Abstract:
:The level set based deformable models (LDM) are commonly used for medical image segmentation. However, they rely on a handcrafted curve evolution velocity that needs to be adapted for each segmentation task. The Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) address this issue by learning robust features in a supervised end-to-end manner. However, CNNs employ millions of network parameters, which require a large amount of data during training to prevent over-fitting and increases the memory requirement and computation time during testing. Moreover, since CNNs pose segmentation as a region-based pixel labeling, they cannot explicitly model the high-level dependencies between the points on the object boundary to preserve its overall shape, smoothness or the regional homogeneity within and outside the boundary. We present a Recurrent Neural Network based solution called the RACE-net to address the above issues. RACE-net models a generalized LDM evolving under a constant and mean curvature velocity. At each time-step, the curve evolution velocities are approximated using a feed-forward architecture inspired by the multiscale image pyramid. RACE-net allows the curve evolution velocities to be learned in an end-to-end manner while minimizing the number of network parameters, computation time, and memory requirements. The RACE-net was validated on three different segmentation tasks: optic disc and cup in color fundus images, cell nuclei in histopathological images, and the left atrium in cardiac MRI volumes. Assessment on public datasets was seen to yield high Dice values between 0.87 and 0.97, which illustrates its utility as a generic, off-the-shelf architecture for biomedical segmentation.
journal_name
IEEE J Biomed Health Informjournal_title
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informaticsauthors
Chakravarty A,Sivaswamy Jdoi
10.1109/JBHI.2018.2852635subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2019-05-01 00:00:00pages
1151-1162issue
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2168-2194issn
2168-2208journal_volume
23pub_type
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