{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/mci-net-multi-scale-context-integrated","title":"Mci-net: multi-scale context integrated network for liver ct image segmentation","arxiv_id":null,"date":"2023-05-03","proceeding":"Computers and Electrical Engineering 2023 5","authors":["Xiwang Xie","Xipeng Pan","Feng Shao","Weidong Zhang","Jubai An"],"abstract":"Owing to the various object scales and high similarity with the surrounding organs (e.g., kidney, stomach, and spleen), it is difficult to accurately segment the liver region from the abdominal computed tomography images. In this study, we propose a multi-scale context integration network called MCI-Net for liver image segmentation. Specifically, we first design a simplified residual module to prevent network degradation. Given the scale variability of objects, we propose a multi-scale context extraction module by combining four cascaded branches of hybrid dilated convolutions to capture broader and deeper features. In addition, we introduce an external attention mechanism based on two external, learnable and shared memory units, which helps to perceive the most discriminative information and suppress redundant features. Finally, we provide a boundary correction block to further improve the localization ability of boundary information. Extensive experiments on two liver CT image benchmark datasets qualitatively and quantitatively illustrate that our method is effective in improving liver segmentation accuracy and outperforms several state-of-the-art methods.","url_abs":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0045790622003408","url_pdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0045790622003408","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"mci-net-multi-scale-context-integrated","repo_url":"https://github.com/Xie-Xiwang/MCI-Net","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"pytorch","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"2d-semantic-segmentation","task_name":"2D Semantic Segmentation"},{"task_slug":"image-segmentation","task_name":"Image Segmentation"},{"task_slug":"liver-segmentation","task_name":"Liver Segmentation"},{"task_slug":"medical-image-segmentation","task_name":"Medical Image Segmentation"},{"task_slug":"semantic-segmentation","task_name":"Semantic Segmentation"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}