Boundary-aware Context Neural Network for Medical Image Segmentation

05/03/2020
by   Ruxin Wang, et al.
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Medical image segmentation can provide a reliable basis for further clinical analysis and disease diagnosis. The performance of medical image segmentation has been significantly advanced with the convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, most existing CNNs-based methods often produce unsatisfactory segmentation mask without accurate object boundaries. This is caused by the limited context information and inadequate discriminative feature maps after consecutive pooling and convolution operations. In that the medical image is characterized by the high intra-class variation, inter-class indistinction and noise, extracting powerful context and aggregating discriminative features for fine-grained segmentation are still challenging today. In this paper, we formulate a boundary-aware context neural network (BA-Net) for 2D medical image segmentation to capture richer context and preserve fine spatial information. BA-Net adopts encoder-decoder architecture. In each stage of encoder network, pyramid edge extraction module is proposed for obtaining edge information with multiple granularities firstly. Then we design a mini multi-task learning module for jointly learning to segment object masks and detect lesion boundaries. In particular, a new interactive attention is proposed to bridge two tasks for achieving information complementarity between different tasks, which effectively leverages the boundary information for offering a strong cue to better segmentation prediction. At last, a cross feature fusion module aims to selectively aggregate multi-level features from the whole encoder network. By cascaded three modules, richer context and fine-grain features of each stage are encoded. Extensive experiments on five datasets show that the proposed BA-Net outperforms state-of-the-art approaches.

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