{"id":"https://openalex.org/W3089914759","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1109/icip40778.2020.9190761","title":"Attention Unet++: A Nested Attention-Aware U-Net for Liver CT Image Segmentation","display_name":"Attention Unet++: A Nested Attention-Aware U-Net for Liver CT Image Segmentation","publication_year":2020,"publication_date":"2020-09-30","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W3089914759","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1109/icip40778.2020.9190761","mag":"3089914759"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1109/icip40778.2020.9190761","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1109/icip40778.2020.9190761","pdf_url":null,"source":null,"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"2020 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)","raw_type":"proceedings-article"},"type":"article","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":false,"oa_status":"closed","oa_url":null,"any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5100369797","display_name":"Chen Li","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0260-2182"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I170215575","display_name":"National University of Defense Technology","ror":"https://ror.org/05d2yfz11","country_code":"CN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I170215575"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Chen Li","raw_affiliation_strings":["College of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, China"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"College of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I170215575"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5034435564","display_name":"Yusong Tan","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1233-5679"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I170215575","display_name":"National University of Defense Technology","ror":"https://ror.org/05d2yfz11","country_code":"CN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I170215575"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Yusong Tan","raw_affiliation_strings":["College of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, China"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"College of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I170215575"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5023806511","display_name":"Wei Chen","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6248-1298"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I170215575","display_name":"National University of Defense Technology","ror":"https://ror.org/05d2yfz11","country_code":"CN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I170215575"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Wei Chen","raw_affiliation_strings":["College of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, China"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"College of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I170215575"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5076427704","display_name":"Xin Luo","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1641-5713"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I170215575","display_name":"National University of Defense Technology","ror":"https://ror.org/05d2yfz11","country_code":"CN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I170215575"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Xin Luo","raw_affiliation_strings":["College of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, China"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"College of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I170215575"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5067747132","display_name":"Yuanming Gao","orcid":null},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I170215575","display_name":"National University of Defense Technology","ror":"https://ror.org/05d2yfz11","country_code":"CN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I170215575"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Yuanming Gao","raw_affiliation_strings":["College of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, China"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"College of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I170215575"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5001603804","display_name":"Xiaogang Jia","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8068-3635"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I170215575","display_name":"National University of Defense Technology","ror":"https://ror.org/05d2yfz11","country_code":"CN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I170215575"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Xiaogang Jia","raw_affiliation_strings":["College of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, China"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"College of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I170215575"]}]},{"author_position":"last","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5047295889","display_name":"Zhiying Wang","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3339-3085"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I170215575","display_name":"National University of Defense Technology","ror":"https://ror.org/05d2yfz11","country_code":"CN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I170215575"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Zhiying Wang","raw_affiliation_strings":["College of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, China"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"College of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I170215575"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":1,"institutions_distinct_count":7,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5100369797"],"corresponding_institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I170215575"],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":7.947,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":174,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.98154688,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":true},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":99,"max":100},"biblio":{"volume":null,"issue":null,"first_page":"345","last_page":"349"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10036","display_name":"Advanced Neural Network Applications","score":0.9993000030517578,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1707","display_name":"Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10036","display_name":"Advanced Neural Network Applications","score":0.9993000030517578,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1707","display_name":"Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10862","display_name":"AI in cancer detection","score":0.9972000122070312,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1702","display_name":"Artificial