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Enhanced ResU-Net for brain tumor segmentation using EfficientNetB0, channel attention, and ASPP.

Majid Behzadpour¹, Ebrahim Azizi¹, Bengie L Ortiz²

¹Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, United States of America.

Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express

|April 24, 2026

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This study introduces an enhanced ResU-Net model for precise brain tumor segmentation, improving diagnostic accuracy. The novel architecture significantly outperforms existing methods on benchmark datasets.

Area of Science:

Medical Imaging
Artificial Intelligence
Computational Biology

Background:

Accurate brain tumor segmentation is vital for clinical decision-making.
Existing segmentation methods face challenges with tumor variability.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop an enhanced ResU-Net architecture for automatic brain tumor segmentation.
To improve the accuracy and efficiency of brain tumor segmentation using deep learning.

Main Methods:

Integration of EfficientNetB0 encoder for efficient feature extraction.
Incorporation of channel attention mechanism to focus on relevant tumor features.
Utilization of Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling (ASPP) for multiscale contextual learning.

Main Results:

Keywords:

MRI images brain cancer computer-aided diagnosis deep learning tumor segmentation

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The proposed model achieved a Dice Similarity Coefficient (DSC) of 0.903 and a Hausdorff distance 95th percentile (HD95) of 9.43 for whole tumor segmentation on the BraTS 2020 dataset.
The model demonstrated superior performance compared to baseline ResU-Net and its EfficientNet variant.
Competitive results were obtained against state-of-the-art methods, especially for whole tumor and tumor core segmentation.

Conclusions:

Combining EfficientNetB0, channel attention, and ASPP significantly enhances brain tumor segmentation.
The developed model shows promise for clinical applications and other medical image segmentation tasks.
This approach offers a robust solution for accurate and efficient brain tumor segmentation.