{"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/rsanet-recurrent-slice-wise-attention-network","title":"RSANet: Recurrent Slice-wise Attention Network for Multiple Sclerosis Lesion Segmentation","arxiv_id":"2002.12470","date":"2020-02-27","proceeding":null,"authors":["Hang Zhang","Jinwei Zhang","Qihao Zhang","Jeremy Kim","Shun Zhang","Susan A. Gauthier","Pascal Spincemaille","Thanh D. Nguyen","Mert R. Sabuncu","Yi Wang"],"abstract":"Brain lesion volume measured on T2 weighted MRI images is a clinically important disease marker in multiple sclerosis (MS). Manual delineation of MS lesions is a time-consuming and highly operator-dependent task, which is influenced by lesion size, shape and conspicuity. Recently, automated lesion segmentation algorithms based on deep neural networks have been developed with promising results. In this paper, we propose a novel recurrent slice-wise attention network (RSANet), which models 3D MRI images as sequences of slices and captures long-range dependencies through a recurrent manner to utilize contextual information of MS lesions. Experiments on a dataset with 43 patients show that the proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art approaches. Our implementation is available online at https://github.com/tinymilky/RSANet.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.12470v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.12470v1.pdf","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":"rsanet-recurrent-slice-wise-attention-network","repo_url":"https://github.com/tinymilky/RSANet","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"pytorch","reach":{"status":"unanswered"}}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"lesion-segmentation","task_name":"Lesion 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}