AnatomyNet: Deep 3D Squeeze-and-excitation U-Nets for fast and fully automated whole-volume anatomical segmentation

08/15/2018
by   Wentao Zhu, et al.
University of California, Irvine
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Radiation therapy (RT) is a common treatment for head and neck (HaN) cancer where therapists are often required to manually delineate boundaries of the organs-at-risks (OARs). Automated head and neck anatomical segmentation provides a way to speed up and improve the reproducibility of radiation therapy planning. In this work, we propose the AnatomyNet, an end-to-end and atlas-free three dimensional squeeze-and-excitation U-Net (3D SE U-Net), for fast and fully automated whole-volume HaN anatomical segmentation. There are two main challenges for fully automated HaN OARs segmentation: 1) challenge in segmenting small anatomies (i.e., optic chiasm and optic nerves) occupying only a few slices, and 2) training model with inconsistent data annotations with missing ground truth for some anatomical structures because of different RT planning. We propose the AnatomyNet that has one down-sampling layer with the trade-off between GPU memory and feature representation capacity, and 3D SE residual blocks for effective feature learning to alleviate these challenges. Moreover, we design a hybrid loss function with the Dice loss and the focal loss. The Dice loss is a class level distribution loss that depends less on the number of voxels in the anatomy, and the focal loss is designed to deal with highly unbalanced segmentation. For missing annotations, we propose masked loss and weighted loss for accurate and balanced weights updating in the learning of the AnatomyNet. We collect 261 HaN CT images to train the AnatomyNet for segmenting nine anatomies. Compared to previous state-of-the-art methods for each anatomy from the MICCAI 2015 competition, the AnatomyNet increases Dice similarity coefficient (DSC) by 3.3 seconds on average to segment a whole-volume HaN CT image of an average dimension of 178x302x225.

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