FFU-Net: Feature Fusion U-Net for Lesion Segmentation of Diabetic Retinopathy.

Diabetic retinopathy is one of the main causes of blindness in human eyes, and lesion segmentation is an important basic work for the diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy. Due to the small lesion areas scattered in fundus images, it is laborious to segment the lesion of diabetic retinopathy effectively...

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Publicado en:BioMed Research International Vol. 2021; pp. 1 - 13
Autores principales: Yifei Xu, Zhuming Zhou, Xiao Li, Nuo Zhang, Meizi Zhang, Pingping Wei
Formato: diagnostic images equations & formulas pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell 1/2/2021
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          Yifei Xu
          Zhuming Zhou
          Xiao Li
          Nuo Zhang
          Meizi Zhang
          Pingping Wei
        affil: School of Software, Xi'an Jiaotong University, 710054, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
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          Diabetic Retinopathy Etiology
          Blindness Risk Factors
          Image Processing, Computer Assisted Methods
          Human
          Spatial Perception
          Retinal Diseases
          Diagnostic Imaging Methods
          Ablation Techniques
          Descriptive Statistics
          Deep Learning Methods
      ab: Diabetic retinopathy is one of the main causes of blindness in human eyes, and lesion segmentation is an important basic work for the diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy. Due to the small lesion areas scattered in fundus images, it is laborious to segment the lesion of diabetic retinopathy effectively with the existing U-Net model. In this paper, we proposed a new lesion segmentation model named FFU-Net (Feature Fusion U-Net) that enhances U-Net from the following points. Firstly, the pooling layer in the network is replaced with a convolutional layer to reduce spatial loss of the fundus image. Then, we integrate multiscale feature fusion (MSFF) block into the encoders which helps the network to learn multiscale features efficiently and enrich the information carried with skip connection and lower-resolution decoder by fusing contextual channel attention (CCA) models. Finally, in order to solve the problems of data imbalance and misclassification, we present a Balanced Focal Loss function. In the experiments on benchmark dataset IDRID, we make an ablation study to verify the effectiveness of each component and compare FFU-Net against several state-of-the-art models. In comparison with baseline U-Net, FFU-Net improves the segmentation performance by 11.97%, 10.68%, and 5.79% on metrics SEN, IOU, and DICE, respectively. The quantitative and qualitative results demonstrate the superiority of our FFU-Net in the task of lesion segmentation of diabetic retinopathy.
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