1 code implementation • 6 Nov 2024 • Pedro R. A. S. Bassi, Wenxuan Li, Yucheng Tang, Fabian Isensee, Zifu Wang, Jieneng Chen, Yu-Cheng Chou, Yannick Kirchhoff, Maximilian Rokuss, Ziyan Huang, Jin Ye, Junjun He, Tassilo Wald, Constantin Ulrich, Michael Baumgartner, Saikat Roy, Klaus H. Maier-Hein, Paul Jaeger, Yiwen Ye, Yutong Xie, Jianpeng Zhang, Ziyang Chen, Yong Xia, Zhaohu Xing, Lei Zhu, Yousef Sadegheih, Afshin Bozorgpour, Pratibha Kumari, Reza Azad, Dorit Merhof, Pengcheng Shi, Ting Ma, Yuxin Du, Fan Bai, Tiejun Huang, Bo Zhao, Haonan Wang, Xiaomeng Li, Hanxue Gu, Haoyu Dong, Jichen Yang, Maciej A. Mazurowski, Saumya Gupta, Linshan Wu, Jiaxin Zhuang, Hao Chen, Holger Roth, Daguang Xu, Matthew B. Blaschko, Sergio Decherchi, Andrea Cavalli, Alan L. Yuille, Zongwei Zhou
We are committed to expanding this benchmark to encourage more innovation of AI algorithms for the medical domain.
no code implementations • 17 Sep 2024 • Moein Heidari, Reza Rezaeian, Reza Azad, Dorit Merhof, Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh, Ilker Hacihaliloglu
We have identified that these problems can be greatly alleviated by introducing a paradigm shift in INRs.
1 code implementation • 31 Jul 2024 • Sina Ghorbani Kolahi, Seyed Kamal Chaharsooghi, Toktam Khatibi, Afshin Bozorgpour, Reza Azad, Moein Heidari, Ilker Hacihaliloglu, Dorit Merhof
Medical image segmentation involves identifying and separating object instances in a medical image to delineate various tissues and structures, a task complicated by the significant variations in size, shape, and density of these features.
1 code implementation • 5 Jun 2024 • Moein Heidari, Sina Ghorbani Kolahi, Sanaz Karimijafarbigloo, Bobby Azad, Afshin Bozorgpour, Soheila Hatami, Reza Azad, Ali Diba, Ulas Bagci, Dorit Merhof, Ilker Hacihaliloglu
State Space Models (SSMs), specifically the \textit{\textbf{Mamba}} model with selection mechanisms and hardware-aware architecture, have garnered immense interest lately in sequential modeling and visual representation learning, challenging the dominance of transformers by providing infinite context lengths and offering substantial efficiency maintaining linear complexity in the input sequence.
1 code implementation • 7 Apr 2024 • Yousef Sadegheih, Afshin Bozorgpour, Pratibha Kumari, Reza Azad, Dorit Merhof
The rise of Transformer architectures has revolutionized medical image segmentation, leading to hybrid models that combine Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Transformers for enhanced accuracy.
no code implementations • 28 Mar 2024 • Moein Heidari, Reza Azad, Sina Ghorbani Kolahi, René Arimond, Leon Niggemeier, Alaa Sulaiman, Afshin Bozorgpour, Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam, Amirhossein Kazerouni, Ilker Hacihaliloglu, Dorit Merhof
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 Computer Vision (CV) tasks.
no code implementations • 28 Dec 2023 • Pratibha Kumari, Joohi Chauhan, Afshin Bozorgpour, Boqiang Huang, Reza Azad, Dorit Merhof
Medical imaging analysis has witnessed remarkable advancements even surpassing human-level performance in recent years, driven by the rapid development of advanced deep-learning algorithms.
1 code implementation • 8 Dec 2023 • Reza Azad, Moein Heidary, Kadir Yilmaz, Michael Hüttemann, Sanaz Karimijafarbigloo, Yuli Wu, Anke Schmeink, Dorit Merhof
Semantic image segmentation, the process of classifying each pixel in an image into a particular class, plays an important role in many visual understanding systems.
