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5 Citations
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A Novel Tongue Coating Segmentation Method Based on Improved TransUNet

  • Jiaze Wu,
  • Zijian Li,
  • Yiheng Cai,
  • Hao Liang,
  • Long Zhou,
  • Ming Chen and
  • Jing Guan

10 July 2024

Background: As an important part of the tongue, the tongue coating is closely associated with different disorders and has major diagnostic benefits. This study aims to construct a neural network model that can perform complex tongue coating segmentat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,594 Views
19 Pages

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is used to obtain retinal images and stratify them to obtain the thickness of each intraretinal layer, which plays an important role in the clinical diagnosis of many ophthalmic diseases. In order to overcome the di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
900 Views
19 Pages

Segmentation of 220 kV Cable Insulation Layers Using WGAN-GP-Based Data Augmentation and the TransUNet Model

  • Liang Luo,
  • Song Qing,
  • Yingjie Liu,
  • Guoyuan Lu,
  • Ziying Zhang,
  • Yuhang Xia,
  • Yi Ao,
  • Fanbo Wei and
  • Xingang Chen

2 September 2025

This study presents a segmentation framework for images of 220 kV cable insulation that addresses sample scarcity and blurred boundaries. The framework integrates data augmentation using the Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Network with Gradient Pe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
236 Views
23 Pages

30 December 2025

The East China Sea (ECS) is a globally active region for internal solitary waves (ISWs); however, its overall spatiotemporal distribution remains poorly understood. To address this gap, this study proposes a deep learning method based on multi-source...

  • Article
  • Open Access
410 Views
20 Pages

29 December 2025

Medical image segmentation presents substantial challenges arising from the diverse scales and morphological complexities of target anatomical structures. Although existing Transformer-based models excel at capturing global dependencies, they encount...

  • Article
  • Open Access
948 Views
16 Pages

Seismic Channel Characterization Based on 3D DS-TransUnet

  • Jiaqi Zhao,
  • Binpeng Yan,
  • Mutian Li and
  • Rui Pan

27 August 2025

The structure and geomorphology of channel systems play a critical role in interpreting sedimentary processes and characterizing subsurface reservoir capacity. This study presents an innovative 3D DS-TransUnet model for seismic channel interpretation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,265 Views
22 Pages

Convolutional Neural Network-Based Method for Agriculture Plot Segmentation in Remote Sensing Images

  • Liang Qi,
  • Danfeng Zuo,
  • Yirong Wang,
  • Ye Tao,
  • Runkang Tang,
  • Jiayu Shi,
  • Jiajun Gong and
  • Bangyu Li

15 January 2024

Accurate delineation of individual agricultural plots, the foundational units for agriculture-based activities, is crucial for effective government oversight of agricultural productivity and land utilization. To improve the accuracy of plot segmentat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
997 Views
16 Pages

A TransUNet-Based Intelligent Method for Identifying Internal Solitary Waves in the South China Sea

  • Zubiao Wan,
  • Yuhang Zhu,
  • Shiqiu Peng,
  • Jieshuo Xie,
  • Shaotian Li and
  • Tao Song

Internal Solitary Waves (ISWs) play a crucial role in energy transfer among multi-scale oceanic motions. They also have a significant impact on marine transportation and underwater communication. To date, the identification of ISWs has been primarily...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,398 Views
16 Pages

10 February 2025

Concrete surface crack detection is a critical problem in the health monitoring and maintenance of engineering structures. The existence and development of cracks may lead to the deterioration of structural performance, potentially causing serious sa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,369 Views
21 Pages

9 February 2023

Transformer models have achieved great results in the field of computer vision over the past 2 years, drawing attention from within the field of remote sensing. However, there are still relatively few studies on this model in the field of remote sens...

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  • Open Access
699 Views
22 Pages

22 October 2025

The Yellow River Delta (YRD) is a vital agricultural and ecologically fragile zone in China. Understanding the spatial pattern and evolutionary characteristics of Rural Settlements Area (RSA) in this region is crucial for both ecological protection a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,623 Views
15 Pages

Landmark-Assisted Anatomy-Sensitive Retinal Vessel Segmentation Network

  • Haifeng Zhang,
  • Yunlong Qiu,
  • Chonghui Song and
  • Jiale Li

Automatic retinal vessel segmentation is important for assisting clinicians in diagnosing ophthalmic diseases. The existing deep learning methods remain constrained in instance connectivity and thin vessel detection. To this end, we propose a novel a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
80 Citations
13,116 Views
24 Pages

Wildfire Segmentation Using Deep Vision Transformers

  • Rafik Ghali,
  • Moulay A. Akhloufi,
  • Marwa Jmal,
  • Wided Souidene Mseddi and
  • Rabah Attia

