Local Adaptive U-net for Medical Image Segmentation

Medical image segmentation is the primary measure of medical image analysis. With the development of deep learning, U-net based approaches have presented for different medical image segmentation tasks. However, the pooling and the simple convolution operation for deep feature maps in the U-shaped network would lead to the coarse segmentation result. In this paper, we design a local adaptive U-net (LA U-net) for medical image segmentation. There are two major modules: the Local Adaptive Module (LAM) and Multi-scale Convolution Module (MCM) in the network. The LAM get more feature maps from each down-sampling process. The MCM capture more global information for the encoding path. To validate the proposed network's performance, we verify it on two datasets: DRIVE dataset, and ISIC 2018 dataset; the results show that LA U-net achieves superior performance on two datasets.