Title
Deep co-supervision and attention fusion strategy for automatic COVID-19 lung infection segmentation on CT images
Abstract
•An ESM is presented to highlight low-level boundary features, and the edge supervised information is incorporated into the initial stage of down-sampling.•An ASSM is proposed to enhance high-level semantics from feature maps with different scales, and the mask supervised information is introduced into the later stage of down-sampling.•An AFM is developed to fuse various scale feature maps from the up-sampling stage. An attention mechanism is utilized to reduce the semantic gaps between high-level and low-level feature maps, so as to strengthen and supplement the lost detailed information in high-level representations.•A joint loss function is constructed by combining the edge supervised loss, auxiliary semantic supervised loss and fusion loss, thereby achieving a deep collaborative supervision on edges and semantics.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1016/j.patcog.2021.108452
Pattern Recognition
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Semantic segmentation,Multi-scale features,Attention mechanism,Feature fusion,COVID-19
Journal
124
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0031-3203
1
0.34
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Haigen Hu1448.47
Leizhao Shen210.34
Qiu Guan3439.92
Xiaoxin Li410.68
Qianwei Zhou510.34
Ruan Su655953.00