Technical University of Munich（慕尼黑工业大学）；University of Zurich（苏黎世大学）；Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal（蒙特利尔理工学院）；Tel-Aviv University（特拉维夫大学）；Imperial College London（帝国理工学院）；Hebrew University of Jerusalem（希伯来大学）；Radboud University Medical Center（拉德堡德大学医学中心）；The University of Montréal Hospital Research Centre（蒙特利尔大学医院研究中心）；LMU Munich（慕尼黑大学）
Patrick Bilic, Patrick Christ, Hongwei Bran Li, Eugene Vorontsov, Avi Ben-Cohen, Georgios Kaissis, Adi Szeskin, Colin Jacobs, Gabriel Efrain Humpire Mamani, Gab… 展开作者
Patrick Bilic, Patrick Christ, Hongwei Bran Li, Eugene Vorontsov, Avi Ben-Cohen, Georgios Kaissis, Adi Szeskin, Colin Jacobs, Gabriel Efrain Humpire Mamani, Gabriel Chartrand, Fabian Lohöfer, Julian Walter Holch, Wieland Sommer, Felix Hofmann, Alexandre Hostettler, Naama Lev-Cohain, Michal Drozdzal, Michal Marianne Amitai, Refael Vivantik, Jacob Sosna, Ivan Ezhov, Anjany Sekuboyina, Fernando Navarro, Florian Kofler, Johannes C. Paetzold, Suprosanna Shit, Xiaobin Hu, Jana Lipková, Markus Rempfler, Marie Piraud, Jan Kirschke, Benedikt Wiestler, Zhiheng Zhang, Christian Hülsemeyer, Marcel Beetz, Florian Ettlinger, Michela Antonelli, Woong Bae, Míriam Bellver, Lei Bi, Hao Chen, Grzegorz Chlebus, Erik B. Dam, Qi Dou, Chi-Wing Fu, Bogdan Georgescu, Xavier Giró-i-Nieto, Felix Gruen, Xu Han, Pheng-Ann Heng, Jürgen Hesser, Jan Hendrik Moltz, Christian Igel, Fabian Isensee, Paul Jäger, Fucang Jia, Krishna Chaitanya Kaluva, Mahendra Khened, Ildoo Kim, Jae-Hun Kim, Sungwoong Kim, Simon Kohl, Tomasz Konopczynski, Avinash Kori, Ganapathy Krishnamurthi, Fan Li, Hongchao Li, Junbo Li, Xiaomeng Li, John Lowengrub, Jun Ma, Klaus Maier-Hein, Kevis-Kokitsi Maninis, Hans Meine, Dorit Merhof, Akshay Pai, Mathias Perslev, Jens Petersen, Jordi Pont-Tuset, Jin Qi, Xiaojuan Qi, Oliver Rippel, Karsten Roth, Ignacio Sarasua, Andrea Schenk, Zengming Shen, Jordi Torres, Christian Wachinger, Chunliang Wang, Leon Weninger, Jianrong Wu, Daguang Xu, Xiaoping Yang, Simon Chun-Ho Yu, Yading Yuan, Miao Yu, Liping Zhang, Jorge Cardoso, Spyridon Bakas, Rickmer Braren, Volker Heinemann, Christopher Pal, An Tang, Samuel Kadoury, Luc Soler, Bram van Ginneken, Hayit Greenspan, Leo Joskowicz, Bjoern Menze
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Patrick Bilic, Patrick Christ, Hongwei Bran Li, and Eugene Vorontsov made equal contributions to this work. Published in Medical Image Analysis
In this work, we report the set-up and results of the Liver Tumor Segmentation Benchmark (LiTS), which was organized in conjunction with the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2017 and the International Conferences on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2017 and 2018. The image dataset is diverse and contains primary and secondary tumors with varied sizes and appearances with various lesion-to-background levels (hyper-/hypo-dense), created in collaboration with seven hospitals and research institutions. Seventy-five submitted liver and liver tumor segmentation algorithms were trained on a set of 131 computed tomography (CT) volumes and were tested on 70 unseen test images acquired from different patients. We found that not a single algorithm performed best for both liver and liver tumors in the three events. The best liver segmentation algorithm achieved a Dice score of 0.963, whereas, for tumor segmentation, the best algorithms achieved Dices scores of 0.674 (ISBI 2017), 0.702 (MICCAI 2017), and 0.739 (MICCAI 2018). Retrospectively, we performed additional analysis on liver tumor detection and revealed that not all top-performing segmentation algorithms worked well for tumor detection. The best liver tumor detection method achieved a lesion-wise recall of 0.458 (ISBI 2017), 0.515 (MICCAI 2017), and 0.554 (MICCAI 2018), indicating the need for further research. LiTS remains an active benchmark and resource for research, e.g., contributing the liver-related segmentation tasks in \url{http://medicaldecathlon.com/}. In addition, both data and online evaluation are accessible via \url{www.lits-challenge.com}.
