MULTI-SCALE ATTENTION U-NET MODEL FOR PANCREATIC TUMOR
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Accurately segmenting pancreatic tumors from medical images is a major challenge in the field of computer vision due to the complex variations in tumor shape and size, and the low contrast between diseased tissue and adjacent organs. This study proposes an improved U-Net model to address the limitations of information loss and poor localization capabilities of traditional convolutional networks, enabling good detection of even small tumors. An attention mechanism is applied at the bypass connections to automatically weight key regions, allowing the model to focus on the tumor area and mitigate background noise. The proposed model, trained and evaluated on the Medical Segmentation Decathlon-Pancreas Task (MSD-PT) dataset, showed superior experimental performance with a Dice coefficient (DSC) of 0.7 and a sensitivity of 0.76, confirming its effectiveness in supporting early detection and minimizing missed tumors.
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Keywords: computed tomography, pancreatic tumor, tumor segmentation, U-Net model.
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