Title
CS2-Net: Deep learning segmentation of curvilinear structures in medical imaging
Abstract
•A new curvilinear structure segmentation network is proposed based on dual self-attention modules, which can deal with both 2D and 3D imaging modalities in an unified manner.•Two self-attention mechanisms are employed in the channel and spatial spaces to generate attention-aware expressive features. They can enhance the network to capture long-range dependencies and make an effective use of the multi-channel space for feature representation and normalization, enabling the network to classify the curvilinear structure from background more effectively.•Experimental results on nine datasets (six 2D datasets and three 3D datasets) demonstrate that our proposed method achieves on the whole state-of-the-art performances in detecting curvilinear structures from different biomedical imaging modalities both quantitatively and qualitatively.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1016/j.media.2020.101874
Medical Image Analysis
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Curvilinear structure,Blood vessel,Nerve fiber,Segmentation,Attention mechanism,Deep neural network
Journal
67
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1361-8415
5
0.45
References 
Authors
12
12
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lei Mou1162.64
Yitian Zhao224633.15
Huazhu Fu3123565.07
Yonghuai Liu467561.65
Jun Cheng521420.65
Yalin Zheng626434.69
Pan Su780.84
Jianlong Yang8184.01
Li Chen933231.94
Alejandro F. Frangi104333309.21
Masahiro Akiba11122.04
Jiang Liu1233534.30