An attention-guided network for surgical instrument segmentation from endoscopic images

doi:10.1016/j.compbiomed.2022.106216

	An attention-guided network for surgical instrument segmentation from endoscopic images
	Yang, Lei 1,2; Gu, Yuge 1,2; Bian, Guibin1,3 ; Liu, Yanhong1,2
发表期刊	COMPUTERS IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
ISSN	0010-4825
	2022-12-01
卷号	151 页码:11
通讯作者	Liu, Yanhong(liuyh@zzu.edu.cn)
摘要	Accurate surgical instrument segmentation can provide the precise location and pose information to the surgeons, assisting the surgeon to accurately judge the follow-up operation during the robot-assisted surgery procedures. Due to strong context extraction ability, there have been significant advances in research of automatic surgical instrument segmentation, especially U-Net and its variant networks. However, there are still some problems to affect segmentation accuracy, like insufficient processing of local features, class imbalance issue, etc. To deal with these problems, with the typical encoder-decoder structure, an effective surgical instrument segmentation network is proposed for providing an end-to-end detection scheme. Specifically, aimed at the problem of insufficient processing of local features, the residual path is introduced for the full feature extraction to strengthen the backward propagation of low-level features. Further, to achieve feature enhancement of local feature maps, a non-local attention block is introduced to insert into the bottleneck layer to acquire global contexts. Besides, to highlight the pixel areas of the surgical instruments, a dual -attention module (DAM) is introduced to make full use of the high-level features extracted from decoder unit and the low-level features delivered by the encoder unit to acquire the attention features and suppress the irrelevant features. To prove the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed segmentation model, experiments are conducted on two public surgical instrument segmentation data sets, including Kvasir-instrument set and Endovis2017 set, which could acquire a 95.77% Dice score and 92.13% mIOU value on Kvasir-instrument set, and simultaneously reach 95.60% Dice score and 92.74% mIOU value on Endovis2017 set respectively. Experimental results show that the proposed segmentation model realizes a superior performance on surgical instruments in comparison to other advanced models, which could provide a good reference for further development of intelligent surgical robots. The source code is provided at https://github.com/lyangucas92/ Surg_Net.
关键词	Surgical instruments Deep learning Semantic segmentation Residual network Dual attention mechanism
DOI	10.1016/j.compbiomed.2022.106216
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics ; Computer Science ; Engineering ; Mathematical & Computational Biology
WOS类目	Biology ; Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications ; Engineering, Biomedical ; Mathematical & Computational Biology
WOS记录号	WOS:000906142500007
出版者	PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
引用统计	被引频次：8[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.ia.ac.cn/handle/173211/51112
专题	复杂系统认知与决策实验室_先进机器人
通讯作者	Liu, Yanhong
作者单位	1.Zhengzhou Univ, Sch Elect & Informat Engn, Zhengzhou 450001, Henan, Peoples R China 2.Robot Percept & Control Engn Lab, Zhengzhou 450001, Henan, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Automation, State Key Lab Management & Control Complex Syst, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Yang, Lei,Gu, Yuge,Bian, Guibin,et al. An attention-guided network for surgical instrument segmentation from endoscopic images[J]. COMPUTERS IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE,2022,151:11.
APA	Yang, Lei,Gu, Yuge,Bian, Guibin,&Liu, Yanhong.(2022).An attention-guided network for surgical instrument segmentation from endoscopic images.COMPUTERS IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE,151,11.
MLA	Yang, Lei,et al."An attention-guided network for surgical instrument segmentation from endoscopic images".COMPUTERS IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE 151(2022):11.