Optimizing Medical Image Segmentation with Advanced Decoder Design

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Hauptverfasser: Yang, Weibin, Dong, Zhiqi, Xu, Mingyuan, Xu, Longwei, Geng, Dehua, Li, Yusong, Wang, Pengwei
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author Yang, Weibin
Dong, Zhiqi
Xu, Mingyuan
Xu, Longwei
Geng, Dehua
Li, Yusong
Wang, Pengwei
author_facet Yang, Weibin
Dong, Zhiqi
Xu, Mingyuan
Xu, Longwei
Geng, Dehua
Li, Yusong
Wang, Pengwei
contents U-Net is widely used in medical image segmentation due to its simple and flexible architecture design. To address the challenges of scale and complexity in medical tasks, several variants of U-Net have been proposed. In particular, methods based on Vision Transformer (ViT), represented by Swin UNETR, have gained widespread attention in recent years. However, these improvements often focus on the encoder, overlooking the crucial role of the decoder in optimizing segmentation details. This design imbalance limits the potential for further enhancing segmentation performance. To address this issue, we analyze the roles of various decoder components, including upsampling method, skip connection, and feature extraction module, as well as the shortcomings of existing methods. Consequently, we propose Swin DER (i.e., Swin UNETR Decoder Enhanced and Refined) by specifically optimizing the design of these three components. Swin DER performs upsampling using learnable interpolation algorithm called offset coordinate neighborhood weighted up sampling (Onsampling) and replaces traditional skip connection with spatial-channel parallel attention gate (SCP AG). Additionally, Swin DER introduces deformable convolution along with attention mechanism in the feature extraction module of the decoder. Our model design achieves excellent results, surpassing other state-of-the-art methods on both the Synapse and the MSD brain tumor segmentation task. Code is available at: https://github.com/WillBeanYang/Swin-DER
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spellingShingle Optimizing Medical Image Segmentation with Advanced Decoder Design
Yang, Weibin
Dong, Zhiqi
Xu, Mingyuan
Xu, Longwei
Geng, Dehua
Li, Yusong
Wang, Pengwei
Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
U-Net is widely used in medical image segmentation due to its simple and flexible architecture design. To address the challenges of scale and complexity in medical tasks, several variants of U-Net have been proposed. In particular, methods based on Vision Transformer (ViT), represented by Swin UNETR, have gained widespread attention in recent years. However, these improvements often focus on the encoder, overlooking the crucial role of the decoder in optimizing segmentation details. This design imbalance limits the potential for further enhancing segmentation performance. To address this issue, we analyze the roles of various decoder components, including upsampling method, skip connection, and feature extraction module, as well as the shortcomings of existing methods. Consequently, we propose Swin DER (i.e., Swin UNETR Decoder Enhanced and Refined) by specifically optimizing the design of these three components. Swin DER performs upsampling using learnable interpolation algorithm called offset coordinate neighborhood weighted up sampling (Onsampling) and replaces traditional skip connection with spatial-channel parallel attention gate (SCP AG). Additionally, Swin DER introduces deformable convolution along with attention mechanism in the feature extraction module of the decoder. Our model design achieves excellent results, surpassing other state-of-the-art methods on both the Synapse and the MSD brain tumor segmentation task. Code is available at: https://github.com/WillBeanYang/Swin-DER
title Optimizing Medical Image Segmentation with Advanced Decoder Design
topic Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.04128