An Ensemble Learning for Automatic Stroke Lesion Segmentation Using Compressive Sensing and Multi-Resolution U-Net.

A stroke is a critical medical condition and one of the leading causes of death among humans. Segmentation of the lesions of the brain in which the blood flow is impeded because of blood coagulation plays a vital role in drug prescription and medical diagnosis. Computed tomography (CT) scans play a crucial role in detecting abnormal tissue. There are several methods for segmenting medical images that utilize the main images without considering the patient's privacy information. In this paper, a deep network is proposed that utilizes compressive sensing and ensemble learning to protect patient privacy and segment the dataset efficiently. The compressed version of the input CT images from the ISLES challenge 2018 dataset is applied to the ensemble part of the proposed network, which consists of two multi-resolution modified U-shaped networks. The evaluation metrics of accuracy, specificity, and dice coefficient are 92.43%, 91.3%, and 91.83%, respectively. The comparison to the state-of-the-art methods confirms the efficiency of the proposed compressive sensing-based ensemble net (CS-Ensemble Net). The compressive sensing part provides information privacy, and the parallel ensemble learning produces better results.