DENSE-INception U-net for medical image segmentation.

Journal: Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
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Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) play an important role in the field of medical image segmentation. Among many kinds of CNNs, the U-net architecture is one of the most famous fully convolutional network architectures for medical semantic segmentation tasks. Recent work shows that the U-net network can be substantially deeper thus resulting in improved performance on segmentation tasks. Though adding more layers directly into network is a popular way to make a network deeper, it may lead to gradient vanishing or redundant computation during training.

Authors

  • Ziang Zhang
    Faculty of Robot Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, 110004, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China. Electronic address: zza13838978934@gmail.com.
  • Chengdong Wu
    Faculty of Robot Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, 110004, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China. Electronic address: wuchengdong@mail.neu.edu.cn.
  • Sonya Coleman
  • Dermot Kerr