172 research outputs found
Detection-aided liver lesion segmentation using deep learning
A fully automatic technique for segmenting the liver and localizing its
unhealthy tissues is a convenient tool in order to diagnose hepatic diseases
and assess the response to the according treatments. In this work we propose a
method to segment the liver and its lesions from Computed Tomography (CT) scans
using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), that have proven good results in a
variety of computer vision tasks, including medical imaging. The network that
segments the lesions consists of a cascaded architecture, which first focuses
on the region of the liver in order to segment the lesions on it. Moreover, we
train a detector to localize the lesions, and mask the results of the
segmentation network with the positive detections. The segmentation
architecture is based on DRIU, a Fully Convolutional Network (FCN) with side
outputs that work on feature maps of different resolutions, to finally benefit
from the multi-scale information learned by different stages of the network.
The main contribution of this work is the use of a detector to localize the
lesions, which we show to be beneficial to remove false positives triggered by
the segmentation network. Source code and models are available at
https://imatge-upc.github.io/liverseg-2017-nipsws/ .Comment: NIPS 2017 Workshop on Machine Learning for Health (ML4H
RetiFluidNet: A Self-Adaptive and Multi-Attention Deep Convolutional Network for Retinal OCT Fluid Segmentation
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) helps ophthalmologists assess macular
edema, accumulation of fluids, and lesions at microscopic resolution.
Quantification of retinal fluids is necessary for OCT-guided treatment
management, which relies on a precise image segmentation step. As manual
analysis of retinal fluids is a time-consuming, subjective, and error-prone
task, there is increasing demand for fast and robust automatic solutions. In
this study, a new convolutional neural architecture named RetiFluidNet is
proposed for multi-class retinal fluid segmentation. The model benefits from
hierarchical representation learning of textural, contextual, and edge features
using a new self-adaptive dual-attention (SDA) module, multiple self-adaptive
attention-based skip connections (SASC), and a novel multi-scale deep self
supervision learning (DSL) scheme. The attention mechanism in the proposed SDA
module enables the model to automatically extract deformation-aware
representations at different levels, and the introduced SASC paths further
consider spatial-channel interdependencies for concatenation of counterpart
encoder and decoder units, which improve representational capability.
RetiFluidNet is also optimized using a joint loss function comprising a
weighted version of dice overlap and edge-preserved connectivity-based losses,
where several hierarchical stages of multi-scale local losses are integrated
into the optimization process. The model is validated based on three publicly
available datasets: RETOUCH, OPTIMA, and DUKE, with comparisons against several
baselines. Experimental results on the datasets prove the effectiveness of the
proposed model in retinal OCT fluid segmentation and reveal that the suggested
method is more effective than existing state-of-the-art fluid segmentation
algorithms in adapting to retinal OCT scans recorded by various image scanning
instruments.Comment: 11 pages, Early Access Version, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imagin
Segmentation of Doppler optical coherence tomography signatures using a support-vector machine
When processing Doppler optical coherence tomography images, there is a need to segment the Doppler signatures of the vessels. This can be used for visualization, for finding the center point of the flow areas or to facilitate the quantitative analysis of the vessel flow. We propose the use of a support-vector machine classifier in order to segment the flow. It uses the phase values of the Doppler image as well as texture information. We show that superior results compared to conventional simple threshold-based methods can be achieved in conditions of significant phase noise, which inhibit the use of a simple threshold of the phase values
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