A Fixed-Point Model for Pancreas Segmentation in Abdominal CT Scans

12/25/2016
by   Yuyin Zhou, et al.
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Deep neural networks have been widely adopted for automatic organ segmentation from abdominal CT scans. However, the segmentation accuracy of some small organs (e.g., the pancreas) is sometimes below satisfaction, arguably because deep networks are easily disrupted by the complex and variable background regions which occupies a large fraction of the input volume. In this paper, we formulate this problem into a fixed-point model which uses a predicted segmentation mask to shrink the input region. This is motivated by the fact that a smaller input region often leads to more accurate segmentation. In the training process, we use the ground-truth annotation to generate accurate input regions and optimize network weights. On the testing stage, we fix the network parameters and update the segmentation results in an iterative manner. We evaluate our approach on the NIH pancreas segmentation dataset, and outperform the state-of-the-art by more than 4 Dice-Sørensen Coefficient (DSC). In addition, we report 62.43 worst case, which guarantees the reliability of our approach in clinical applications.

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