DNL-Net: deformed non-local neural network for blood vessel segmentation.

Journal: BMC medical imaging
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: The non-local module has been primarily used in literature to capturing long-range dependencies. However, it suffers from prohibitive computational complexity and lacks the interactions among positions across the channels.

Authors

  • Jiajia Ni
    Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; College of Internet of Things Engineering, HoHai University Changzhou, China.
  • Jianhuang Wu
    Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1068 Xueyuan Boulevard, Shenzhen 518055, China.
  • Ahmed Elazab
    Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1068 Xueyuan Boulevard, Shenzhen 518055, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 52 Sanlihe Road, Beijing 100864, China.
  • Jing Tong
    College of Internet of Things Engineering, HoHai University Changzhou, China.
  • Zhengming Chen
    Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Healthcare Policy and Research, New York, NY.