Scientific Reports,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
15(1)
Published: April 30, 2025
The
rise
in
brain
tumor
incidence
due
to
the
global
population
aging
has
intensified
need
for
precise
segmentation
methods
clinical
settings.
Current
networks
often
fail
capture
comprehensive
contextual
information
and
fine
edge
details
of
tumors,
which
are
crucial
accurate
diagnosis
treatment.
To
address
these
challenges,
we
introduce
BSAU-Net,
a
novel
algorithm
that
employs
attention
mechanisms
feature
extraction
modules
enhance
performance.
Our
approach
aims
assist
clinicians
making
more
diagnostic
therapeutic
decisions.
BSAU-Net
incorporates
an
module
(EA)
based
on
Sobel
operator,
enhancing
model's
sensitivity
regions
while
preserving
contours.
Additionally,
spatial
(SPA)
is
introduced
establish
correlations,
critical
segmentation.
class
imbalance,
can
hinder
performance,
propose
BADLoss,
loss
function
tailored
mitigate
this
issue.
Experimental
results
BraTS2018
BraTS2021
datasets
demonstrate
effectiveness
achieving
average
Dice
coefficients
0.7506
0.7556,
PPV
0.7863
0.7843,
0.8998
0.9017,
HD95
2.1701
2.1543,
respectively.
These
highlight
BSAU-Net's
potential
significantly
improve
practice.
IET Image Processing,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
19(1)
Published: Jan. 1, 2025
ABSTRACT
Medical
images
often
exhibit
low
and
blurred
contrast
between
lesions
surrounding
tissues,
with
considerable
variation
in
lesion
edges
shapes
even
within
the
same
disease,
leading
to
significant
challenges
segmentation.
Therefore,
precise
segmentation
of
has
become
an
essential
prerequisite
for
patient
condition
assessment
formulation
treatment
plans.
Significant
achievements
have
been
made
research
related
U‐Net
model
recent
years.
It
improves
performance
is
extensively
applied
semantic
medical
offer
technical
support
consistent
quantitative
analysis
methods.
First,
this
paper
classifies
image
datasets
on
basis
their
imaging
modalities
then
examines
its
various
improvement
models
from
perspective
structural
modifications.
The
objectives,
innovative
designs,
limitations
each
approach
are
discussed
detail.
Second,
we
summarise
four
central
mechanisms
variant
algorithms:
jump‐connection
mechanism,
residual‐connection
3D‐UNet,
transformer
mechanism.
Finally,
examine
relationships
among
core
enhancement
commonly
utilized
propose
potential
avenues
strategies
future
advancements.
This
provides
a
systematic
summary
reference
researchers
fields,
look
forward
designing
more
efficient
stable
network
based
network.
Scientific Reports,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
15(1)
Published: April 30, 2025
The
rise
in
brain
tumor
incidence
due
to
the
global
population
aging
has
intensified
need
for
precise
segmentation
methods
clinical
settings.
Current
networks
often
fail
capture
comprehensive
contextual
information
and
fine
edge
details
of
tumors,
which
are
crucial
accurate
diagnosis
treatment.
To
address
these
challenges,
we
introduce
BSAU-Net,
a
novel
algorithm
that
employs
attention
mechanisms
feature
extraction
modules
enhance
performance.
Our
approach
aims
assist
clinicians
making
more
diagnostic
therapeutic
decisions.
BSAU-Net
incorporates
an
module
(EA)
based
on
Sobel
operator,
enhancing
model's
sensitivity
regions
while
preserving
contours.
Additionally,
spatial
(SPA)
is
introduced
establish
correlations,
critical
segmentation.
class
imbalance,
can
hinder
performance,
propose
BADLoss,
loss
function
tailored
mitigate
this
issue.
Experimental
results
BraTS2018
BraTS2021
datasets
demonstrate
effectiveness
achieving
average
Dice
coefficients
0.7506
0.7556,
PPV
0.7863
0.7843,
0.8998
0.9017,
HD95
2.1701
2.1543,
respectively.
These
highlight
BSAU-Net's
potential
significantly
improve
practice.