Stagger Network: Rethinking information loss in medical image segmentation with various-sized targets

Tianyi Liu, Zhaorui Tan, Haochuan Jiang, Kaizhu Huang

Abstract: Highlights•Combining CNN and ViT features aids segmentation of various-sized targets.•Directly fusing CNNs and ViTs causes information loss theoretically and empirically.•Staggered CNN-ViT fusion boosts performance on real-world datasets.