[HTML][HTML] Deep learning attention mechanism in medical image analysis: Basics and beyonds

X Li, M Li, P Yan, G Li, Y Jiang, H Luo… - International Journal of …, 2023 - sciltp.com
With the improvement of hardware computing power and the development of deep learning
algorithms, a revolution of" artificial intelligence (AI)+ medical image" is taking place …

Rethinking the unpretentious U-net for medical ultrasound image segmentation

G Chen, L Li, J Zhang, Y Dai - Pattern Recognition, 2023 - Elsevier
Breast tumor segmentation from ultrasound images is one of the key steps that help us
characterize and localize tumor regions. However, variable tumor morphology, blurred …

DSEU-net: A novel deep supervision SEU-net for medical ultrasound image segmentation

G Chen, Y Liu, J Qian, J Zhang, X Yin, L Cui… - Expert Systems with …, 2023 - Elsevier
The automatic and accurate medical ultrasound image segmentation has been a
challenging task due to the coupled interference of various internal and external factors. In …

Enhancing breast ultrasound segmentation through fine-tuning and optimization techniques: sharp attention UNet

D Khaledyan, TJ Marini, T M. Baran, A O'Connell… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Segmentation of breast ultrasound images is a crucial and challenging task in computer-
aided diagnosis systems. Accurately segmenting masses in benign and malignant cases …

KepSalinst: Using peripheral points to delineate salient instances

J Chen, R Cong, HHS Ip… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Salient instance segmentation (SIS) is an emerging field that evolves from salient object
detection (SOD), aiming at identifying individual salient instances using segmentation maps …

Focal-unet: Unet-like focal modulation for medical image segmentation

MR Naderi, MH Givkashi, F Piri, N Karimi… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Recently, many attempts have been made to construct a transformer base U-shaped
architecture, and new methods have been proposed that outperformed CNN-based rivals …

Multi-stage fully convolutional network for precise prostate segmentation in ultrasound images

Y Feng, CC Atabansi, J Nie, H Liu, H Zhou… - Biocybernetics and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Prostate cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed non-cutaneous malignant tumors
and the sixth major cause of cancer-related death generally found in men globally …

Inception UNet architecture for breast tumor segmentation and detection using hybrid deep learning approach

A Sharma, PK Mishra - Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2024 - Springer
Breast cancer is a prevalent type of cancer that significantly impacts women health and
stands as a leading cause of death. In clinical settings, automated breast tumor …

A dual-branch network for ultrasound image segmentation

Z Zhu, Z Zhang, G Qi, Y Li, Y Li, L Mu - Biomedical Signal Processing and …, 2025 - Elsevier
Ultrasound image segmentation research is of great significance, especially in medical
diagnosis and clinical treatment. However, speckle noise caused by reflections from different …

A unified 2D medical image segmentation network (SegmentNet) through distance-awareness and local feature extraction

CJ Ejiyi, Z Qin, C Ukwuoma, VK Agbesi… - Biocybernetics and …, 2024 - Elsevier
In addressing the challenges of medical image segmentation, particularly the elusiveness of
global context and limitations in leveraging both global and local context simultaneously, we …