R2L-Net: Rapid Medical Image Segmentation Network Regularized by Self-Supervised Relative Localization Task

Yixin Wang, Wenxin Yu*, Zhiqiang Zhang, Jun Gong, Peng Chen, Chang Liu

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in medical imaging, especially with advancements in techniques like magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT). UNet, a widely used architecture, has shown promising results in medical image segmentation. Several variants based on UNet, and Transformer-based models, like TransUNet, have also exhibited potential for improving segmentation performance. However, these models often require substantial data and computational resources, making them less suitable for on-the-fly segmentation in medical scenarios. This paper proposes a fast medical image segmentation network called R2L-Net, which leverages self-supervised and supervised learning. R2L-Net introduces a self-supervised relative localization task as a regularization term during network training to enhance performance. Compared to UNeXt, our proposed R2L-Net achieves superior results on two public datasets (ISIC and BUSI), with an improved Intersection over Union (IoU) by 5.22 and 5.36, respectively. Moreover, R2L-Net offers several advantages over existing models, including a small number of parameters, low computational complexity, and fast image processing.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2023 2023 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2023
EditorsXingpeng Jiang, Haiying Wang, Reda Alhajj, Xiaohua Hu, Felix Engel, Mufti Mahmud, Nadia Pisanti, Xuefeng Cui, Hong Song
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages660-665
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9798350337488
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023
Externally publishedYes
Event2023 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2023 - Istanbul, Turkey
Duration: 5 Dec 20238 Dec 2023

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2023 2023 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2023

Conference

Conference2023 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2023
Country/TerritoryTurkey
CityIstanbul
Period5/12/238/12/23

Keywords

  • bedside device
  • medical image segmentation
  • rapid
  • self-supervised

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