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 …

Transformer-based unsupervised contrastive learning for histopathological image classification

X Wang, S Yang, J Zhang, M Wang, J Zhang… - Medical image …, 2022 - Elsevier
A large-scale and well-annotated dataset is a key factor for the success of deep learning in
medical image analysis. However, assembling such large annotations is very challenging …

Towards a general-purpose foundation model for computational pathology

RJ Chen, T Ding, MY Lu, DFK Williamson, G Jaume… - Nature Medicine, 2024 - nature.com
Quantitative evaluation of tissue images is crucial for computational pathology (CPath) tasks,
requiring the objective characterization of histopathological entities from whole-slide images …

RetCCL: Clustering-guided contrastive learning for whole-slide image retrieval

X Wang, Y Du, S Yang, J Zhang, M Wang, J Zhang… - Medical image …, 2023 - Elsevier
Benefiting from the large-scale archiving of digitized whole-slide images (WSIs), computer-
aided diagnosis has been well developed to assist pathologists in decision-making. Content …

Transformer-based biomarker prediction from colorectal cancer histology: A large-scale multicentric study

SJ Wagner, D Reisenbüchler, NP West, JM Niehues… - Cancer Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Deep learning (DL) can accelerate the prediction of prognostic biomarkers from routine
pathology slides in colorectal cancer (CRC). However, current approaches rely on …

Deep learning techniques for liver and liver tumor segmentation: A review

S Gul, MS Khan, A Bibi, A Khandakar, MA Ayari… - Computers in Biology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Liver and liver tumor segmentation from 3D volumetric images has been an active research
area in the medical image processing domain for the last few decades. The existence of …

An efficient multilevel thresholding segmentation method for thermography breast cancer imaging based on improved chimp optimization algorithm

EH Houssein, MM Emam, AA Ali - Expert Systems with Applications, 2021 - Elsevier
Thermography images are a helpful screening tool that can detect breast cancer by showing
the body parts that indicate an abnormal change in temperature. Various segmentation …

Improved manta ray foraging optimization for multi-level thresholding using COVID-19 CT images

EH Houssein, MM Emam, AA Ali - Neural Computing and Applications, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is pervasive worldwide, posing a high risk to
people's safety and health. Many algorithms were developed to identify COVID-19. One way …

DigestPath: A benchmark dataset with challenge review for the pathological detection and segmentation of digestive-system

Q Da, X Huang, Z Li, Y Zuo, C Zhang, J Liu… - Medical Image …, 2022 - Elsevier
Examination of pathological images is the golden standard for diagnosing and screening
many kinds of cancers. Multiple datasets, benchmarks, and challenges have been released …