Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 62, Issue 2, 0217001(2025)

Hierarchical Transformer with Multi-Scale Parallel Aggregation for Breast Tumor Segmentation

Ping Xia1,2、*, Yudie Wang1,2, Bangjun Lei1,2, Cheng Peng1,2, Guangyi Zhang1,2, and Tinglong Tang1,2
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  • 1Hubei Key Laboratory of Intelligent Vision Based Monitoring for Hydroelectric Engineering, Three Gorges University, Yichang 443002, Hubei , China
  • 2College of Computer and Information Technology, Three Gorges University, Yichang 443002, Hubei , China
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    The problems of breast tumor segmentation from ultrasound images, such as low contrast between the tumor and the normal tissue, blurred boundaries, complex shapes and positions of tumors, and high noise in images, are a concern for researchers. This paper presents a hierarchical transformer with a multiscale parallel aggregation network for breast tumor segmentation. The encoder uses MiT-B2 to establish long-range dependencies and effectively extract features at different resolutions. At the skip connection between the encoder and the decoder, a cascaded module incorporating a multi-scale receptive field block and shuffle attention (SA) mechanism is constructed. receptive field block is used to capture multi-scale local information of the tumor, addressing the problem of high similarity between the lesion and surrounding normal tissue. The SA mechanism accurately identifies and localizes tumors while suppressing noise interference. In the decoder, an aggregation module is constructed to progressively fuse features from parallel branches to enhance segmentation accuracy. The experimental results on the BUSI dataset show that, compared to TransFuse, the proposed model achieves improvements of 3.21% and 3.19% in the Dice and intersection over union metrics, respectively. The model also shows excellent results for the other two datasets.

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    Ping Xia, Yudie Wang, Bangjun Lei, Cheng Peng, Guangyi Zhang, Tinglong Tang. Hierarchical Transformer with Multi-Scale Parallel Aggregation for Breast Tumor Segmentation[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2025, 62(2): 0217001

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    Paper Information

    Category: Medical Optics and Biotechnology

    Received: Mar. 6, 2024

    Accepted: Apr. 25, 2024

    Published Online: Jan. 9, 2025

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    DOI:10.3788/LOP240836

    CSTR:32186.14.LOP240836

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