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 …

Hiformer: Hierarchical multi-scale representations using transformers for medical image segmentation

M Heidari, A Kazerouni, M Soltany… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been the consensus for medical image
segmentation tasks. However, they inevitably suffer from the limitation in modeling long …

Dae-former: Dual attention-guided efficient transformer for medical image segmentation

R Azad, R Arimond, EK Aghdam, A Kazerouni… - … Workshop on PRedictive …, 2023 - Springer
Transformers have recently gained attention in the computer vision domain due to their
ability to model long-range dependencies. However, the self-attention mechanism, which is …

Transdeeplab: Convolution-free transformer-based deeplab v3+ for medical image segmentation

R Azad, M Heidari, M Shariatnia, EK Aghdam… - … Workshop on PRedictive …, 2022 - Springer
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been the de facto standard in a diverse set of
computer vision tasks for many years. Especially, deep neural networks based on seminal …

Beyond self-attention: Deformable large kernel attention for medical image segmentation

R Azad, L Niggemeier, M Hüttemann… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Medical image segmentation has seen significant improvements with transformer models,
which excel in gras** far-reaching contexts and global contextual information. However …

Attention deeplabv3+: Multi-level context attention mechanism for skin lesion segmentation

R Azad, M Asadi-Aghbolaghi, M Fathy… - European conference on …, 2020 - Springer
Skin lesion segmentation is a challenging task due to the large variation of anatomy across
different cases. In the last few years, deep learning frameworks have shown high …

Transnorm: Transformer provides a strong spatial normalization mechanism for a deep segmentation model

R Azad, MT Al-Antary, M Heidari, D Merhof - IEEe Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the past few years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs), particularly U-Net, have been
the prevailing technique in the medical image processing era. Specifically, the U-Net model …

Contextual attention network: Transformer meets u-net

R Azad, M Heidari, Y Wu, D Merhof - International Workshop on Machine …, 2022 - Springer
Convolutional neural networks (CNN)(eg, UNet) have become the de facto standard and
attained immense success in medical image segmentation. However, CNN based methods …

CASF-Net: Cross-attention and cross-scale fusion network for medical image segmentation

J Zheng, H Liu, Y Feng, J Xu, L Zhao - Computer Methods and Programs in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background: Automatic segmentation of medical images has progressed greatly owing to
the development of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, there are two …