5 September 2021

In this paper, we address the problem of forest fires’ early detection and segmentation in order to predict their spread and help with fire fighting. Techniques based on Convolutional Networks are the most used and have proven to be efficient at solv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,028 Views
21 Pages

A Robust Pointer Meter Reading Recognition Method Based on TransUNet and Perspective Transformation Correction

  • Liufan Tan,
  • Wanneng Wu,
  • Jinxin Ding,
  • Weihao Ye,
  • Cheng Li and
  • Qiaokang Liang

The automatic reading recognition of pointer meters plays a crucial role in data monitoring and analysis in intelligent substations. Existing meter reading methods struggle to address challenging difficulties such as image distortion and varying illu...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,999 Views
23 Pages

Enhancing 3D Lung Infection Segmentation with 2D U-Shaped Deep Learning Variants

  • Anindya Apriliyanti Pravitasari,
  • Mohammad Hamid Asnawi,
  • Farid Azhar Lutfi Nugraha,
  • Gumgum Darmawan and
  • Triyani Hendrawati

24 October 2023

Accurate lung segmentation plays a vital role in generating 3D projections of lung infections, which contribute to the diagnosis and treatment planning of various lung diseases, including cases like COVID-19. This study capitalizes on the capabilitie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,409 Views
20 Pages

Marine Oil Spill Detection from Low-Quality SAR Remote Sensing Images

  • Xiaorui Dong,
  • Jiansheng Li,
  • Bing Li,
  • Yueqin Jin and
  • Shufeng Miao

Oil spills pose a significant threat to the marine ecological environment. The intelligent interpretation of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) remote sensing images serves as a crucial approach to marine oil spill detection, offering the potential for r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,114 Views
15 Pages

Application Research on Contour Feature Extraction of Solidified Region Image in Laser Powder Bed Fusion Based on SA-TransUNet

  • Mengxiang Dang,
  • Xin Zhou,
  • Guorong Huang,
  • Xuede Wang,
  • Ting Zhang,
  • Ying Tian,
  • Guoquan Ding and
  • Hanyu Gao

28 February 2025

The solidified state after the melting of the forming layer in the laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) directly reflects the final forming quality. Compared with the powder layer and the melt pool, it is easier to recognize and remove the defects of conto...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,687 Views
17 Pages

Distance Matters: A Distance-Aware Medical Image Segmentation Algorithm

  • Yuncong Feng,
  • Yeming Cong,
  • Shuaijie Xing,
  • Hairui Wang,
  • Cuixing Zhao,
  • Xiaoli Zhang and
  • Qingan Yao

5 August 2023

The transformer-based U-Net network structure has gained popularity in the field of medical image segmentation. However, most networks overlook the impact of the distance between each patch on the encoding process. This paper proposes a novel GC-Tran...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,339 Views
17 Pages

9 October 2022

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a disease with high mortality in modern times. The segmentation task for MRI to extract the related organs for CVD is essential for diagnosis. Currently, a large number of deep learning methods are designed for medical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,413 Views
16 Pages

MD-TransUNet: An Image Segmentation Network for Car Front Face Design

  • Jinyan Ouyang,
  • Hongru Shi,
  • Jianning Su,
  • Shutao Zhang and
  • Aimin Zhou

26 September 2024

To enhance the segmentation accuracy of car front face elements such as headlights and grilles for car front face design, and to improve the superiority and efficiency of solutions in automotive partial modification design, this paper introduces MD-T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
789 Views
19 Pages

A Tunnel Secondary Lining Leakage Recognition Model Based on an Improved TransUNet

  • Zelong Li,
  • Li Wan,
  • Yimin Wu,
  • Renjie Song,
  • Shuai Shao and
  • Haiping Wu

12 September 2025

Manual inspection methods traditionally used for tunnel lining leakage suffer from high subjectivity and low efficiency. At the same time, existing detection models do not perform well in terms of accuracy when faced with complex scenarios; this make...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,899 Views
15 Pages

Improved A-Line and B-Line Detection in Lung Ultrasound Using Deep Learning with Boundary-Aware Dice Loss

  • Soolmaz Abbasi,
  • Assefa Seyoum Wahd,
  • Shrimanti Ghosh,
  • Maha Ezzelarab,
  • Mahesh Panicker,
  • Yale Tung Chen,
  • Jacob L. Jaremko and
  • Abhilash Hareendranathan

Lung ultrasound (LUS) is a non-invasive bedside imaging technique for diagnosing pulmonary conditions, especially in critical care settings. A-lines and B-lines are important features in LUS images that help to assess lung health and identify changes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,501 Views
21 Pages

9 March 2025

Accurate segmentation is essential for creating digital twins based on volumetric images for high fidelity composite material analysis. Conventional techniques typically require labor-intensive and time-consuming manual effort, restricting their prac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,047 Views
15 Pages

Inter- and Intraobserver Variability in Bowel Preparation Scoring for Colon Capsule Endoscopy: Impact of AI-Assisted Assessment Feasibility Study

