Brain tumor segmentation using multi-scale attention U-Net with EfficientNetB4 encoder for enhanced MRI analysis

Accurate brain tumor segmentation is critical for clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. This study proposes an advanced segmentation framework that combines Multiscale Attention U-Net with the EfficientNetB4 encoder to enhance segmentation performance. Unlike conventional U-Net-based architectures, the proposed model leverages EfficientNetB4's compound scaling to optimize feature extraction at multiple resolutions while maintaining low computational overhead. Additionally, the Multi-Scale Attention Mechanism (utilizing [Formula: see text], and [Formula: see text] kernels) enhances feature representation by capturing tumor boundaries across different scales, addressing limitations of existing CNN-based…