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UNet++: A Nested U-Net Architecture for Medical Image Segmentation
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- Zhou, Z., Rahman Siddiquee, M. M., Tajbakhsh, N., & Liang, J.
- Venue
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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- Springer International Publishing
- Published
- 2018
- Volume
- 11045
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- 1611-3349
- OpenAlex
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- References
- 4
- FWCI
- 98.85
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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