High-Resolution Swin Transformer for Automatic Medical Image Segmentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2207.11553v1
• Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2022 16:55:37 GMT
• Title: High-Resolution Swin Transformer for Automatic Medical Image Segmentation
• Authors: Chen Wei, Shenghan Ren, Kaitai Guo, Haihong Hu, Jimin Liang
• Abstract summary: The resolution of feature maps is critical for medical image segmentation. Most of the existing Transformer-based networks for medical image segmentation are U-Net-like architecture. In this paper, we utilize the network design style from the High-Resolution Network (HRNet) to replace the convolutional layers with Transformer blocks.
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• Abstract: The Resolution of feature maps is critical for medical image segmentation. Most of the existing Transformer-based networks for medical image segmentation are U-Net-like architecture that contains an encoder that utilizes a sequence of Transformer blocks to convert the input medical image from high-resolution representation into low-resolution feature maps and a decoder that gradually recovers the high-resolution representation from low-resolution feature maps. Unlike previous studies, in this paper, we utilize the network design style from the High-Resolution Network (HRNet), replace the convolutional layers with Transformer blocks, and continuously exchange information from the different resolution feature maps that are generated by Transformer blocks. The newly Transformer-based network presented in this paper is denoted as High-Resolution Swin Transformer Network (HRSTNet). Extensive experiments illustrate that HRSTNet can achieve comparable performance with the state-of-the-art Transformer-based U-Net-like architecture on Brain Tumor Segmentation(BraTS) 2021 and the liver dataset from Medical Segmentation Decathlon. The code of HRSTNet will be publicly available at https://github.com/auroua/HRSTNet.

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