• Laser & Optoelectronics Progress
  • Vol. 58, Issue 12, 1210008 (2021)
Lijie Zhao, Xingkui Lu, and Bin Chen*
Author Affiliations
  • School of Information Engineering, Shenyang University of Chemical Technology, Shenyang, Liaoning 110020, China
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    Lijie Zhao, Xingkui Lu, Bin Chen. Activated Sludge Microscopic Image Segmentation Method Based on Improved U-Net[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2021, 58(12): 1210008 Copy Citation Text show less
    Network architecture of improved U-Net
    Fig. 1. Network architecture of improved U-Net
    Architecture of residual block
    Fig. 2. Architecture of residual block
    Residual block with channel attention mechanism
    Fig. 3. Residual block with channel attention mechanism
    Structure of atrous spatial pyramid pooling
    Fig. 4. Structure of atrous spatial pyramid pooling
    Optical microscope with digital camera
    Fig. 5. Optical microscope with digital camera
    PCM images. (a) Original image; (b) labeled image
    Fig. 6. PCM images. (a) Original image; (b) labeled image
    Data augmentation results. (a) Training image; (b) image with blur effect; (c) image with rotation effect; (d) adjustment effect of image aspect ratio; (e) image with color space perturbation effect
    Fig. 7. Data augmentation results. (a) Training image; (b) image with blur effect; (c) image with rotation effect; (d) adjustment effect of image aspect ratio; (e) image with color space perturbation effect
    Curves of loss, accuracy, and intersection over union varying with iterations. (a)(d) Loss; (b)(e) accuracy; (c)(f) intersection over union
    Fig. 8. Curves of loss, accuracy, and intersection over union varying with iterations. (a)(d) Loss; (b)(e) accuracy; (c)(f) intersection over union
    Segmentation results of different algorithms. (a) Test images; (b) labeled images; (c) segmentation results of DeepLabv3+; (d) segmentation results of U-Net; (e) segmentation results of proposed algorithm
    Fig. 9. Segmentation results of different algorithms. (a) Test images; (b) labeled images; (c) segmentation results of DeepLabv3+; (d) segmentation results of U-Net; (e) segmentation results of proposed algorithm
    MethodTargetPRRIoU
    U-NetFloc0.80850.97200.7898
    Filamentous0.51150.74600.4355
    Mean0.66000.85900.6172
    DeepLabv3+Floc0.87670.90230.8007
    Filamentous0.59740.66280.4581
    Mean0.73710.78260.6296
    Our algorithmFloc0.88360.92800.8269
    Filamentous0.63790.68500.4932
    Mean0.76080.80650.6601
    Table 1. Evaluation indexes
    MethodIoU
    U-Net0.6172
    U-Net+ASPP0.6263
    U-Net+ResNet+attention0.6542
    U-Net+ResNet+attention+ASPP0.6601
    Table 2. Influence of each module on whole performance
    Lijie Zhao, Xingkui Lu, Bin Chen. Activated Sludge Microscopic Image Segmentation Method Based on Improved U-Net[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2021, 58(12): 1210008
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