MaskAppendix: Backbone-Enriched Mask R-CNN Based on Grad-CAM for Automatic Appendix Segmentation
Background: A leading cause of emergency abdominal surgery, appendicitis is a common condition affecting millions of people worldwide.Automatic and accurate segmentation of the appendix from medical imaging is a challenging task, due to its small size, variability in shape, and proximity to other anatomical structures.Methods: In this study, we pro