scholarly journals MA-Net: A Multi-Scale Attention Network for Liver and Tumor Segmentation

IEEE Access ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 179656-179665
Author(s):  
Tongle Fan ◽  
Guanglei Wang ◽  
Yan Li ◽  
Hongrui Wang
Keyword(s):  
Tumor Segmentation ◽  
Attention Network ◽  
Multi Scale

scholarly journals Aggregation-and-Attention Network for brain tumor segmentation

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chih-Wei Lin ◽  
Yu Hong ◽  
Jinfu Liu
Keyword(s):  
Brain Tumor ◽  
Semantic Information ◽  
Spatial Relationship ◽  
Tumor Segmentation ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Brain Tumor Segmentation ◽  
Attention Network ◽  
Multi Scale ◽  
Assisted Diagnosis ◽  
The Brain

Abstract Background Glioma is a malignant brain tumor; its location is complex and is difficult to remove surgically. To diagnosis the brain tumor, doctors can precisely diagnose and localize the disease using medical images. However, the computer-assisted diagnosis for the brain tumor diagnosis is still the problem because the rough segmentation of the brain tumor makes the internal grade of the tumor incorrect. Methods In this paper, we proposed an Aggregation-and-Attention Network for brain tumor segmentation. The proposed network takes the U-Net as the backbone, aggregates multi-scale semantic information, and focuses on crucial information to perform brain tumor segmentation. To this end, we proposed an enhanced down-sampling module and Up-Sampling Layer to compensate for the information loss. The multi-scale connection module is to construct the multi-receptive semantic fusion between encoder and decoder. Furthermore, we designed a dual-attention fusion module that can extract and enhance the spatial relationship of magnetic resonance imaging and applied the strategy of deep supervision in different parts of the proposed network. Results Experimental results show that the performance of the proposed framework is the best on the BraTS2020 dataset, compared with the-state-of-art networks. The performance of the proposed framework surpasses all the comparison networks, and its average accuracies of the four indexes are 0.860, 0.885, 0.932, and 1.2325, respectively. Conclusions The framework and modules of the proposed framework are scientific and practical, which can extract and aggregate useful semantic information and enhance the ability of glioma segmentation.

scholarly journals A Multi-scale Attention Network for Kidney Tumor Segmentation on CT Scans

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liyan Sun ◽  
Weihong Zeng ◽  
Xinghao Ding ◽  
Yue Huang
Keyword(s):  
Ct Scans ◽  
Tumor Segmentation ◽  
Kidney Tumor ◽  
Attention Network ◽  
Multi Scale

scholarly journals Automatic lumbar spinal MRI image segmentation with a multi-scale attention network

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haixing Li ◽  
Haibo Luo ◽  
Wang Huan ◽  
Zelin Shi ◽  
Chongnan Yan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Image Segmentation ◽  
Attention Network ◽  
Multi Scale ◽  
Spinal Mri ◽  
Lumbar Spinal ◽  
Mri Image

scholarly journals Learning rich features with hybrid loss for brain tumor segmentation

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (S2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daobin Huang ◽  
Minghui Wang ◽  
Ling Zhang ◽  
Haichun Li ◽  
Minquan Ye ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Feature Extraction ◽  
Brain Tumor ◽  
Class Imbalance ◽  
Feature Representation ◽  
Loss Functions ◽  
Radiotherapy Planning ◽  
Tumor Segmentation ◽  
Brain Tumor Segmentation ◽  
Scale Feature ◽  
Multi Scale

Abstract Background Accurately segment the tumor region of MRI images is important for brain tumor diagnosis and radiotherapy planning. At present, manual segmentation is wildly adopted in clinical and there is a strong need for an automatic and objective system to alleviate the workload of radiologists. Methods We propose a parallel multi-scale feature fusing architecture to generate rich feature representation for accurate brain tumor segmentation. It comprises two parts: (1) Feature Extraction Network (FEN) for brain tumor feature extraction at different levels and (2) Multi-scale Feature Fusing Network (MSFFN) for merge all different scale features in a parallel manner. In addition, we use two hybrid loss functions to optimize the proposed network for the class imbalance issue. Results We validate our method on BRATS 2015, with 0.86, 0.73 and 0.61 in Dice for the three tumor regions (complete, core and enhancing), and the model parameter size is only 6.3 MB. Without any post-processing operations, our method still outperforms published state-of-the-arts methods on the segmentation results of complete tumor regions and obtains competitive performance in another two regions. Conclusions The proposed parallel structure can effectively fuse multi-level features to generate rich feature representation for high-resolution results. Moreover, the hybrid loss functions can alleviate the class imbalance issue and guide the training process. The proposed method can be used in other medical segmentation tasks.

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