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XceptionUnetV1: A Lightweight DCNN for Biomedical Image Segmentation

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This paper proposes a Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN) architecture for biomedical image segmentation. The proposed work explores the role of separable convolution within the context of biomedical image segmentation. The proposed architecture, XceptionUnetV1, is an amalgam of the Xception and U-Net models. Additionally, the model uses dilated convolution to increase the field view of the filters. The proposed model achieves better results than various versions of U-Net. The proposed DCNN architecture requires much lesser parameters, approximately \(1/4^{th}\) of the U-Net model. The proposed model has been tested on chest X-rays for lung segmentation.

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Faiz, M.F.I., Iqbal, M.Z. (2022). XceptionUnetV1: A Lightweight DCNN for Biomedical Image Segmentation. In: Barolli, L., Hussain, F., Enokido, T. (eds) Advanced Information Networking and Applications. AINA 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 451. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99619-2_3

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