FEFormer: Frequency-enhanced Vision Transformer for Generic Knowledge Extraction and Adaptive Feature Fusion in Volumetric Medical Image Segmentation
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| author | Yang, Jin Yu, Xiaobing Qiu, Peijie |
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| contents | Accurate segmentation of organs and lesions in medical images is essential for clinical applications including diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment planning. While Vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown impressive segmentation performance, they face key challenges in module and architecture design. Specifically, self-attention struggles to capture fine-grained local features critical for understanding detailed anatomical structures, standard MLP modules lack explicit mechanisms to preserve spatial information, conventional encoder-decoder architectures rely on naive feature fusion strategies that cannot handle large semantic discrepancies, and existing designs lack explicit mechanisms to propagate low-level information from encoder to decoder. To address these limitations, we propose a Frequency-enhanced Vision Transformer (FEFormer) for robust and efficient volumetric medical image segmentation that explicitly models frequency information to jointly capture global context and fine structural details. FEFormer comprises four novel components: a Frequency-enhanced Dynamic Self-Attention (FDSA) module that jointly captures fine-grained local details and global long-range dependencies through locality-preserving convolution with frequency-domain attention; a Frequency-decomposed Gating MLP (FGMLP) that adaptively models low- and high-frequency components for enhanced semantic and structural representation; a Wavelet-guided Adaptive Feature Fusion (WAFF) module that enables semantically consistent encoder-decoder feature integration in the frequency domain; and a Frequency-enabled Cross-scale Stem Bridge (FCSB) that enhances low-level feature propagation across scales. Evaluated on four diverse volumetric medical image segmentation tasks, FEFormer achieved superior segmentation performance with high computational efficiency compared to state-of-the-art methods. |
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| spellingShingle | FEFormer: Frequency-enhanced Vision Transformer for Generic Knowledge Extraction and Adaptive Feature Fusion in Volumetric Medical Image Segmentation Yang, Jin Yu, Xiaobing Qiu, Peijie Image and Video Processing Accurate segmentation of organs and lesions in medical images is essential for clinical applications including diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment planning. While Vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown impressive segmentation performance, they face key challenges in module and architecture design. Specifically, self-attention struggles to capture fine-grained local features critical for understanding detailed anatomical structures, standard MLP modules lack explicit mechanisms to preserve spatial information, conventional encoder-decoder architectures rely on naive feature fusion strategies that cannot handle large semantic discrepancies, and existing designs lack explicit mechanisms to propagate low-level information from encoder to decoder. To address these limitations, we propose a Frequency-enhanced Vision Transformer (FEFormer) for robust and efficient volumetric medical image segmentation that explicitly models frequency information to jointly capture global context and fine structural details. FEFormer comprises four novel components: a Frequency-enhanced Dynamic Self-Attention (FDSA) module that jointly captures fine-grained local details and global long-range dependencies through locality-preserving convolution with frequency-domain attention; a Frequency-decomposed Gating MLP (FGMLP) that adaptively models low- and high-frequency components for enhanced semantic and structural representation; a Wavelet-guided Adaptive Feature Fusion (WAFF) module that enables semantically consistent encoder-decoder feature integration in the frequency domain; and a Frequency-enabled Cross-scale Stem Bridge (FCSB) that enhances low-level feature propagation across scales. Evaluated on four diverse volumetric medical image segmentation tasks, FEFormer achieved superior segmentation performance with high computational efficiency compared to state-of-the-art methods. |
| title | FEFormer: Frequency-enhanced Vision Transformer for Generic Knowledge Extraction and Adaptive Feature Fusion in Volumetric Medical Image Segmentation |
| topic | Image and Video Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.11434 |