Example 1 - Prior Research Analysis: Research Topic: Deep Learning for Medical Image Segmentation Key Prior Studies: 1. Ronneberger et al. (2015) - U-Net architecture for biomedical image segmentation 2. Çiçek et al. (2016) - 3D U-Net for volumetric segmentation 3. Oktay et al. (2018) - Attention U-Net improving focus on target structures 4. Zhou et al. (2019) - UNet++ with nested skip connections Research Gaps: - Limited performance on small datasets - High computational requirements - Need for better interpretability Suggested Direction: Propose lightweight architecture with attention mechanisms for resource-constrained medical applications