학술논문

Blood Vessel Segmentation via Topology Interaction and Contrast
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Signal Processing Letters IEEE Signal Process. Lett. Signal Processing Letters, IEEE. 31:291-295 2024
Subject
Signal Processing and Analysis
Computing and Processing
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Topology
Feature extraction
Blood vessels
Biomedical imaging
Network topology
Decoding
Convolution
Blood vessel segmentation
topology contrast
topology interaction
topology structure
Language
ISSN
1070-9908
1558-2361
Abstract
The topology integrity of blood vessel segmentation is crucial for clinical disease diagnosis. However, existing methods for enhancing vessel topology have overlooked the degree and type of topology interaction, and have not incorporated topology contrast relation into consideration. In this letter, we propose confindence-based topolopy interaction and topology contrast loss method to enhance the interaction and contrast relations for intra-class and inter-class of topology structure. Additionally, considering the influence of multiscale feature on topology learning, we propose lightweight global feature extraction and align fusion to better capture global features and mitigate feature misalignment. The quantitative and qualitative comparisons on the DRIVE and STARE datasets show the superiority of the proposed model. Furthermore, the improvements experiments of the advanced topology enhancement networks using our proposed methods, and ablation experiments on DCA1 datasets provide evidence of the effectiveness of the proposed method.