Parotid Gland Segmentation Using Purely Transformer-Based U-Shaped Network and Multimodal MRI.
Ann Biomed Eng
; 52(8): 2101-2117, 2024 Aug.
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ABSTRACT
Parotid gland tumors account for approximately 2% to 10% of head and neck tumors. Segmentation of parotid glands and tumors on magnetic resonance images is essential in accurately diagnosing and selecting appropriate surgical plans. However, segmentation of parotid glands is particularly challenging due to their variable shape and low contrast with surrounding structures. Recently, deep learning has developed rapidly, and Transformer-based networks have performed well on many computer vision tasks. However, Transformer-based networks have yet to be well used in parotid gland segmentation tasks. We collected a multi-center multimodal parotid gland MRI dataset and implemented parotid gland segmentation using a purely Transformer-based U-shaped segmentation network. We used both absolute and relative positional encoding to improve parotid gland segmentation and achieved multimodal information fusion without increasing the network computation. In addition, our novel training approach reduces the clinician's labeling workload by nearly half. Our method achieved good segmentation of both parotid glands and tumors. On the test set, our model achieved a Dice-Similarity Coefficient of 86.99%, Pixel Accuracy of 99.19%, Mean Intersection over Union of 81.79%, and Hausdorff Distance of 3.87. The purely Transformer-based U-shaped segmentation network we used outperforms other convolutional neural networks. In addition, our method can effectively fuse the information from multi-center multimodal MRI dataset, thus improving the parotid gland segmentation.
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Glândula Parótida
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Neoplasias Parotídeas
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Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética
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Humans
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Male
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En
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Ann Biomed Eng
Ano de publicação:
2024
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Article
País de afiliação:
China