Bi-attention DoubleUNet: A deep learning approach for carotid artery segmentation in transverse view images for non-invasive stenosis diagnosis

Najmath Ottakath, Younes Akbari, Sumaya Ali S. A. Al-Máadeed, Ahmed Bouridane, Susu M. Zughaier, Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury

Abstract: Highlights•BAM assisted modified double Unet for segmentation of carotid artery media boundary.•High Dice coefficient, IoU and recall compared to state of art in carotid artery media boundary segmentation.•Ablation study of doubleUnet using attention blocks and datasets.•Explainability of the network through guided back-propagation and attention maps.