APNet: Semantic Segmentation for Pelvic MR Image
One of the time-consuming routine work for a radiologist is to discern anatomical structures from tomographic images. For assisting radiologists, this paper develops an automatic segmentation method for pelvic magnetic resonance (MR) images. The task has three major challenges (1) A pelvic organ can have various sizes and shapes depending on the axial image, which requires local contexts to segment correctly. (2) Different organs often have quite similar appearance inMR images, which requires global context to segment. (3) The number of available annotated images are very small to use the latest segmentation algorithms. To address the challenges, we propose a novel convolutional neural network called Attention-Pyramid network (APNet) that effectively exploits both local and global contexts, in addition to a data-augmentation technique that is particularly effective for MR images. In order to evaluate our method, we construct fine-grained (50 pelvic organs) MR image segmentation dataset, and experimentally confirm the superior performance of our techniques over the state-of-the-art image segmentation methods.
Medical image Semantic segmentation Convolutional neural networks Pyramid pooling Attention mechanism
Ting-Ting Liang Mengyan Sun Liangcai Gao Jing-Jing Lu Satoshi Tsutsui
ICST,Peking University,Beijing,China Peking Union Medical College Hospital,Beijing,China Indiana University Bloomington,Bloomington,IN,USA
国际会议
广州
英文
259-272
2018-11-23（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）