Swin-Unet: Unet-Like Pure Transformer for Medical Image Segmentation

2023/01/01 by Hu Cao, Yueyue Wang, Joy Chen +4 · 103 citations
Computer Science · Medicine · #Advanced Neural Network Applications #COVID-19 diagnosis using AI #Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging

paper · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-25066-8_9

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