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HemaHier: Chain-Conditioned Ordinal Hierarchies for Lineage-Aware Bone-Marrow Cytology
Afshin Bozorgpour, Peter Schüffler, Edgar Jost +1
Bone-marrow cytology is inherently structured: each cell belongs to a hematopoietic lineage, and many cell types lie on ordered maturation trajectories. Standard flat classifiers i…
MaLViL: Multi-axis Low-rank Vision-LSTM for Medical Image Segmentation
Afshin Bozorgpour, Sina Ghorbani Kolahi, Moein Heidari +2
Vision-LSTM (ViL) enables efficient global modeling, but its cost still scales with the number of spatial tokens, so existing segmenters confine ViL to a coarse bottleneck and lose…
Gated Differential Linear Attention: A Linear-Time Decoder for High-Fidelity Medical Segmentation
Hongbo Zheng, Afshin Bozorgpour, Dorit Merhof +1
Medical image segmentation requires models that preserve fine anatomical boundaries while remaining practical for clinical deployment. Transformers capture long-range dependencies…
Footprint-Guided Exemplar-Free Continual Histopathology Report Generation
Pratibha Kumari, Daniel Reisenbüchler, Afshin Bozorgpour +3
Rapid progress in vision-language modeling has enabled pathology report generation from gigapixel whole-slide images, but most approaches assume static training with simultaneous a…
CENet: Context Enhancement Network for Medical Image Segmentation
Afshin Bozorgpour, Sina Ghorbani Kolahi, Reza Azad +2
Medical image segmentation, particularly in multi-domain scenarios, requires precise preservation of anatomical structures across diverse representations. While deep learning has a…
Attention-based Generative Latent Replay: A Continual Learning Approach for WSI Analysis
Pratibha Kumari, Daniel Reisenbüchler, Afshin Bozorgpour +3
Whole slide image (WSI) classification has emerged as a powerful tool in computational pathology, but remains constrained by domain shifts, e.g., due to different organs, diseases,…
Domain-incremental White Blood Cell Classification with Privacy-aware Continual Learning
Pratibha Kumari, Afshin Bozorgpour, Daniel Reisenbüchler +4
White blood cell (WBC) classification plays a vital role in hematology for diagnosing various medical conditions. However, it faces significant challenges due to domain shifts caus…
Echo-ENet: Efficient Endocardial Spatio-Temporal Network for Ejection Fraction Estimation
Moein Heidari, Afshin Bozorgpour, AmirHossein Zarif-Fakharnia +6
Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) is a primary marker of cardiac function. However, routine estimation from endocardial measurements requires manual delineation at end-dias…
Touchstone Benchmark: Are We on the Right Way for Evaluating AI Algorithms for Medical Segmentation?
Pedro R. A. S. Bassi, Wenxuan Li, Yucheng Tang +50
How can we test AI performance? This question seems trivial, but it isn't. Standard benchmarks often have problems such as in-distribution and small-size test sets, oversimplified…
Physics-Inspired Generative Models in Medical Imaging: A Review
Dennis Hein, Afshin Bozorgpour, Dorit Merhof +1
Physics-inspired Generative Models (GMs), in particular Diffusion Models (DMs) and Poisson Flow Models (PFMs), enhance Bayesian methods and promise great utility in medical imaging…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
HCA-Net: Hierarchical Context Attention Network for Intervertebral Disc Semantic Labeling
Afshin Bozorgpour, Bobby Azad, Reza Azad +3
Accurate and automated segmentation of intervertebral discs (IVDs) in medical images is crucial for assessing spine-related disorders, such as osteoporosis, vertebral fractures, or…
Foundational Models in Medical Imaging: A Comprehensive Survey and Future Vision
Bobby Azad, Reza Azad, Sania Eskandari +4
Foundation models, large-scale, pre-trained deep-learning models adapted to a wide range of downstream tasks have gained significant interest lately in various deep-learning proble…
Unlocking Fine-Grained Details with Wavelet-based High-Frequency Enhancement in Transformers
Reza Azad, Amirhossein Kazerouni, Alaa Sulaiman +4
Medical image segmentation is a critical task that plays a vital role in diagnosis, treatment planning, and disease monitoring. Accurate segmentation of anatomical structures and a…
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…
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…
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…