Automatic extraction of liver and tumor from CT volumes is a challenging task due to their heterogeneous and diffusive shapes. Recently, 2D and 3D deep convolutional neural networks have become popular in medical image segmentation tasks because of the utilization of large labeled datasets to learn hierarchical features. However, 3D networks have some drawbacks due to their high cost on computational resources. In this paper, we propose a 3D hybrid residual attention-aware segmentation method, named RA-UNet, to precisely extract the liver volume of interests (VOI) and segment tumors from the l…
Technical University of Munich（慕尼黑工业大学）；University of California, Irvine（加利福尼亚大学尔湾分校）
The segmentation of liver lesions is crucial for detection, diagnosis and monitoring progression of liver cancer. However, design of accurate automated methods remains challenging due to high noise in CT scans, low contrast between liver and lesions, as well as large lesion variability. We propose a 3D automatic, unsupervised method for liver lesions segmentation using a phase separation approach. It is assumed that liver is a mixture of two phases: healthy liver and lesions, represented by different image intensities polluted by noise. The Cahn-Hilliard equation is used to remove the noise an…
Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院计算技术研究所）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）；University of California, Los Angeles（加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校）；University of Southern California（南加利福尼亚大学）；Lenovo Research（联想研究院）；Lenovo Ltd.（联想有限公司）
Purpose: Automated liver tumor segmentation from Computed Tomography (CT) images is a necessary prerequisite in the interventions of hepatic abnormalities and surgery planning. However, accurate liver tumor segmentation remains challenging due to the large variability of tumor sizes and inhomogeneous texture. Recent advances based on Fully Convolutional Network (FCN) for medical image segmentation drew on the success of learning discriminative pyramid features. In this paper, we propose a Decoupled Pyramid Correlation Network (DPC-Net) that exploits attention mechanisms to fully leverage both …
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center（美国国立卫生研究院临床中心）；Ping An Insurance Company of China（中国平安保险公司）
Developing an effective liver and liver tumor segmentation model from CT scans is very important for the success of liver cancer diagnosis, surgical planning and cancer treatment. In this work, we propose a two-stage framework for 2D liver and tumor segmentation. The first stage is a coarse liver segmentation network, while the second stage is an edge enhanced network (E$^2$Net) for more accurate liver and tumor segmentation. E$^2$Net explicitly models complementary objects (liver and tumor) and their edge information within the network to preserve the organ and lesion boundaries. We introduce…
Accurate visualization of liver tumors and their surrounding blood vessels is essential for noninvasive diagnosis and prognosis prediction of tumors. In medical image segmentation, there is still a lack of in-depth research on the simultaneous segmentation of liver tumors and peritumoral blood vessels. To this end, we collect the first liver tumor, and vessel segmentation benchmark datasets containing 52 portal vein phase computed tomography images with liver, liver tumor, and vessel annotations. In this case, we propose a 3D U-shaped Cross-Attention Network (UCA-Net) that utilizes a tailored …
Automatic segmentation of liver tumors in medical images is crucial for the computer-aided diagnosis and therapy. It is a challenging task, since the tumors are notoriously small against the background voxels. This paper proposes a new three-stage curriculum learning approach for training deep networks to tackle this small object segmentation problem. The learning in the first stage is performed on the whole input to obtain an initial deep network for tumor segmenta-tion. Then the second stage of learning focuses the strength-ening of tumor specific features by continuing training the network …
Technical University of Munich（慕尼黑工业大学）；LMU Hospital Grosshadern（路德维希-马克西米利安-慕尼黑大学格罗斯哈德恩医院）
