CAS-Net: Conditional atlas generation and brain segmentation for fetal MRI
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Author(s)
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Fetal Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is used in prenatal diagnosis and to assess early brain development. Accurate segmentation of the different brain tissues is a vital step in several brain analysis tasks, such as cortical surface reconstruction and tissue thickness measurements. Fetal MRI scans, however, are prone to motion artifacts that can affect the correctness of both manual and automatic segmentation techniques. In this paper, we propose a novel network structure that can simultaneously generate conditional atlases and predict brain tissue segmentation, called CAS-Net. The conditional atlases provide anatomical priors that can constrain the segmentation connectivity, despite the heterogeneity of intensity values caused by motion or partial volume effects. The proposed method is trained and evaluated on 253 subjects from the developing Human Connectome Project (dHCP). The results demonstrate that the proposed method can generate conditional age-specific atlas with sharp boundary and shape variance. It also segment multi-category brain tissues for fetal MRI with a high overall Dice similarity coefficient (DSC) of 85.2% for the selected 9 tissue labels.
Date Issued
2021-09-21
Date Acceptance
2021-06-11
Citation
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2021, 12959, pp.221-230
ISBN
978-3-030-87734-7
ISSN
0302-9743
Publisher
Springer
Start Page
221
End Page
230
Journal / Book Title
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume
12959
Copyright Statement
© 2021 Springer Nature Switzerland AG. The final publication is available at Springer via https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-87735-4_21
Source
24th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention
Subjects
Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2021-10-01
Coverage Spatial
Strasbourg, France
Date Publish Online
2021-09-25