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MEA-Net: multilayer edge attention network for medical image segmentation.
Liu, Huilin; Feng, Yue; Xu, Hong; Liang, Shufen; Liang, Huizhu; Li, Shengke; Zhu, Jiajian; Yang, Shuai; Li, Fufeng.
Afiliação
  • Liu H; Faculty of Intelligent Manufacturing, Wuyi University, Jiangmen, Guangdong, China.
  • Feng Y; Faculty of Intelligent Manufacturing, Wuyi University, Jiangmen, Guangdong, China. yfeng_wyu@wyu.edu.cn.
  • Xu H; Faculty of Intelligent Manufacturing, Wuyi University, Jiangmen, Guangdong, China.
  • Liang S; Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia.
  • Liang H; Faculty of Intelligent Manufacturing, Wuyi University, Jiangmen, Guangdong, China.
  • Li S; Faculty of Intelligent Manufacturing, Wuyi University, Jiangmen, Guangdong, China.
  • Zhu J; Faculty of Intelligent Manufacturing, Wuyi University, Jiangmen, Guangdong, China.
  • Yang S; Faculty of Intelligent Manufacturing, Wuyi University, Jiangmen, Guangdong, China.
  • Li F; Laboratory of TCM Four Processing, Shanghai University of TCM, Shanghai, China.
Sci Rep ; 12(1): 7868, 2022 05 12.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35551234
ABSTRACT
Medical image segmentation is a fundamental step in medical analysis and diagnosis. In recent years, deep learning networks have been used for precise segmentation. Numerous improved encoder-decoder structures have been proposed for various segmentation tasks. However, high-level features have gained more research attention than the abundant low-level features in the early stages of segmentation. Consequently, the learning of edge feature maps has been limited, which can lead to ambiguous boundaries of the predicted results. Inspired by the encoder-decoder network and attention mechanism, this study investigates a novel multilayer edge attention network (MEA-Net) to fully utilize the edge information in the encoding stages. MEA-Net comprises three major components a feature encoder module, a feature decoder module, and an edge module. An edge feature extraction module in the edge module is designed to produce edge feature maps by a sequence of convolution operations so as to integrate the inconsistent edge information from different encoding stages. A multilayer attention guidance module is designed to use each attention feature map to filter edge information and select important and useful features. Through experiments, MEA-Net is evaluated on four medical image datasets, including tongue images, retinal vessel images, lung images, and clinical images. The evaluation values of the Accuracy of four medical image datasets are 0.9957, 0.9736, 0.9942, and 0.9993, respectively. The values of the Dice coefficient are 0.9902, 0.8377, 0.9885, and 0.9704, respectively. Experimental results demonstrate that the network being studied outperforms current state-of-the-art methods in terms of the five commonly used evaluation metrics. The proposed MEA-Net can be used for the early diagnosis of relevant diseases. In addition, clinicians can obtain more accurate clinical information from segmented medical images.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Processamento de Imagem Assistida por Computador / Redes Neurais de Computação Tipo de estudo: Guideline / Prognostic_studies / Screening_studies Idioma: En Revista: Sci Rep Ano de publicação: 2022 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: China

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Processamento de Imagem Assistida por Computador / Redes Neurais de Computação Tipo de estudo: Guideline / Prognostic_studies / Screening_studies Idioma: En Revista: Sci Rep Ano de publicação: 2022 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: China