Automatic segmentation of the liver and hepatic lesions is an important step towards deriving quantitative biomarkers for accurate clinical diagnosis and computer-aided decision support systems. This paper presents a method to automatically segment liver and lesions in CT and MRI abdomen images using cascaded fully convolutional neural networks (CFCNs) enabling the segmentation of a large-scale medical trial or quantitative image analysis. We train and cascade two FCNs for a combined segmentation of the liver and its lesions. In the first step, we train a FCN to segment the liver as ROI input …
Shandong Normal University（山东师范大学）；Western University（韦仕敦大学）
Simultaneous segmentation and detection of liver tumors (hemangioma and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)) by using multi-modality non-contrast magnetic resonance imaging (NCMRI) are crucial for the clinical diagnosis. However, it is still a challenging task due to: (1) the HCC information on NCMRI is invisible or insufficient makes extraction of liver tumors feature difficult; (2) diverse imaging characteristics in multi-modality NCMRI causes feature fusion and selection difficult; (3) no specific information between hemangioma and HCC on NCMRI cause liver tumors detection difficult. In this stu…
Mansoura University（曼苏尔大学）；South Valley University（南河谷大学）；Higher Institute of Engineering and Technology（高等工程技术学院）
The liver is one of the most critical metabolic organs in vertebrates due to its vital functions in the human body, such as detoxification of the blood from waste products and medications. Liver diseases due to liver tumors are one of the most common mortality reasons around the globe. Hence, detecting liver tumors in the early stages of tumor development is highly required as a critical part of medical treatment. Many imaging modalities can be used as aiding tools to detect liver tumors. Computed tomography (CT) is the most used imaging modality for soft tissue organs such as the liver. This …
Transfer learning and joint learning approaches are extensively used to improve the performance of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). In medical imaging applications in which the target dataset is typically very small, transfer learning improves feature learning while joint learning has shown effectiveness in improving the network's generalization and robustness. In this work, we study the combination of these two approaches for the problem of liver lesion segmentation and classification. For this purpose, 332 abdominal CT slices containing lesion segmentation and classification of three le…
Enhanced Liver Tumor Detection in CT Images Using 3D U-Net and Bat Algorithm for Hyperparameter Optimization
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Loyola University Chicago（洛约拉大学芝加哥分校数学与统计学系）；Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch（伊斯兰 Azad 大学科学与研究分校数学与计算机科学系）
本文提出将 3D U-Net 架构与 Bat Algorithm 结合，通过优化学习率和批大小等超参数实现 CT 图像中肝肿瘤的自动分割，有效提升了分割精度与鲁棒性。
Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院计算技术研究所）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）；University of California, Los Angeles（加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校）；Lenovo Research（联想研究院）；Lenovo Ltd.（联想集团有限公司）
Liver cancer is one of the most common cancers worldwide. Due to inconspicuous texture changes of liver tumor, contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) imaging is effective for the diagnosis of liver cancer. In this paper, we focus on improving automated liver tumor segmentation by integrating multi-modal CT images. To this end, we propose a novel mutual learning (ML) strategy for effective and robust multi-modal liver tumor segmentation. Different from existing multi-modal methods that fuse information from different modalities by a single model, with ML, an ensemble of modality-specific mo…
Sun Yat-sen University（中山大学）；The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University（中山大学附属第一医院）；Infervision Inc.（推想医疗科技股份有限公司）
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the second most frequent cause of malignancy-related death and is one of the diseases with the highest incidence in the world. Because the liver is the only organ in the human body that is supplied by two major vessels: the hepatic artery and the portal vein, various types of malignant tumors can spread from other organs to the liver. And due to the liver masses' heterogeneous and diffusive shape, the tumor lesions are very difficult to be recognized, thus automatic lesion detection is necessary for the doctors with huge workloads. To assist doctors, this work…
James Cook University（詹姆斯·库克大学）；Mahidol University（玛希隆大学）；University of Bremen（不来梅大学）
