Medical image segmentation review: The success of u-net

R Azad, EK Aghdam, A Rauland, Y Jia… - … on Pattern Analysis …, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatic medical image segmentation is a crucial topic in the medical domain and
successively a critical counterpart in the computer-aided diagnosis paradigm. U-Net is the …

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

R Azad, A Kazerouni, M Heidari, EK Aghdam… - Medical Image …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
The remarkable performance of the Transformer architecture in natural language processing
has recently also triggered broad interest in Computer Vision. Among other merits …

Vm-unet: Vision mamba unet for medical image segmentation

J Ruan, J Li, S **ang - arxiv preprint arxiv:2402.02491, 2024‏ - arxiv.org
In the realm of medical image segmentation, both CNN-based and Transformer-based
models have been extensively explored. However, CNNs exhibit limitations in long-range …

Medical sam adapter: Adapting segment anything model for medical image segmentation

J Wu, W Ji, Y Liu, H Fu, M Xu, Y Xu, Y ** - arxiv preprint arxiv:2304.12620, 2023‏ - arxiv.org
The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has recently gained popularity in the field of image
segmentation due to its impressive capabilities in various segmentation tasks and its prompt …

[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 **e… - 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 …

Brain tumor segmentation based on the fusion of deep semantics and edge information in multimodal MRI

Z Zhu, X He, G Qi, Y Li, B Cong, Y Liu - Information Fusion, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Brain tumor segmentation in multimodal MRI has great significance in clinical diagnosis and
treatment. The utilization of multimodal information plays a crucial role in brain tumor …

nnformer: Volumetric medical image segmentation via a 3d transformer

HY Zhou, J Guo, Y Zhang, X Han, L Yu… - … on Image Processing, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Transformer, the model of choice for natural language processing, has drawn scant attention
from the medical imaging community. Given the ability to exploit long-term dependencies …

U-mamba: Enhancing long-range dependency for biomedical image segmentation

J Ma, F Li, B Wang - arxiv preprint arxiv:2401.04722, 2024‏ - arxiv.org
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Transformers have been the most popular
architectures for biomedical image segmentation, but both of them have limited ability to …

An effective CNN and Transformer complementary network for medical image segmentation

F Yuan, Z Zhang, Z Fang - Pattern Recognition, 2023‏ - Elsevier
The Transformer network was originally proposed for natural language processing. Due to
its powerful representation ability for long-range dependency, it has been extended for …

Unext: Mlp-based rapid medical image segmentation network

JMJ Valanarasu, VM Patel - … conference on medical image computing and …, 2022‏ - Springer
UNet and its latest extensions like TransUNet have been the leading medical image
segmentation methods in recent years. However, these networks cannot be effectively …