arXiv:2512.23990cs.CV2025-12被引 1

用分组坐标注意力提升医学图像分割精度,兼顾效率与小结构识别。

GCA-ResUNet: Medical Image Segmentation Using Grouped Coordinate Attention

  • 引入分组坐标注意力模块,分离通道上下文建模并捕捉方向性空间依赖。
  • 在Synapse和ACDC数据集上分别达到86.11%和92.64%的Dice分数。
  • 适合资源受限环境下的临床部署,尤其擅长细小复杂边界结构分割。

准确分割异质解剖结构对计算机辅助诊断和后续临床决策至关重要。尽管基于U-Net的卷积神经网络已取得显著进展,但其固有的局部性及同质注意力机制常限制长程上下文建模能力,尤其在多器官场景和低对比度区域。基于Transformer的架构虽通过全局自注意力缓解此问题,但通常需要更高计算资源和更大训练数据,可能阻碍在资源受限临床环境中的部署。本文提出GCA-ResUNet,一种配备轻量级、即插即用分组坐标注意力(GCA)模块的高效医学图像分割框架。该GCA将通道级上下文建模分解为多个组,显式建模通道间的语义异质性,并融合方向感知坐标编码,以捕获水平与垂直轴上的结构化空间依赖。该设计在保持CNN主干效率优势的同时增强全局表征能力。在两个广泛应用基准(Synapse和ACDC)上的大量实验表明,GCA-ResUNet分别取得86.11%和92.64%的Dice分数,优于多种代表性CNN与Transformer方法(如Swin-UNet和TransUNet)。尤其在勾画小尺寸解剖结构与复杂边界时表现出一致改进。结果表明,所提方法在分割精度与计算效率间提供良好权衡,为临床部署提供了实用且可扩展的解决方案。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Accurate segmentation of heterogeneous anatomical structures is pivotal for computer-aided diagnosis and subsequent clinical decision-making. Although U-Net based convolutional neural networks have achieved remarkable progress, their intrinsic locality and largely homogeneous attention formulations often limit the modeling of long-range contextual dependencies, especially in multi-organ scenarios and low-contrast regions. Transformer-based architectures mitigate this issue by leveraging global self-attention, but they usually require higher computational resources and larger training data, which may impede deployment in resource-constrained clinical environments.In this paper, we propose GCA-ResUNet, an efficient medical image segmentation framework equipped with a lightweight and plug-and-play Grouped Coordinate Attention (GCA) module. The proposed GCA decouples channel-wise context modeling into multiple groups to explicitly account for semantic heterogeneity across channels, and integrates direction-aware coordinate encoding to capture structured spatial dependencies along horizontal and vertical axes. This design enhances global representation capability while preserving the efficiency advantages of CNN backbones. Extensive experiments on two widely used benchmarks, Synapse and ACDC, demonstrate that GCA-ResUNet achieves Dice scores of 86.11% and 92.64%, respectively, outperforming a range of representative CNN and Transformer-based methods, including Swin-UNet and TransUNet. In particular, GCA-ResUNet yields consistent improvements in delineating small anatomical structures with complex boundaries. These results indicate that the proposed approach provides a favorable trade-off between segmentation accuracy and computational efficiency, offering a practical and scalable solution for clinical deployment.

医学图像分割注意力机制轻量化模型

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