@article{Niri:15453, recid = {15453}, author = {Niri, Rania and Zahia, Sofia and Stefanelli, Alessio and Sharma, Kaushal and Probst, Sebastian and Pichon, Swann and Chanel, Guillaume}, title = {Wound segmentation with U-Net using a dual attention mechanism and transfer learning}, publisher = {Springer}, journal = {Journal of imaging informatics in medicine}, address = {États-Unis. 2025-01}, number = {ARTICLE}, pages = {15 p.}, abstract = {Accurate wound segmentation is crucial for the precise diagnosis and treatment of various skin conditions through image analysis. In this paper, we introduce a novel dual attention U-Net model designed for precise wound segmentation. Our proposed architecture integrates two widely used deep learning models, VGG16 and U-Net, incorporating dual attention mechanisms to focus on relevant regions within the wound area. Initially trained on diabetic foot ulcer images, we fine-tuned the model to acute and chronic wound images and conducted a comprehensive comparison with other state-of-the-art models. The results highlight the superior performance of our proposed dual attention model, achieving a Dice coefficient and IoU of 94.1% and 89.3%, respectively, on the test set. This underscores the robustness of our method and its capacity to generalize effectively to new data.}, url = {http://arodes.hes-so.ch/record/15453}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s10278-025-01386-w}, }