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Wound Segmentation with U-Net Using a Dual Attention Mechanism and Transfer Learning

First online date2025-01-23
Abstract

Accurate wound segmentation is crucial for the precise diagnosis and treatment of various skin conditions through image analysis. In this paper, we introduce a novel dual attention U-Net model designed for precise wound segmentation. Our proposed architecture integrates two widely used deep learning models, VGG16 and U-Net, incorporating dual attention mechanisms to focus on relevant regions within the wound area. Initially trained on diabetic foot ulcer images, we fine-tuned the model to acute and chronic wound images and conducted a comprehensive comparison with other state-of-the-art models. The results highlight the superior performance of our proposed dual attention model, achieving a Dice coefficient and IoU of 94.1% and 89.3%, respectively, on the test set. This underscores the robustness of our method and its capacity to generalize effectively to new data.

Keywords
  • Attention networks
  • Deep learning
  • Medical imaging
  • U-Net
  • Wound segmentation
Citation (ISO format)
NIRI, Rania et al. Wound Segmentation with U-Net Using a Dual Attention Mechanism and Transfer Learning. In: Journal of Imaging Informatics in Medicine, 2025. doi: 10.1007/s10278-025-01386-w
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Additional URL for this publicationhttps://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10278-025-01386-w
Journal ISSN2948-2925
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