Title
ACE-Net: Biomedical Image Segmentation with Augmented Contracting and Expansive Paths.
Abstract
Nowadays U-net-like FCNs predominate various biomedical image segmentation applications and attain promising performance, largely due to their elegant architectures, e.g., symmetric contracting and expansive paths as well as lateral skip-connections. It remains a research direction to devise novel architectures to further benefit the segmentation. In this paper, we develop an ACE-net that aims to enhance the feature representation and utilization by augmenting the contracting and expansive paths. In particular, we augment the paths by the recently proposed advanced techniques including ASPP, dense connection and deep supervision mechanisms, and novel connections such as directly connecting the raw image to the expansive side. With these augmentations, ACE-net can utilize features from multiple sources, scales and reception fields to segment while still maintains a relative simple architecture. Experiments on two typical biomedical segmentation tasks validate its effectiveness, where highly competitive results are obtained in both tasks while ACE-net still runs fast at inference.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/978-3-030-32239-7_79
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
DocType
Volume
ISSN
Conference
11764
0302-9743
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yanhao Zhu100.34
Zhineng Chen219225.29
Shuai Zhao300.34
Hongtao Xie443947.79
Wenming Guo523.82
Yongdong Zhang630.75