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Technology of Graphic & Image
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2195-2202

EnGAN: enhancement generative adversarial network in medical image segmentation

Deng Erqiang
Qin Zhen
Zhu Guosong
Network & Data Security Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, University of Electronic Science & Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China

Abstract

The quality issues commonly found in original medical images, such as insufficient contrast, blurred details, and noise interference, make it difficult for existing medical image segmentation techniques to achieve new breakthroughs. This study focused on the enhancement of medical image data. Without significantly altering the appearance of the image, it improved the quality problems of the original image by adding specific pixel compensation and making subtle image adjustments, thereby enhancing the accuracy of image segmentation. Firstly, it introduced a new optimizer module, which generated a continuous distribution space as the target domain for transfer. This optimizer module took the labels of the dataset as input and mapped the discrete label data to the continuous distribution of medical images. Secondly, it proposed an EnGAN model based on generative adversarial networks(GAN), and used the transfer target domain generated by the optimizer module to guide the target generation of the adversarial network, thereby implanting the knowledge of improving medical image quality into the model to achieve image enhancement. Based on the COVID-19 dataset, convolutional neural networks, including U-Net, U-Net+ResNet34, U-Net+Attn Res U-Net, were utilized as the backbone network in the experiment, and the Dice coefficient and intersection over union reached 73.5% and 69.3%, 75.1% and 70.5%, and 75.2% and 70.3% respectively. The empirical results demonstrate that the proposed medical image quality enhancement technology effectively improves the accuracy of segmentation while retaining the original features to the greatest extent, providing a more robust and efficient solution for subsequent medical image processing research.

Foundation Support

国家自然科学基金资助项目(62372083,62072074,62076054,62027827,62002047)
四川省科技支持计划资助项目(2024NSFTD0005,2022JDJQ0039)
电子科技大学医工结合基金资助项目(ZYGX2021YGLH212,ZYGX2022YGRH012)

Publish Information

DOI: 10.19734/j.issn.1001-3695.2023.08.0509
Publish at: Application Research of Computers Printed Article, Vol. 41, 2024 No. 7
Section: Technology of Graphic & Image
Pages: 2195-2202
Serial Number: 1001-3695(2024)07-039-2195-08

Publish History

[2024-01-02] Accepted Paper
[2024-07-05] Printed Article

Cite This Article

邓尔强, 秦臻, 朱国淞. EnGAN:医学图像分割中的增强生成对抗网络 [J]. 计算机应用研究, 2024, 41 (7): 2195-2202. (Deng Erqiang, Qin Zhen, Zhu Guosong. EnGAN: enhancement generative adversarial network in medical image segmentation [J]. Application Research of Computers, 2024, 41 (7): 2195-2202. )

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