Transformers in medical image segmentation: a narrative review

• Published in: Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery Vol. 13; no. 12; pp. 8747 - 8767
• Main Authors: Khan, Rabeea Fatma, Lee, Byoung-Dai, Lee, Mu Sook
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: China 01.12.2023
• Subjects: deep learning; Transformers; image segmentation; artificial intelligence (AI); medical imaging

Transformers, which have been widely recognized as state-of-the-art tools in natural language processing (NLP), have also come to be recognized for their value in computer vision tasks. With this increasing popularity, they have also been extensively researched in the more complex medical imaging do...