AC-MLP: Axial convolution-MLP mixer for nuclei segmentation in histopathological images

Recent MLP-Mixer has a good ability to handle longrange dependencies, however, to have a good performance, one requires huge data and expensive infrastructures for the pre-training process. In this study, we proposed a novel model for nuclei image segmentation namely Axial Convolutional-MLP Mixer, by replacing the token mixer of MLP-Mixer with a new operator, Axial Convolutional Token Mix.