Optoelectronics Letters, Volume. 21, Issue 6, 370(2025)

3DMAU-Net: liver segmentation network based on 3D U-Net

Dong ZHU, Tianyi MA, Mengzhu YANG, Guoqiang LI, Shunbo HU, and Yongfang WANG
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ZHU Dong, MA Tianyi, YANG Mengzhu, LI Guoqiang, HU Shunbo, WANG Yongfang. 3DMAU-Net: liver segmentation network based on 3D U-Net[J]. Optoelectronics Letters, 2025, 21(6): 370

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Received: Apr. 29, 2024

Accepted: Jun. 27, 2025

Published Online: Jun. 27, 2025

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DOI:10.1007/s11801-025-4110-0

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