A Higher-Order Neural Network Design for Improving Segmentation Performance in Medical Image Series

Segmentation of anatomical structures from medical image series is an ongoing field of research. Although, organs of interest are three-dimensional in nature, slice-by-slice approaches are widely used in clinical applications because of their ease of integration with the current manual segmentation...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of physics. Conference series 2014-01, Vol.490 (1), p.12079-4
Hauptverfasser: Selvi, Eşref, Selver, M Alper, Güzeliş, Cüneyt, Dicle, Oǧuz
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Zusammenfassung:Segmentation of anatomical structures from medical image series is an ongoing field of research. Although, organs of interest are three-dimensional in nature, slice-by-slice approaches are widely used in clinical applications because of their ease of integration with the current manual segmentation scheme. To be able to use slice-by-slice techniques effectively, adjacent slice information, which represents likelihood of a region to be the structure of interest, plays critical role. Recent studies focus on using distance transform directly as a feature or to increase the feature values at the vicinity of the search area. This study presents a novel approach by constructing a higher order neural network, the input layer of which receives features together with their multiplications with the distance transform. This allows higher-order interactions between features through the non-linearity introduced by the multiplication. The application of the proposed method to 9 CT datasets for segmentation of the liver shows higher performance than well-known higher order classification neural networks.
ISSN:1742-6596
1742-6588
1742-6596
DOI:10.1088/1742-6596/490/1/012079