New lesion segmentation for multiple sclerosis brain images with imaging and lesion-aware augmentation
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Author(s)
Basaran, Berke
Matthews, Paul M
Bai, Wenjia
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory and demyelinating neurological disease of the central nervous system. Image-based biomarkers, such as lesions defined on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), play an important role in MS diagnosis and patient monitoring. The detection of newly formed lesions provides crucial information for assessing disease progression and treatment outcome. Here, we propose a deep learning-based pipeline for new MS lesion detection and segmentation, which is built upon the nnU-Net framework. In addition to conventional data augmentation, we employ imaging and lesion-aware data augmentation methods, axial subsampling and CarveMix, to generate diverse samples and improve segmentation performance. The proposed pipeline is evaluated on the MICCAI 2021 MS new lesion segmentation challenge (MSSEG-2) dataset. It achieves an average Dice score of 0.510 and F1 score of 0.552 on cases with new lesions, and an average false positive lesion number nFP of 0.036 and false positive lesion volume VFP of 0.192 mm3 on cases with no new lesions. Our method outperforms other participating methods in the challenge and several state-of-the-art network architectures.
Date Issued
2022-10-21
Date Acceptance
2022-10-06
Citation
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022, 16
ISSN
1662-453X
Publisher
Frontiers Media
Journal / Book Title
Frontiers in Neuroscience
Volume
16
Copyright Statement
© 2022 Basaran, Matthews and Bai. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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UK DRI Ltd
UK DRI Ltd
UK DRI Ltd
Grant Number
N/A
DRI-CORE2020-IMP
N/A
Subjects
MRI
biomedical segmentation
data augmentation
longitudinal lesion segmentation
multiple sclerosis
new lesion detection
nnU-Net
1109 Neurosciences
1701 Psychology
1702 Cognitive Sciences
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN 1007453