LCAUnet: A skin lesion segmentation network with enhanced edge and body fusion

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.00837v1
• Date: Mon, 1 May 2023 14:05:53 GMT
• Title: LCAUnet: A skin lesion segmentation network with enhanced edge and body fusion
• Authors: Qisen Ma, Keming Mao, Gao Wang, Lisheng Xu, Yuhai Zhao
• Abstract summary: LCAUnet is proposed to improve the ability of complementary representation with fusion of edge and body features. Experiments on public available dataset ISIC 2017, ISIC 2018, and PH2 demonstrate that LCAUnet outperforms most state-of-the-art methods.
• Score: 4.819821513256158
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Accurate segmentation of skin lesions in dermatoscopic images is crucial for the early diagnosis of skin cancer and improving the survival rate of patients. However, it is still a challenging task due to the irregularity of lesion areas, the fuzziness of boundaries, and other complex interference factors. In this paper, a novel LCAUnet is proposed to improve the ability of complementary representation with fusion of edge and body features, which are often paid little attentions in traditional methods. First, two separate branches are set for edge and body segmentation with CNNs and Transformer based architecture respectively. Then, LCAF module is utilized to fuse feature maps of edge and body of the same level by local cross-attention operation in encoder stage. Furthermore, PGMF module is embedded for feature integration with prior guided multi-scale adaption. Comprehensive experiments on public available dataset ISIC 2017, ISIC 2018, and PH2 demonstrate that LCAUnet outperforms most state-of-the-art methods. The ablation studies also verify the effectiveness of the proposed fusion techniques.

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