MDER-Net: A Multi-Scale Detail-Enhanced Reverse Attention Network for Semantic Segmentation of Bladder Tumors in Cystoscopy Images

Chao Nie, Chao Xu () and Zhengping Li
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Chao Nie: School of Integrated Circuits, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China
Chao Xu: School of Integrated Circuits, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China
Zhengping Li: School of Integrated Circuits, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China

Mathematics, 2024, vol. 12, issue 9, 1-22

Abstract: White light cystoscopy is the gold standard for the diagnosis of bladder cancer. Automatic and accurate tumor detection is essential to improve the surgical resection of bladder cancer and reduce tumor recurrence. At present, Transformer-based medical image segmentation algorithms face challenges in restoring fine-grained detail information and local boundary information of features and have limited adaptability to multi-scale features of lesions. To address these issues, we propose a new multi-scale detail-enhanced reverse attention network, MDER-Net, for accurate and robust bladder tumor segmentation. Firstly, we propose a new multi-scale efficient channel attention module (MECA) to process four different levels of features extracted by the PVT v2 encoder to adapt to the multi-scale changes in bladder tumors; secondly, we use the dense aggregation module (DA) to aggregate multi-scale advanced semantic feature information; then, the similarity aggregation module (SAM) is used to fuse multi-scale high-level and low-level features, complementing each other in position and detail information; finally, we propose a new detail-enhanced reverse attention module (DERA) to capture non-salient boundary features and gradually explore supplementing tumor boundary feature information and fine-grained detail information; in addition, we propose a new efficient channel space attention module (ECSA) that enhances local context and improves segmentation performance by suppressing redundant information in low-level features. Extensive experiments on the bladder tumor dataset BtAMU, established in this article, and five publicly available polyp datasets show that MDER-Net outperforms eight state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods in terms of effectiveness, robustness, and generalization ability.

Keywords: bladder tumor segmentation; cystoscopy images; transformer; multi-scale; attention mechanism; computer-aided diagnosis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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