Incorporating the hybrid deformable model for improving the performance of abdominal CT segmentation via multi-scale feature fusion network.
Med Image Anal
; 73: 102156, 2021 10.
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| ID: mdl-34274689
ABSTRACT
Automated multi-organ abdominal Computed Tomography (CT) image segmentation can assist the treatment planning, diagnosis, and improve many clinical workflows' efficiency. The 3-D Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) recently attained state-of-the-art accuracy, which typically relies on supervised training with many manual annotated data. Many methods used the data augmentation strategy with a rigid or affine spatial transformation to alleviate the over-fitting problem and improve the network's robustness. However, the rigid or affine spatial transformation fails to capture the complex voxel-based deformation in the abdomen, filled with many soft organs. We developed a novel Hybrid Deformable Model (HDM), which consists of the inter-and intra-patient deformation for more effective data augmentation to tackle this issue. The inter-patient deformations were extracted from the learning-based deformable registration between different patients, while the intra-patient deformations were formed using the random 3-D Thin-Plate-Spline (TPS) transformation. Incorporating the HDM enabled the network to capture many of the subtle deformations of abdominal organs. To find a better solution and achieve faster convergence for network training, we fused the pre-trained multi-scale features into the a 3-D attention U-Net. We directly compared the segmentation accuracy of the proposed method to the previous techniques on several centers' datasets via cross-validation. The proposed method achieves the average Dice Similarity Coefficient (DSC) 0.852, which outperformed the other state-of-the-art on multi-organ abdominal CT segmentation results.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Base de données:
MEDLINE
Sujet principal:
Traitement d'image par ordinateur
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Tomodensitométrie
Type d'étude:
Guideline
Limites:
Humans
Langue:
En
Journal:
Med Image Anal
Sujet du journal:
DIAGNOSTICO POR IMAGEM
Année:
2021
Type de document:
Article