Scientific Reports,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
15(1)
Published: April 8, 2025
U-Net-based
network
structures
are
widely
used
in
medical
image
segmentation.
However,
effectively
capturing
multi-scale
features
and
spatial
context
information
of
complex
organizational
remains
a
challenge.
To
address
this,
we
propose
novel
structure
based
on
the
U-Net
backbone.
This
model
integrates
Adaptive
Convolution
(AC)
module,
Multi-Scale
Learning
(MSL)
Conv-Attention
module
to
enhance
feature
expression
ability
segmentation
performance.
The
AC
dynamically
adjusts
convolutional
kernel
through
an
adaptive
layer.
enables
extract
different
shapes
scales
adaptively,
further
improving
its
performance
scenarios.
MSL
is
designed
for
fusion.
It
aggregates
fine-grained
high-level
semantic
from
resolutions,
creating
rich
connections
between
encoding
decoding
processes.
On
other
hand,
incorporates
efficient
attention
mechanism
into
skip
connections.
captures
global
using
low-dimensional
proxy
high-dimensional
data.
approach
reduces
computational
complexity
while
maintaining
effective
channel
extraction.
Experimental
validation
CVC-ClinicDB,
MICCAI
2023
Tooth,
ISIC2017
datasets
demonstrates
that
our
proposed
MSCA-UNet
significantly
improves
accuracy
robustness.
At
same
time,
it
lightweight
outperforms
existing
methods.
Sensors,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
24(13), P. 4302 - 4302
Published: July 2, 2024
In
clinical
conditions
limited
by
equipment,
attaining
lightweight
skin
lesion
segmentation
is
pivotal
as
it
facilitates
the
integration
of
model
into
diverse
medical
devices,
thereby
enhancing
operational
efficiency.
However,
design
may
face
accuracy
degradation,
especially
when
dealing
with
complex
images
such
irregular
regions,
blurred
boundaries,
and
oversized
boundaries.
To
address
these
challenges,
we
propose
an
efficient
attention
network
(ELANet)
for
task.
ELANet,
two
different
mechanisms
bilateral
residual
module
(BRM)
can
achieve
complementary
information,
which
enhances
sensitivity
to
features
in
spatial
channel
dimensions,
respectively,
then
multiple
BRMs
are
stacked
feature
extraction
input
information.
addition,
acquires
global
information
improves
putting
maps
scales
through
multi-scale
fusion
(MAF)
operations.
Finally,
evaluate
performance
ELANet
on
three
publicly
available
datasets,
ISIC2016,
ISIC2017,
ISIC2018,
experimental
results
show
that
our
algorithm
89.87%,
81.85%,
82.87%
mIoU
datasets
a
parametric
0.459
M,
excellent
balance
between
lightness
superior
many
existing
methods.
Remote Sensing,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
17(5), P. 760 - 760
Published: Feb. 22, 2025
Arable
land
is
fundamental
to
agricultural
production
and
a
crucial
component
of
ecosystems.
However,
its
complex
texture
distribution
in
remote
sensing
images
make
it
susceptible
interference
from
other
cover
types,
such
as
water
bodies,
roads,
buildings,
complicating
accurate
identification.
Building
on
previous
research,
this
study
proposes
an
efficient
lightweight
CNN-based
network,
U-MGA,
address
the
challenges
feature
similarity
between
arable
non-arable
areas,
insufficient
fine-grained
extraction,
underutilization
multi-scale
information.
Specifically,
Multi-Scale
Adaptive
Segmentation
(MSAS)
designed
during
extraction
phase
provide
multi-feature
information,
supporting
model’s
reconstruction
stage.
In
phase,
introduction
Contextual
Module
(MCM)
Group
Aggregation
Bridge
(GAB)
significantly
enhances
efficiency
accuracy
utilization.
The
experiments
conducted
dataset
based
GF-2
imagery
publicly
available
show
that
U-MGA
outperforms
mainstream
networks
(Unet,
A2FPN,
Segformer,
FTUnetformer,
DCSwin,
TransUnet)
across
six
evaluation
metrics
(Overall
Accuracy
(OA),
Precision,
Recall,
F1-score,
Intersection-over-Union
(IoU),
Kappa
coefficient).
Thus,
provides
precise
solution
for
recognition
task,
which
significant
importance
resource
monitoring
ecological
environmental
protection.
Medical Physics,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: March 19, 2025
Abstract
Background
Precise
and
rapid
ultrasound‐based
breast
cancer
diagnosis
is
essential
for
effective
treatment.
However,
existing
ultrasound
image
segmentation
methods
often
fail
to
capture
both
global
contextual
features
fine‐grained
boundary
details.
Purpose
This
study
proposes
a
dual‐branch
network
architecture
that
combines
the
Swin
Transformer
Segment
Anything
Model
(SAM)
enhance
(BUSI)
accuracy
reliability.
Methods
Our
integrates
attention
mechanism
of
with
detection
from
SAM
through
multi‐stage
feature
fusion
module.
We
evaluated
our
method
against
state‐of‐the‐art
on
two
datasets:
Breast
Ultrasound
Images
dataset
Wuhan
University
(BUSI‐WHU),
which
contains
927
images
(560
benign
367
malignant)
ground
truth
masks
annotated
by
radiologists,
public
BUSI
dataset.
Performance
was
using
mean
Intersection‐over‐Union
(mIoU),
95th
percentile
Hausdorff
Distance
(HD95)
Dice
Similarity
coefficients,
statistical
significance
assessed
two‐tailed
independent
t
‐tests
Holm–Bonferroni
correction
().
Results
On
proposed
dataset,
achieved
mIoU
90.82%
HD95
23.50
pixels,
demonstrating
significant
improvements
over
current
effect
sizes
ranging
0.38
0.61
(
p
0.05).
82.83%
71.13
comparable
0.45
0.58
Conclusions
leverages
complementary
strengths
mechanism,
superior
performance.
code
publicly
available
at
https://github.com/Skylanding/DSATNet
.