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ArticleBiomedical engineering letters2024

CI-UNet: melding convnext and cross-dimensional attention for robust medical image segmentation.

Zhuo Zhang, Yihan Wen, Xiaochen Zhang, Quanfeng Ma

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Zhuo Zhang *School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Tiangong University, Tianjin, 300387 China.
Yihan Wen *International School of Information Science and Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116620 LiaoNing China.
Xiaochen ZhangTianjin Cerebral Vascular and Neural Degenerative Disease Key Laboratory, Tianjin Huanhu Hospital, Tianjin, 300350 China.
Quanfeng MaTianjin Cerebral Vascular and Neural Degenerative Disease Key Laboratory, Tianjin Huanhu Hospital, Tianjin, 300350 China.

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Abstract

Deep learning-based methods have recently shown great promise in medical image segmentation task. However, CNN-based frameworks struggle with inadequate long-range spatial dependency capture, whereas Transformers suffer from computational inefficiency and necessitate substantial volumes of labeled data for effective training. To tackle these issues, this paper introduces CI-UNet, a novel architecture that utilizes ConvNeXt as its encoder, amalgamating the computational efficiency and feature extraction capabilities. Moreover, an advanced attention mechanism is proposed to captures intricate cross-dimensional interactions and global context. Extensive experiments on two segmentation datasets, namely BCSD, and CT2USforKidneySeg, confirm the excellent performance of the proposed CI-UNet as compared to other segmentation methods.

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ConvNeXtCross-dimension attentionSegmentation

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PMID38374903
PMCPMC10874369

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