Hybridization of Attention UNet with Repeated Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling for Improved Brain Tumour Segmentation

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Autori principali: Chowdhury, Satyaki Roy, Mirzaei, Golrokh
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author Chowdhury, Satyaki Roy
Mirzaei, Golrokh
author_facet Chowdhury, Satyaki Roy
Mirzaei, Golrokh
contents Brain tumors are highly heterogeneous in terms of their spatial and scaling characteristics, making tumor segmentation in medical images a difficult task that might result in wrong diagnosis and therapy. Automation of a task like tumor segmentation is expected to enhance objectivity, repeatability and at the same time reducing turn around time. Conventional convolutional neural networks (CNNs) exhibit sub-par performance as a result of their inability to accurately represent the range of tumor sizes and forms. Developing on that, UNets have been a commonly used solution for semantic segmentation, and it uses a downsampling-upsampling approach to segment tumors. This paper proposes a novel architecture that integrates Attention-UNet with repeated Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling (ASPP). ASPP effectively captures multi-scale contextual information through parallel atrous convolutions with varying dilation rates. This allows for efficient expansion of the receptive field while maintaining fine details. The attention provides the necessary context by incorporating local characteristics with their corresponding global dependencies. This integration significantly enhances semantic segmentation performance. Our approach demonstrates significant improvements over UNet, Attention UNet and Attention UNet with Spatial Pyramid Pooling allowing to set a new benchmark for tumor segmentation tasks.
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spellingShingle Hybridization of Attention UNet with Repeated Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling for Improved Brain Tumour Segmentation
Chowdhury, Satyaki Roy
Mirzaei, Golrokh
Image and Video Processing
Brain tumors are highly heterogeneous in terms of their spatial and scaling characteristics, making tumor segmentation in medical images a difficult task that might result in wrong diagnosis and therapy. Automation of a task like tumor segmentation is expected to enhance objectivity, repeatability and at the same time reducing turn around time. Conventional convolutional neural networks (CNNs) exhibit sub-par performance as a result of their inability to accurately represent the range of tumor sizes and forms. Developing on that, UNets have been a commonly used solution for semantic segmentation, and it uses a downsampling-upsampling approach to segment tumors. This paper proposes a novel architecture that integrates Attention-UNet with repeated Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling (ASPP). ASPP effectively captures multi-scale contextual information through parallel atrous convolutions with varying dilation rates. This allows for efficient expansion of the receptive field while maintaining fine details. The attention provides the necessary context by incorporating local characteristics with their corresponding global dependencies. This integration significantly enhances semantic segmentation performance. Our approach demonstrates significant improvements over UNet, Attention UNet and Attention UNet with Spatial Pyramid Pooling allowing to set a new benchmark for tumor segmentation tasks.
title Hybridization of Attention UNet with Repeated Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling for Improved Brain Tumour Segmentation
topic Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13129