Intelligence"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12422","display_name":"Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging","score":0.9947999715805054,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/2741","display_name":"Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/27","display_name":"Medicine"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/4","display_name":"Health Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/computer-science","display_name":"Computer science","score":0.8390204906463623},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/segmentation","display_name":"Segmentation","score":0.7858098745346069},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/artificial-intelligence","display_name":"Artificial intelligence","score":0.6417315602302551},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/task","display_name":"Task (project management)","score":0.5762078166007996},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/encoder","display_name":"Encoder","score":0.5520280003547668},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/deep-learning","display_name":"Deep learning","score":0.5336245894432068},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/pattern-recognition","display_name":"Pattern recognition (psychology)","score":0.4402993321418762},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/image-segmentation","display_name":"Image segmentation","score":0.4392201900482178}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.8390204906463623},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C89600930","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1423946","display_name":"Segmentation","level":2,"score":0.7858098745346069},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C154945302","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11660","display_name":"Artificial intelligence","level":1,"score":0.6417315602302551},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2780451532","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q759676","display_name":"Task (project management)","level":2,"score":0.5762078166007996},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C118505674","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42586063","display_name":"Encoder","level":2,"score":0.5520280003547668},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C108583219","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q197536","display_name":"Deep learning","level":2,"score":0.5336245894432068},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C153180895","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7148389","display_name":"Pattern recognition (psychology)","level":2,"score":0.4402993321418762},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C124504099","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56933","display_name":"Image segmentation","level":3,"score":0.4392201900482178},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C162324750","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8134","display_name":"Economics","level":0,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C111919701","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9135","display_name":"Operating system","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C187736073","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2920921","display_name":"Management","level":1,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":1,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1109/icip40778.2020.9190761","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1109/icip40778.2020.9190761","pdf_url":null,"source":null,"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"2020 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)","raw_type":"proceedings-article"}],"best_oa_location":null,"sustainable_development_goals":[{"score":0.8500000238418579,"id":"https://metadata.un.org/sdg/3","display_name":"Good health and well-being"}],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"pdf":false,"grobid_xml":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":18,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W1901129140","https://openalex.org/W2769848455","https://openalex.org/W2788906943","https://openalex.org/W2793788053","https://openalex.org/W2798122215","https://openalex.org/W2884436604","https://openalex.org/W2899279931","https://openalex.org/W2922435819","https://openalex.org/W2962891704","https://openalex.org/W2963091558","https://openalex.org/W2964227007","https://openalex.org/W4294226146","https://openalex.org/W6639824700","https://openalex.org/W6748775820","https://openalex.org/W6749923946","https://openalex.org/W6750469568","https://openalex.org/W6755610943","https://openalex.org/W6760940812"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W4375867731","https://openalex.org/W4390516098","https://openalex.org/W2181948922","https://openalex.org/W2384362569","https://openalex.org/W4205302943","https://openalex.org/W2119949815","https://openalex.org/W2561132942","https://openalex.org/W2142795561","https://openalex.org/W4315434538","https://openalex.org/W1522196789"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"Liver":[0,120],"cancer":[1],"is":[2,26,33,104],"one":[3],"of":[4,94,100,109],"the":[5,8,76,92,97,101,107],"cancers":[6],"with":[7,85],"highest":[9],"mortality.":[10],"In":[11,37],"order":[12],"to":[13,30,91],"help":[14],"doctors":[15],"diagnose":[16],"and":[17,35,59],"treat":[18],"liver":[19,23,133],"lesion,":[20],"an":[21],"automatic":[22],"segmentation":[24,32,45],"model":[25,116],"urgently":[27],"needed":[28],"due":[29,90],"manually":[31],"time-consuming":[34],"error-prone.":[36],"this":[38],"paper,":[39],"we":[40],"propose":[41],"a":[42,54,60,86],"nested":[43,71],"attention-aware":[44],"network,":[46],"named":[47],"Attention":[48,65,126],"UNet++.":[49],"Our":[50],"proposed":[51,115],"method":[52],"has":[53],"deep":[55,95],"supervised":[56],"encoder-decoder":[57],"architecture":[58],"redesigned":[61],"dense":[62],"skip":[63],"connection.":[64],"UNet++":[66,127],"introduces":[67],"attention":[68],"mechanism":[69],"between":[70],"convolutional":[72],"blocks":[73],"so":[74],"that":[75],"features":[77],"extracted":[78],"at":[79,106],"different":[80],"levels":[81],"can":[82],"be":[83],"merged":[84],"task-related":[87],"selection.":[88],"Besides,":[89],"introduction":[93],"supervision,":[96],"prediction":[98],"speed":[99],"pruned":[102],"network":[103],"accelerated":[105],"cost":[108],"modest":[110],"performance":[111,131],"degradation.":[112],"We":[113],"evaluated":[114],"on":[117],"MICCAI":[118],"2017":[119],"Tumor":[121],"Segmentation":[122],"(LiTS)":[123],"Challenge":[124],"Dataset.":[125],"achieved":[128],"very":[129],"competitive":[130],"for":[132],"segmentation.":[134]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2026,"cited_by_count":7},{"year":2025,"cited_by_count":37},{"year":2024,"cited_by_count":49},{"year":2023,"cited_by_count":31},{"year":2022,"cited_by_count":39},{"year":2021,"cited_by_count":11}],"updated_date":"2026-04-04T16:13:02.066488","created_date":"2025-10-10T00:00:00"}