Chengzhang Zhu^1,2, Renmao Zhang¹, Yalong Xiao^1,2,*, Beiji Zou¹, Xian Chai¹, Zhangzheng Yang¹, Rong Hu³, Xuanchu Duan⁴

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.140, No.1, pp. 1103-1128, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2024.048453

Abstract Automatic segmentation of medical images provides a reliable scientific basis for disease diagnosis and analysis. Notably, most existing methods that combine the strengths of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Transformers have made significant progress. However, there are some limitations in the current integration of CNN and Transformer technology in two key aspects. Firstly, most methods either overlook or fail to fully incorporate the complementary nature between local and global features. Secondly, the significance of integrating the multi-scale encoder features from the dual-branch network to enhance the decoding features is often disregarded in methods that combine CNN and Transformer. To address… More >

Peng Geng¹, Ji Lu¹, Ying Zhang^2,*, Simin Ma¹, Zhanzhong Tang², Jianhua Liu³

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.137, No.2, pp. 2001-2023, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.027127

Abstract In medical image segmentation task, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are difficult to capture long-range dependencies, but transformers can model the long-range dependencies effectively. However, transformers have a flexible structure and seldom assume the structural bias of input data, so it is difficult for transformers to learn positional encoding of the medical images when using fewer images for training. To solve these problems, a dual branch structure is proposed. In one branch, Mix-Feed-Forward Network (Mix-FFN) and axial attention are adopted to capture long-range dependencies and keep the translation invariance of the model. Mix-FFN whose depth-wise convolutions can provide position information is… More >

Muwei Jian^1,2,#,*, Ronghua Wu^1,#, Hongyu Chen¹, Lanqi Fu³, Chengdong Yang¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.137, No.1, pp. 705-716, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.027425

Abstract In intelligent perception and diagnosis of medical equipment, the visual and morphological changes in retinal vessels are closely related to the severity of cardiovascular diseases (e.g., diabetes and hypertension). Intelligent auxiliary diagnosis of these diseases depends on the accuracy of the retinal vascular segmentation results. To address this challenge, we design a Dual-Branch-UNet framework, which comprises a Dual-Branch encoder structure for feature extraction based on the traditional U-Net model for medical image segmentation. To be more explicit, we utilize a novel parallel encoder made up of various convolutional modules to enhance the encoder portion of the original U-Net. Then, image… More >

Mohamed Ibrahim Waly^*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.3, pp. 3159-3174, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.035900

Abstract Recently, computer assisted diagnosis (CAD) model creation has become more dependent on medical picture categorization. It is often used to identify several conditions, including brain disorders, diabetic retinopathy, and skin cancer. Most traditional CAD methods relied on textures, colours, and forms. Because many models are issue-oriented, they need a more substantial capacity to generalize and cannot capture high-level problem domain notions. Recent deep learning (DL) models have been published, providing a practical way to develop models specifically for classifying input medical pictures. This paper offers an intelligent beetle antenna search (IBAS-DTL) method for classifying medical images facilitated by deep transfer… More >

Jiaqi Shao^1,#, Shuwen Chen^1,2,3,#,*, Jin Zhou^1,#, Huisheng Zhu¹, Ziyi Wang¹, Mackenzie Brown^4,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.136, No.3, pp. 2173-2219, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.025499

Abstract As a mainstream research direction in the field of image segmentation, medical image segmentation plays a key role in the quantification of lesions, three-dimensional reconstruction, region of interest extraction and so on. Compared with natural images, medical images have a variety of modes. Besides, the emphasis of information which is conveyed by images of different modes is quite different. Because it is time-consuming and inefficient to manually segment medical images only by professional and experienced doctors. Therefore, large quantities of automated medical image segmentation methods have been developed. However, until now, researchers have not developed a universal method for all… More >

Fahad Alraddady¹, E. A. Zanaty², Aida H. Abu bakr³, Walaa M. Abd-Elhafiez^4,5,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.2, pp. 3627-3646, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.027606

Abstract In this paper, we combine decision fusion methods with four meta-heuristic algorithms (Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm, Cuckoo search algorithm, modification of Cuckoo Search (CS McCulloch) algorithm and Genetic algorithm) in order to improve the image segmentation. The proposed technique based on fusing the data from Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Cuckoo search, modification of Cuckoo Search (CS McCulloch) and Genetic algorithms are obtained for improving magnetic resonance images (MRIs) segmentation. Four algorithms are used to compute the accuracy of each method while the outputs are passed to fusion methods. In order to obtain parts of the points that determine similar… More >

Wenbin Wu¹, Guanjun Liu^1,*, Kaiyi Liang², Hui Zhou²

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.134, No.2, pp. 1323-1335, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.020428

Abstract Deep neural networks are now widely used in the medical image segmentation field for their performance superiority and no need of manual feature extraction. U-Net has been the baseline model since the very beginning due to a symmetrical U-structure for better feature extraction and fusing and suitable for small datasets. To enhance the segmentation performance of U-Net, cascaded U-Net proposes to put two U-Nets successively to segment targets from coarse to fine. However, the plain cascaded U-Net faces the problem of too less between connections so the contextual information learned by the former U-Net cannot be fully used by the… More >

Yun Tan^1,2, Weizhao Wu², Ling Tan³, Haikuo Peng², Jiaohua Qin^2,*

Journal of New Media, Vol.4, No.3, pp. 155-164, 2022, DOI:10.32604/jnm.2022.031113

Abstract At present, segmentation for medical image is mainly based on fully supervised model training, which consumes a lot of time and labor for dataset labeling. To address this issue, we propose a semi-supervised medical image segmentation model based on a generative adversarial network framework for automated segmentation of arteries. The network is mainly composed of two parts: a segmentation network for medical image segmentation and a discriminant network for evaluating segmentation results. In the initial stage of network training, a fully supervised training method is adopted to make the segmentation network and the discrimination network have certain segmentation and discrimination… More >

Prasanalakshmi Balaji^*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.35, No.1, pp. 1-14, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.026341

Abstract Medical image assessment is based on segmentation at its fundamental stage. Deep neural networks have been more popular for segmentation work in recent years. However, the quality of labels has an impact on the training performance of these algorithms, particularly in the medical image domain, where both the interpretation cost and inter-observer variation are considerable. For this reason, a novel optimized deep learning approach is proposed for medical image segmentation. Optimization plays an important role in terms of resources used, accuracy, and the time taken. The noise in the raw medical image are processed using Quasi-Continuous Wavelet Transform (QCWT). Then,… More >

Jia Chen¹, Zhiqiang He¹, Dayong Zhu¹, Bei Hui^1,*, Rita Yi Man Li², Xiao-Guang Yue^3,4,5

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.131, No.1, pp. 73-95, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.018565

Abstract Medical image segmentation plays an important role in clinical diagnosis, quantitative analysis, and treatment process. Since 2015, U-Net-based approaches have been widely used for medical image segmentation. The purpose of the U-Net expansive path is to map low-resolution encoder feature maps to full input resolution feature maps. However, the consecutive deconvolution and convolutional operations in the expansive path lead to the loss of some high-level information. More high-level information can make the segmentation more accurate. In this paper, we propose MU-Net, a novel, multi-path upsampling convolution network to retain more high-level information. The MU-Net mainly consists of three parts: contracting… More >