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 of medical image data augmentation techniques for deep learning applications

P Chlap, H Min, N Vandenberg… - Journal of Medical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Research in artificial intelligence for radiology and radiotherapy has recently become
increasingly reliant on the use of deep learning‐based algorithms. While the performance of …

A review of deep-learning-based medical image segmentation methods

X Liu, L Song, S Liu, Y Zhang - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
As an emerging biomedical image processing technology, medical image segmentation has
made great contributions to sustainable medical care. Now it has become an important …

[HTML][HTML] Unified focal loss: Generalising dice and cross entropy-based losses to handle class imbalanced medical image segmentation

M Yeung, E Sala, CB Schönlieb, L Rundo - Computerized Medical Imaging …, 2022 - Elsevier
Automatic segmentation methods are an important advancement in medical image analysis.
Machine learning techniques, and deep neural networks in particular, are the state-of-the-art …

Ma-net: A multi-scale attention network for liver and tumor segmentation

T Fan, G Wang, Y Li, H Wang - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatic assessing the location and extent of liver and liver tumor is critical for radiologists,
diagnosis and the clinical process. In recent years, a large number of variants of U-Net …

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 …

MS-Net: multi-site network for improving prostate segmentation with heterogeneous MRI data

Q Liu, Q Dou, L Yu, PA Heng - IEEE transactions on medical …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automated prostate segmentation in MRI is highly demanded for computer-assisted
diagnosis. Recently, a variety of deep learning methods have achieved remarkable progress …

MADGAN: Unsupervised medical anomaly detection GAN using multiple adjacent brain MRI slice reconstruction

C Han, L Rundo, K Murao, T Noguchi, Y Shimahara… - BMC …, 2021 - Springer
Background Unsupervised learning can discover various unseen abnormalities, relying on
large-scale unannotated medical images of healthy subjects. Towards this, unsupervised …

[HTML][HTML] Focus U-Net: A novel dual attention-gated CNN for polyp segmentation during colonoscopy

M Yeung, E Sala, CB Schönlieb, L Rundo - Computers in biology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Colonoscopy remains the gold-standard screening for colorectal cancer.
However, significant miss rates for polyps have been reported, particularly when there are …

[HTML][HTML] End-to-end prostate cancer detection in bpMRI via 3D CNNs: effects of attention mechanisms, clinical priori and decoupled false positive reduction

A Saha, M Hosseinzadeh, H Huisman - Medical image analysis, 2021 - Elsevier
We present a multi-stage 3D computer-aided detection and diagnosis (CAD) model 1 for
automated localization of clinically significant prostate cancer (csPCa) in bi-parametric MR …