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ReviewMedical & biological engineering & computing2024

mResU-Net: multi-scale residual U-Net-based brain tumor segmentation from multimodal MRI.

Pengcheng Li, Zhihao Li, Zijian Wang, Chaoxiang Li, Monan Wang

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Review in Medical & biological engineering & computing, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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Pengcheng LiSchool of Mechanical and Power Engineering, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang, 150000, China. pcli226@163.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9653-5194
Zhihao LiSchool of Mechanical and Power Engineering, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang, 150000, China.
Zijian WangSchool of Mechanical and Power Engineering, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang, 150000, China.
Chaoxiang LiSchool of Mechanical and Power Engineering, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang, 150000, China.
Monan WangSchool of Mechanical and Power Engineering, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang, 150000, China.

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NSFC 61972117The natural science foundation of Heilongjiang Province of China ZD2019E007
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Abstract

Brain tumor segmentation is an important direction in medical image processing, and its main goal is to accurately mark the tumor part in brain MRI. This study proposes a brand new end-to-end model for brain tumor segmentation, which is a multi-scale deep residual convolutional neural network called mResU-Net. The semantic gap between the encoder and decoder is bridged by using skip connections in the U-Net structure. The residual structure is used to alleviate the vanishing gradient problem during training and ensure sufficient information in deep networks. On this basis, multi-scale convolution kernels are used to improve the segmentation accuracy of targets of different sizes. At the same time, we also integrate channel attention modules into the network to improve its accuracy. The proposed model has an average dice score of 0.9289, 0.9277, and 0.8965 for tumor core (TC), whole tumor (WT), and enhanced tumor (ET) on the BraTS 2021 dataset, respectively. Comparing the segmentation results of this method with existing techniques shows that mResU-Net can significantly improve the segmentation performance of brain tumor subregions.

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Brain NeoplasmsAlgorithmsBrainHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedMagnetic Resonance ImagingNeuroimagingBrain tumor segmentationBraTSMultimodal MRIMulti-scale Residual U-Net

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