Dynamic neighbourhood-enhanced UNet with interwoven fusion for medical image segmentation
摘要
Accurate medical image segmentation is crucial for intelligent healthcare. While convolutional neural networks (CNNs), particularly UNet and its variants, have demonstrated excellent performance, they face challenges such as insufficient adaptive capability, redundant feature information, and weak multi-scale feature sensing. To address these issues, we propose a novel medical image segmentation method called Dynamic Neighbourhood-Enhanced UNet with Interwoven Fusion (NLIE-UNet). Our approach includes a Cyclic Dynamic Convolution Block (CDCB) to adaptively capture edge contour information, a Neighbourhood Enhanced Bridge (NEB) to exploit the consistency and complementarity of different layer features, and a Hierarchical Interwoven Fusion Module (HIFM) to fuse cross-layer information effectively. Extensive experiments on five public medical image datasets demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of our method, achieving state-of-the-art performance in terms of Intersection over Union and Dice coefficients. The code and datasets for this work are published in https://github.com/0neDawn/NLIE-UNet.