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基于双分支特征交互和跨样本特征融合的胸腹部医学图像分割

Thoracic and Abdominal Medical Image Segmentation Based on Dual-Branch Feature Interaction and Cross-Sample Feature Fusion

  • 摘要: 胸腹部医学图像分割在临床医学早期病变的筛查与诊断中具有不可替代的重要意义。针对胸腹部医学图像通常存在伪影干扰、边界模糊等因素,现有模型易产生分割错误的问题,通过构建双分支特征交互机制并联合跨样本特征融合,提出一种语义分割网络MQUNet。首先采用基于CNN-Transformer的双分支架构提取当前图像的局部特征与全局特征,尽可能全面地捕捉器官间的局部细节和空间关联,并新增设一个基于改进的激活函数的负向关注分支融合这2种特征,同时兼顾特征间的相似性和差异性,避免语义信息的丢失;然后根据训练样本的类别标签建立记忆队列存储解剖先验特征,并通过跨样本特征检索与加权融合将训练样本中的稳定解剖先验动态加入当前分割过程,有效地校正由伪影和模糊情况导致的特征偏移。在公开的心脏肿瘤(ACDC)和腹部多器官(Synapse)数据集上进行实验的结果表明,Dice系数指标分别达到92.53%和85.17%,优于文中对比的分割方法,MQUNet在胸腹部医学图像分割任务中展现出显著的优势。

     

    Abstract: Thoracic and abdominal medical image segmentation plays an irreplaceable role in the screening and diagnosis of early lesions in clinical medicine. In view of the fact that the thoracic and abdominal medical images usually have factors such as artifact interference and blurred boundaries, and existing models are prone to segmentation errors, a semantic segmentation network MQUNet is proposed by constructing a dual-branch feature interaction mechanism and combining cross-sample feature fusion. Firstly, the dual-branch architecture based on CNN-Transformer is adopted to extract the local and global features of the current image, capturing the local details and spatial correlations between organs as comprehensively as possible. It also integrates the two features by adding a negative attention branch based on an improved activation function, while taking into account both similarities and differences between features, avoiding the loss of semantic information. In addition, a memory queue is established based on the category labels of the training samples to store anatomical prior features. Through cross sample feature retrieval and weighted fusion, stable anatomical prior features from the training samples are dynamically added to the current segmentation process, effectively correcting feature shifts caused by artifacts and blurring. The experimental results on the publicly available cardiac cancer (ACDC) and abdominal multi-organ (Synapse) datasets show that the Dice coefficient index reaches 92.53% and 85.17% respectively, which is superior to the segmentation methods compared in the paper. MQUNet demonstrates significant advantages in the task of thoracic and abdominal medical image segmentation.

     

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