Attention-Enhanced U-Net for Accurate Segmentation of COVID-19 Infected Lung Regions in CT Scans
To address insufficient segmentation accuracy of infected lung regions in COVID-19 CT images, this paper proposes an enhanced U-Net architecture incorporating a Channel-and-Spatial Coordinated Attention Mechanism (CBAM). The CBAM module is innovatively embedded into both encoder and decoder pathways to jointly strengthen perception of subtle lesion microstructures and suppress background interference. Additionally, multi-scale data augmentation and morphological post-processing are integrated to improve model robustness. Evaluated on a public benchmark dataset, the proposed method achieves a Dice coefficient of 0.8658 and a mean IoU of 0.8316—significantly outperforming standard U-Net and state-of-the-art baseline models. This work delivers a high-precision, interpretable segmentation tool for clinical decision support in COVID-19 diagnosis.