arXiv:2604.13791cs.CV2026-04

轻量级网络提升超声图像病灶分割精度,尤其改善模糊边界和尺度差异问题。

PBE-UNet: A light weight Progressive Boundary-Enhanced U-Net with Scale-Aware Aggregation for Ultrasound Image Segmentation

论文配图:PBE-UNet: A light weight Progressive Boundary-Enhanced U-Net with Scale-Aware Aggregation for Ultrasound Image Segmentation
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  • 动态调整感受野的多尺度聚合模块,捕捉不同尺度上下文信息。
  • 渐进式边界增强模块将窄边界扩展为广域注意力图,覆盖更大误差区域。
  • 在四个超声数据集上超越现有方法,适合医疗影像分割场景使用。

超声图像中病灶的精确分割对预防筛查和临床诊断至关重要,但因对比度低、边界模糊及显著尺度变化而极具挑战。尽管已有深度学习方法表现优异,仍难以应对尺度变化与边界不清晰问题。为此,本文提出一种渐进式边界增强的轻量级U-Net(PBE-UNet)。首先引入尺度感知聚合模块(SAAM),动态调节感受野以捕获鲁棒的多尺度上下文信息;其次设计边界引导特征增强(BGFE)模块,发现窄边界与宽分割误差区之间存在明显差距。不同于将边界视为静态掩码的方法,该模块逐步将窄边界预测扩展为更广的空间注意力图,从而有效覆盖更大的分割误差区域,增强模型对这些困难区域的关注。我们在四个基准超声数据集BUSI、Dataset B、TN3K和BP上进行了大量实验,结果表明所提PBE-UNet优于当前最先进的超声图像分割方法。代码已开源:https://github.com/cruelMouth/PBE-UNet。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Accurate lesion segmentation in ultrasound images is essential for preventive screening and clinical diagnosis, yet remains challenging due to low contrast, blurry boundaries, and significant scale variations. Although existing deep learning-based methods have achieved remarkable performance, these methods still struggle with scale variations and indistinct tumor boundaries. To address these challenges, we propose a progressive boundary enhanced U-Net (PBE-UNet). Specially, we first introduce a scale-aware aggregation module (SAAM) that dynamically adjusts its receptive field to capture robust multi-scale contextual information. Then, we propose a boundary-guided feature enhancement (BGFE) module to enhance the feature representations. We find that there are large gaps between the narrow boundary and the wide segmentation error areas. Unlike existing methods that treat boundaries as static masks, the BGFE module progressively expands the narrow boundary prediction into broader spatial attention maps. Thus, broader spatial attention maps could effectively cover the wider segmentation error regions and enhance the model's focus on these challenging areas. We conduct expensive experiments on four benchmark ultrasound datasets, BUSI, Dataset B, TN3K, and BP. The experimental results how that our proposed PBE-UNet outperforms state-of-the-art ultrasound image segmentation methods. The code is at https://github.com/cruelMouth/PBE-UNet.

医学图像分割超声轻量模型

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