Deep supervision and atrous inception-based U-Net combining CRF for automatic liver segmentation from CT
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Published:2022-10-10
Issue:1
Volume:12
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ISSN:2045-2322
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Container-title:Scientific Reports
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Sci Rep
Author:
Lv Peiqing,Wang Jinke,Zhang Xiangyang,Shi Changfa
Abstract
AbstractDue to low contrast and the blurred boundary between liver tissue and neighboring organs sharing similar intensity values, the problem of liver segmentation from CT images has not yet achieved satisfactory performance and remains a challenge. To alleviate these problems, we introduce deep supervision (DS) and atrous inception (AI) technologies with conditional random field (CRF) and propose three major improvements that are experimentally shown to have substantive and practical value. First, we replace the encoder's standard convolution with the residual block. Residual blocks can increase the depth of the network. Second, we provide an AI module to connect the encoder and decoder. AI allows us to obtain multi-scale features. Third, we incorporate the DS mechanism into the decoder. This helps to make full use of information of the shallow layers. In addition, we employ the Tversky loss function to balance the segmented and non-segmented regions and perform further refinement with a dense CRF. Finally, we extensively validate the proposed method on three public databases: LiTS17, 3DIRCADb, and SLiver07. Compared to the state-of-the-art methods, the proposed method achieved increased segmentation accuracy for the livers with low contrast and the fuzzy boundary between liver tissue and neighboring organs and is, therefore, more suited for automatic segmentation of these livers.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Multidisciplinary
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