Multi-scale frequency-spatial hybrid progressive fusion network for retinal vessel segmentation
摘要
Accurate retinal vessel segmentation is crucial for the early diagnosis and screening of fundus diseases. However, many existing methods rely mainly on spatial-domain features, while frequency-domain information and multi-scale vascular structures are insufficiently explored. High-frequency components emphasize vessel edges and thin structures, while low-frequency suppression reduces background interference. Multi-scale representations are essential as retinal vessels range from major vessels (8–12 pixels) to fine capillaries (2–4 pixels). To address these challenges, we propose a Multi-scale Frequency–Spatial Hybrid Progressive Fusion Network (MFSH-Net). The encoder employs a Frequency-Spatial Selective Hybrid module for adaptive frequency filtering, a Saliency-Aware Topology Attention Routing module for long-range vessel dependencies, and a Hierarchical Scale-Aware Attention module that replaces simple skip connection concatenation with attention-weighted fusion. Experiments on DRIVE, CHASE_DB1, and STARE demonstrate that MFSH-Net achieves superior performance in noise suppression and fine vessel detection.