MSFFEC-Net: enhanced polyp segmentation via multi-scale feature fusion with edge-aware enhancement and contrastive learning
摘要
Accurate polyp segmentation is crucial for early colorectal cancer diagnosis. This study introduces MSFFEC-Net, a novel framework integrating an edge-aware enhance module (EAEM), adaptive feature interaction module (AFIM), adaptive semantic-aware hierarchical fusion module (ASHFM), and contrastive learning to address challenges including boundary ambiguity, size variability, and camouflaged lesions. Experimental results on five public datasets demonstrate superior performance, with MSFFEC-Net achieving a 2.1% improvement in Jaccard index and a 1.7% improvement in Dice coefficient over state-of-the-art methods on CVC-ClinicDB. The proposed framework also exhibits excellent generalization ability and real-time processing speed of 50.60 FPS with only 5.71G FLOPs, making it suitable for clinical applications. The source code is publicly available at: https://github.com/Lxycherryup/MSFFEC-Net.