AEDCN-Net: Accurate and Efficient Deep Convolutional Neural Network Model for Medical Image Segmentation

Image segmentation was significantly enhanced after the emergence of deep learning (DL) methods. In particular, deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have assisted DL-based segmentation models to achieve state-of-the-art performance in fields critical to human beings, such as medicine. However,...

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Autores principales: Bekhzod Olimov, Seok-Joo Koh, Jeonghong Kim
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:5a00f2f25a5f4e15940e37a144bf41c42021-11-24T00:03:23ZAEDCN-Net: Accurate and Efficient Deep Convolutional Neural Network Model for Medical Image Segmentation2169-353610.1109/ACCESS.2021.3128607https://doaj.org/article/5a00f2f25a5f4e15940e37a144bf41c42021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9617630/https://doaj.org/toc/2169-3536Image segmentation was significantly enhanced after the emergence of deep learning (DL) methods. In particular, deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have assisted DL-based segmentation models to achieve state-of-the-art performance in fields critical to human beings, such as medicine. However, the existing state-of-the-art methods often use computationally expensive operations to achieve high accuracy and lightweight networks often lack a precise medical image segmentation. Therefore, this study proposes an accurate and efficient DCNN model (AEDCN-Net) based on an elaborate preprocessing step and a resourceful model architecture. The AEDCN-Net exploits bottleneck, atrous, and asymmetric convolution-based residual skip connections in the encoding path that reduce the number of trainable parameters and floating point operations (FLOPs) to learn feature representations with a larger receptive field. The decoding path employs the nearest-neighbor based upsampling method instead of a computationally resourceful transpose convolution operation that requires an extensive number of trainable parameters. The proposed method attains a superior performance in both computational time and accuracy compared to the existing state-of-the-art methods. The results of benchmarking using four real-life medical image datasets specifically illustrate that the AEDCN-Net has a faster convergence compared to the computationally expensive state-of-the-art models while using significantly fewer trainable parameters and FLOPs that result in a considerable speed-up during inference. Moreover, the proposed method obtains a better accuracy in several evaluation metrics compared with the existing lightweight and efficient methods.Bekhzod OlimovSeok-Joo KohJeonghong KimIEEEarticleComputational efficiencydeep convolutional neural networksmedical image segmentationElectrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineeringTK1-9971ENIEEE Access, Vol 9, Pp 154194-154203 (2021)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language EN
topic Computational efficiency
deep convolutional neural networks
medical image segmentation
Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
TK1-9971
spellingShingle Computational efficiency
deep convolutional neural networks
medical image segmentation
Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
TK1-9971
Bekhzod Olimov
Seok-Joo Koh
Jeonghong Kim
AEDCN-Net: Accurate and Efficient Deep Convolutional Neural Network Model for Medical Image Segmentation
description Image segmentation was significantly enhanced after the emergence of deep learning (DL) methods. In particular, deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have assisted DL-based segmentation models to achieve state-of-the-art performance in fields critical to human beings, such as medicine. However, the existing state-of-the-art methods often use computationally expensive operations to achieve high accuracy and lightweight networks often lack a precise medical image segmentation. Therefore, this study proposes an accurate and efficient DCNN model (AEDCN-Net) based on an elaborate preprocessing step and a resourceful model architecture. The AEDCN-Net exploits bottleneck, atrous, and asymmetric convolution-based residual skip connections in the encoding path that reduce the number of trainable parameters and floating point operations (FLOPs) to learn feature representations with a larger receptive field. The decoding path employs the nearest-neighbor based upsampling method instead of a computationally resourceful transpose convolution operation that requires an extensive number of trainable parameters. The proposed method attains a superior performance in both computational time and accuracy compared to the existing state-of-the-art methods. The results of benchmarking using four real-life medical image datasets specifically illustrate that the AEDCN-Net has a faster convergence compared to the computationally expensive state-of-the-art models while using significantly fewer trainable parameters and FLOPs that result in a considerable speed-up during inference. Moreover, the proposed method obtains a better accuracy in several evaluation metrics compared with the existing lightweight and efficient methods.
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author Bekhzod Olimov
Seok-Joo Koh
Jeonghong Kim
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Jeonghong Kim
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title AEDCN-Net: Accurate and Efficient Deep Convolutional Neural Network Model for Medical Image Segmentation
title_short AEDCN-Net: Accurate and Efficient Deep Convolutional Neural Network Model for Medical Image Segmentation
title_full AEDCN-Net: Accurate and Efficient Deep Convolutional Neural Network Model for Medical Image Segmentation
title_fullStr AEDCN-Net: Accurate and Efficient Deep Convolutional Neural Network Model for Medical Image Segmentation
title_full_unstemmed AEDCN-Net: Accurate and Efficient Deep Convolutional Neural Network Model for Medical Image Segmentation
title_sort aedcn-net: accurate and efficient deep convolutional neural network model for medical image segmentation
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