Transformers in medical image segmentation: A review

• Published in: Biomedical signal processing and control Vol. 84; p. 104791
• Main Authors: Xiao, Hanguang, Li, Li, Liu, Qiyuan, Zhu, Xiuhong, Zhang, Qihang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.07.2023
• Subjects: 3D segmentation; Medical image; Segmentation analysis; Transformer; Medical image; 3D segmentation; Transformer; Segmentation analysis

Transformer is a model relying entirely on self-attention which has a wide range of applications in the field of natural language processing. Researchers are beginning to focus on the transformer in medical images due to the past few years having seen the rapid development of transformer in many vis...