Automatic segmentation of hepatic lesions in computed tomography (CT) images is a challenging task to perform due to heterogeneous, diffusive shape of tumors and complex background. To address the problem more and more researchers rely on assistance of deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) with 2D or 3D type architecture that have proven to be effective in a wide range of computer vision tasks, including medical image processing. In this technical report, we carry out research focused on more careful approach to the process of learning rather than on complex architecture of the CNN. We have…
Liver lesion segmentation is an important step for liver cancer diagnosis, treatment planning and treatment evaluation. LiTS (Liver Tumor Segmentation Challenge) provides a common testbed for comparing different automatic liver lesion segmentation methods. We participate in this challenge by developing a deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) method. The particular DCNN model works in 2.5D in that it takes a stack of adjacent slices as input and produces the segmentation map corresponding to the center slice. The model has 32 layers in total and makes use of both long range concatenation con…
Rongcheng College, Harbin University of Science and Technology（哈尔滨理工大学荣成学院）；Harbin University of Science and Technology（哈尔滨理工大学）；Hunan University of Technology and Business（湖南工商大学）
Background and objective: In this paper, a modified U-Net based framework is presented, which leverages techniques from Squeeze-and-Excitation (SE) block, Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling (ASPP) and residual learning for accurate and robust liver CT segmentation, and the effectiveness of the proposed method was tested on two public datasets LiTS17 and SLiver07. Methods: A new network architecture called SAR-U-Net was designed. Firstly, the SE block is introduced to adaptively extract image features after each convolution in the U-Net encoder, while suppressing irrelevant regions, and highlightin…
Comparative Study of UNet-based Architectures for Liver Tumor Segmentation in Multi-Phase Contrast-Enhanced Computed Tomography
School of Computer Science and Engineering（计算机科学与工程学院）；The Saigon International University（暹罗国际大学）；School of Biomedical Engineering（生物医学工程学院）；International University（国际大学）；Vietnam National University HCMC（越南国家大学胡志明市分校）
A Digital Pathology Resource for Liver Cancer Quantification with Datasets, Benchmarks, and Tools
Department of Pathology, Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, School of Clinical Medicine, Tsinghua Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China（北京清华长庚医院病理科，临床医学学院，清华大学医学院，清华大学，北京，中国）；Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, China（深圳国际研究生院，清华大学，深圳，中国）
The performance on deep learning is significantly affected by volume of training data. Models pre-trained from massive dataset such as ImageNet become a powerful weapon for speeding up training convergence and improving accuracy. Similarly, models based on large dataset are important for the development of deep learning in 3D medical images. However, it is extremely challenging to build a sufficiently large dataset due to difficulty of data acquisition and annotation in 3D medical imaging. We aggregate the dataset from several medical challenges to build 3DSeg-8 dataset with diverse modalities…
Otto-von-Guericke University（奥托·冯·格里克大学）；University Hospital of Magdeburg（马格德堡大学医院）
Deep learning-based segmentation of the liver and hepatic lesions therein steadily gains relevance in clinical practice due to the increasing incidence of liver cancer each year. Whereas various network variants with overall promising results in the field of medical image segmentation have been successfully developed over the last years, almost all of them struggle with the challenge of accurately segmenting hepatic lesions in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This led to the idea of combining elements of convolutional and transformer-based architectures to overcome the existing limitations. T…
School of Computer Science and Communication Engineering, Jiangsu University（江苏大学计算机科学与通信工程学院）；Department of Imaging, Affiliated Hospital of Jiangsu University（江苏大学附属医院影像科）；Department of Information, Affiliated Hospital of Jiangsu University（江苏大学附属医院信息科）；Medical College of Jiangsu University（江苏大学医学院）
