MSEUnet: Refined Intima-media segmentation of the carotid artery based on a multi-scale approach using patch-wise dice loss

Najmath Ottakath, Younes Akbari, Somaya Al-Máadeed, Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury, Susu M. Zughaier, Ahmed Bouridane, Kishor Kumar Sadasivuni

Abstract: Highlights•A Multi-scale SE Unet for intima-media segmentation of the carotid artery.•A patch wise dice loss function for learning refined features.•Exploration of size and variety of datasets such as datasets combinations.•High Dice coefficient and IoU compared to the state of the art.