1 code implementation • 22 Nov 2023 • Amirhossein Kazerouni, Sanaz Karimijafarbigloo, Reza Azad, Yury Velichko, Ulas Bagci, Dorit Merhof
Semantic segmentation, a crucial task in computer vision, often relies on labor-intensive and costly annotated datasets for training.
1 code implementation • 21 Nov 2023 • Afshin Bozorgpour, Bobby Azad, Reza Azad, Yury Velichko, Ulas Bagci, Dorit Merhof
In addition, we introduce a skeletal loss term to reinforce the model's geometric dependence on the spine.
no code implementations • 21 Nov 2023 • Sanaz Karimijafarbigloo, Reza Azad, Yury Velichko, Ulas Bagci, Dorit Merhof
Current 3D semi-supervised segmentation methods face significant challenges such as limited consideration of contextual information and the inability to generate reliable pseudo-labels for effective unsupervised data use.
1 code implementation • 28 Oct 2023 • Amirhossein Kazerouni, Reza Azad, Alireza Hosseini, Dorit Merhof, Ulas Bagci
INCODE comprises a harmonizer network and a composer network, where the harmonizer network dynamically adjusts key parameters of the activation function.
1 code implementation • 28 Oct 2023 • Bobby Azad, Reza Azad, Sania Eskandari, Afshin Bozorgpour, Amirhossein Kazerouni, Islem Rekik, Dorit Merhof
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 problems undergoing a paradigm shift with the rise of these models.
1 code implementation • 31 Aug 2023 • Sanaz Karimijafarbigloo, Reza Azad, Amirhossein Kazerouni, Yury Velichko, Ulas Bagci, Dorit Merhof
Accurate medical image segmentation is of utmost importance for enabling automated clinical decision procedures.
1 code implementation • 31 Aug 2023 • Reza Azad, Leon Niggemeier, Michael Huttemann, Amirhossein Kazerouni, Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam, Yury Velichko, Ulas Bagci, Dorit Merhof
To address these challenges, we introduce the concept of \textbf{Deformable Large Kernel Attention (D-LKA Attention)}, a streamlined attention mechanism employing large convolution kernels to fully appreciate volumetric context.
1 code implementation • 31 Aug 2023 • Reza Azad, Amirhossein Kazerouni, Babak Azad, Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam, Yury Velichko, Ulas Bagci, Dorit Merhof
Vision Transformer (ViT) models have demonstrated a breakthrough in a wide range of computer vision tasks.
2 code implementations • 25 Aug 2023 • Reza Azad, Amirhossein Kazerouni, Alaa Sulaiman, Afshin Bozorgpour, Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam, Abin Jose, Dorit Merhof
Furthermore, to intensify the importance of the boundary information, we impose an additional attention map by creating a Gaussian pyramid on top of the HF components.
1 code implementation • 5 Aug 2023 • Afshin Bozorgpour, Yousef Sadegheih, Amirhossein Kazerouni, Reza Azad, Dorit Merhof
Skin lesion segmentation plays a critical role in the early detection and accurate diagnosis of dermatological conditions.
Ranked #1 on
Lesion Segmentation
on HAM10000
1 code implementation • 30 Jul 2023 • Amirali Molaei, Amirhossein Aminimehr, Armin Tavakoli, Amirhossein Kazerouni, Bobby Azad, Reza Azad, Dorit Merhof
Recognizing the potential of INRs beyond these domains, this survey aims to provide a comprehensive overview of INR models in the field of medical imaging.
1 code implementation • 26 Jul 2023 • Sanaz Karimijafarbigloo, Reza Azad, Dorit Merhof
This approach eliminates the need for manual annotation, making it particularly suitable for medical images with limited annotated data.
Ranked #17 on
Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation
on FSS-1000 (5-shot)
1 code implementation • 25 Jan 2023 • Reza Azad, Yiwei Jia, Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam, Julien Cohen-Adad, Dorit Merhof
(3) In contrast to a bridge that only contains token-wise self-attention, we propose a Dual Transformer Bridge that also includes channel-wise self-attention to exploit correlations between scales at different stages from a dual perspective.
