EDSRNet: An Enhanced Decoder Semantic Recovery Network for 2D Medical Image Segmentation.

Journal: IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
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Abstract

In recent years, with the advancement of medical imaging technology, medical image segmentation has played a key role in assisting diagnosis and treatment planning. Current deep learning-based medical image segmentation methods mainly adopt encoder-decoder architecture design and have received wide attention. However, these methods still have some limitations, including: (1) Existing methods are often influenced by the significant semantic information gap when supplementing features for the decoder. (2) Existing methods do not simultaneously consider global and local information interaction during decoding, resulting in ineffective semantic recovery. Therefore, this paper proposes a novel Enhanced Decoder Semantic Recovery Network to address these challenges. Firstly, the Multi-Level Semantic Fusion (MLSF) module is introduced, which effectively fuses low-level features of the original image, encoder features, high-level features of the deepest network layer, and decoder features, and assigns weights based on semantic gaps. Secondly, the Multiscale Spatial Attention (MSSA) and Cross Convolution Channel Attention (CCCA) modules are employed to obtain richer feature information. Finally, the Global-Local Semantic Recovery (GLSR) module is designed to achieve better semantic recovery. Experiments on public datasets such as BUSI, CVC-ClinicDB, and Kvasir-SEG demonstrate that the proposed model improves IoU compared to suboptimal algorithms by 0.81%, 0.85% and 1.98%, respectively, significantly enhancing the performance of 2D medical image segmentation. This method provides effective technical support for further development in the field of medical image.

Authors

  • Feng Sun
    Department of Neurology, Brain Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, China.
  • Ying Zhou
    Institute of Drug Metabolism and Pharmaceutical Analysis, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China.
  • Longxiangfeng Hu
  • Yongyan Li
  • Dan Zhao
    Key Laboratory of Hunan Province for Water Environment and Agriculture Product Safety, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, China.
  • Yufeng Chen
  • Yu He
    Key Laboratory for Analytical Science of Food Safety and Biology, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Analysis and Detection Technology for Food Safety, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350116, China.