Brain tumors require precise segmentation for diagnosis and treatment plans due to their complex morphology and heterogeneous characteristics.While MRI-based automatic brain tumor segmentation technology reduces the b...Brain tumors require precise segmentation for diagnosis and treatment plans due to their complex morphology and heterogeneous characteristics.While MRI-based automatic brain tumor segmentation technology reduces the burden on medical staff and provides quantitative information,existing methodologies and recent models still struggle to accurately capture and classify the fine boundaries and diverse morphologies of tumors.In order to address these challenges and maximize the performance of brain tumor segmentation,this research introduces a novel SwinUNETR-based model by integrating a new decoder block,the Hierarchical Channel-wise Attention Decoder(HCAD),into a powerful SwinUNETR encoder.The HCAD decoder block utilizes hierarchical features and channelspecific attention mechanisms to further fuse information at different scales transmitted from the encoder and preserve spatial details throughout the reconstruction phase.Rigorous evaluations on the recent BraTS GLI datasets demonstrate that the proposed SwinHCAD model achieved superior and improved segmentation accuracy on both the Dice score and HD95 metrics across all tumor subregions(WT,TC,and ET)compared to baseline models.In particular,the rationale and contribution of the model design were clarified through ablation studies to verify the effectiveness of the proposed HCAD decoder block.The results of this study are expected to greatly contribute to enhancing the efficiency of clinical diagnosis and treatment planning by increasing the precision of automated brain tumor segmentation.展开更多
Siamese tracking algorithms usually take convolutional neural networks(CNNs)as feature extractors owing to their capability of extracting deep discriminative features.However,the convolution kernels in CNNs have limit...Siamese tracking algorithms usually take convolutional neural networks(CNNs)as feature extractors owing to their capability of extracting deep discriminative features.However,the convolution kernels in CNNs have limited receptive fields,making it difficult to capture global feature dependencies which is important for object detection,especially when the target undergoes large-scale variations or movement.In view of this,we develop a novel network called effective convolution mixed Transformer Siamese network(SiamCMT)for visual tracking,which integrates CNN-based and Transformer-based architectures to capture both local information and long-range dependencies.Specifically,we design a Transformer-based module named lightweight multi-head attention(LWMHA)which can be flexibly embedded into stage-wise CNNs and improve the network’s representation ability.Additionally,we introduce a stage-wise feature aggregation mechanism which integrates features learned from multiple stages.By leveraging both location and semantic information,this mechanism helps the SiamCMT to better locate and find the target.Moreover,to distinguish the contribution of different channels,a channel-wise attention mechanism is introduced to enhance the important channels and suppress the others.Extensive experiments on seven challenging benchmarks,i.e.,OTB2015,UAV123,GOT10K,LaSOT,DTB70,UAVTrack112_L,and VOT2018,demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.Specially,the proposed method outperforms the baseline by 3.5%and 3.1%in terms of precision and success rates with a real-time speed of 59.77 FPS on UAV123.展开更多
采摘机器人或无人机等智能农业装备在进行视觉检测作业时往往背景环境复杂、画面中同时存在大量样本,而且现有目标检测方法对低质量样本考虑不充分,致使传统目标检测模型检测不准。该文提出一种基于YOLOv11-MW的轻量化农作物实时检测模...采摘机器人或无人机等智能农业装备在进行视觉检测作业时往往背景环境复杂、画面中同时存在大量样本,而且现有目标检测方法对低质量样本考虑不充分,致使传统目标检测模型检测不准。该文提出一种基于YOLOv11-MW的轻量化农作物实时检测模型,在骨干网络的跨阶段部分连接与空间注意力结构(Cross Stage Partial with Spatial Attention,C2PSA)中提出一种基于混合局部通道注意力(Mixed Local Channel Attention,MLCA)机制模块,增强模型对大量样本的特征提取能力,可以克服复杂背景干扰并提升检测精度;将损失函数替换为Wise-IOU提出一种新的检测头WIOUv3-Detect(WDetect),降低因几何因素对低质量样本的过度惩罚,减少误识别、漏识别。实验结果表明,文中算法在满足边缘算力需求且提升计算速度的前提下,小麦样本检测精度mAP提升1.2%,葡萄样本提升1.9%,更均衡、更准确地进行农作物检测。展开更多
基金supported by Institute of Information&Communications Technology Planning&Evaluation(IITP)under the Metaverse Support Program to Nurture the Best Talents(IITP-2024-RS-2023-00254529)grant funded by the Korea government(MSIT).