  • Ian Io Lei,
  • Daniel R. Gaya,
  • Alexander Robertson,
  • Benedicte Schelde-Olesen,
  • Alice Mapiye,
  • Anirudh Bhandare,
  • Bei Bei Lui,
  • Chander Shekhar,
  • Ursula Valentiner and
  • Ramesh P. Arasaradnam
  • + 7 authors

29 August 2025

Background: Colon capsule endoscopy (CCE) has seen increased adoption since the COVID-19 pandemic, offering a non-invasive alternative for lower gastrointestinal investigations. However, inadequate bowel preparation remains a key limitation, often le...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,196 Views
17 Pages

20 December 2022

In the application of change detection satellite remote sensing images, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images have become a more important data source. This paper proposes a new end-to-end SAR image change network architecture—TransUNet++SAR&md...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,755 Views
18 Pages

CD-TransUNet: A Hybrid Transformer Network for the Change Detection of Urban Buildings Using L-Band SAR Images

  • Lei Pang,
  • Jinjin Sun,
  • Yancheng Chi,
  • Yongwen Yang,
  • Fengli Zhang and
  • Lu Zhang

9 August 2022

The change detection of urban buildings is currently a hotspot in the research area of remote sensing, which plays a vital role in urban planning, disaster assessments and surface dynamic monitoring. SAR images have unique characteristics compared wi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,098 Views
20 Pages

14 July 2025

Traditional manual inspection methods for tunnel lining leakage are subjective and inefficient, while existing models lack sufficient recognition accuracy in complex scenarios. An intelligent leakage identification model adaptable to complex backgrou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,763 Views
18 Pages

9 August 2023

Sea fog is a weather hazard along the coast and over the ocean that seriously threatens maritime activities. In the deep learning approach, it is difficult for convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to fully consider global context information in sea f...

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  • Open Access
1,875 Views
15 Pages

9 December 2024

Background/Objectives: The automatic left ventricle segmentation in transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is of significant importance. In this paper, we constructed a large-scale TEE apical four-chamber view (A4CV) image dataset and proposed an aut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
483 Views
17 Pages

31 October 2025

Abrasive belt wear has an important impact on the dimensional accuracy and surface quality of parts. Accurate quantitative measurement of abrasive belt wear is an important basis for optimizing grinding process parameters, but also a very challenging...

  • Article
  • Open Access
136 Citations
10,832 Views
18 Pages

3 March 2022

Wildfires are a worldwide natural disaster causing important economic damages and loss of lives. Experts predict that wildfires will increase in the coming years mainly due to climate change. Early detection and prediction of fire spread can help red...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,105 Views
15 Pages

Background: Liver cancer has a high mortality rate worldwide, and clinicians segment liver vessels in CT images before surgical procedures. However, liver vessels have a complex structure, and the segmentation process is conducted manually, so it is...

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  • Open Access
765 Views
16 Pages

At present, some aging populations, such as those in Japan, face an underlying risk of inadequate medical resources. Using neural networks to assist doctors in locating the aorta in patients via computed tomography (CT) before surgery is a task with...

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  • Open Access
686 Views
25 Pages

25 September 2025

To support dual-carbon objectives and enhance the accuracy of rooftop distributed photovoltaic (PV) planning, this study proposes a multidimensional coupled evaluation framework that integrates an improved rooftop segmentation network (CESW-TransUNet...

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  • Open Access
298 Views
16 Pages

28 November 2025

Substation equipment operating in harsh environments is highly susceptible to corrosion, yet conventional image segmentation methods often fail to achieve precise delineation of corroded regions. Here, we propose an enhanced TransU-Net-based approach...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,714 Views
24 Pages

25 February 2025

Deep learning-based semantic segmentation algorithms have proven effective in landslide detection. For the past decade, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been the prevailing approach for semantic segmentation. Nevertheless, the intrinsic limi...

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  • Open Access
121 Views
23 Pages

Precise Mapping of Linear Shelterbelt Forests in Agricultural Landscapes: A Deep Learning Benchmarking Study

  • Wenjie Zhou,
  • Lizhi Liu,
  • Ruiqi Liu,
  • Fei Chen,
  • Liyu Yang,
  • Linfeng Qin and
  • Ruiheng Lyu

9 January 2026

Farmland shelterbelts are crucial elements in safeguarding agricultural ecological security and sustainable development, with their precise extraction being vital for regional ecological monitoring and precision agriculture management. However, const...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
5,799 Views
17 Pages

10 April 2023

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) provides unique advantages in ophthalmic examinations owing to its noncontact, high-resolution, and noninvasive features, which have evolved into one of the most crucial modalities for identifying and evaluating ret...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,710 Views
14 Pages

U-Net and Its Variants Based Automatic Tracking of Radial Artery in Ultrasonic Short-Axis Views: A Pilot Study

  • Yuan Tian,
  • Ruiyang Gao,
  • Xinran Shi,
  • Jiaxin Lang,
  • Yang Xue,
  • Chunrong Wang,
  • Yuelun Zhang,
  • Le Shen,
  • Chunhua Yu and
  • Zhuhuang Zhou

23 October 2024

Background/Objectives: Radial artery tracking (RAT) in the short-axis view is a pivotal step for ultrasound-guided radial artery catheterization (RAC), which is widely employed in various clinical settings. To eliminate disparities and lay the founda...

