Multi-Scale Feedback Feature Refinement U-Net for Medical Image Segmentation
Xiaofei Qin, Minmin Xu, Chaoyang Zheng, Changxiang He, Xuedian Zhang · 2021
Designing a novel and efficient architecture is the thrust of medical image segmentation. In this paper, we introduce a novel network named Multi-scale Feedback Feature Refinement U-Net (MFFRU-Net) for medical image segmentation. We design a simple and effective multi-scale feedback structure. Up-sampling and 1 × 1 convolution are used to feedback the feature maps of different scales in the decoder to the encoder, so that multiple high-level and low-level features are fused to obtain more representative features. Specifically, we propose a feature refinement module (FRM) based on the dual attention mechanism in the middle layer of the network. FRM block can enhance the use of spatial and channel information of image features. We evaluate the MFFRU-Net on two datasets. Comprehensive experimental results show that the proposed method is superior to the original U-Net method and other advanced methods.