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ArticleBiomedical signal processing and control2023

COVID-19 CT ground-glass opacity segmentation based on attention mechanism threshold.

Yunbo Rao, Qingsong Lv, Shaoning Zeng, Yuling Yi, Cheng Huang, Yun Gao, Zhanglin Cheng, Jihong Sun

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Yunbo RaoSchool of Information and Software Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 611731, China.
Qingsong LvSchool of Information and Software Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 611731, China.
Shaoning ZengYangtze Delta Region Institute (Huzhou), University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Huzhou, 313000, China.
Yuling YiSchool of Information and Software Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 611731, China.
Cheng HuangFifth Clinical College of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 402177, China.
Yun GaoChongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, 400065, China.
Zhanglin ChengAdvanced Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, 610042, China.
Jihong SunSir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310014, China.

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The ground glass opacity (GGO) of the lung is one of the essential features of COVID-19. The GGO in computed tomography (CT) images has various features and low-intensity contrast between the GGO and edge structures. These problems pose significant challenges for segmenting the GGO. To tackle these problems, we propose a new threshold method for accurate segmentation of GGO. Specifically, we offer a framework for adjusting the threshold parameters according to the image contrast. Three functions include Attention mechanism threshold, Contour equalization, and Lung segmentation (ACL). The lung is divided into three areas using the attention mechanism threshold. Further, the segmentation parameters of the attention mechanism thresholds of the three parts are adaptively adjusted according to the image contrast. Only the segmentation regions restricted by the lung segmentation results are retained. Extensive experiments on four COVID datasets show that ACL can segment GGO images at low contrast well. Compared with the state-of-the-art methods, the similarity Dice of the ACL segmentation results is improved by 8.9%, the average symmetry surface distance ASD is reduced by 23%, and the required computational power

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Adaptive thresholdAttention mechanismCOVID-19CT imageGGO segmentationPneumonia

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