Fully convolutional attention network for biomedical image segmentation

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Highlights:

• We propose a fully convolutional attention network (FCANet) that enhances the feature representation of biomedical images by aggregating context information from long-range and short-range distances.

• Lightweight space and channel attention modules are proposed. These modules can be embedded in any end-to-end network to improve the segmentation effect.

• The segmentation effect of FCANet on three open datasets is improved, including the Chest X-ray collection, Kaggle 2018 data science bowl and Herlev dataset.

摘要

•We propose a fully convolutional attention network (FCANet) that enhances the feature representation of biomedical images by aggregating context information from long-range and short-range distances.•Lightweight space and channel attention modules are proposed. These modules can be embedded in any end-to-end network to improve the segmentation effect.•The segmentation effect of FCANet on three open datasets is improved, including the Chest X-ray collection, Kaggle 2018 data science bowl and Herlev dataset.

论文关键词:Biomedical image,Segmentation,Dilated fully convolutional network,Attention modules,Long-range and short-range distance

论文评审过程:Received 5 February 2020, Revised 3 June 2020, Accepted 3 June 2020, Available online 5 June 2020, Version of Record 8 June 2020.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artmed.2020.101899