MEGANet: Multi-Scale Edge-Guided Attention Network for Weak Boundary Polyp Segmentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.03329v3
• Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2023 02:50:42 GMT
• Title: MEGANet: Multi-Scale Edge-Guided Attention Network for Weak Boundary Polyp Segmentation
• Authors: Nhat-Tan Bui and Dinh-Hieu Hoang and Quang-Thuc Nguyen and Minh-Triet Tran and Ngan Le
• Abstract summary: Efficient polyp segmentation in healthcare plays a critical role in enabling early diagnosis of colorectal cancer. We propose Multi-Scale Edge-Guided Attention Network (MEGANet) tailored specifically for polyp segmentation within colonoscopy images. MEGANet is designed as an end-to-end framework, encompassing three key modules: an encoder, a decoder, and the Edge-Guided Attention module (EGA) that employs the Laplacian Operator to accentuate polyp boundaries.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Efficient polyp segmentation in healthcare plays a critical role in enabling early diagnosis of colorectal cancer. However, the segmentation of polyps presents numerous challenges, including the intricate distribution of backgrounds, variations in polyp sizes and shapes, and indistinct boundaries. Defining the boundary between the foreground (i.e. polyp itself) and the background (surrounding tissue) is difficult. To mitigate these challenges, we propose Multi-Scale Edge-Guided Attention Network (MEGANet) tailored specifically for polyp segmentation within colonoscopy images. This network draws inspiration from the fusion of a classical edge detection technique with an attention mechanism. By combining these techniques, MEGANet effectively preserves high-frequency information, notably edges and boundaries, which tend to erode as neural networks deepen. MEGANet is designed as an end-to-end framework, encompassing three key modules: an encoder, which is responsible for capturing and abstracting the features from the input image, a decoder, which focuses on salient features, and the Edge-Guided Attention module (EGA) that employs the Laplacian Operator to accentuate polyp boundaries. Extensive experiments, both qualitative and quantitative, on five benchmark datasets, demonstrate that our MEGANet outperforms other existing SOTA methods under six evaluation metrics. Our code is available at https://github.com/UARK-AICV/MEGANet.

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