DECOR-NET: A COVID-19 Lung Infection Segmentation Network Improved by Emphasizing Low-level Features and Decorrelating Features
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Since 2019, coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been widely spread and posed a serious threat to public health. Chest Computed Tomography (CT) holds great potential for screening and diagnosis of this disease. The segmentation of COVID-19 CT imaging can achieves quantitative evaluation of infections and tracks disease progression. COVID-19 infections are characterized by high heterogeneity and unclear boundaries, so capturing low-level features such as texture and intensity is critical for segmentation. However, segmentation networks that emphasize low-level features are still lacking. In this work, we propose a DECOR-Net capable of capturing more decorrelated low-level features. The channel re-weighting strategy is applied to obtain plenty of low-level features and the dependencies between channels are reduced by proposed decorrelation loss. Experiments show that DECOR-Net outperforms other cutting-edge methods and surpasses the baseline by 5.1 Dice coefficient and intersection over union. Moreover, the proposed decorrelation loss can improve the performance constantly under different settings. The Code is available at https://github.com/jiesihu/DECOR-Net.git.
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