An Overview of Abdominal Multi-organ Segmentation

Abstract

The segmentation of multiple abdominal organs of the human body from images with different modalities is challenging because of the inter-subject variance among abdomens, as well as the complex intra-subject variance among organs. In this paper, the recent methods proposed for abdominal multi-organ segmentation (AMOS) on medical images in the literature are reviewed. The AMOS methods can be categorized into traditional and deep learning-based methods. First, various approaches, techniques, recent advances, and related problems under both segmentation categories are explained. Second, the advantages and disadvantages of these methods are discussed. A summary of some public datasets for AMOS is provided. Finally, AMOS remains an open issue, and the combination of different methods can achieve improved segmentation performance.