2024

  • INCODE: Implicit Neural Conditioning with Prior Knowledge Embeddings

Amirhossein Kazerouni, Reza Azad, Alireza Hosseini, Dorit Merhof, Ulas Bagci

Conference: WACV 2024

Project Page | Paper | GitHub

  • Beyond Self-Attention: Deformable Large Kernel Attention for Medical Image Segmentation

Reza Azad, Leon Niggemeier, Michael Huttemann, Amirhossein Kazerouni, Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam, Yury Velichko, Ulas Bagci, Dorit Merhof

Conference: WACV 2024

Paper | GitHub

2023

  • Laplacian-Former: Overcoming the Limitations of Vision Transformers in Local Texture Detection

Reza Azad, Amirhossein Kazerouni, Babak Azad, Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam, Yury Velichko, Ulas Bagci, Dorit Merhof

Conference: MICCAI 2023

Paper | GitHub

  • Unlocking Fine-Grained Details with Wavelet-based High-Frequency Enhancement in Transformers

Reza Azad, Amirhossein Kazerouni, Alaa Sulaiman, Afshin Bozorgpour, Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam, Abin Jose, Dorit Merhof

Conference: MICCAI 2023 MLMI Workshop

Paper | GitHub

  • DermoSegDiff: A Boundary-aware Segmentation Diffusion Model for Skin Lesion Delineation

Afshin Bozorgpour*, Yousef Sadegheih*, Amirhossein Kazerouni*, Reza Azad, Dorit Merhof

Conference: MICCAI 2023 PRIME Workshop

Paper | GitHub

  • Self-supervised few-shot learning for semantic segmentation: An annotation-free approach

Sanaz Karimijafarbigloo, Reza Azad, Dorit Merhof

Conference: MICCAI 2023 PRIME Workshop

Paper | GitHub

  • Self-supervised Semantic Segmentation: Consistency over Transformation

Sanaz Karimijafarbigloo, Reza Azad, Amirhossein Kazerouni, Yury Velichko, Ulas Bagci, Dorit Merhof

Conference: ICCV 2023 CVAMD Workshop

Paper | GitHub

  • Implicit neural representation in medical imaging: A comparative survey

Amirali Molaei, Amirhossein Aminimehr, Armin Tavakoli, Amirhossein Kazerouni, Bobby Azad, Reza Azad, Dorit Merhof

Conference: ICCV 2023 CVAMD Workshop

Paper | GitHub

  • Diffusion models in medical imaging: A comprehensive survey

Amirhossein Kazerouni, Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam, Moein Heidari, Reza Azad, Mohsen Fayyaz, Ilker Hacihaliloglu, Dorit Merhof

Journal: Medical Image Analysis (MedIA)

Paper | GitHub

  • Advances in Medical Image Analysis with Vision Transformers: A Comprehensive Review

Reza Azad, Amirhossein Kazerouni, Moein Heidari, Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam, Amirali Molaei, Yiwei Jia, Abin Jose, Rijo Roy, Dorit Merhof

Journal: Medical Image Analysis (MedIA)

Paper | GitHub

  • DAE-Former: Dual Attention-guided Efficient Transformer for Medical Image Segmentation

Reza Azad, René Arimond, Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam, Amirhossein Kazerouni, Dorit Merhof

Conference: MICCAI 2023 PRIME Workshop

Paper | GitHub

  • MS-Former: Multi-Scale Self-Guided Transformer for Medical Image Segmentation

Sanaz Karimijafarbigloo, Reza Azad, Amirhossein Kazerouni, Dorit Merhof

Conference: MIDL 2023 | Oral presentation

Paper | GitHub

  • MMCFormer: Missing Modality Compensation Transformer for Brain Tumor Segmentation

Sanaz Karimijafarbigloo, Reza Azad, Amirhossein Kazerouni, Saeed Ebadollahi, Dorit Merhof

Conference: MIDL 2023 | Oral presentation

Paper | GitHub

  • Attention Swin U-Net: Cross-Contextual Attention Mechanism for Skin Lesion Segmentation

Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam, Reza Azad, Maral Zarvani, Dorit Merhof

Conference: ISBI 2023

Paper | GitHub

  • HiFormer: Hierarchical Multi-scale Representations Using Transformers for Medical Image Segmentation

Moein Heidari*, Amirhossein Kazerouni*, Milad Soltany*, Reza Azad, Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam, Julien Cohen-Adad, Dorit Merhof

Conference: WACV 2023

Paper | GitHub

  • Enhancing Medical Image Segmentation with TransCeption: A Multi-Scale Feature Fusion Approach

Reza Azad, Yiwei Jia, Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam, Julien Cohen-Adad, Dorit Merhof

Conference: arXiv

Paper | GitHub

2022

  • TransNorm: Transformer Provides a Strong Spatial Normalization Mechanism for a Deep Segmentation Model

Reza Azad, Mohammad T AL-Antary, Moein Heidari, Dorit Merhof

Journal: IEEE Access

Paper | GitHub

  • An Intelligent Modular Real-Time Vision-Based System for Environment Perception

Amirhossein Kazerouni, Amirhossein Heydarian, Milad Soltany, Aida Mohammadshahi, Abbas Omidi, Saeed Ebadollahi

Conference: NeurIPS 2022 Workshop on Machine Learning for Autonomous Driving

Paper | GitHub

  • Contextual Attention Network: Transformer Meets U-Net

Azad Reza, Heidari Moein, Wu Yuli, Merhof Dorit

Conference: MICCAI 2022 MLMI Workshop

Paper | GitHub

  • Intervertebral Disc Labeling With Learning Shape Information, A Look Once Approach

