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To address these issues jointly, this paper proposes MSA-DET, an improved SAR ship detection network built upon YOLOv11. In the backbone, a Multi-Scale Cross-axis Attention module (MSCAttention) runs horizontal and vertical axial attention branches in parallel across multiple receptive-field scales, sharpening feature representations for ship targets that vary widely in size and orientation. In the neck, the standard C3k2 block is redesigned as C3k2_SSA by embedding sparse self-attention, which selectively focuses on the most discriminative spatial tokens while suppressing speckle interference and reducing computational overhead. An Adaptive Spatial Feature Fusion detection head (ASFF) replaces fixed pyramid-level aggregation with learned per-pixel blending weights, resolving gradient conflicts across scales and improving localization consistency for both small and large ships. On the HRSID dataset, MSA-DET achieves an mAP@0.5:0.95 of 63.6% and mAP@0.5 of 88.1%, representing gains of 4.0% and 1.6% over the YOLOv11n baseline; on SSDD, it reaches 69.6% and 97.7%, surpassing the baseline by 7.2% and 2.1%, respectively. These results demonstrate that coordinated multi-stage redesign\u2014rather than isolated module substitution\u2014is an effective strategy for SAR-oriented ship detection. The accuracy gains are accompanied by a moderate increase in model size (8.9 M parameters versus 2.6 M for YOLOv11n) and computational cost (9.6 G FLOPs versus 6.3 G), a trade-off that is justified by the substantial improvement in detection quality.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s26133970","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,24]],"date-time":"2026-06-24T01:03:23Z","timestamp":1782263003000},"page":"3970","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["MSA-DET: A Multi-Scale Attention Network with Adaptive Feature Fusion for SAR Ship Detection"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"26","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0001-0741-7787","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sai","family":"Wan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Liaoning Technical University, Huludao 125105, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6743-3482","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zhiyong","family":"Tao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Erdos Research Institute, Liaoning Technical University, Erdos 017004, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Lu","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Liaoning Technical University, Huludao 125105, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Li, J., Xu, C., Su, H., Gao, L., and Wang, T. 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