@inproceedings{6d54fa308aef4ed89009b9975507cd16,
title = "BAF-Net: Bidirectional Attention-aware Fluid Pyramid Feature Integrated Multi-modal Fusion Network for Prognosis",
abstract = "In this work, we proposed a bidirectional attention-aware fluid pyramid features integrated fusion network (BAF-Net) with cross-modal interactions for multi-modality medical images prognosis. The network is composed of two identical branches to preserve the unimodal feature and one paralleled bidirectional attention-aware distillation stream to assimilate cross-modal complements progressively and learn supplementary refined features in both the bottom-up and the top-down processes. The fluid pyramid connections were adopted to integrate the hierarchical features at different levels of deep neural network, and channel-wise attention modules were exploited to mitigate the cross-modal cross-level incompatibility. Furthermore, the depth-wise separable convolution was introduced to fuse the cross-modal cross-level features to alleviate the increase of parameters to a great extent. Better performance was obtained by the proposed BAF-Net compared to unimodal network for cancer prognosis in a public TCIA dataset (head \& neck cancer (HNC) dataset composed of 800 patients from nine centers).",
keywords = "Bidirectional attention-aware, deep learning, diagnosis and prognosis, fluid pyramid feature integration, multi-modalities fusion",
author = "Huiqin Wu and Wenbing Lv and Dongyang Du and Hui Xu and Guoyu Lin and Zidong Zhou and Jianhua Ma and Lijun Lu",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 IEEE.; 2022 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference, and Room Temperature Semiconductor Detector Conference, IEEE NSS MIC RTSD 2022 ; Conference date: 05-11-2022 Through 12-11-2022",
year = "2022",
doi = "10.1109/NSS/MIC44845.2022.10399186",
language = "英语",
series = "2022 IEEE NSS/MIC RTSD - IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference and Room Temperature Semiconductor Detector Conference",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
booktitle = "2022 IEEE NSS/MIC RTSD - IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference and Room Temperature Semiconductor Detector Conference",
}