2021 China Automation Congress (CAC),
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
unknown, P. 8880 - 8884
Published: Nov. 17, 2023
Deep
convolutional
neural
networks
have
been
employed
in
image
segmentation
more
and
recently
due
to
their
ability
extract
detailed
properties
from
images.
One
of
the
most
successful
network
frameworks
for
among
them
is
encoder-decoder
structure.
U-Net
combines
an
encoder
a
decoder
segment
images
at
pixel
level
tasks.
uses
multi-scale
layers
visual
information;
nevertheless,
these
are
unable
record
long-distance
correlations.
In
order
gather
both
local
global
information
about
image,
this
work
proposes
bidirectional
Transformer
(BTU-Net)
model,
which
draws
inspiration
concept.
The
BTU-Net
structure
has
with
five
down-sampling
up-sampling
levels.
Two-way
transformer
hybrid
convolution
modules
used
final
three
layers,
whereas
first
two
layers.
With
addition
two-way
quadratic
complexity
traditional
self-attention
mechanism
decreases
linearly.
IoU,
F1-score,
accuracy,
recall,
precision
scores
our
suggested
model
61.9%,
67.2%,
83.9%,
63.3%,
84.3%,
respectively,
experiments
shown
that
they
comparable
other
models.
Scientific Reports,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
13(1)
Published: Nov. 16, 2023
Automatic
liver
tumor
segmentation
is
a
paramount
important
application
for
diagnosis
and
treatment
planning.
However,
it
has
become
highly
challenging
task
due
to
the
heterogeneity
of
shape
intensity
variation.
capable
establish
diagnostic
standard
provide
relevant
radiological
information
all
levels
expertise.
Recently,
deep
convolutional
neural
networks
have
demonstrated
superiority
in
feature
extraction
learning
medical
image
segmentation.
multi-layer
dense
stacks
make
model
quite
inconsistent
imitating
visual
attention
awareness
expertise
recognition
task.
To
bridge
that
capability,
mechanisms
developed
better
selection.
In
this
paper,
we
propose
novel
network
named
Multi
Attention
Network
(MANet)
as
fusion
learn
highlighting
features
while
suppressing
irrelevant
The
proposed
followed
U-Net
basic
architecture.
Moreover,
residual
mechanism
implemented
encoder.
Convolutional
block
module
split
into
channel
spatial
modules
implement
encoder
decoder
integrated
extract
low-level
combine
with
high-level
ones.
architecture
trained
evaluated
on
publicly
available
MICCAI
2017
Liver
Tumor
Segmentation
dataset
3DIRCADb
under
various
evaluation
metrics.
MANet
promising
results
compared
state-of-the-art
methods
comparatively
small
parameter
overhead.
Engineering Technology & Applied Science Research,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
15(1), P. 19324 - 19330
Published: Feb. 2, 2025
According
to
the
latest
global
cancer
statistics
for
2022,
liver
ranks
as
ninth
most
common
disease
in
women.
Segmenting
and
distinguishing
it
from
tumors
within
pose
a
significant
challenge
due
complex
nature
of
imaging.
Common
imaging
methods
such
Magnetic
Resonance
Imaging
(MRI),
Computer
Tomography
(CT),
Ultrasound
(US)
are
employed
distinguish
tissue
after
collecting
sample.
Attempting
partition
tumor
based
on
grayscale
shades
or
shapes
abdominal
CT
images
is
not
ideal
because
overlapping
intensity
levels
variability
location
shape
soft
tissues.
To
address
this
issue,
study
introduces
an
effective
method
image
segmentation
using
3D
deep
Convolutional
Neural
Network
(3D-DCNN).
The
process
involves
several
stages.
First,
undergo
preprocessing
enhance
quality,
including
median
filtering,
adaptive
converting
them
grayscale.
feature
extraction
phase
focuses
extracting
four
sets
features,
Local
Binary
Pattern
(LBP)
Gray-Level
Co-occurrence
Matrix
(GLCM).
Additionally,
Iterative
Region
Growing
(IRG)
technique
developed
improve
Dice
Similarity
Coefficient
(DSC)
prediction
by
enhancing
quality
input
obtained
segmented
images.
This
enables
volumes
can
subsequently
be
used
segment
evaluate
performance
proposed
3D-DLNN
approach.
was
implemented
MATLAB,
its
evaluated
various
metrics.
In
experimental
analysis,
outperformed
other
methods,
Jaccard
with
JISTS-FCM,
Fuzzy
C-Means
(FCM),
FCM
Cluster
Size
Adjustment
(FCM-CSA).
IET Image Processing,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
19(1)
Published: Jan. 1, 2025
ABSTRACT
Automatic
liver
segmentation
is
of
great
significance
for
computer‐aided
treatment
and
surgery
diseases.