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  • Open Access
427 Views
15 Pages

29 September 2025

Digital epidermal microscopic (DEM) images offer the potential to quantitatively analyze skin aging at the microscopic level. However, stochastic complexity, local highlights, and low contrast in DEM images pose significant challenges to accurate seg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,831 Views
19 Pages

26 September 2024

Traditional U-shape segmentation models can achieve excellent performance with an elegant structure. However, the single-layer decoder structure of U-Net or SwinUnet is too “thin” to exploit enough information, resulting in large semantic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,679 Views
21 Pages

12 January 2025

Manual labeling of lesions in medical image analysis presents a significant challenge due to its labor-intensive and inefficient nature, which ultimately strains essential medical resources and impedes the advancement of computer-aided diagnosis. Thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
397 Views
23 Pages

HyMambaNet: Efficient Remote Sensing Water Extraction Method Combining State Space Modeling and Multi-Scale Features

  • Handan Liu,
  • Guangyi Mu,
  • Kai Li,
  • Haowei Zhang,
  • Yibo Sun,
  • Hongqing Sun and
  • Sijia Li

5 December 2025

Accurate segmentation of water bodies from high-resolution remote sensing imagery is crucial for water resource management and ecological monitoring. However, small and morphologically complex water bodies remain difficult to detect due to scale vari...

  • Article
  • Open Access
649 Views
27 Pages

26 July 2025

This study proposes a Swin-ReshoUnet architecture with a three-level enhancement mechanism to address inefficiencies in multi-scale feature extraction and gradient degradation in deep networks for high-precision seismic exploration. The encoder uses...

  • Article
  • Open Access
65 Citations
17,095 Views
17 Pages

20 October 2023

Medical image segmentation is crucial for medical image processing and the development of computer-aided diagnostics. In recent years, deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been widely adopted for medical image segmentation and have achieved...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,767 Views
22 Pages

A Method for Extracting Lake Water Using ViTenc-UNet: Taking Typical Lakes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau as Examples

  • Xili Zhao,
  • Hong Wang,
  • Li Liu,
  • Yao Zhang,
  • Jiahao Liu,
  • Tengfei Qu,
  • Haozhe Tian and
  • Yuting Lu

16 August 2023

As the lakes located in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau are important carriers of water resources in Asia, dynamic changes to these lakes intuitively reflect the climate and water resource variations of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. To address the insufficien...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,344 Views
16 Pages

Comparative Evaluation of State-of-the-Art Semantic Segmentation Networks for Long-Term Landslide Map Production

  • Zekun Hu,
  • Bangjin Yi,
  • Hui Li,
  • Cheng Zhong,
  • Peng Gao,
  • Jiaoqi Chen,
  • Qianxiang Yao and
  • Haojia Guo

8 November 2023

The production of long-term landslide maps (LAM) holds crucial importance in estimating landslide activity, vegetation disturbance, and regional stability. However, the availability of LAMs remains limited in many regions, despite the application of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,409 Views
28 Pages

Ensemble Transfer Learning for Fetal Head Analysis: From Segmentation to Gestational Age and Weight Prediction

  • Mahmood Alzubaidi,
  • Marco Agus,
  • Uzair Shah,
  • Michel Makhlouf,
  • Khalid Alyafei and
  • Mowafa Househ

15 September 2022

Ultrasound is one of the most commonly used imaging methodologies in obstetrics to monitor the growth of a fetus during the gestation period. Specifically, ultrasound images are routinely utilized to gather fetal information, including body measureme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,480 Views
15 Pages

Enhanced Brain Stroke Lesion Segmentation in MRI Using a 2.5D Transformer Backbone U-Net Model

  • Mahsa Karimzadeh,
  • Hadi Seyedarabi,
  • Ata Jodeiri and
  • Reza Afrouzian

Background/Objectives: Accurate segmentation of brain stroke lesions from MRI images is a critical task in medical image analysis that is essential for timely diagnosis and treatment planning. Methods: This paper presents a novel approach for segment...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,755 Views
16 Pages

29 July 2024

In high-resolution remote sensing images, there are areas with weak textures such as large building roofs, which occupy a large number of pixels in the image. These areas pose a challenge for traditional semantic segmentation networks to obtain ideal...

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