AFFSegNet: Adaptive Feature Fusion Segmentation Network for Microtumors and Multi-Organ Segmentation

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Autori principali: Zheng, Fuchen, Chen, Xinyi, Chen, Xuhang, Li, Haolun, Guo, Xiaojiao, Liu, Weihuang, Pun, Chi-Man, Zhou, Shoujun
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author Zheng, Fuchen
Chen, Xinyi
Chen, Xuhang
Li, Haolun
Guo, Xiaojiao
Liu, Weihuang
Pun, Chi-Man
Zhou, Shoujun
author_facet Zheng, Fuchen
Chen, Xinyi
Chen, Xuhang
Li, Haolun
Guo, Xiaojiao
Liu, Weihuang
Pun, Chi-Man
Zhou, Shoujun
contents Medical image segmentation, a crucial task in computer vision, facilitates the automated delineation of anatomical structures and pathologies, supporting clinicians in diagnosis, treatment planning, and disease monitoring. Notably, transformers employing shifted window-based self-attention have demonstrated exceptional performance. However, their reliance on local window attention limits the fusion of local and global contextual information, crucial for segmenting microtumors and miniature organs. To address this limitation, we propose the Adaptive Semantic Segmentation Network (ASSNet), a transformer architecture that effectively integrates local and global features for precise medical image segmentation. ASSNet comprises a transformer-based U-shaped encoder-decoder network. The encoder utilizes shifted window self-attention across five resolutions to extract multi-scale features, which are then propagated to the decoder through skip connections. We introduce an augmented multi-layer perceptron within the encoder to explicitly model long-range dependencies during feature extraction. Recognizing the constraints of conventional symmetrical encoder-decoder designs, we propose an Adaptive Feature Fusion (AFF) decoder to complement our encoder. This decoder incorporates three key components: the Long Range Dependencies (LRD) block, the Multi-Scale Feature Fusion (MFF) block, and the Adaptive Semantic Center (ASC) block. These components synergistically facilitate the effective fusion of multi-scale features extracted by the decoder while capturing long-range dependencies and refining object boundaries. Comprehensive experiments on diverse medical image segmentation tasks, including multi-organ, liver tumor, and bladder tumor segmentation, demonstrate that ASSNet achieves state-of-the-art results. Code and models are available at: \url{https://github.com/lzeeorno/ASSNet}.
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spellingShingle AFFSegNet: Adaptive Feature Fusion Segmentation Network for Microtumors and Multi-Organ Segmentation
Zheng, Fuchen
Chen, Xinyi
Chen, Xuhang
Li, Haolun
Guo, Xiaojiao
Liu, Weihuang
Pun, Chi-Man
Zhou, Shoujun
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Medical image segmentation, a crucial task in computer vision, facilitates the automated delineation of anatomical structures and pathologies, supporting clinicians in diagnosis, treatment planning, and disease monitoring. Notably, transformers employing shifted window-based self-attention have demonstrated exceptional performance. However, their reliance on local window attention limits the fusion of local and global contextual information, crucial for segmenting microtumors and miniature organs. To address this limitation, we propose the Adaptive Semantic Segmentation Network (ASSNet), a transformer architecture that effectively integrates local and global features for precise medical image segmentation. ASSNet comprises a transformer-based U-shaped encoder-decoder network. The encoder utilizes shifted window self-attention across five resolutions to extract multi-scale features, which are then propagated to the decoder through skip connections. We introduce an augmented multi-layer perceptron within the encoder to explicitly model long-range dependencies during feature extraction. Recognizing the constraints of conventional symmetrical encoder-decoder designs, we propose an Adaptive Feature Fusion (AFF) decoder to complement our encoder. This decoder incorporates three key components: the Long Range Dependencies (LRD) block, the Multi-Scale Feature Fusion (MFF) block, and the Adaptive Semantic Center (ASC) block. These components synergistically facilitate the effective fusion of multi-scale features extracted by the decoder while capturing long-range dependencies and refining object boundaries. Comprehensive experiments on diverse medical image segmentation tasks, including multi-organ, liver tumor, and bladder tumor segmentation, demonstrate that ASSNet achieves state-of-the-art results. Code and models are available at: \url{https://github.com/lzeeorno/ASSNet}.
title AFFSegNet: Adaptive Feature Fusion Segmentation Network for Microtumors and Multi-Organ Segmentation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07779