An Automated Multi-scale Feature Fusion Network for Spine Fracture Segmentation Using Computed Tomography Images

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Spine fractures represent a critical health concern with far-reaching implications for patient care and clinical decision-making. Accurate segmentation of spine fractures from medical images is a crucial task due to its location, shape, type, and severity. Addressing these challenges often requires the use of advanced machine learning and deep learning techniques. In this research, a novel multi-scale feature fusion deep learning model is proposed for the automated spine fracture segmentation using Computed Tomography (CT) to these challenges. The proposed model consists of six modules; Feature Fusion Module (FFM), Squeeze and Excitation (SEM), Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling (ASPP), Residual Convolution Block Attention Module (RCBAM), Residual Border Refinement Attention Block (RBRAB), and Local Position Residual Attention Block (LPRAB). These modules are used to apply multi-scale feature fusion, spatial feature extraction, channel-wise feature improvement, segmentation border results border refinement, and positional focus on the region of interest. After that, a decoder network is used to predict the fractured spine. The experimental results show that the proposed approach achieves better accuracy results in solving the above challenges and also performs well compared to the existing segmentation methods.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

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Journal of imaging informatics in medicine - (2024) vom: 15. Apr.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Saeed, Muhammad Usman [VerfasserIn]
Bin, Wang [VerfasserIn]
Sheng, Jinfang [VerfasserIn]
Mobarak Albarakati, Hussain [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

CT
Feature fusion
Journal Article
Medical image analysis
Spine fracture

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Date Revised 15.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status Publisher

doi:

10.1007/s10278-024-01091-0

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM371115094