LABANet: Lead-Assisting Backbone Attention Network for Oral Multi-Pathology Segmentation

Huabao Chen; Xiaolong Huang; Qiankun Li; Jianqing Wang; Bo Fang; Junxin Chen

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LABANet: Lead-Assisting Backbone Attention Network for Oral Multi-Pathology Segmentation

Huabao Chen, Xiaolong Huang, Qiankun Li, Jianqing Wang, Bo Fang, Junxin Chen

Abstract

This paper presents a Lead-Assisting Backbone Attention Network (LABANet), which is able to perform multi-pathology instance segmentation of dental panoramic X-rays. A Lead-Assisting Attention Backbone (LAAB), containing two Swin-Transformers, is first developed for feature extraction. The following Region Proposal Network (RPN) and RoIAlign modules further convert the extracted features to a fixed-size feature map. Finally, an improved attention head with a Squeeze-and-Excitation (SE) block is constructed for object classification, bounding-box regression, and mask segmentation. By taking advantage of the global attention mechanism, the LABANet can better achieve multiple pathology segmentation. Experiment results demonstrate its effectiveness and advantages over state-of-the-art methods.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{icassp2023_labanetleadassis,
  title = {LABANet: Lead-Assisting Backbone Attention Network for Oral Multi-Pathology Segmentation},
  author = {Huabao Chen and Xiaolong Huang and Qiankun Li and Jianqing Wang and Bo Fang and Junxin Chen},
  booktitle = {ICASSP 2023},
  year = {2023}
}