The invention relates to the technical field of medical
image processing, and discloses a large kernel
decomposition attention network for
lung CT image super-resolution reconstruction. The invention provides a novel multi-scale large-kernel
decomposition attention (MLDA), and the detail features of various structural tissues in a
lung CT image are captured by combining a multi-scale strategy and the large-kernel
decomposition attention (LDA). Meanwhile, the LDA avoids block artifacts caused by using expansion
convolution in large kernel decomposition. In addition, the MLDA provides three receptive fields with different sizes, so that the MLDA can flexibly cope with multi-
granularity feature extraction from micro tissues to large
lung anatomical structures. According to the method, the MLDA serves as the Token Mixer to be integrated into the MetaFormer architecture, local lung anatomical structure details can be captured, and the
recovery quality of the whole image can be improved. Compared with a traditional
convolutional neural network, the combination of the MetaFormer architecture and the MLDA enables the model to model local features and a remote dependency relationship at the same time, and maintains a good calculation amount.