CaraNet: Context Axial Reverse Attention Network for Segmentation of Small Medical Objects

Ange Lou, Shuyue Guan, Hanseok Ko, Murray Loew

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Abstract

Segmenting medical images accurately and reliably is important for disease diagnosis and treatment. It is a challenging task because of the wide variety of objects’ sizes, shapes, and scanning modalities. Recently, many convolutional neural networks (CNN) have been designed for segmentation tasks and achieved great success. Few studies, however, have fully considered the sizes of objects, and thus most demonstrate poor performance for small objects segmentation. This can have a significant impact on the early detection of diseases. This paper proposes a Context Axial Reserve Attention Network (CaraNet) to improve the segmentation performance on small objects compared with several recent state-of-the-art models. We test our CaraNet on brain tumor (BraTS 2018) and polyp (Kvasir-SEG, CVC-ColonDB, CVC-ClinicDB, CVC-300, and ETIS-LaribPolypDB) segmentation datasets. Our CaraNet achieves the top-rank mean Dice segmentation accuracy, and results show a distinct advantage of CaraNet in the segmentation of small medical objects. Codes available: https://github.com/AngeLouCN/CaraNet

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMedical Imaging 2022
Subtitle of host publicationImage Processing
EditorsOlivier Colliot, Ivana Isgum, Bennett A. Landman, Murray H. Loew
PublisherSPIE
ISBN (Electronic)9781510649392
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
EventMedical Imaging 2022: Image Processing - Virtual, Online
Duration: 2021 Mar 212021 Mar 27

Publication series

NameProgress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE
Volume12032
ISSN (Print)1605-7422

Conference

ConferenceMedical Imaging 2022: Image Processing
CityVirtual, Online
Period21/3/2121/3/27

Keywords

  • Attention
  • Brain tumor
  • Colonoscopy
  • Context axial reverse
  • Small object segmentation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Biomaterials
  • Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging

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