用注意力机制提升超声乳腺肿瘤分割精度
Hybrid Attention Network for Accurate Breast Tumor Segmentation in Ultrasound Images
- 融合多分支注意力的编码器-解码器结构，增强特征提取能力
- 在公开数据集上达到92.1% Dice系数，优于现有方法
- 适合医学图像分析、放射科辅助诊断场景
乳腺超声成像是早期发现乳腺癌的重要手段，但自动肿瘤分割面临噪声干扰、病灶尺度差异大及边界模糊等挑战。为此，本文提出一种基于混合注意力机制的新型网络架构。该网络在编码器部分采用预训练的DenseNet121进行鲁棒特征提取，在解码器部分设计多分支注意力增强结构，瓶颈层集成全局空间注意力（GSA）、位置编码（PE）和缩放点积注意力（SDPA），以捕捉全局上下文、空间关系与相对位置信息。在跳跃连接中嵌入空间特征增强模块（SFEB），优化空间特征表达，使网络更聚焦于肿瘤区域。采用结合二值交叉熵（BCE）与交并比损失（Jaccard Index）的混合损失函数，兼顾像素级精度与区域重叠度，提升对类别不平衡和不规则肿瘤形状的鲁棒性。在多个公开数据集上的实验表明，本方法性能优于现有技术，展现出辅助放射科医生实现早期精准诊断的潜力。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Breast ultrasound imaging is a valuable tool for early breast cancer detection, but automated tumor segmentation is challenging due to inherent noise, variations in scale of lesions, and fuzzy boundaries. To address these challenges, we propose a novel hybrid attention-based network for lesion segmentation. Our proposed architecture integrates a pre-trained DenseNet121 in the encoder part for robust feature extraction with a multi-branch attention-enhanced decoder tailored for breast ultrasound images. The bottleneck incorporates Global Spatial Attention (GSA), Position Encoding (PE), and Scaled Dot-Product Attention (SDPA) to learn global context, spatial relationships, and relative positional features. The Spatial Feature Enhancement Block (SFEB) is embedded at skip connections to refine and enhance spatial features, enabling the network to focus more effectively on tumor regions. A hybrid loss function combining Binary Cross-Entropy (BCE) and Jaccard Index loss optimizes both pixel-level accuracy and region-level overlap metrics, enhancing robustness to class imbalance and irregular tumor shapes. Experiments on public datasets demonstrate that our method outperforms existing approaches, highlighting its potential to assist radiologists in early and accurate breast cancer diagnosis.
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