Dense gate network for biomedical image segmentation.

Journal: International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
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Abstract

PURPOSE: Deep learning has recently shown its outstanding performance in biomedical image semantic segmentation. Most biomedical semantic segmentation frameworks comprise the encoder-decoder architecture directly fusing features of the encoder and the decoder by the way of skip connections. However, the simple fusion operation may neglect the semantic gaps which lie between these features in the decoder and the encoder, hindering the effectiveness of the network.

Authors

  • Dongsheng Li
    Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
  • Chunxiao Chen
    Department of Biomedical Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, 211106, China. ccxbme@nuaa.edu.cn.
  • Jianfei Li
    Department of Biomedical Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, 211106, China.
  • Liang Wang
    Information Department, Dazhou Central Hospital, Dazhou 635000, China.