CoTr: Efficiently Bridging CNN and Transformer for 3D Medical Image Segmentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2103.03024v1
• Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2021 13:34:22 GMT
• Title: CoTr: Efficiently Bridging CNN and Transformer for 3D Medical Image Segmentation
• Authors: Yutong Xie, Jianpeng Zhang, Chunhua Shen, Yong Xia
• Abstract summary: Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been the de facto standard for nowadays 3D medical image segmentation. We propose a novel framework that efficiently bridges a bf Convolutional neural network and a bf Transformer bf (CoTr) for accurate 3D medical image segmentation.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been the de facto standard for nowadays 3D medical image segmentation. The convolutional operations used in these networks, however, inevitably have limitations in modeling the long-range dependency due to their inductive bias of locality and weight sharing. Although Transformer was born to address this issue, it suffers from extreme computational and spatial complexities in processing high-resolution 3D feature maps. In this paper, we propose a novel framework that efficiently bridges a {\bf Co}nvolutional neural network and a {\bf Tr}ansformer {\bf (CoTr)} for accurate 3D medical image segmentation. Under this framework, the CNN is constructed to extract feature representations and an efficient deformable Transformer (DeTrans) is built to model the long-range dependency on the extracted feature maps. Different from the vanilla Transformer which treats all image positions equally, our DeTrans pays attention only to a small set of key positions by introducing the deformable self-attention mechanism. Thus, the computational and spatial complexities of DeTrans have been greatly reduced, making it possible to process the multi-scale and high-resolution feature maps, which are usually of paramount importance for image segmentation. We conduct an extensive evaluation on the Multi-Atlas Labeling Beyond the Cranial Vault (BCV) dataset that covers 11 major human organs. The results indicate that our CoTr leads to a substantial performance improvement over other CNN-based, transformer-based, and hybrid methods on the 3D multi-organ segmentation task. Code is available at \def\UrlFont{\rm\small\ttfamily} \url{https://github.com/YtongXie/CoTr}

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