IF 7.5 1区 计算机科学 Q1 COMPUTER SCIENCE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Yuxuan Luo , Yongquan Xue , Yifei Teng , Liejun Wang, Panpan Zheng
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由于边界模糊、形状各异和病变大小不一,准确的医学图像分割,尤其是皮肤病变的分割,具有很大的挑战性。现有的基于 SSM 的皮损分割方法大多使用纯 SSM 或简单地将 CNN 与 SSM 结合起来作为网络骨干,但往往不能充分考虑背景信息和多尺度特征。为了解决这些问题,我们提出了一种新型网络,它集成了大卷积核以提取丰富的背景特征,并将多头混合卷积与大小核相结合以捕捉多尺度特征。这种设计提高了对复杂结构和不同尺度病变的分割能力。在三个基准皮损分割数据集上的实验表明,我们的方法在多个评估指标上始终优于最先进的方法,展示了它在应对关键分割挑战方面的鲁棒性和有效性。如需转载,可在 https://github.com/yuxl2023/MLK-Net 网站上查看实现代码。
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MLK-Net: Leveraging multi-scale and large kernel convolutions for robust skin lesion segmentation
Accurate medical image segmentation, especially for skin lesions, is challenging due to fuzzy boundaries, diverse shapes, and varying lesion sizes. Most existing SSM-based skin lesion segmentation methods use pure SSM or simply combine CNN with SSM as the network backbone, but often fail to fully consider background information and multi-scale features. To address these issues, we propose a novel network that integrates large convolution kernels for rich background feature extraction and combines multi-head mixed convolutions with small and large kernels to capture multi-scale features. This design improves the segmentation of complex structures and diverse lesion scales. Experiments on three benchmark skin lesion segmentation datasets demonstrate that our method consistently outperforms state-of-the-art approaches across multiple evaluation metrics, showcasing its robustness and effectiveness in tackling critical segmentation challenges. For reproduction, the implementation codes can be checked out at https://github.com/yuxl2023/MLK-Net.
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Expert Systems with Applications
Expert Systems with Applications 工程技术-工程:电子与电气
CiteScore
13.80
自引率
10.60%
发文量
2045
审稿时长
8.7 months
期刊介绍: Expert Systems With Applications is an international journal dedicated to the exchange of information on expert and intelligent systems used globally in industry, government, and universities. The journal emphasizes original papers covering the design, development, testing, implementation, and management of these systems, offering practical guidelines. It spans various sectors such as finance, engineering, marketing, law, project management, information management, medicine, and more. The journal also welcomes papers on multi-agent systems, knowledge management, neural networks, knowledge discovery, data mining, and other related areas, excluding applications to military/defense systems.
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