DTEA: Dynamic Topology Weaving and Instability-Driven Entropic Attenuation for Medical Image Segmentation

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Main Authors: Li, Weixuan, Li, Quanjun, Yu, Guang, Yang, Song, Li, Zimeng, Pun, Chi-Man, Liu, Yupeng, Chen, Xuhang
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author Li, Weixuan
Li, Quanjun
Yu, Guang
Yang, Song
Li, Zimeng
Pun, Chi-Man
Liu, Yupeng
Chen, Xuhang
author_facet Li, Weixuan
Li, Quanjun
Yu, Guang
Yang, Song
Li, Zimeng
Pun, Chi-Man
Liu, Yupeng
Chen, Xuhang
contents In medical image segmentation, skip connections are used to merge global context and reduce the semantic gap between encoder and decoder. Current methods often struggle with limited structural representation and insufficient contextual modeling, affecting generalization in complex clinical scenarios. We propose the DTEA model, featuring a new skip connection framework with the Semantic Topology Reconfiguration (STR) and Entropic Perturbation Gating (EPG) modules. STR reorganizes multi-scale semantic features into a dynamic hypergraph to better model cross-resolution anatomical dependencies, enhancing structural and semantic representation. EPG assesses channel stability after perturbation and filters high-entropy channels to emphasize clinically important regions and improve spatial attention. Extensive experiments on three benchmark datasets show our framework achieves superior segmentation accuracy and better generalization across various clinical settings. The code is available at \href{https://github.com/LWX-Research/DTEA}{https://github.com/LWX-Research/DTEA}.
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spellingShingle DTEA: Dynamic Topology Weaving and Instability-Driven Entropic Attenuation for Medical Image Segmentation
Li, Weixuan
Li, Quanjun
Yu, Guang
Yang, Song
Li, Zimeng
Pun, Chi-Man
Liu, Yupeng
Chen, Xuhang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
In medical image segmentation, skip connections are used to merge global context and reduce the semantic gap between encoder and decoder. Current methods often struggle with limited structural representation and insufficient contextual modeling, affecting generalization in complex clinical scenarios. We propose the DTEA model, featuring a new skip connection framework with the Semantic Topology Reconfiguration (STR) and Entropic Perturbation Gating (EPG) modules. STR reorganizes multi-scale semantic features into a dynamic hypergraph to better model cross-resolution anatomical dependencies, enhancing structural and semantic representation. EPG assesses channel stability after perturbation and filters high-entropy channels to emphasize clinically important regions and improve spatial attention. Extensive experiments on three benchmark datasets show our framework achieves superior segmentation accuracy and better generalization across various clinical settings. The code is available at \href{https://github.com/LWX-Research/DTEA}{https://github.com/LWX-Research/DTEA}.
title DTEA: Dynamic Topology Weaving and Instability-Driven Entropic Attenuation for Medical Image Segmentation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11259