Table 1 Examples of ViT applications in medical image segmentation
From: Vision transformer architecture and applications in digital health: a tutorial and survey
Method | Category | Medical application |
|---|---|---|
TransUnet [10] | MRI, CT | CT and MRI cardiac segmentation |
Dual-TransUnet [11] | Microscopy | Skin lesion analysis [45]; gland segmentation in histology [46]; nuclei in divergent images [47] |
Swin-Unet [35] | CT | Abdominal multiorgan segmentation |
iSegFormer [37] | 3D MRI | Knee image segmentation |
3D UX-net [38] | 3D MRI | Brain tissue segmentation |
UNesT [39] | MRI, CT | Abdominal multiorgan segmentation + kidney segmentation + whole brain segmentation |
NestedFormer [40] | MRI | Brain tumor segmentation |
RECIST [41] | CT | Automatic tumor segmentation and diameter size prediction |
GT U-Net [42] | X-ray | Tooth therapy: root canal segmentation |
FCN-transformer [43] | Colonoscopy | CRC segmentation |
TraSeTR [44] | Endoscopy | Robot-assisted surgery |