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FEBE-Net: Feature Exploration Attention and Boundary Enhancement Refinement Transformer Network for Bladder Tumor Segmentation

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  • Chao Nie

    (School of Integrated Circuits, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China
    Anhui Engineering Laboratory of Agro-Ecological Big Data, Hefei 230601, China)

  • Chao Xu

    (School of Integrated Circuits, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China
    Anhui Engineering Laboratory of Agro-Ecological Big Data, Hefei 230601, China)

  • Zhengping Li

    (School of Integrated Circuits, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China
    Anhui Engineering Laboratory of Agro-Ecological Big Data, Hefei 230601, China)

Abstract

The automatic and accurate segmentation of bladder tumors is a key step in assisting urologists in diagnosis and analysis. At present, existing Transformer-based methods have limited ability to restore local detail features and insufficient boundary segmentation capabilities. We propose FEBE-Net, which aims to effectively capture global and remote semantic features, preserve more local detail information, and provide clearer and more precise boundaries. Specifically, first, we use PVT v2 backbone to learn multi-scale global feature representations to adapt to changes in bladder tumor size and shape. Secondly, we propose a new feature exploration attention module (FEA) to fully explore the potential local detail information in the shallow features extracted by the PVT v2 backbone, eliminate noise, and supplement the missing fine-grained details for subsequent decoding stages. At the same time, we propose a new boundary enhancement and refinement module (BER), which generates high-quality boundary clues through boundary detection operators to help the decoder more effectively preserve the boundary features of bladder tumors and refine and adjust the final predicted feature map. Then, we propose a new efficient self-attention calibration decoder module (ESCD), which, with the help of boundary clues provided by the BER module, gradually and effectively recovers global contextual information and local detail information from high-level features after calibration enhancement and low-level features after exploration attention. Extensive experiments on the cystoscopy dataset BtAMU and five colonoscopy datasets have shown that FEBE-Net outperforms 11 state-of-the-art (SOTA) networks in segmentation performance, with higher accuracy, stronger robust stability, and generalization ability.

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  • Chao Nie & Chao Xu & Zhengping Li, 2024. "FEBE-Net: Feature Exploration Attention and Boundary Enhancement Refinement Transformer Network for Bladder Tumor Segmentation," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 12(22), pages 1-26, November.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jmathe:v:12:y:2024:i:22:p:3580-:d:1522067
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    1. Yixing Wang & Xiang Li & Xiufen Ye, 2023. "LCANet: A Lightweight Context-Aware Network for Bladder Tumor Segmentation in MRI Images," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 11(10), pages 1-17, May.
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