MIX-NET: AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION OF COVID-19 CT IMAGES BASED ON PARALLEL DESIGN

Since the discovery of COVID-19 in late 2019, the viral pneumonia crisis has begun to spread rapidly around the world. Lesion segmentation can remove unnecessary background areas and help doctors diagnose the condition. However, the infected areas showed differences at different stages, and the border between the infected areas and the surrounding tissue was blurred. To solve this problem, a novel COVID-19 lung infection segmentation network (Mix-Net) is designed for the automatic identification of infected areas from chest CT slices. Specifically, first, the local and global features of the infected areas are extracted and interacted with using the mixing block. Then, the features extracted from multiple layers of the encoder are fused and connected to the decoder. Experiments show that Mix-Net outperforms most cutting-edge segmentation models and achieves good segmentation results.