残余物
分割
卷积(计算机科学)
计算机科学
心脏病学
动脉
人工智能
计算机视觉
模式识别(心理学)
医学
算法
人工神经网络
作者
Fangxun Bao,Yongqi Zhao,Xinyue Zhang,Yunfeng Zhang,Ning Yang
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.cmpb.2024.108353
摘要
Coronary artery segmentation is a pivotal field that has received increasing attention in recent years. However, this task remains challenging because of the inhomogeneous distributions of the contrast agent and dim light, resulting in noise, vascular breakages and small vessel losses in the obtained segmentation results. To acquire better automatic blood vessel segmentation results for coronary angiography images, a UNet-based segmentation network (SARC-UNet) is constructed for coronary artery segmentation; this approach is based on residual convolution and spatial attention. First, we use the low-light image enhancement (LIME) approach to increase the contrast and clarity levels of coronary angiography images. Then, we design two residual convolution fusion modules (RCFM1 and RCFM2) that can successfully fuse the local and global information of coronary images while also capturing the characteristics of finer-grained blood vessels, hence preventing the loss of tiny blood vessels in the segmentation findings. Finally, using a cascaded waterfall structure, we create a new location-enhanced spatial attention (LESA) mechanism that can efficiently improve the long-distance dependencies between coronary vascular pixel features, eradicating vascular ruptures and noise in the segmentation results. This article subjectively and objectively evaluates the experimental results. This method has performed well on five general indicators. Furthermore, it outperforms the connectivity indicators proposed in this article. This method can effectively segment blood vessels and obtain higher accuracy results. Numerous experiments have shown that the suggested method outperforms the state-of-the-art approaches, particularly in terms of vessel connectivity and small blood vessel segmentation.
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