Region Attention Transformer for Medical Image Restoration

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Autores principales: Yang, Zhiwen, Chen, Haowei, Qian, Ziniu, Zhou, Yang, Zhang, Hui, Zhao, Dan, Wei, Bingzheng, Xu, Yan
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author Yang, Zhiwen
Chen, Haowei
Qian, Ziniu
Zhou, Yang
Zhang, Hui
Zhao, Dan
Wei, Bingzheng
Xu, Yan
author_facet Yang, Zhiwen
Chen, Haowei
Qian, Ziniu
Zhou, Yang
Zhang, Hui
Zhao, Dan
Wei, Bingzheng
Xu, Yan
contents Transformer-based methods have demonstrated impressive results in medical image restoration, attributed to the multi-head self-attention (MSA) mechanism in the spatial dimension. However, the majority of existing Transformers conduct attention within fixed and coarsely partitioned regions (\text{e.g.} the entire image or fixed patches), resulting in interference from irrelevant regions and fragmentation of continuous image content. To overcome these challenges, we introduce a novel Region Attention Transformer (RAT) that utilizes a region-based multi-head self-attention mechanism (R-MSA). The R-MSA dynamically partitions the input image into non-overlapping semantic regions using the robust Segment Anything Model (SAM) and then performs self-attention within these regions. This region partitioning is more flexible and interpretable, ensuring that only pixels from similar semantic regions complement each other, thereby eliminating interference from irrelevant regions. Moreover, we introduce a focal region loss to guide our model to adaptively focus on recovering high-difficulty regions. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of RAT in various medical image restoration tasks, including PET image synthesis, CT image denoising, and pathological image super-resolution. Code is available at \href{https://github.com/Yaziwel/Region-Attention-Transformer-for-Medical-Image-Restoration.git}{https://github.com/RAT}.
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spellingShingle Region Attention Transformer for Medical Image Restoration
Yang, Zhiwen
Chen, Haowei
Qian, Ziniu
Zhou, Yang
Zhang, Hui
Zhao, Dan
Wei, Bingzheng
Xu, Yan
Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Transformer-based methods have demonstrated impressive results in medical image restoration, attributed to the multi-head self-attention (MSA) mechanism in the spatial dimension. However, the majority of existing Transformers conduct attention within fixed and coarsely partitioned regions (\text{e.g.} the entire image or fixed patches), resulting in interference from irrelevant regions and fragmentation of continuous image content. To overcome these challenges, we introduce a novel Region Attention Transformer (RAT) that utilizes a region-based multi-head self-attention mechanism (R-MSA). The R-MSA dynamically partitions the input image into non-overlapping semantic regions using the robust Segment Anything Model (SAM) and then performs self-attention within these regions. This region partitioning is more flexible and interpretable, ensuring that only pixels from similar semantic regions complement each other, thereby eliminating interference from irrelevant regions. Moreover, we introduce a focal region loss to guide our model to adaptively focus on recovering high-difficulty regions. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of RAT in various medical image restoration tasks, including PET image synthesis, CT image denoising, and pathological image super-resolution. Code is available at \href{https://github.com/Yaziwel/Region-Attention-Transformer-for-Medical-Image-Restoration.git}{https://github.com/RAT}.
title Region Attention Transformer for Medical Image Restoration
topic Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.09268