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To address these issues, this paper presents MCM-UNet++, a hybrid U-Net++-based segmentation framework that combines three targeted enhancements. First, a Multi-Axis Transformer Block (MATransformerBlock) is incorporated into convolutional feature blocks to model long-range horizontal and vertical dependencies with lower complexity than dense global self-attention. Second, a Cross-Channel Mixing (CCM) module is used in nested skip fusion paths to recalibrate the channel and spatial responses and reduce redundant feature transmissions. Third, a Multi-Objective Adaptive Loss (MOALoss) combines focal, Dice, and boundary-aware terms with learnable weights to improve supervision for small regions and ambiguous boundaries. Experiments on four public polyp segmentation datasets (Kvasir-SEG, CVC-ClinicDB, CVC-ColonDB, and ETIS-Larib) show competitive performance against the selected baseline methods, with Dice\/IoU scores of 0.9563\/0.9278 on Kvasir-SEG and 0.8593\/0.7896 on CVC-ColonDB. 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