Enhancing Liver Segmentation: A Deep Learning Approach with EAS Feature Extraction and Multi-Scale Fusion
Weimin WANG, Yufeng Li, Xu YAN, Mingxuan XIAO, Min Gao
Abstract
Deep learning technology have been broadly used in segmentation tasks of liver. To address the limitation of suboptimal segmentation for small targets, an end-to-end EAS(ECA-Attention and Separable convolution) U-Net is proposed based on deep learning. The basic module employs depthwise separable convolutional modules instead of convolutional modules to reduce the parameters count and enhance the extraction of deep-layer information. The pyramid module based on Efficient Channel Attention (ECA) is utilized to obtain different receptive fields. And that model can overcome the limitation of the U-Net model with a single receptive field and improve the segmentation capability for targets of different sizes. A deep supervision module with multi-scale output fusion is designed to extract detailed information about liver with high quality. The proposed method is tested on the Liver Tumor Segmentation (LiTS) dataset for liver segmentation, achieving a Dice Similarity Coefficient (DSC) of 92.20% for liver segmentation. Compared to existing models, the proposed method demonstrates higher accuracy in liver segmentation.