PM-DUnet: Fusing long-range dependencies and attention in a dual-U architecture for thyroid nodule segmentation

• Shaoqiang Wang,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliation Qingdao University of Technology, Qingdao, Shandong, China

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• Linhao Zhang,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Qingdao University of Technology, Qingdao, Shandong, China

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• Guiling Shi,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Qingdao University of Technology, Qingdao, Shandong, China

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• Zhongran Liu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

  Affiliation Qingdao University of Technology, Qingdao, Shandong, China

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• Yuanyuan Zhang,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Qingdao University of Technology, Qingdao, Shandong, China

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• Tiyao Liu,

  Roles Project administration

  Affiliation China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, China

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• Yawu Zhao ,

  Roles Software

  * E-mail: zhaoyawu9608@163.com (YZ); wyc1990@qut.edu.cn (YW); Xiaochun.Cheng@Swansea.ac.uk (XC)

  Affiliation School of Medical Informational Engineering, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, Shandong, China

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• Yuchen Wang ,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: zhaoyawu9608@163.com (YZ); wyc1990@qut.edu.cn (YW); Xiaochun.Cheng@Swansea.ac.uk (XC)

  Affiliation Qingdao University of Technology, Qingdao, Shandong, China

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• Xiaochun Cheng

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zhaoyawu9608@163.com (YZ); wyc1990@qut.edu.cn (YW); Xiaochun.Cheng@Swansea.ac.uk (XC)

  Affiliation Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0371-9646

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