Title
A Deep Segmentation Network of Multi-Scale Feature Fusion Based on Attention Mechanism for IVOCT Lumen Contour
Abstract
AbstractRecently, coronary heart disease has attracted more and more attention, where segmentation and analysis for vascular lumen contour are helpful for treatment. And intravascular optical coherence tomography (IVOCT) images are used to display lumen shapes in clinic. Thus, an automatic segmentation method for IVOCT lumen contour is necessary to reduce the doctors' workload while ensuring diagnostic accuracy. In this paper, we proposed a deep residual segmentation network of multi-scale feature fusion based on attention mechanism (RSM-Network, Residual Squeezed Multi-Scale Network) to segment the lumen contour in IVOCT images. Firstly, three different data augmentation methods including mirror level turnover, rotation and vertical flip are considered to expand the training set. Then in the proposed RSM-Network, U-Net is contained as the main body, considering its characteristic of accepting input images with any sizes. Meanwhile, the combination of residual network and attention mechanism is applied to improve the ability of global feature extraction and solve the vanishing gradient problem. Moreover, the pyramid feature extraction structure is introduced to enhance the learning ability for multi-scale features. Finally, in order to increase the matching degree between the actual output and expected output, the cross entropy loss function is also used. A series of metrics are presented to evaluate the performance of our proposed network and the experimental results demonstrate that the proposed RSM-Network can learn the contour details better, contributing to strong robustness and accuracy for IVOCT lumen contour segmentation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/TCBB.2020.2973971
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Residual network, attention mechanism, IVOCT images, contour segmentation
Journal
18
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1545-5963
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
0
12
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chenxi Huang1103.17
Yonghong Peng240033.39
Fei Chen32116.74
Guokai Zhang472.42
Yisha Lan531.71
Gaowei Xu6133.02
Xiaojun Zhai77721.78
Jipeng Wu841.43
Eddie Y. K. Ng972.25
Nianyin Zeng1038412.14
Qingqi Hong11226.94
E Y K Ng12825.73