用双向注意力融合原始与增强图像,提升医学图像分割精度。
Dual Interaction Network with Cross-Image Attention for Medical Image Segmentation
- 设计双向交叉注意力模块,挖掘原图与增强图的互补特征。
- 在ACDC和Synapse数据集上,边界分割误差降低12.3%以上。
- 适合需要高精度边界分割的医学图像分析任务。
医学图像分割对疾病诊断至关重要,但噪声、模糊和低对比度等因素常影响诊断准确性。尽管图像增强技术可缓解这些问题,却可能破坏原始图像中的关键信息。传统融合方法如特征拼接难以兼顾两者优势并抑制增强带来的副作用。为此,提出双交互融合模块(DIFM),通过双向交叉注意力机制,同时关注不同图像间的对应空间信息,并利用全局空间注意力优化互补特征。该机制隐式融合了从低到高阶的结构特征,如边缘、斑块和物体形状,生成蕴含重要空间特性的增强特征。此外,引入基于梯度提取的多尺度边界损失,提升物体边界的分割精度。在ACDC和Synapse数据集上的实验表明,该方法在定量与定性评价上均表现更优。代码已公开。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Medical image segmentation is a crucial method for assisting professionals in diagnosing various diseases through medical imaging. However, various factors such as noise, blurriness, and low contrast often hinder the accurate diagnosis of diseases. While numerous image enhancement techniques can mitigate these issues, they may also alter crucial information needed for accurate diagnosis in the original image. Conventional image fusion strategies, such as feature concatenation can address this challenge. However, they struggle to fully leverage the advantages of both original and enhanced images while suppressing the side effects of the enhancements. To overcome the problem, we propose a dual interactive fusion module (DIFM) that effectively exploits mutual complementary information from the original and enhanced images. DIFM employs cross-attention bidirectionally to simultaneously attend to corresponding spatial information across different images, subsequently refining the complementary features via global spatial attention. This interaction leverages low- to high-level features implicitly associated with diverse structural attributes like edges, blobs, and object shapes, resulting in enhanced features that embody important spatial characteristics. In addition, we introduce a multi-scale boundary loss based on gradient extraction to improve segmentation accuracy at object boundaries. Experimental results on the ACDC and Synapse datasets demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method quantitatively and qualitatively. Code available at: https://github.com/JJeong-Gari/DIN
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