文摘Brain tumors require precise segmentation for diagnosis and treatment plans due to their complex morphology and heterogeneous characteristics.While MRI-based automatic brain tumor segmentation technology reduces the burden on medical staff and provides quantitative information,existing methodologies and recent models still struggle to accurately capture and classify the fine boundaries and diverse morphologies of tumors.In order to address these challenges and maximize the performance of brain tumor segmentation,this research introduces a novel SwinUNETR-based model by integrating a new decoder block,the Hierarchical Channel-wise Attention Decoder(HCAD),into a powerful SwinUNETR encoder.The HCAD decoder block utilizes hierarchical features and channelspecific attention mechanisms to further fuse information at different scales transmitted from the encoder and preserve spatial details throughout the reconstruction phase.Rigorous evaluations on the recent BraTS GLI datasets demonstrate that the proposed SwinHCAD model achieved superior and improved segmentation accuracy on both the Dice score and HD95 metrics across all tumor subregions(WT,TC,and ET)compared to baseline models.In particular,the rationale and contribution of the model design were clarified through ablation studies to verify the effectiveness of the proposed HCAD decoder block.The results of this study are expected to greatly contribute to enhancing the efficiency of clinical diagnosis and treatment planning by increasing the precision of automated brain tumor segmentation.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.62033007)the Major Fundamental Research Program of Shandong Province(Grant No.ZR2023ZD37).
文摘Siamese tracking algorithms usually take convolutional neural networks(CNNs)as feature extractors owing to their capability of extracting deep discriminative features.However,the convolution kernels in CNNs have limited receptive fields,making it difficult to capture global feature dependencies which is important for object detection,especially when the target undergoes large-scale variations or movement.In view of this,we develop a novel network called effective convolution mixed Transformer Siamese network(SiamCMT)for visual tracking,which integrates CNN-based and Transformer-based architectures to capture both local information and long-range dependencies.Specifically,we design a Transformer-based module named lightweight multi-head attention(LWMHA)which can be flexibly embedded into stage-wise CNNs and improve the network’s representation ability.Additionally,we introduce a stage-wise feature aggregation mechanism which integrates features learned from multiple stages.By leveraging both location and semantic information,this mechanism helps the SiamCMT to better locate and find the target.Moreover,to distinguish the contribution of different channels,a channel-wise attention mechanism is introduced to enhance the important channels and suppress the others.Extensive experiments on seven challenging benchmarks,i.e.,OTB2015,UAV123,GOT10K,LaSOT,DTB70,UAVTrack112_L,and VOT2018,demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.Specially,the proposed method outperforms the baseline by 3.5%and 3.1%in terms of precision and success rates with a real-time speed of 59.77 FPS on UAV123.
文摘采摘机器人或无人机等智能农业装备在进行视觉检测作业时往往背景环境复杂、画面中同时存在大量样本,而且现有目标检测方法对低质量样本考虑不充分,致使传统目标检测模型检测不准。该文提出一种基于YOLOv11-MW的轻量化农作物实时检测模型,在骨干网络的跨阶段部分连接与空间注意力结构(Cross Stage Partial with Spatial Attention,C2PSA)中提出一种基于混合局部通道注意力(Mixed Local Channel Attention,MLCA)机制模块,增强模型对大量样本的特征提取能力,可以克服复杂背景干扰并提升检测精度;将损失函数替换为Wise-IOU提出一种新的检测头WIOUv3-Detect(WDetect),降低因几何因素对低质量样本的过度惩罚,减少误识别、漏识别。实验结果表明,文中算法在满足边缘算力需求且提升计算速度的前提下,小麦样本检测精度mAP提升1.2%,葡萄样本提升1.9%,更均衡、更准确地进行农作物检测。
