Semantic Segmentation of 3D Liver Image Based on Multi-Path Features Attention Mechanism.

It is challenging to precisely segment the liver from surrounding organs in medical images because of the poor contrast between them. A method of semantic segmentation of 3D liver images based on multi-path features attention mechanism is proposed to address this issue. It integrates three-dimensional spatial information and feature information from several paths in the model to automatically segment the liver area. The model in this paper uses the LiTS dataset for training, testing, and ablation experiments, and compares the results with previous models. The experimental results demonstrate that the model in this paper has reached 0.965 in the DICE similarity coefficient, and has also improved in evaluation indicators such as volume overlap error (VOE) and root mean square symmetric surface distance (RMSD). It also has better segmentation performance when tested on the CHAOS dataset. Cross-validation was carried out on the clinical MRI dataset of a hospital, and the DICE similarity coefficient reached 0.971. The results show that the model has good performance on the multi-modal datasets of CT and MRI.