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UACANet: Uncertainty Augmented Context Attention for Polyp Segmentation

6 Jul 2021arXiv:2107.02368archive 2025-07-28

Taehun Kim, Hyemin Lee, Daijin Kim

We propose Uncertainty Augmented Context Attention network (UACANet) for polyp segmentation which consider a uncertain area of the saliency map. We construct a modified version of U-Net shape network with additional encoder and decoder and compute a saliency map in each bottom-up stream prediction module and propagate to the next prediction module. In each prediction module, previously predicted saliency map is utilized to compute foreground, background and uncertain area map and we aggregate the feature map with three area maps for each representation. Then we compute the relation between each representation and each pixel in the feature map. We conduct experiments on five popular polyp segmentation benchmarks, Kvasir, CVC-ClinicDB, ETIS, CVC-ColonDB and CVC-300, and achieve state-of-the-art performance. Especially, we achieve 76.6% mean Dice on ETIS dataset which is 13.8% improvement compared to the previous state-of-the-art method. Source code is publicly available at https://github.com/plemeri/UACANet

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DecoderMedical Image SegmentationPredictionSegmentation

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Medical Image Segmentation CVC-ClinicDB UACANet-L mean Dice 0.926 #32 of 48 Archive leaderboard report
Medical Image Segmentation CVC-ClinicDB UACANet-S mean Dice 0.916 #39 of 48 Archive leaderboard report
Medical Image Segmentation CVC-ColonDB UACANet-S Average MAE 0.034 #15 of 25 Archive leaderboard report
Medical Image Segmentation CVC-ColonDB UACANet-S S-Measure 0.848 #15 of 25 Archive leaderboard report
Medical Image Segmentation CVC-ColonDB UACANet-S mIoU 0.704 #15 of 25 Archive leaderboard report
Medical Image Segmentation CVC-ColonDB UACANet-S max E-Measure 0.897 #15 of 25 Archive leaderboard report
Medical Image Segmentation CVC-ColonDB UACANet-S mean Dice 0.783 #15 of 25 Archive leaderboard report
Medical Image Segmentation CVC-ColonDB UACANet-L Average MAE 0.039 #22 of 25 Archive leaderboard report
Medical Image Segmentation CVC-ColonDB UACANet-L S-Measure 0.835 #22 of 25 Archive leaderboard report
Medical Image Segmentation CVC-ColonDB UACANet-L mIoU 0.678 #22 of 25 Archive leaderboard report
Medical Image Segmentation CVC-ColonDB UACANet-L max E-Measure 0.878 #22 of 25 Archive leaderboard report
Medical Image Segmentation CVC-ColonDB UACANet-L mean Dice 0.751 #22 of 25 Archive leaderboard report
Medical Image Segmentation ETIS-LARIBPOLYPDB UACANet-L Average MAE 0.012 #13 of 25 Archive leaderboard report
Medical Image Segmentation ETIS-LARIBPOLYPDB UACANet-L S-Measure 0.859 #13 of 25 Archive leaderboard report
Medical Image Segmentation ETIS-LARIBPOLYPDB UACANet-L mIoU 0.689 #13 of 25 Archive leaderboard report
Medical Image Segmentation ETIS-LARIBPOLYPDB UACANet-L max E-Measure 0.905 #13 of 25 Archive leaderboard report
Medical Image Segmentation ETIS-LARIBPOLYPDB UACANet-L mean Dice 0.766 #13 of 25 Archive leaderboard report
Medical Image Segmentation ETIS-LARIBPOLYPDB UACANet-S Average MAE 0.023 #21 of 25 Archive leaderboard report
Medical Image Segmentation ETIS-LARIBPOLYPDB UACANet-S S-Measure 0.815 #21 of 25 Archive leaderboard report
Medical Image Segmentation ETIS-LARIBPOLYPDB UACANet-S mIoU 0.615 #21 of 25 Archive leaderboard report
Medical Image Segmentation ETIS-LARIBPOLYPDB UACANet-S max E-Measure 0.851 #21 of 25 Archive leaderboard report
Medical Image Segmentation ETIS-LARIBPOLYPDB UACANet-S mean Dice 0.694 #21 of 25 Archive leaderboard report
Medical Image Segmentation Kvasir-SEG UACANet-L Average MAE 0.025 #34 of 58 Archive leaderboard report
Medical Image Segmentation Kvasir-SEG UACANet-L S-Measure 0.917 #34 of 58 Archive leaderboard report
Medical Image Segmentation Kvasir-SEG UACANet-L mIoU 0.862 #34 of 58 Archive leaderboard report
Medical Image Segmentation Kvasir-SEG UACANet-L max E-Measure 0.958 #34 of 58 Archive leaderboard report
Medical Image Segmentation Kvasir-SEG UACANet-L mean Dice 0.912 #34 of 58 Archive leaderboard report
Medical Image Segmentation Kvasir-SEG UACANet-S Average MAE 0.026 #38 of 58 Archive leaderboard report
Medical Image Segmentation Kvasir-SEG UACANet-S S-Measure 0.914 #38 of 58 Archive leaderboard report
Medical Image Segmentation Kvasir-SEG UACANet-S mIoU 0.852 #38 of 58 Archive leaderboard report
Medical Image Segmentation Kvasir-SEG UACANet-S max E-Measure 0.951 #38 of 58 Archive leaderboard report
Medical Image Segmentation Kvasir-SEG UACANet-S mean Dice 0.905 #38 of 58 Archive leaderboard report

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Concatenated Skip ConnectionConvolutionMax PoolingReLUU-Net

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