FocusGate-Net: A dual-attention guided MLP-convolution hybrid network for accurate and efficient medical image segmentation

Şafak Kılıç

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0331896

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FocusGate-Net: A dual-attention guided MLP-convolution hybrid network for accurate and efficient medical image segmentation

Şafak Kılıç

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: safak.kilic@nottingham.ac.uk, safakkilic@kayseri.edu.tr

Affiliations School of Computer Science, CHART Laboratory, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom, Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Design, Department of Software Engineering, Kayseri University, Kayseri, Turkey

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2014-7638

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FocusGate-Net: A dual-attention guided MLP-convolution hybrid network for accurate and efficient medical image segmentation

Şafak Kılıç

Published: September 25, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0331896

About the Authors

Şafak Kılıç

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: safak.kilic@nottingham.ac.uk, safakkilic@kayseri.edu.tr

Affiliations School of Computer Science, CHART Laboratory, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom, Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Design, Department of Software Engineering, Kayseri University, Kayseri, Turkey

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2014-7638

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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