MegaSeg: Towards Scalable Semantic Segmentation for Megapixel Images

Megapixel image segmentation is central to high-resolution histopathology analysis, but standard pipelines depend on patching or downsampling that lose important context. MegaSeg introduces an end-to-end segmentation framework for megapixel images that combines streaming convolutional networks, a U-shaped architecture, and a divide-and-conquer strategy. It preserves fine detail and global structure while dramatically reducing memory requirements for very large images.
Recommended citation: Kaura SK, Wu J, Gao Z*, Li C*. MegaSeg: Towards Scalable Semantic Segmentation for Megapixel Images. Medical Image Analysis. 2026 Jan 10:103933.
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