Summary of Lkm-unet: Large Kernel Vision Mamba Unet For Medical Image Segmentation, by Jinhong Wang et al.
LKM-UNet: Large Kernel Vision Mamba UNet for Medical Image Segmentation
by Jinhong Wang, Jintai Chen, Danny Chen, Jian Wu
First submitted to arxiv on: 12 Mar 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A novel Large Kernel Vision Mamba U-shape Network (LKM-UNet) is proposed for medical image segmentation, leveraging the State Space Sequence Model (SSM) and its ability to model long-range dependencies with linear complexity. The LKM-UNet utilizes large Mamba kernels to excel in locally spatial modeling compared to small kernel-based CNNs and Transformers, while maintaining efficiency in global modeling. A novel hierarchical and bidirectional Mamba block is designed to enhance the model’s capability for vision inputs. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of using large-size Mamba kernels to achieve large receptive fields. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Medical image segmentation is important for diagnosing and treating diseases. Researchers have been using special kinds of artificial intelligence called convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Transformers to help with this task. But these methods can be limited because they only look at small parts of the images at a time. A new approach called Mamba has emerged that can handle larger areas, but it’s still not perfect. In this paper, scientists developed a new model called LKM-UNet that combines the best of both worlds. It uses large “kernels” to understand local details and works efficiently to analyze images. The team tested their model on different medical image segmentation tasks and showed that it can be very effective. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Image segmentation » Sequence model » Unet
