Diff-UNet: A Diffusion Embedded Network for Volumetric Segmentation
In recent years, Denoising Diffusion Models have demonstrated remarkable success in generating semantically valuable pixel-wise representations for image generative modeling. In this study, we propose a novel end-to-end framework, called Diff-UNet, for medical volumetric segmentation. Our approach integrates the diffusion model into a standard U-shaped architecture to extract semantic information from the input volume effectively, resulting in excellent pixel-level representations for medical volumetric segmentation. To enhance the robustness of the diffusion model's prediction results, we also introduce a Step-Uncertainty based Fusion (SUF) module during inference to combine the outputs of the diffusion models at each step. We evaluate our method on three datasets, including multimodal brain tumors in MRI, liver tumors, and multi-organ CT volumes, and demonstrate that Diff-UNet outperforms other state-of-the-art methods significantly. Our experimental results also indicate the universality and effectiveness of the proposed model. The proposed framework has the potential to facilitate the accurate diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions by enabling more precise segmentation of anatomical structures. The codes of Diff-UNet are available at https://github.com/ge-xing/Diff-UNet
Code (1)
Tasks
DenoisingSegmentationMethods 이 논문이 사용한 방법론
Similar Papers 제목 키워드 기반
UNet Architectures in Multiplanar Volumetric Segmentation -- Validated on Three Knee MRI Cohorts
UNet has become the gold standard method for segmenting 2D medical images that any new method must be validated against. However, in recent years, several variations of the seminal UNet have been proposed with promising …
SegmentationPoint-Unet: A Context-aware Point-based Neural Network for Volumetric Segmentation
Medical image analysis using deep learning has recently been prevalent, showing great performance for various downstream tasks including medical image segmentation and its sibling, volumetric image segmentation. Particul…
Image SegmentationMedical Image AnalysisMedical Image SegmentationSegmentation+1LambdaUNet: 2.5D Stroke Lesion Segmentation of Diffusion-weighted MR Images
Diffusion-weighted (DW) magnetic resonance imaging is essential for the diagnosis and treatment of ischemic stroke. DW images (DWIs) are usually acquired in multi-slice settings where lesion areas in two consecutive 2D s…
Image SegmentationLesion SegmentationSemantic SegmentationIP-UNet: Intensity Projection UNet Architecture for 3D Medical Volume Segmentation
CNNs have been widely applied for medical image analysis. However, limited memory capacity is one of the most common drawbacks of processing high-resolution 3D volumetric data. 3D volumes are usually cropped or downsized…
Medical Image AnalysisSegmentationDiffCut: Catalyzing Zero-Shot Semantic Segmentation with Diffusion Features and Recursive Normalized Cut
Foundation models have emerged as powerful tools across various domains including language, vision, and multimodal tasks. While prior works have addressed unsupervised image segmentation, they significantly lag behind su…
Image SegmentationSegmentationSemantic SegmentationUnsupervised Image Segmentation+3