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
Author Affiliations
  • 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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    Structure of breast tumor segmentation network
    Structure of hierarchical Transformer
    Structure of Mix-FFN
    Structure of overlap patch merging
    Structure of multi-scale receptive field block
    Structure of shuttle attention mechanism
    Structure of aggregation module
    Visualization of the segmentation results for different methods on three datasets. (a) Original images; (b) mask; (c) U-Net; (d) Attention U-Net; (e) UNet++; (f) TransUNet; (g) TransFuse; (h) proposed
    Visualization of segmentation results for cases with large targets and low contrast in BUSI using different methods. (a) Original images; (b)mask; (c) U-Net;(d) Attention U-Net;(e) UNet++;(f) TransUNet;(g) TransFuse; (h) proposed
    Visualization of the segmentation results for cases with large targets and low contrast in the UDIAT using different methods. (a) Original images; (b)mask; (c) U-Net;(d) Attention U-Net;(e) UNet++;(f) TransUNet;(g) TransFuse; (h) proposed
    Intuitive comparison of Dice and IoU metrics with different segmentation methods on three datasets. (a) BUSI dataset; (b) UDIAT dataset; (c) BUS dataset
    Visualization of segmentation results of ablation studies on UDIAT dataset. (a) Original images; (b)mask; (c) U-Net; (d) MiT; (e) MiT+ RFB; (f) MiT+SA; (g) MiT+RFB+SA; (h) RBF+SA+Aggregation Block
    • Table 1. Segmentation results of different segmentation methods on three datasets

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      Table 1. Segmentation results of different segmentation methods on three datasets

      DatasetMetricU-NetAttention U-NetUNet++TransUNetTransFuseProposed
      BUSIDice0.72090.74530.77370.80320.81930.8514
      IoU0.62840.65470.68630.71810.74350.7754
      Recall0.75070.83140.83580.85020.83610.8680
      Precision0.72500.72910.76940.79770.82460.8505
      Specificity0.98120.97450.97440.96750.96750.9802
      Accuracy0.95120.95040.95740.96580.96580.9710
      UDIATDice0.74330.79130.78360.83100.82600.8418
      IoU0.63360.70290.67230.74110.73130.7484
      Recall0.77750.79530.84390.83490.86680.8981
      Precision0.75540.81560.77240.86340.82140.8295
      Specificity0.99150.99440.99160.99400.99180.9910
      Accuracy0.97850.98560.98100.98460.98650.9865
      BUSDice0.92710.93150.92920.93710.93240.9517
      IoU0.86760.87450.87050.88400.87520.9081
      Recall0.95030.93820.95790.96640.94050.9591
      Precision0.91170.93120.90800.91430.89880.9514
      Specificity0.93170.94780.92670.93260.91620.9604
      Accuracy0.93800.94280.93920.94610.94050.9584
    • Table 2. Results of ablation experiments on BUSI and UDIAT datasets

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      Table 2. Results of ablation experiments on BUSI and UDIAT datasets

      DatasetMethodMetric
      MiTRBFSAAggregation BlockDiceIoURecallPrecisionSpecificityAccuracy
      BUSI0.72090.62840.75070.72500.98120.9512
      0.78660.69630.80790.83110.98330.9538
      0.83140.75120.83600.85230.98300.9660
      0.82380.74560.84560.83170.97750.9639
      0.83650.75330.86380.84210.97830.9663
      0.85140.77540.86800.85050.98020.9710
      UDIAT0.74330.63360.77750.75540.99150.9785
      0.78980.69250.82560.82090.99310.9833
      0.82050.72400.84390.83690.99270.9853
      0.81110.71450.85400.78240.99060.9850
      0.82910.73150.88960.82640.99220.9855
      0.84180.74840.89810.82950.99100.9865
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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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