image segmentation. It has been widely used to separate homogeneous areas as the first …

A review on the use of deep learning for medical images segmentation

M Aljabri, M AlGhamdi - Neurocomputing, 2022 - Elsevier
Deep learning (DL) algorithms have rapidly become a robust tool for analyzing medical
images. They have been used extensively for medical image segmentation as the first and …

Transunet: Transformers make strong encoders for medical image segmentation

J Chen, Y Lu, Q Yu, X Luo, E Adeli, Y Wang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Medical image segmentation is an essential prerequisite for developing healthcare systems,
especially for disease diagnosis and treatment planning. On various medical image …

Abdomenct-1k: Is abdominal organ segmentation a solved problem?

J Ma, Y Zhang, S Gu, C Zhu, C Ge… - … on Pattern Analysis …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the unprecedented developments in deep learning, automatic segmentation of main
abdominal organs seems to be a solved problem as state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods have …

[HTML][HTML] Attention gated networks: Learning to leverage salient regions in medical images

J Schlemper, O Oktay, M Schaap, M Heinrich… - Medical image …, 2019 - Elsevier
We propose a novel attention gate (AG) model for medical image analysis that automatically
learns to focus on target structures of varying shapes and sizes. Models trained with AGs …

Bi-directional ConvLSTM U-Net with densley connected convolutions

R Azad, M Asadi-Aghbolaghi… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - openaccess.thecvf.com
In recent years, deep learning-based networks have achieved state-of-the-art performance
in medical image segmentation. Among the existing networks, U-Net has been successfully …

Attention u-net: Learning where to look for the pancreas

O Oktay, J Schlemper, LL Folgoc, M Lee… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
We propose a novel attention gate (AG) model for medical imaging that automatically learns
to focus on target structures of varying shapes and sizes. Models trained with AGs implicitly …

[HTML][HTML] Volumetric memory network for interactive medical image segmentation

T Zhou, L Li, G Bredell, J Li, J Unkelbach… - Medical Image …, 2023 - Elsevier
Despite recent progress of automatic medical image segmentation techniques, fully
automatic results usually fail to meet clinically acceptable accuracy, thus typically require …

Reducing the hausdorff distance in medical image segmentation with convolutional neural networks

D Karimi, SE Salcudean - IEEE Transactions on medical …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Hausdorff Distance (HD) is widely used in evaluating medical image segmentation
methods. However, the existing segmentation methods do not attempt to reduce HD directly …

H-DenseUNet: hybrid densely connected UNet for liver and tumor segmentation from CT volumes

X Li, H Chen, X Qi, Q Dou, CW Fu… - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Liver cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer death. To assist doctors in hepatocellular
carcinoma diagnosis and treatment planning, an accurate and automatic liver and tumor …