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eess.IV2024★ 6 cited

MSANet: Multi-scale Adaptive Attention-guided Network for Medical Image Segmentation

Sina Ghorbani Kolahi, Seyed Kamal Chaharsooghi, Toktam Khatibi +5

Medical image segmentation involves identifying and separating object instances in a medical image to delineate various tissues and structures, a task complicated by the significan…

eess.IV2024★ 4 cited

Computation-Efficient Era: A Comprehensive Survey of State Space Models in Medical Image Analysis

Moein Heidari, Sina Ghorbani Kolahi, Sanaz Karimijafarbigloo +8

Sequence modeling plays a vital role across various domains, with recurrent neural networks being historically the predominant method of performing these tasks. However, the emerge…

eess.IV2024★ 1 cited

LHU-Net: a Lean Hybrid U-Net for Cost-efficient, High-performance Volumetric Segmentation

Yousef Sadegheih, Afshin Bozorgpour, Pratibha Kumari +2

The rise of Transformer architectures has advanced medical image segmentation, leading to hybrid models that combine Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Transformers. However,…

eess.IV2024★ 2 cited

Enhancing Efficiency in Vision Transformer Networks: Design Techniques and Insights

Moein Heidari, Reza Azad, Sina Ghorbani Kolahi +8

Intrigued by the inherent ability of the human visual system to identify salient regions in complex scenes, attention mechanisms have been seamlessly integrated into various Comput…

eess.IV2023★ 2 cited

Continual Learning in Medical Image Analysis: A Comprehensive Review of Recent Advancements and Future Prospects

Pratibha Kumari, Joohi Chauhan, Afshin Bozorgpour +3

Medical imaging analysis has witnessed remarkable advancements even surpassing human-level performance in recent years, driven by the rapid development of advanced deep-learning al…

eess.IV2023★ 1 cited

DermoSegDiff: A Boundary-aware Segmentation Diffusion Model for Skin Lesion Delineation

Afshin Bozorgpour, Yousef Sadegheih, Amirhossein Kazerouni +2

Skin lesion segmentation plays a critical role in the early detection and accurate diagnosis of dermatological conditions. Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) have rec…

eess.IV2023★ 6 cited

Implicit Neural Representation in Medical Imaging: A Comparative Survey

Amirali Molaei, Amirhossein Aminimehr, Armin Tavakoli +4

Implicit neural representations (INRs) have gained prominence as a powerful paradigm in scene reconstruction and computer graphics, demonstrating remarkable results. By utilizing n…

eess.IV2022★ 97 cited

Medical Image Segmentation Review: The success of U-Net

Reza Azad, Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam, Amelie Rauland +7

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 most wi…

eess.IV2022★ 48 cited

Diffusion Models for Medical Image Analysis: A Comprehensive Survey

Amirhossein Kazerouni, Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam, Moein Heidari +4

Denoising diffusion models, a class of generative models, have garnered immense interest lately in various deep-learning problems. A diffusion probabilistic model defines a forward…

eess.IV2022

Attention Swin U-Net: Cross-Contextual Attention Mechanism for Skin Lesion Segmentation

Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam, Reza Azad, Maral Zarvani +1

Melanoma is caused by the abnormal growth of melanocytes in human skin. Like other cancers, this life-threatening skin cancer can be treated with early diagnosis. To support a diag…

eess.IV2022

TransDeepLab: Convolution-Free Transformer-based DeepLab v3+ for Medical Image Segmentation

Reza Azad, Moein Heidari, Moein Shariatnia +4

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 arc…

eess.IV2022

Contextual Attention Network: Transformer Meets U-Net

Reza Azad, Moein Heidari, Yuli Wu +1

Currently, convolutional neural networks (CNN) (e.g., U-Net) have become the de facto standard and attained immense success in medical image segmentation. However, as a downside, C…

eess.IV2022★ 24 cited

Medical Image Segmentation on MRI Images with Missing Modalities: A Review

Reza Azad, Nika Khosravi, Mohammad Dehghanmanshadi +2

Dealing with missing modalities in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and overcoming their negative repercussions is considered a hurdle in biomedical imaging. The combination of a s…

eess.IV2021

Stacked Hourglass Network with a Multi-level Attention Mechanism: Where to Look for Intervertebral Disc Labeling

Reza Azad, Lucas Rouhier, Julien Cohen-Adad

Labeling vertebral discs from MRI scans is important for the proper diagnosis of spinal related diseases, including multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, degenerative…

eess.IV2021★ 10 cited

Multi-scale Regional Attention Deeplab3+: Multiple Myeloma Plasma Cells Segmentation in Microscopic Images

Afshin Bozorgpour, Reza Azad, Eman Showkatian +1

Multiple myeloma cancer is a type of blood cancer that happens when the growth of abnormal plasma cells becomes out of control in the bone marrow. There are various ways to diagnos…

eess.IV2020★ 19 cited

Multi-level Context Gating of Embedded Collective Knowledge for Medical Image Segmentation

Maryam Asadi-Aghbolaghi, Reza Azad, Mahmood Fathy +1

Medical image segmentation has been very challenging due to the large variation of anatomy across different cases. Recent advances in deep learning frameworks have exhibited faster…

eess.IV2019

Bi-Directional ConvLSTM U-Net with Densley Connected Convolutions

Reza Azad, Maryam Asadi-Aghbolaghi, Mahmood Fathy +1

In recent years, deep learning-based networks have achieved state-of-the-art performance in medical image segmentation. Among the existing networks, U-Net has been successfully app…