Computed tomography (CT) is the first-line imaging modality for evaluation of patients suspected of stroke. Specially, such modality is key as screening test between ischemia and hemorrhage strokes. Despite remarkable support of encoder-decoder architectures, the delineation of ischemic lesions remains challenging on CT studies, reporting poor sensitivity, especially in the acute stage. Among others, these nets are affected because of the low scan quality, the challenging stroke geometry, and the variable textural representation. This work introduces a boundary-focused attention U-Net that takes advantage of cross-attention mechanism, that along multiple levels allows to recover stroke segmentation on CT scans. The proposed architecture is enriched with skip connections, that help in the recovering of saliency lesion maps and motivated the preservation of morphology. Besides, an auxiliary class is herein introduced with a weighted special loss function that remark lesion tissue, alleviating the negative impact of class unbalance. The proposed approach was validated on the public ISLES2018 dataset achieving an average dice score of 0.42 and a precision of 0.48.
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