轻量级网络精准分割皮肤镜图像边界,兼顾速度与精度
EA-LiteUNet: An Edge-Adaptive and Resource-Efficient U-Net for Boundary-Sensitive Dermoscopic Image Segmentation
- 通过边缘感知学习保留高频结构细节,减少模糊
- 在ISIC 2018上达12.89像素的HD95,Dice达92.08%
- 仅0.29M参数、1.17 GFLOPs,适合边缘设备部署
准确界定病变边界仍是皮肤镜图像分割的难题,源于边缘模糊、纹理异质及复杂背景干扰。从信号处理角度看,边界为高频率成分,易受混叠、噪声放大和信息丢失影响。传统卷积架构中反复下采样与特征变换常导致边界表征严重退化。为此,本文提出EA-LiteUNet,一种面向边界敏感医学图像分割的边缘自适应、资源高效U-Net变体。该架构集成三大机制:(1)边界感知表示学习,抑制混叠并保留高频结构细节;(2)注意力引导的特征调制,选择性增强多尺度特征中的边界响应;(3)资源自适应推理策略,动态平衡分割精度与计算效率。在三个公开皮肤镜数据集上的实验表明,EA-LiteUNet持续实现更优边界精度。尤其在ISIC 2018数据集上,95%豪斯多夫距离(HD95)降至12.89像素,同时保持92.08%的骰子分数。显著性能由仅0.29M参数与1.17 GFLOPs的超轻量配置达成。消融实验验证各组件互补作用,证实其对提升边界保真度与稳定优化的贡献。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Accurate boundary delineation remains a persistent challenge in dermoscopic image segmentation because of blurred lesion margins, heterogeneous textures, and complex background artifacts. From a signal-processing perspective, lesion boundaries represent high-frequency components that are highly susceptible to aliasing, noise amplification, and information loss. Consequently, repeated downsampling and feature transformations in conventional convolutional architectures often lead to severely degraded boundary representations. To address these limitations, we propose EA-LiteUNet, an edge-adaptive and computationally efficient U-Net variant specifically designed for boundary-sensitive medical image segmentation. The architecture integrates three core mechanisms: (1) boundary-aware representation learning to suppress aliasing and preserve high-frequency structural details; (2) attention-guided feature modulation to selectively enhance boundary-relevant responses across multi-scale features; and (3) a resource-adaptive inference strategy to dynamically balance segmentation accuracy and computational efficiency. Extensive evaluations across three public dermoscopic datasets demonstrate that EA-LiteUNet consistently achieves superior boundary precision. Specifically, on the ISIC 2018 dataset, the method significantly reduces the 95% Hausdorff Distance (HD95) to 12.89 pixels while maintaining a robust Dice score of 92.08%. Notably, this strong performance is achieved with an ultralightweight configuration of merely 0.29M parameters and 1.17 GFLOPs. Ablation studies further validate the complementary effects of these components, confirming their contribution to enhanced boundary fidelity and stable optimization.
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