TransResNet: Integrating the Strengths of ViTs and CNNs for High Resolution Medical Image Segmentation via Feature Grafting
Muhammad Hamza Sharif (MBZUAI), Dmitry Demidov (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence), Asif Hanif (Muhammad Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence), Mohammad Yaqub (Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence), Min Xu (Carnegie Mellon University)*
The 33rd British Machine Vision Conference
Abstract
High-resolution images are preferable in medical imaging domain as they significantly improve the diagnostic capability of the underlying method. In particular, high resolution helps substantially in improving automatic image segmentation. However, most of the existing deep learning-based techniques for medical image segmentation are optimized for input images having small spatial dimensions and perform poorly on high-resolution images. To address this shortcoming, we propose a parallel-in-branch architecture called TransResNet, which incorporates Transformer and CNN in a parallel manner to extract features from multi-resolution images independently. In TransResNet, we introduce Cross Grafting Module (CGM), which generates the grafted features, enriched in both global semantic and low-level spatial details, by combining the feature maps from Transformer and CNN branches through fusion and self-attention mechanism. Moreover, we use these grafted features in the decoding process, increasing the information flow for better prediction of the segmentation mask. Extensive experiments on ten datasets demonstrate that TransResNet achieves either state-of-the-art or competitive results on several segmentation tasks, including skin lesion, retinal vessel, and polyp segmentation. The source code and pre-trained models are available at https://github.com/Sharifmhamza/TransResNet.Video
Citation
@inproceedings{Sharif_2022_BMVC,
author = {Muhammad Hamza Sharif and Dmitry Demidov and Asif Hanif and Mohammad Yaqub and Min Xu},
title = {TransResNet: Integrating the Strengths of ViTs and CNNs for High Resolution Medical Image Segmentation via Feature Grafting},
booktitle = {33rd British Machine Vision Conference 2022, {BMVC} 2022, London, UK, November 21-24, 2022},
publisher = {{BMVA} Press},
year = {2022},
url = {https://bmvc2022.mpi-inf.mpg.de/0293.pdf}
}
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