1 code implementation • 9 Jan 2023 • Reza Azad, Amirhossein Kazerouni, Moein Heidari, Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam, Amirali Molaei, Yiwei Jia, Abin Jose, Rijo Roy, Dorit Merhof
The remarkable performance of the Transformer architecture in natural language processing has recently also triggered broad interest in Computer Vision.
1 code implementation • 27 Dec 2022 • Reza Azad, René Arimond, Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam, Amirhossein Kazerouni, Dorit Merhof
Transformers have recently gained attention in the computer vision domain due to their ability to model long-range dependencies.
1 code implementation • 27 Nov 2022 • Reza Azad, Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam, Amelie Rauland, Yiwei Jia, Atlas Haddadi Avval, Afshin Bozorgpour, Sanaz Karimijafarbigloo, Joseph Paul Cohen, Ehsan Adeli, Dorit Merhof
U-Net is the most widespread image segmentation architecture due to its flexibility, optimized modular design, and success in all medical image modalities.
1 code implementation • 14 Nov 2022 • Amirhossein Kazerouni, Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam, Moein Heidari, Reza Azad, Mohsen Fayyaz, Ilker Hacihaliloglu, Dorit Merhof
Then, we provide a systematic taxonomy of diffusion models in the medical domain and propose a multi-perspective categorization based on their application, imaging modality, organ of interest, and algorithms.
1 code implementation • 30 Oct 2022 • Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam, Reza Azad, Maral Zarvani, Dorit Merhof
We argue that the classical concatenation operation utilized in the skip connection path can be further improved by incorporating an attention mechanism.
1 code implementation • 1 Aug 2022 • Reza Azad, Moein Heidari, Moein Shariatnia, Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam, Sanaz Karimijafarbigloo, Ehsan Adeli, Dorit Merhof
Especially, deep neural networks based on seminal architectures such as U-shaped models with skip-connections or atrous convolution with pyramid pooling have been tailored to a wide range of medical image analysis tasks.
1 code implementation • 27 Jul 2022 • Reza Azad, Mohammad T. AL-Antary, Moein Heidari, Dorit Merhof
In the past few years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs), particularly U-Net, have been the prevailing technique in the medical image processing era.
1 code implementation • 18 Jul 2022 • Moein Heidari, Amirhossein Kazerouni, Milad Soltany, Reza Azad, Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam, Julien Cohen-Adad, Dorit Merhof
In this paper, we propose HiFormer, a novel method that efficiently bridges a CNN and a transformer for medical image segmentation.
3 code implementations • 6 Apr 2022 • Reza Azad, Nika Khosravi, Dorit Merhof
Gliomas are one of the most prevalent types of primary brain tumours, accounting for more than 30\% of all cases and they develop from the glial stem or progenitor cells.
no code implementations • 6 Apr 2022 • Reza Azad, Moein Heidari, Julien Cohen-Adad, Ehsan Adeli, Dorit Merhof
Accurate and automatic segmentation of intervertebral discs from medical images is a critical task for the assessment of spine-related diseases such as osteoporosis, vertebral fractures, and intervertebral disc herniation.
no code implementations • 11 Mar 2022 • Reza Azad, Nika Khosravi, Mohammad Dehghanmanshadi, Julien Cohen-Adad, Dorit Merhof
Dealing with missing modalities in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and overcoming their negative repercussions is considered a hurdle in biomedical imaging.
2 code implementations • 2 Mar 2022 • Reza Azad, Moein Heidari, Yuli Wu, Dorit Merhof
Then, they emphasize the informative regions while taking into account the long-range contextual dependency derived by the Transformer module.
1 code implementation • 14 Aug 2021 • Reza Azad, Lucas Rouhier, Julien Cohen-Adad
To further improve the performance of the proposed method, we propose a skeleton-based search space to reduce false positive detection.
