Improving RetinaNet for CT lesion detection with dense masks from weak RECIST labels
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Accepted version
Author(s)
Zlocha, M
Dou, Q
Glocker, Ben
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Accurate, automated lesion detection in Computed Tomog-raphy (CT) is an important yet challenging task due to the large variationof lesion types, sizes, locations and appearances. Recent work on CT le-sion detection employs two-stage region proposal based methods trainedwith centroid or bounding-box annotations. We propose a highly accu-rate and efficient one-stage lesion detector, by re-designing a RetinaNetto meet the particular challenges in medical imaging. Specifically, we op-timize the anchor configurations using a differential evolution search al-gorithm. For training, we leverage the response evaluation criteria in solidtumors (RECIST) annotation which are measured in clinical routine. Weincorporate dense masks from weak RECIST labels, obtained automat-ically using GrabCut, into the training objective, which in combinationwith other advancements yields new state-of-the-art performance. Weevaluate our method on the public DeepLesion benchmark, consisting of32,735 lesions across the body. Our one-stage detector achieves a sensitiv-ity of 90.77% at 4 false positives per image, significantly outperformingthe best reported methods by over 5%.
Date Issued
2019-10-10
Date Acceptance
2019-06-03
Citation
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2019, pp.402-410
ISSN
0302-9743
Publisher
Springer Verlag
Start Page
402
End Page
410
Journal / Book Title
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Copyright Statement
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019. The final publication is available at Springer via https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32226-7_45
Sponsor
Commission of the European Communities
Identifier
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-32226-7_45
Grant Number
H2020 - 757173
Source
International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI)
Subjects
eess.IV
eess.IV
cs.CV
cs.LG
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2019-10-13
Finish Date
2019-10-17
Coverage Spatial
Shenzhen, China
Date Publish Online
2019-10-10