Reza Azad, Moein Heidari, Julien Cohen-Adad, Ehsan Adeli, Dorit Merhof

Conference: MICCAI 2022 PRIME Workshop

Paper | GitHub

  • SMU-Net: Style matching U-Net for brain tumor segmentation with missing modalities

Reza Azad, Nika Khosravi, Dorit Merhof

Conference: MIDL 2022

Paper | GitHub

  • Medical Image Segmentation Review: The success of U-Net

Reza Azad, Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam, Amelie Rauland, Yiwei Jia, Atlas Haddadi Avval, Afshin Bozorgpour, Sanaz Karimijafarbigloo, Joseph Paul Cohen, Ehsan Adeli, Dorit Merhof

Conference: arXiv

Paper | GitHub

  • Medical Image Segmentation on MRI Images with Missing Modalities: A Review

Reza Azad, Nika Khosravi, Mohammad Dehghanmanshadi, Julien Cohen-Adad, Dorit Merhof

Journal: Computational Visual Media

Paper

2021

  • Multi-scale Regional Attention Deeplab3+: Multiple Myeloma Plasma Cells Segmentation in Microscopic Images

Afshin Bozorgpour, Reza Azad, Eman Showkatian, Alaa Sulaiman

Conference: MICCAI 2021 Computational Pathology Workshop

Paper | GitHub

  • Stacked Hourglass Network with a Multi-level Attention Mechanism: Where to Look for Intervertebral Disc Labeling

Reza Azad, Lucas Rouhier, Julien Cohen-Adad

Conference: MICCAI 2021 MLMI Workshop

Paper | GitHub

  • Deep Frequency Re-Calibration U-Net for Medical Image Segmentation

Reza Azad, Afshin Bozorgpour, Maryam Asadi-Aghbolaghi, Dorit Merhof, Sergio Escalera

Conference: ICCV 2021 CVAMD Workshop

Paper | GitHub

  • On the Texture Bias for Few-Shot CNN Segmentation

Reza Azad, Abdur R Fayjie, Claude Kauffmann, Ismail Ben Ayed, Marco Pedersoli, Jose Dolz

Conference: WACV 2021

Paper | GitHub

2020 & before

  • Attention Deeplabv3+: Multi-level Context Attention Mechanism for Skin Lesion Segmentation

Reza Azad, Maryam Asadi-Aghbolaghi, Mahmood Fathy, Sergio Escalera

Conference: ECCV 2020

Paper

  • Bi-Directional ConvLSTM U-Net with Densley Connected Convolutions

Reza Azad, Maryam Asadi-Aghbolaghi, Mahmood Fathy, Sergio Escalera

Conference: ICCV 2019

Paper | GitHub

  • Semi-supervised few-shot learning for medical image segmentation

Abdur R Feyjie, Reza Azad, Marco Pedersoli, Claude Kauffman, Ismail Ben Ayed, Jose Dolz

Conference: arXiv

Paper | GitHub

  • Multi-level Context Gating of Embedded Collective Knowledge for Medical Image Segmentation

Maryam Asadi-Aghbolaghi, Reza Azad, Mahmood Fathy, Sergio Escalera

Conference: arXiv

Paper | GitHub

  • Dynamic 3D Hand Gesture Recognition by Learning Weighted Depth Motion Maps

Reza Azad, Maryam Asadi-Aghbolaghi, Shohreh Kasaei, Sergio Escalera

Journal: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Paper | GitHub

  • Real-Time Human Face Detection in Noisy Images Based on Skin Color Fusion Model and Eye Detection

Reza Azad, Eslam Ahmadzadeh, Babak Azad

Journal: Intelligent Computing, Communication and Devices

Paper

  • Real-time and robust method for hand gesture recognition system based on cross-correlation coefficient

Reza Azad, Babak Azad, Iman Tavakoli Kazerooni

Journal: International Journal of Computer and Information Technology

Paper

  • Real-time human-computer interaction based on face and hand gesture recognition

Reza Azad, Babak Azad, Nabil Belhaj Khalifa, Shahram Jamali

Journal: International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science & Technology

Paper

  • Real-time and efficient method for accuracy enhancement of edge based license plate recognition system

Reza Azad, Babak Azad, Hamid Reza Shayegh

Conference: International Conference on computer, Information Technology and Digital Media (CITADIM Proceeding Scientific)

Paper

  • Recognition of handwritten Persian/Arabic numerals based on robust feature set and K-NN classifier

Reza Azad, Fatemeh Davami, Hamid Reza Shayegh

Conference: International Conference on computer, Information Technology and Digital Media (CITADIM Proceeding Scientific)

Paper

  • Novel and tuneable method for skin detection based on hybrid color space and color statistical features

Reza Azad, Hamid Reza Shayegh

Journal: International Journal of Computer and Information Technologies

Paper

  • Optimized method for iranian road signs detection and recognition system

Reza Azad, Babak Azad, Iman Tavakoli Kazerooni

Conference: arXiv

Paper

  • New method for optimization of license plate recognition system with use of edge detection and connected component

Reza Azad, Hamid Reza Shayegh

Conference: IEEE International Conference on Computer and Knowledge Engineering

Paper

  • A novel and robust method for automatic license plate recognition system based on pattern recognition

Reza Azad, Fatemeh Davami, Babak Azad

Journal: Advances in Computer Science: an International Journal

Paper

  • Optimized Method for Real-Time Face Recognition System Based on PCA and Multiclass Support Vector Machine

Reza Azad, Babak Azad

Journal: Advances in Computer Science: an International Journal