Title
Deep Learning With Skip Connection Attention For Choroid Layer Segmentation In Oct Images
Abstract
Since the thickness and shape of the choroid layer are indicators for the diagnosis of several ophthalmic diseases, the choroid layer segmentation is an important task. There exist many challenges in segmentation of the choroid layer. In this paper, in view of the lack of context information due to the ambiguous boundaries, and the subsequent inconsistent predictions of the same category targets ascribed to the lack of context information or the large regions, a novel Skip Connection Attention (SCA) module which is integrated into the U-Shape architecture is proposed to improve the precision of choroid layer segmentation in Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) images. The main function of the SCA module is to capture the global context in the highest level to provide the decoder with stage-by-stage guidance, to extract more context information and generate more consistent predictions for the same class targets. By integrating the SCA module into the U-Net and CE-Net, we show that the module improves the accuracy of the choroid layer segmentation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/EMBC44109.2020.9175631
42ND ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY: ENABLING INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR GLOBAL HEALTHCARE EMBC'20
DocType
Volume
ISSN
Conference
2020
1557-170X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiaoqian Mao100.34
Yitian Zhao224633.15
Bang Chen300.34
Yuhui Ma400.34
Zaiwang Gu5855.88
Shenshen Gu600.34
Jianlong Yang7184.01
Jun Cheng821420.65
Jiang Liu929942.50