Enhanced Chest CT Infection Segmentation with Reverse Attention and CBAM
摘要
This study proposes Dual-InfNet, a novel deep-learning architecture for automated lung infection segmentation in chest CT scans to aid COVID-19 diagnosis. Dual-InfNet addresses challenges like varying infection characteristics and low contrast by integrating a Convolutional Block Attention Module (CBAM) within each encoder layer for enhanced feature refinement. CBAM generates attention maps that adaptively refine features, while a parallel partial decoder aggregates high-level features for global infection localization. Finally, the model utilizes implicit reverse attention and explicit edge attention to refine boundaries and enhance representations. Extensive experiments demonstrate that Dual-InfNet outperforms existing models, paving the way for advanced AI applications in healthcare.