{"id":8771,"date":"2026-06-29T17:08:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T09:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"\/jase\/?post_type=tkuisotope&p=8771"},"modified":"2026-06-29T18:34:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T10:34:33","slug":"jase-202610-33-024","status":"publish","type":"tkuisotope","link":"\/jase\/?tkuisotope=jase-202610-33-024","title":{"rendered":"MMU-KAN: Multi-path Mamba Fusion-based U-KAN for Medical Image Semantic Segmentation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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<\/i> Volume 33<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Haifeng Li1<\/sup>, Wei Tan1<\/sup><\/i><\/a>, <\/em>Weichun Bu1<\/sup>, Hengshuai Fan1<\/sup>, Weiwei Sun1<\/sup>, Yue Du2<\/sup><\/i><\/a>, and Yuxuan Guo1<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1<\/sup>School of Mathematics and Statistics, Fuyang Normal University, Fuyang 236037, China<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2<\/sup>School of Computer and Information Science, Qinghai Institute of Technology, Xining 810016, China<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Received: April 14, 2026
Accepted: May 5, 2026
Publication Date: June 29, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Visualization results of semantic segmentation of four methods on three heterogeneous datasets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Current U-Net based medical image segmentation methods often rely on stacked static nonlinear functions to model inter-pixel relationships, resulting in suboptimal segmentation performance. To address this, we propose a multi-path Mamba fusion-based U-KAN medical image segmentation method. Firstly, the U-Net architecture is reconstructed using Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks to enhance the nonlinear modeling capacity. Then, a dual path encoder is designed to extract multi-granularity semantic representations, and the Mamba is introduced to achieve adaptive cross-path feature fusion. Finally, a multi-stage supervised decoding process generates the precise segmentation results. Experiments on three medical datasets demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art approaches in both Dice and mIoU metrics, confirming its superiority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keywords: Semantic segmentation; U-KAN architecture; Mamba fusion; multi-stage supervised segmentation<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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