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@article{Li:2024:10.1007/s12559-023-10126-7,
author = {Li, H and Nan, Y and Del, Ser J and Yang, G},
doi = {10.1007/s12559-023-10126-7},
journal = {Cognitive Computation},
pages = {2063--2077},
title = {Large-kernel attention for 3D medical image segmentation},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12559-023-10126-7},
volume = {16},
year = {2024}
}
TY - JOUR
AB - Automated segmentation of multiple organs and tumors from 3D medical images such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) scans using deep learning methods can aid in diagnosing and treating cancer. However, organs often overlap and are complexly connected, characterized by extensive anatomical variation and low contrast. In addition, the diversity of tumor shape, location, and appearance, coupled with the dominance of background voxels, makes accurate 3D medical image segmentation difficult. In this paper, a novel 3D large-kernel (LK) attention module is proposed to address these problems to achieve accurate multi-organ segmentation and tumor segmentation. The advantages of biologically inspired self-attention and convolution are combined in the proposed LK attention module, including local contextual information, long-range dependencies, and channel adaptation. The module also decomposes the LK convolution to optimize the computational cost and can be easily incorporated into CNNs such as U-Net. Comprehensive ablation experiments demonstrated the feasibility of convolutional decomposition and explored the most efficient and effective network design. Among them, the best Mid-type 3D LK attention-based U-Net network was evaluated on CT-ORG and BraTS 2020 datasets, achieving state-of-the-art segmentation performance when compared to avant-garde CNN and Transformer-based methods for medical image segmentation. The performance improvement due to the proposed 3D LK attention module was statistically validated.
AU - Li,H
AU - Nan,Y
AU - Del,Ser J
AU - Yang,G
DO - 10.1007/s12559-023-10126-7
EP - 2077
PY - 2024///
SN - 1866-9956
SP - 2063
TI - Large-kernel attention for 3D medical image segmentation
T2 - Cognitive Computation
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12559-023-10126-7
VL - 16
ER -
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