Small organ segmentation in whole-body mri using a two-stage fcn and weighting schemes

Vanya V. Valindria, Ioannis Lavdas, Juan Cerrolaza, Eric O. Aboagye, Andrea G. Rockall, Daniel Rueckert, Ben Glocker

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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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMachine Learning in Medical Imaging - 9th International Workshop, MLMI 2018, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2018, Proceedings
EditorsMingxia Liu, Heung-Il Suk, Yinghuan Shi
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages346-354
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783030009182
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event9th International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, MLMI 2018 held in conjunction with the 21st International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2018 - Granada, Spain
Duration: 16 Sep 201816 Sep 2018

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11046 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference9th International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, MLMI 2018 held in conjunction with the 21st International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2018
Country/TerritorySpain
CityGranada
Period16/09/1816/09/18

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