The rising incidence of skin lesions has made early screening for skin cancer increasingly critical. However, existing methods for skin lesion image segmentation often suffer from limitations in channel-wise information modeling, structural adaptability, and feature fusion, which can lead to inaccurate boundary delineation and insufficient utilization of crucial contextual information. To address these issues, a skin lesions image segmentation method based on attention mechanism and wavelet transform, termed AW-SkinNet, is proposed. The proposed approach employs a dual-branch collaborative attention module to extract spatial and channel-dependent features, integrates wavelet transform to enhance frequency-domain representations, and incorporates lightweight attention-guided sub-pixel upsampling to improve detail restoration and contextual understanding. Experimental results on the ISIC-2017 and ISIC-2018 skin lesion segmentation datasets demonstrate that the proposed method achieves higher segmentation accuracy compared with existing approaches for skin lesion image segmentation.

skin lesion  /  image segmentation  /  attention mechanism  /  wavelet transform