1 code implementation • MICCAI Workshop COMPAY 2021 • Afshin Bozorgpour, Reza Azad, Eman Showkatian, Alaa Sulaiman
On top of the cytoplasm segmentation network, we included a scale aggregation function to refine and generate a final prediction.
no code implementations • 18 Mar 2020 • Abdur R Feyjie, Reza Azad, Marco Pedersoli, Claude Kauffman, Ismail Ben Ayed, Jose Dolz
To handle this new learning paradigm, we propose to include surrogate tasks that can leverage very powerful supervisory signals --derived from the data itself-- for semantic feature learning.
1 code implementation • 10 Mar 2020 • Maryam Asadi-Aghbolaghi, Reza Azad, Mahmood Fathy, Sergio Escalera
These blocks adaptively recalibrate the channel-wise feature responses by utilizing a self-gating mechanism of the global information embedding of the feature maps.
Ranked #9 on
Lesion Segmentation
on ISIC 2018
1 code implementation • 9 Mar 2020 • Reza Azad, Abdur R Fayjie, Claude Kauffman, Ismail Ben Ayed, Marco Pedersoli, Jose Dolz
Despite the initial belief that Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are driven by shapes to perform visual recognition tasks, recent evidence suggests that texture bias in CNNs provides higher performing models when learning on large labeled training datasets.
Ranked #2 on
Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation
on Pascal5i
4 code implementations • In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF international conference on computer vision workshops 2019 • Reza Azad, Maryam Asadi-Aghbolaghi, Mahmood Fathy, Sergio Escalera
To strengthen feature propagation and encourage feature reuse, we use densely connected convolutions in the last convolutional layer of the encoding path.
Ranked #1 on
Lung Nodule Segmentation
on Lung Nodule
no code implementations • 8 Aug 2014 • Reza Azad, Babak Azad, Iman Tavakoli Kazerooni
In feature extraction stage the Cross-correlation coefficient is applied on the gesture to recognize it.
no code implementations • 7 Aug 2014 • Reza Azad, Babak Azad, Nabil Belhaj Khalifa, Shahram Jamali
In the proposed technique, first, the hand gesture and face location is extracted from the main image by combination of skin and cascade detector and then is sent to recognition stage.
no code implementations • 24 Jul 2014 • Reza Azad, Mohammad Baghdadi
Nowadays in developing or developed countries, the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) technology has attracted so much attention to itself.
no code implementations • 24 Jul 2014 • Reza Azad, Hamid Reza Shayegh
In the first one, from pure skin statistical features were extracted and at the second stage, the skin pixels are detected using HSV and YCbCr color spaces.
no code implementations • 24 Jul 2014 • Reza Azad, Babak Azad, Hamid Reza Shayegh
This method has been tested on available data set that has different images of the background, considering distance, and angel of view so that the correct extraction rate of plate reached at 98% and character recognition rate achieved at 99. 12%.
no code implementations • 24 Jul 2014 • Reza Azad, Fatemeh Davami, Hamid Reza Shayegh
This paper has been withdrawn by the author due to a crucial sign error in equation 2 and some mistake in Table 1 information.
no code implementations • 24 Jul 2014 • Reza Azad, Hamid Reza Shayegh, Hamed Amiri
License Plate Recognition (LPR) plays an important role on the traffic monitoring and parking management.
no code implementations • 24 Jul 2014 • Reza Azad, Hamid Reza Shayegh
License Plate recognition plays an important role on the traffic monitoring and parking management systems.
no code implementations • 23 Jul 2014 • Reza Azad, Fatemeh Davami
In the first one, the skin intensity distribution is estimated using some train photos of pure skin, and at the second stage, the skin pixels are detected using Gaussian model and optimal threshold tuning.
no code implementations • 23 Jul 2014 • Reza Azad, Majid Nazari
The system is then allowed to open parking barrier for the vehicle and generate entrance cost receipt.
no code implementations • 20 Jul 2014 • Reza Azad, Babak Azad, Iman Tavakoli Kazerooni
Road sign recognition is one of the core technologies in Intelligent Transport Systems.
no code implementations • 9 Jul 2014 • Reza Azad, Babak Azad, Iraj Mogharreb, Shahram Jamali
For evaluation of the proposed method we considered a Persian numerals database with 20, 000 handwritten samples.