Abdominal Multi Organ Segmentation Network Combining Convolution and Transformer
Abdominal multi organ segmentation plays a crucial role in computer-aided diagnosis and has significant research value.However,due to the blurred boundaries of multiple organs in the abdomen,complex backgrounds,and variable shapes and sizes,this task is extremely challenging.To this end,TCMSUnet,a new abdominal multi organ segmentation network that integrates convolution and Transformer is proposed.Firstly,a multi-scale guided fusion module(GFM)was designed in the feature extraction stage,which utilizes the significant semantic information extracted from high-level features to guide low-level features and enhance the semantic consistency of adjacent features,thereby promoting the fusion of features at different scales.Subsequently,a global local enhancement module(GLE)was designed to enhance the model's extraction of global and local contextual information through a combination of dilated con-volution and Transformer blocks,enabling the model to establish long-range dependencies while enhancing local correlations of features.Finally,a multi-stage loss aggregation structure was introduced in the decoder section to accelerate the convergence of the model and optimize its performance.The performance of the model was evaluated on the Synapse dataset,with an average Dice similarity coefficient(DSC)of 81.20%.The experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms multiple comparison networks in overall per-formance and has better segmentation performance for organs with variable shapes and sizes.
medical image segmentationfeature fusionmulti scaledilated convolutionsTransformermultiple organs