Chen, Jiayu, Mou, Lei, Ma, Shaodong, Fu, Huazhu, Guo, Lijun, Zheng, Yalin 
ORCID: 0000-0002-7873-0922, Zhang, Jiong and Zhao, Yitian
(2022)
NerveFormer: A Cross-Sample Aggregation Network for Corneal Nerve Segmentation.
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Abstract
The segmentation of corneal nerves in corneal confocal microscopy (CCM) is of great to the quantification of clinical parameters in the diagnosis of eye-related diseases and systematic diseases. Existing works mainly use convolutional neural networks to improve the segmentation accuracy, while further improvement is needed to mitigate the nerve discontinuity and noise interference. In this paper, we propose a novel corneal nerve segmentation network, named NerveFormer, to resolve the above-mentioned limitations. The proposed NerveFormer includes a Deformable and External Attention Module (DEAM), which exploits the Transformer-based Deformable Attention (TDA) and External Attention (TEA) mechanisms. TDA is introduced to explore the local internal nerve features in a single CCM, while TEA is proposed to model global external nerve features across different CCM images. Specifically, to efficiently fuse the internal and external nerve features, TDA obtains the query set required by TEA, thereby strengthening the characterization ability of TEA. Therefore, the proposed model aggregates the learned features from both single-sample and cross-sample, allowing for better extraction of corneal nerve features across the whole dataset. Experimental results on two public CCM datasets show that our proposed method achieves state-of-the-art performance, especially in terms of segmentation continuity and noise discrimination.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Unspecified) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Corneal nerve segmentation, Cross-sample, Transformer |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Health and Life Sciences Faculty of Health and Life Sciences > Institute of Life Courses and Medical Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 31 Mar 2023 10:04 |
| Last Modified: | 31 Mar 2023 10:04 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-031-16440-8_8 |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3169384 |
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