Medical image segmentation takes an important position in various clinical
applications. Deep learning has emerged as the predominant solution for
automated segmentation of volumetric medical images. 2.5D-based segmentation
models bridge computational efficiency of 2D-based models and spatial
perception capabilities of 3D-based models. However, prevailing 2.5D-based
models often treat each slice equally, failing to effectively learn and exploit
inter-slice information, resulting in suboptimal segmentation performances. In
this paper, a novel Momentum encoder-based inter-slice fusion transformer
(MOSformer) is proposed to overcome this issue by leveraging inter-slice
information at multi-scale feature maps extracted by different encoders.
Specifically, dual encoders are employed to enhance feature distinguishability
among different slices. One of the encoders is moving-averaged to maintain the
consistency of slice representations. Moreover, an IF-Swin transformer module
is developed to fuse inter-slice multi-scale features. The MOSformer is
evaluated on three benchmark datasets (Synapse, ACDC, and AMOS), establishing a
new state-of-the-art with 85.63%, 92.19%, and 85.43% of DSC, respectively.
These promising results indicate its competitiveness in medical image
segmentation. Codes and models of MOSformer will be made publicly available
upon acceptance.

提出了一种基于动量编码器的切片间融合变压器（MOSformer），通过利用不同编码器提取的多尺度特征图中的切片间信息，克服了普遍的 2.5D 模型在处理每个切片时等价视为，未能有效学习和利用切片间信息，从而导致分割性能不佳。该方法在三个基准数据集上进行了评估，分别建立了新的最先进水平，达到 85.63％，92.19％和 85.43％的 DSC。这些有希望的结果表明其在医学图像分割方面的竞争力。MOSformer 的代码和模型将在接受后公开发布。