Small organ segmentation in whole-body MRI using a two-stage FCN and weighting schemes
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Author(s)
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Accurate and robust segmentation of small organs in whole-body MRI is difficult due to anatomical variation and class imbalance. Recent deep network based approaches have demonstrated promising performance on abdominal multi-organ segmentations. However, the performance on small organs is still suboptimal as these occupy only small regions of the whole-body volumes with unclear boundaries and variable shapes. A coarse-to-fine, hierarchical strategy is a common approach to alleviate this problem, however, this might miss useful contextual information. We propose a two-stage approach with weighting schemes based on auto-context and spatial atlas priors. Our experiments show that the proposed approach can boost the segmentation accuracy of multiple small organs in whole-body MRI scans.
Date Issued
2018-09-15
Date Acceptance
2018-07-18
Citation
Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, 2018, LNCS, 11046, pp.346-354
ISBN
978-3-030-00918-2
ISSN
0302-9743
Publisher
Springer Verlag
Start Page
346
End Page
354
Journal / Book Title
Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
Volume
LNCS, 11046
Copyright Statement
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018. The final publication is available at Springer via https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-00919-9_40
Sponsor
Cancer Research UK
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust- BRC Funding
National Institute for Health Research
Commission of the European Communities
Grant Number
10337
RDC04 79560
EME/13/122/01
H2020 - 757173
Source
International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (MLMI) 2018
Subjects
cs.CV
08 Information And Computing Sciences
Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2018-09-16
Coverage Spatial
Granada, Spain
Date Publish Online
2018-09-15