FocusNetv2:使用对抗形状约束进行头颈部 CT 图像的不平衡大、小器官分割。

FocusNetv2: Imbalanced large and small organ segmentation with adversarial shape constraint for head and neck CT images.

机构信息

Cancer Hospital of University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Zhejiang Cancer Hospital), China; Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA; Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.

SenseTime Research, China.

出版信息

Med Image Anal. 2021 Jan;67:101831. doi: 10.1016/j.media.2020.101831. Epub 2020 Oct 10.

Abstract

Radiotherapy is a treatment where radiation is used to eliminate cancer cells. The delineation of organs-at-risk (OARs) is a vital step in radiotherapy treatment planning to avoid damage to healthy organs. For nasopharyngeal cancer, more than 20 OARs are needed to be precisely segmented in advance. The challenge of this task lies in complex anatomical structure, low-contrast organ contours, and the extremely imbalanced size between large and small organs. Common segmentation methods that treat them equally would generally lead to inaccurate small-organ labeling. We propose a novel two-stage deep neural network, FocusNetv2, to solve this challenging problem by automatically locating, ROI-pooling, and segmenting small organs with specifically designed small-organ localization and segmentation sub-networks while maintaining the accuracy of large organ segmentation. In addition to our original FocusNet, we employ a novel adversarial shape constraint on small organs to ensure the consistency between estimated small-organ shapes and organ shape prior knowledge. Our proposed framework is extensively tested on both self-collected dataset of 1,164 CT scans and the MICCAI Head and Neck Auto Segmentation Challenge 2015 dataset, which shows superior performance compared with state-of-the-art head and neck OAR segmentation methods.

摘要

放射治疗是一种利用辐射消除癌细胞的治疗方法。在放射治疗计划中,勾画危及器官(OARs)是至关重要的一步,以避免对健康器官造成损害。对于鼻咽癌,需要提前精确地分割超过 20 个 OAR。这项任务的挑战在于复杂的解剖结构、低对比度的器官轮廓,以及大小器官之间极度不平衡的尺寸。常见的平等对待它们的分割方法通常会导致小器官的不准确标记。我们提出了一种新的两阶段深度神经网络 FocusNetv2,通过自动定位、ROI 池化和分割小器官,同时保持大器官分割的准确性,解决了这个具有挑战性的问题。除了我们原始的 FocusNet,我们还在小器官上使用了一种新颖的对抗形状约束,以确保估计的小器官形状与器官形状先验知识之间的一致性。我们的框架在我们自己收集的 1164 个 CT 扫描数据集和 MICCAI 头颈部自动分割挑战 2015 数据集上进行了广泛的测试,与最先进的头颈部 OAR 分割方法相比,表现出了优越的性能。

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