Abdominal multi-organ segmentation in Multi-sequence MRIs based on visual attention guided network and knowledge distillation.
Phys Med
; 122: 103385, 2024 Jun.
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ABSTRACT
PURPOSE:
The segmentation of abdominal organs in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plays a pivotal role in various therapeutic applications. Nevertheless, the application of deep-learning methods to abdominal organ segmentation encounters numerous challenges, especially in addressing blurred boundaries and regions characterized by low-contrast.METHODS:
In this study, a multi-scale visual attention-guided network (VAG-Net) was proposed for abdominal multi-organ segmentation based on unpaired multi-sequence MRI. A new visual attention-guided (VAG) mechanism was designed to enhance the extraction of contextual information, particularly at the edge of organs. Furthermore, a new loss function inspired by knowledge distillation was introduced to minimize the semantic disparity between different MRI sequences.RESULTS:
The proposed method was evaluated on the CHAOS 2019 Challenge dataset and compared with six state-of-the-art methods. The results demonstrated that our model outperformed these methods, achieving DSC values of 91.83 ± 0.24% and 94.09 ± 0.66% for abdominal multi-organ segmentation in T1-DUAL and T2-SPIR modality, respectively.CONCLUSION:
The experimental results show that our proposed method has superior performance in abdominal multi-organ segmentation, especially in the case of small organs such as the kidneys.Palavras-chave
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Processamento de Imagem Assistida por Computador
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Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética
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2024
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