DA-TransUNet: Integrating Spatial and Channel Dual Attention with Transformer U-Net for Medical Image Segmentation

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Main Authors: Sun, Guanqun, Pan, Yizhi, Kong, Weikun, Xu, Zichang, Ma, Jianhua, Racharak, Teeradaj, Nguyen, Le-Minh, Xin, Junyi
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author Sun, Guanqun
Pan, Yizhi
Kong, Weikun
Xu, Zichang
Ma, Jianhua
Racharak, Teeradaj
Nguyen, Le-Minh
Xin, Junyi
author_facet Sun, Guanqun
Pan, Yizhi
Kong, Weikun
Xu, Zichang
Ma, Jianhua
Racharak, Teeradaj
Nguyen, Le-Minh
Xin, Junyi
contents Accurate medical image segmentation is critical for disease quantification and treatment evaluation. While traditional Unet architectures and their transformer-integrated variants excel in automated segmentation tasks. However, they lack the ability to harness the intrinsic position and channel features of image. Existing models also struggle with parameter efficiency and computational complexity, often due to the extensive use of Transformers. To address these issues, this study proposes a novel deep medical image segmentation framework, called DA-TransUNet, aiming to integrate the Transformer and dual attention block(DA-Block) into the traditional U-shaped architecture. Unlike earlier transformer-based U-net models, DA-TransUNet utilizes Transformers and DA-Block to integrate not only global and local features, but also image-specific positional and channel features, improving the performance of medical image segmentation. By incorporating a DA-Block at the embedding layer and within each skip connection layer, we substantially enhance feature extraction capabilities and improve the efficiency of the encoder-decoder structure. DA-TransUNet demonstrates superior performance in medical image segmentation tasks, consistently outperforming state-of-the-art techniques across multiple datasets. In summary, DA-TransUNet offers a significant advancement in medical image segmentation, providing an effective and powerful alternative to existing techniques. Our architecture stands out for its ability to improve segmentation accuracy, thereby advancing the field of automated medical image diagnostics. The codes and parameters of our model will be publicly available at https://github.com/SUN-1024/DA-TransUnet.
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spellingShingle DA-TransUNet: Integrating Spatial and Channel Dual Attention with Transformer U-Net for Medical Image Segmentation
Sun, Guanqun
Pan, Yizhi
Kong, Weikun
Xu, Zichang
Ma, Jianhua
Racharak, Teeradaj
Nguyen, Le-Minh
Xin, Junyi
Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Graphics
Machine Learning
Accurate medical image segmentation is critical for disease quantification and treatment evaluation. While traditional Unet architectures and their transformer-integrated variants excel in automated segmentation tasks. However, they lack the ability to harness the intrinsic position and channel features of image. Existing models also struggle with parameter efficiency and computational complexity, often due to the extensive use of Transformers. To address these issues, this study proposes a novel deep medical image segmentation framework, called DA-TransUNet, aiming to integrate the Transformer and dual attention block(DA-Block) into the traditional U-shaped architecture. Unlike earlier transformer-based U-net models, DA-TransUNet utilizes Transformers and DA-Block to integrate not only global and local features, but also image-specific positional and channel features, improving the performance of medical image segmentation. By incorporating a DA-Block at the embedding layer and within each skip connection layer, we substantially enhance feature extraction capabilities and improve the efficiency of the encoder-decoder structure. DA-TransUNet demonstrates superior performance in medical image segmentation tasks, consistently outperforming state-of-the-art techniques across multiple datasets. In summary, DA-TransUNet offers a significant advancement in medical image segmentation, providing an effective and powerful alternative to existing techniques. Our architecture stands out for its ability to improve segmentation accuracy, thereby advancing the field of automated medical image diagnostics. The codes and parameters of our model will be publicly available at https://github.com/SUN-1024/DA-TransUnet.
title DA-TransUNet: Integrating Spatial and Channel Dual Attention with Transformer U-Net for Medical Image Segmentation
topic Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Graphics
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.12570