Research on Bladder Medical Image Segmentation Algorithm Based on Transformer and Multi-level Attention Mechanism
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School of Optical-Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science & Technology, Shanghai 200093, China

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National Natural Science Foundation of China 11502145National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.11502145).

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    Deep learning technology has been widely applied to the field of medical image segmentation; however, accurate segmentation of bladder images remains challenging. To address the segmentation of bladder magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) iamges, this study proposes MIV-Net, an improved algorithm based on feature fusion and attention mechanisms. The network introduces a multi-scale core feature fusionizer (MCF) to aggregate feature information at different scales and enhance the representation of local structures and boundary details. A vision Transformer (VIT) network is incorporated to capture long-range dependencies, thereby improving the modeling of global contextual information. In the decoding stage, a multilevel attention fusion (MAF) module is employed to integrate multi-level semantic and spatial information, allowing the network to make better use of contextual cues and recover fine segmentation details. Experiments are conducted on two tasks: Bladder wall segmentation and bladder tumor segmentation. For bladder wall segmentation, MIV-Net achieves IoU, Precision, and Dice coefficient values of 83.16%, 91.66%, and 90.81%, respectively. For bladder tumor segmentation, the corresponding values are 82.49%, 90.50%, and 90.40%. These results demonstrate that MIV-Net outperforms current mainstream methods across the key evaluation metrics and provides accurate segmentation of both bladder walls and tumors. By jointly exploiting multi-scale local features, global dependencies, and multi-level contextual information, the proposed model offers a promising technical approach for automated bladder MRI image analysis and may support more accurate computer-aided diagnosis of bladder cancer.Highlights:1. Propose MIV-Net by integrating the multi-scale core feature fusionizer (MCF), vision Transformer (VIT) network, and multi-level attention fusion (MAF) module for bladder MRI image segmentation.2. Enhance multi-scale feature extraction, global information modeling, and contextual information fusion through the coordinated use of MCF, VIT, and MAF.3. Achieve Dice scores of 90.81% and 90.40% for bladder wall and bladder tumor segmentations, respectively, outperforming current mainstream methods.

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GAO Boyi, DING Xueming, DING Xuefeng, HU Hongxiang. Research on Bladder Medical Image Segmentation Algorithm Based on Transformer and Multi-level Attention Mechanism[J]. Journal of Data Acquisition and Processing,2026,41(5):1480-1493.

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  • Received:October 20,2024
  • Revised:March 10,2025
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