Title | Enhanced CATBraTS for Brain Tumour Semantic Segmentation |
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Type | Journal article |
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Authors | El Badaoui, R., Bonmati Coll, E., Psarrou, A., Asaturyan, H. and Villarini, B. |
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Abstract | Early and precise identification of brain tumours is imperative towards enhancing patient life expectancy; this can be facilitated by quick and efficient tumour segmentation in medical imaging. Automatic brain tumour segmentation tools in computer vision have integrated powerful deep learning architectures to enable accurate tumour boundary delineation. Our study aims to demonstrate improved segmentation accuracy and higher statistical stability using datasets obtained from diverse imaging acquisition parameters. This paper introduces a novel, fully automated model called Enhanced Channel Attention Transformer (E-CATBraTS) for Brain Tumour Semantic Segmentation; this model builds upon 3D CATBraTS, a vision transformer employed in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain tumour segmentation tasks. E-CATBraTS integrates convolutional neural networks and Swin Transformer, incorporating channel shuffling and attention mechanisms to effectively segment brain tumours in multi-modal MRI. The model was evaluated on four datasets containing 3137 brain MRI scans. Through the adoption of E-CATBraTS, the accuracy of the results improved significantly on two datasets, outperforming the current state-of-the-art by mean DSC of 2.6% while maintaining a high and comparable accuracy to the top-performing models on the other datasets. The results demonstrate that E-CATBraTS achieves both high segmentation accuracy and elevated generalisation abilities, ensuring the model is robust to dataset variation. |
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Keywords | brain tumour |
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| convolutional neural network |
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| semantic segmentation |
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| transformer |
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| tumour segmentation |
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Journal | Journal of Imaging |
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Journal citation | 11 (1), p. 8 |
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ISSN | 2313-433X |
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Year | 2025 |
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Publisher | MDPI |
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Publisher's version | License CC BY 4.0 File Access Level Open (open metadata and files) |
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Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging11010008 |
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Web address (URL) | https://www.mdpi.com/2313-433X/11/1/8 |
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Publication dates |
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Published | 03 Jan 2025 |
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