Summary of Qtseg: a Query Token-based Dual-mix Attention Framework with Multi-level Feature Distribution For Medical Image Segmentation, by Phuong-nam Tran et al.
QTSeg: A Query Token-Based Dual-Mix Attention Framework with Multi-Level Feature Distribution for Medical Image Segmentation
by Phuong-Nam Tran, Nhat Truong Pham, Duc Ngoc Minh Dang, Eui-Nam Huh, Choong Seon Hong
First submitted to arxiv on: 23 Dec 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 architecture for medical image segmentation, QTSeg, is proposed to effectively integrate local and global information. It combines a cross-attention mechanism, spatial attention module, and channel attention block to enhance segmentation performance. Additionally, a multi-level feature distribution module adaptively balances feature propagation between the encoder and decoder. Experimental results on five publicly available datasets demonstrate that QTSeg outperforms state-of-the-art methods across multiple evaluation metrics while maintaining lower computational costs. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Medical image segmentation is important for accurate diagnoses. Traditional CNNs struggle with long-range dependencies, but transformer-based architectures are effective but complex. A new approach, QTSeg, combines the strengths of both by integrating local and global information. It has a special attention system to help features align better, capture long-range dependencies, and learn from other channels. The algorithm also has a special way to balance feature propagation between the encoder and decoder. Tests on five different datasets show that QTSeg does better than others while using less computer power. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Attention » Cross attention » Decoder » Encoder » Image segmentation » Transformer
