Rethinking boundary detection in deep learning-based medical image segmentation

Yi Lin, Dong Zhang, Xiao Fang, Yufan Chen, Kwang-Ting Cheng, Hao Chen

Abstract: Highlights•Integrating CNN, Transformer, and edge detection for medical image segmentation.•StitchViT Transformer captures global context and local details.•Boundary detection network refines segmentation with explicit boundary constraint.•Evaluation on seven datasets demonstrates state-of-the-art performance.