Author(s): You, HF (You, Hongfeng); Yu, L (Yu, Long); Tian, SW (Tian, Shengwei); Ma, X (Ma, Xiang); Xing, Y (Xing, Yan); Xin, N (Xin, Ning); Cai, WW (Cai, Weiwei)

Source: KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS Volume: 231 Article Number: 107456 DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2021.107456 Published: NOV 14 2021

Abstract: To better retain the deep features of an image and solve the sparsity problem of the end-to-end segmentation model, we propose a new deep convolutional network model for medical image pixel segmentation, called MC-Net. The core of this network model consists of four parts, namely, an encoder network, a multiple max-pooling integration module, a cross multiscale deconvolution decoder network and a pixel-level classification layer. Each max-pooling layer (the pooling size of each layer is different) is spliced after each convolution to achieve the translation invariance of the feature maps of each submodule. The multiscale convolution of each submodule in the decoder network is cross-fused with the feature maps generated by the corresponding multiscale convolution in the encoder network. Using the above feature map processing methods solves the sparsity problem after the max-pooling layer-generating matrix and enhances the robustness of the classification. We compare our proposed model with the well-known Fully Convolutional Networks for Semantic Segmentation (FCNs), DecovNet, PSPNet, U-net, SgeNet and other state-of-the-art segmentation networks such as HyperDenseNet, MS-Dual, Espnetv2, Denseaspp using one binary dataset and two multiclass dataset and obtain encouraging experimental results. (C) 2021 Published by Elsevier B.V.

Accession Number: WOS:000704358500017

Author Identifiers:

Author        Web of Science ResearcherID        ORCID Number

Cai, Weiwei         AAH-5456-2020         0000-0001-6795-6152

ISSN: 0950-7051

eISSN: 1872-7409

Full Text: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0950705121007188?via%3Dihub