DSVM-UNet : Enhancing VM-UNet with Dual Self-distillation for Medical Image Segmentation
This work addresses the challenge of balancing model performance and computational efficiency in medical image segmentation by proposing a structure-preserving dual self-distillation mechanism built upon the VM-UNet architecture. The method enhances semantic awareness through alignment of global and local feature representations, leveraging Vision Mamba’s strength in efficiently modeling long-range dependencies. Without altering the underlying network structure, the approach achieves state-of-the-art performance on the ISIC2017, ISIC2018, and Synapse datasets while maintaining high computational efficiency, thereby effectively reconciling accuracy and resource consumption.