However,
respiratory
motion
often
affects
the
liver,
leading
to
image
artifacts
in
magnetic
resonance
imaging
(MRI)
increasing
difficulty.
To
overcome
this
issue,
we
propose
a
global
spatial
structure‐aware
attention
model
(GSA‐Net),
robust
network
developed
difficulties
caused
by
motion.
The
GSA‐Net
an
encoder‐decoder
architecture,
which
extracts
structure
information
from
images
identifies
different
objects
using
minimum
spanning
tree
algorithm.
network's
encoder
multi‐scale
features
with
help
effective
lightweight
channel
module.
decoder
then
transforms
these
bottom‐up
filter
modules.
Combined
boundary
detection
module,
performance
can
be
further
improved.
We
evaluate
effectiveness
our
method
on
two
MRI
benchmarks:
one
other
without.
Numerical
evaluations
benchmarks
demonstrate
that
consistently
outperforms
previous
state‐of‐the‐art
models
terms
precision
artifact
dataset,
also
achieves
notable
results
high‐quality
datasets.
Frontiers in Plant Science,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
14
Published: March 27, 2023
The
segmentation
of
pepper
leaves
from
images
is
great
significance
for
the
accurate
control
leaf
diseases.
To
address
issue,
we
propose
a
bidirectional
attention
fusion
network
combing
convolution
neural
(CNN)
and
Swin
Transformer,
called
BAF-Net,
to
segment
image.
Specially,
BAF-Net
first
uses
multi-scale
feature
(MSFF)
branch
extract
long-range
dependencies
by
constructing
cascaded
Transformer-based
CNN-based
block,
which
based
on
U-shape
architecture.
Then,
it
full-scale
(FSFF)
enhance
boundary
information
attain
detailed
information.
Finally,
an
adaptive
module
designed
bridge
relation
MSFF
FSFF
features.
results
four
datasets
demonstrated
that
our
model
obtains
F1
scores
96.75%,
91.10%,
97.34%
94.42%,
IoU
95.68%,
86.76%,
96.12%
91.44%,
respectively.
Compared
state-of-the-art
models,
proposed
achieves
better
performance.
code
will
be
available
at
website:
https://github.com/fangchj2002/BAF-Net.
Journal of Medical Systems,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
48(1)
Published: Oct. 14, 2024
Abstract
The
use
of
artificial
intelligence
(AI)
in
the
segmentation
liver
structures
medical
images
has
become
a
popular
research
focus
past
half-decade.
performance
AI
tools
screening
for
this
task
may
vary
widely
and
been
tested
literature
various
datasets.
However,
no
scientometric
report
provided
systematic
overview
scientific
area.
This
article
presents
bibliometric
review
recent
advances
neuronal
network
modeling
approaches,
mainly
deep
learning,
to
outline
multiple
directions
field
terms
algorithmic
features.
Therefore,
detailed
most
relevant
publications
addressing
fully
automatic
semantic
segmenting
Computed
Tomography
(CT)
algorithm
objective,
benchmark,
model
complexity
is
provided.
suggests
that
hybrid
2D
3D
networks
are
top
performers
liver.
In
case
tumor
vasculature
segmentation,
generative
approaches
perform
best.
reported
benchmark
indicates
there
still
much
be
improved
such
small
high-resolution
abdominal
CT
scans.
IEEE Access,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
11, P. 41467 - 41479
Published: Jan. 1, 2023
Semantic
segmentation
of
mechanical
assembly
images
provides
an
effective
way
to
monitor
the
process
and
improve
product
quality.
Compared
with
other
deep
learning
models,
Transformer
has
advantages
in
modeling
global
context,
it
been
widely
applied
various
computer
vision
tasks
including
semantic
segmentation.
However,
pays
same
granularity
attention
on
all
regions
image,
so
some
difficulty
be
images,
which
parts
have
large
size
differences
information
quantity
distribution
is
uneven.
This
paper
proposes
a
novel
Transformer-based
model
called
Vision
Self-Adaptive
Patch
Size
(ViT-SAPS).
ViT-SAPS
can
perceive
detail
image
finer-grained
where
locates,
thus
meeting
requirements
Specifically,
self-adaptive
patch
splitting
algorithm
proposed
split
into
patches
sizes.
The
more
region
has,
smaller
into.
Further,
handle
these
unfixed-size
patches,
position
encoding
scheme
non-uniform
bilinear
interpolation
used
after
sequence
decoding
are
proposed.
Experimental
results
show
that
stronger
ability
than
fixed
size,
achieves
impressive
locality-globality
trade-off.
study
not
only
practical
method
for
segmentation,
but
also
much
value
application
Transformers
fields.
code
available
at:
https://github.com/QDLGARIM/ViT-SAPS.