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 …

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 …

Multi-scale self-guided attention for medical image segmentation

A Sinha, J Dolz - IEEE journal of biomedical and health …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Even though convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are driving progress in medical image
segmentation, standard models still have some drawbacks. First, the use of multi-scale …

Inconsistency-aware uncertainty estimation for semi-supervised medical image segmentation

Y Shi, J Zhang, T Ling, J Lu, Y Zheng… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In semi-supervised medical image segmentation, most previous works draw on the common
assumption that higher entropy means higher uncertainty. In this paper, we investigate a …

Modality specific U-Net variants for biomedical image segmentation: a survey

NS Punn, S Agarwal - Artificial Intelligence Review, 2022 - Springer
With the advent of advancements in deep learning approaches, such as deep convolution
neural network, residual neural network, adversarial network; U-Net architectures are most …

Triple U-net: Hematoxylin-aware nuclei segmentation with progressive dense feature aggregation

B Zhao, X Chen, Z Li, Z Yu, S Yao, L Yan, Y Wang… - Medical Image …, 2020 - Elsevier
Nuclei segmentation is a vital step for pathological cancer research. It is still an open
problem due to some difficulties, such as color inconsistency introduced by non-uniform …

[HTML][HTML] Large-scale multi-center CT and MRI segmentation of pancreas with deep learning

Z Zhang, E Keles, G Durak, Y Taktak, O Susladkar… - Medical image …, 2025 - Elsevier
Automated volumetric segmentation of the pancreas on cross-sectional imaging is needed
for diagnosis and follow-up of pancreatic diseases. While CT-based pancreatic …

Machine intelligence in non-invasive endocrine cancer diagnostics

NM Thomasian, IR Kamel, HX Bai - Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 2022 - nature.com
Artificial intelligence (AI) has illuminated a clear path towards an evolving health-care
system replete with enhanced precision and computing capabilities. Medical imaging …

Atso: Asynchronous teacher-student optimization for semi-supervised image segmentation

X Huo, L **e, J He, Z Yang, W Zhou… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Semi-supervised learning is a useful tool for image segmentation, mainly due to its ability in
extracting knowledge from unlabeled data to assist learning from labeled data. This paper …

Brain stroke lesion segmentation using consistent perception generative adversarial network

S Wang, Z Chen, S You, B Wang, Y Shen… - Neural Computing and …, 2022 - Springer
The state-of-the-art deep learning methods have demonstrated impressive performance in
segmentation tasks. However, the success of these methods depends on a large amount of …