Ms RED: A novel multi-scale residual encoding and decoding network for skin lesion segmentation

Duwei Dai, Caixia Dong, Songhua Xu, Qingsen Yan, Zongfang Li, Chunyan Zhang, Nana Luo

Abstract: Highlights•A novel deep neural network, titled Multi-scale Residual Encoding and Decoding network (Ms RED), is proposed for skin lesion segmentation.•A pair of multi-scale residual feature fusion modules is further proposed to collectively augment the capability of the overall network in exploiting multi-scale perceptual context and characteristics.•A novel Multi-scale, Multi-channel Feature Fusion module is additionally proposed, which is able to further boost Ms RED capability in hierarchically extracting and adaptively learning from perceptual characteristics latent in an input image.