Make U-Net Greater: An Easy-to-Embed Approach to Improve Segmentation Performance Using Hypergraph

semantics information while maintaining spatial detail con-texts.Long-range context information plays a crucial role in this scenario.How-ever,the traditional convolution kernel only provides the local and small size of the receptivefield.To address the problem,we propose a plug-and-play module aggregating both local and global information(aka LGIA module)to capture the high-order relationship between nodes that are far apart.We incorporate both local and global correlations into hypergraph which is able to capture high-order rela-tionships between nodes via the concept of a hyperedge connecting a subset of nodes.The local correlation considers neighborhood nodes that are spatially adja-cent and similar in the same CNN feature maps of magnetic resonance(MR)image;and the global correlation is searched from a batch of CNN feature maps of MR images in feature space.The influence of these two correlations on seman-tic segmentation is complementary.We validated our LGIA module on various CNN segmentation models with the cardiac MR images dataset.Experimental results demonstrate that our approach outperformed several baseline models.