DualSwinUnet++: An Enhanced Swin-Unet Architecture With Dual Decoders For PTMC Segmentation

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Main Authors: Dialameh, Maryam, Rajabzadeh, Hossein, Sadeghi-Goughari, Moslem, Sim, Jung Suk, Kwon, Hyock Ju
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author Dialameh, Maryam
Rajabzadeh, Hossein
Sadeghi-Goughari, Moslem
Sim, Jung Suk
Kwon, Hyock Ju
author_facet Dialameh, Maryam
Rajabzadeh, Hossein
Sadeghi-Goughari, Moslem
Sim, Jung Suk
Kwon, Hyock Ju
contents Precise segmentation of papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (PTMC) during ultrasound-guided radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is critical for effective treatment but remains challenging due to acoustic artifacts, small lesion size, and anatomical variability. In this study, we propose DualSwinUnet++, a dual-decoder transformer-based architecture designed to enhance PTMC segmentation by incorporating thyroid gland context. DualSwinUnet++ employs independent linear projection heads for each decoder and a residual information flow mechanism that passes intermediate features from the first (thyroid) decoder to the second (PTMC) decoder via concatenation and transformation. These design choices allow the model to condition tumor prediction explicitly on gland morphology without shared gradient interference. Trained on a clinical ultrasound dataset with 691 annotated RFA images and evaluated against state-of-the-art models, DualSwinUnet++ achieves superior Dice and Jaccard scores while maintaining sub-200ms inference latency. The results demonstrate the model's suitability for near real-time surgical assistance and its effectiveness in improving segmentation accuracy in challenging PTMC cases.
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spellingShingle DualSwinUnet++: An Enhanced Swin-Unet Architecture With Dual Decoders For PTMC Segmentation
Dialameh, Maryam
Rajabzadeh, Hossein
Sadeghi-Goughari, Moslem
Sim, Jung Suk
Kwon, Hyock Ju
Image and Video Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Precise segmentation of papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (PTMC) during ultrasound-guided radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is critical for effective treatment but remains challenging due to acoustic artifacts, small lesion size, and anatomical variability. In this study, we propose DualSwinUnet++, a dual-decoder transformer-based architecture designed to enhance PTMC segmentation by incorporating thyroid gland context. DualSwinUnet++ employs independent linear projection heads for each decoder and a residual information flow mechanism that passes intermediate features from the first (thyroid) decoder to the second (PTMC) decoder via concatenation and transformation. These design choices allow the model to condition tumor prediction explicitly on gland morphology without shared gradient interference. Trained on a clinical ultrasound dataset with 691 annotated RFA images and evaluated against state-of-the-art models, DualSwinUnet++ achieves superior Dice and Jaccard scores while maintaining sub-200ms inference latency. The results demonstrate the model's suitability for near real-time surgical assistance and its effectiveness in improving segmentation accuracy in challenging PTMC cases.
title DualSwinUnet++: An Enhanced Swin-Unet Architecture With Dual Decoders For PTMC Segmentation
topic Image and Video Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.18239