Automatic segmentation of polyp images usually results in low segmentation accuracy due to the various sizes of lesion regions and blurry boundaries. Based on these two perspectives, a novel Progressive Reduction Network (PRNet) is proposed, which first locates polyps and then gradually refines their boundaries. The network utilizes Res2Net to extract features from the lesion region and leverages the multi-scale cross-level fusion module to improve localization accuracy. By combining the attention fusion mechanism with cross-level features in this module, the network can effectively solve the issue of multi-scale lesion areas. Furthermore, PRNet combines an uncertain region processing module and a multi-scale context-aware module when restoring image resolution from top to bottom. The former gradually mines polyp edge information by setting decreasing thresholds to enhance the recognition of edge detail features, while the latter, to improve the overall representation capability of the model, further explores the inherent potential contextual semantics of lesion regions. In addition, a simple feature filtering module is designed in this algorithm to filter the valid information in the encoder features. Experimental results on the Kvasir-SEG, CVC-Clinic, and ETIS datasets show that the Dice coefficients of the algorithm reach 92.09%, 93.05%, and 74.19%, respectively. Compared with other existing polyp segmentation algorithms, PRNet outperforms them and demonstrates its superior robustness and generalization.
UPM由两部分组成,第一部分是不确定区域提取模块(Uncertain Area Extraction Module, UEM),其目的是尽可能提取出清晰准确的不确定区域,以便从中挖掘病灶边缘;第二部分是不确定区域增强模块(Uncertain Area Improvement Module, UIM),目的是增强模型对不确定区域的建模能力.
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