DIG-MambaNet: A Dual-Path Interactive Guided Mamba Network for Medical Image Segmentation
TL;DR
DIG-MambaNet achieves consistent and competitive performance across diverse target structures and imaging conditions, with improved boundary delineation and favorable overlap-based accuracy compared with representative CNN-, Transformer-, and Mamba-based methods.
Abstract
Reliable medical image segmentation remains challenging because models must preserve fine boundary details while maintaining global semantic consistency. CNNs capture local structures effectively but have limited long-range modeling ability, whereas Transformer-based methods improve global context at high computational cost. Mamba-based state space models offer efficient long-range modeling, but may weaken high-frequency textures and boundary cues. To address these limitations, we propose DIG-MambaNet, a Dual-path Interactive Guided Mamba Network for medical image segmentation. The network introduces a dual-path complementary modeling block (DCM Block), where a cross-feature spatial interaction module (CSIM) adaptively integrates CNN-based local features and Mamba-based global features. A source image-guided module (SIGM) injects high-frequency information from the original image to compensate for downsampling-induced detail loss, while an inter-layer detail refinement fusion module (IDRFM) improves encoder–decoder feature alignment during reconstruction. Experiments on 2018DSB, ISIC2018, JSUAH-Cerebellum, and CVC-ClinicDB, covering nuclei segmentation in microscopy images, skin lesion segmentation in dermoscopic images, fetal cerebellum segmentation in ultrasound images, and polyp segmentation in colonoscopy images, demonstrate that DIG-MambaNet achieves consistent and competitive performance across diverse target structures and imaging conditions, with improved boundary delineation and favorable overlap-based accuracy compared with representative CNN-, Transformer-, and Mamba-based methods.