Medical Image Analysis Task
Medical image analysis focuses on developing computational methods to automatically extract meaningful information from medical images, aiding diagnosis, treatment planning, and disease monitoring. Current research emphasizes improving model accuracy and efficiency using various deep learning architectures, including U-Nets, Transformers, and hybrid approaches, often incorporating techniques like attention mechanisms and efficient feature extraction. Addressing challenges like data scarcity through foundation models and ensuring robustness and fairness across diverse patient populations are key priorities, with a strong focus on improving model interpretability and reliability for clinical translation. These advancements hold significant potential to improve healthcare by enabling faster, more accurate, and less biased diagnoses and treatment decisions.
Papers
How to build the best medical image segmentation algorithm using foundation models: a comprehensive empirical study with Segment Anything Model
Hanxue Gu, Haoyu Dong, Jichen Yang, Maciej A. Mazurowski
Computer aided diagnosis system for Alzheimers disease using principal component analysis and machine learning based approaches
Lilia Lazli