Automatic segmentation of liver and its tumors is an essential step for extracting quantitative imaging biomarkers for accurate tumor detection, diagnosis, prognosis and assessment of tumor response to treatment. MICCAI 2017 Liver Tumor Segmentation Challenge (LiTS) provides a common platform for comparing different automatic algorithms on contrast-enhanced abdominal CT images in tasks including 1) liver segmentation, 2) liver tumor segmentation, and 3) tumor burden estimation. We participate this challenge by developing a hierarchical framework based on deep fully convolutional-deconvolutiona…
A-QCF-Net: An Adaptive Quaternion Cross-Fusion Network for Multimodal Liver Tumor Segmentation from Unpaired Datasets
University College of Engineering, Bharathidasan Institute of Technology Campus, Anna University（安娜大学工程学院，巴拉特拉桑理工学院校区，安娜大学）；National Institute of Technology（国家理工学院）
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras（马德拉斯印度理工学院）
In this paper we propose a fully automatic 2-stage cascaded approach for segmentation of liver and its tumors in CT (Computed Tomography) images using densely connected fully convolutional neural network (DenseNet). We independently train liver and tumor segmentation models and cascade them for a combined segmentation of the liver and its tumor. The first stage involves segmentation of liver and the second stage uses the first stage's segmentation results for localization of liver and henceforth tumor segmentations inside liver region. The liver model was trained on the down-sampled axial slic…
Yokohama City University Medical Center（横滨市立大学医学中心）
We present a fully automatic method employing convolutional neural networks based on the 2D U-net architecture and random forest classifier to solve the automatic liver lesion segmentation problem of the ISBI 2017 Liver Tumor Segmentation Challenge (LiTS). In order to constrain the ROI in which the tumors could be located, a liver segmentation is performed first. For the organ segmentation, an ensemble of convolutional networks is trained to segment a liver using a set of 179 liver CT datasets from liver surgery planning. Inside of the liver ROI a neural network, trained using 127 challenge tr…
Zhejiang University（浙江大学）；University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学技术大学）；Zhejiang Lab（之江实验室）；Ritsumeikan University（立命馆大学）；Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital（邵逸夫医院）；The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University（浙江大学医学院附属第一医院）
Multi-phase computed tomography (CT) images provide crucial complementary information for accurate liver tumor segmentation (LiTS). State-of-the-art multi-phase LiTS methods usually fused cross-phase features through phase-weighted summation or channel-attention based concatenation. However, these methods ignored the spatial (pixel-wise) relationships between different phases, hence leading to insufficient feature integration. In addition, the performance of existing methods remains subject to the uncertainty in segmentation, which is particularly acute in tumor boundary regions. In this work,…
Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication（科学、技术与传播学院）
Within this thesis we propose a platform for combining Augmented Reality (AR) hardware with machine learning in a user-oriented pipeline, offering to the medical staff an intuitive 3D visualization of volumetric Computed Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) medical image segmentations inside the AR headset, that does not need human intervention for loading, processing and segmentation of medical images. The AR visualization, based on Microsoft HoloLens, employs a modular and thus scalable frontend-backend architecture for real-time visualizations on multiple AR headsets. As Con…
School of Automation, Harbin University of Science and Technology（哈尔滨理工大学自动化学院）；Rongcheng College, Harbin University of Science and Technology（哈尔滨理工大学荣成学院）
Purpose: This paper proposes a new network framework called EAR-U-Net, which leverages EfficientNetB4, attention gate, and residual learning techniques to achieve automatic and accurate liver segmentation. Methods: The proposed method is based on the U-Net framework. First, we use EfficientNetB4 as the encoder to extract more feature information during the encoding stage. Then, an attention gate is introduced in the skip connection to eliminate irrelevant regions and highlight features of a specific segmentation task. Finally, to alleviate the problem of gradient vanishment, we replace the tra…
The Chinese University of Hong Kong（香港中文大学）；Stanford University（斯坦福大学）
Deep convolutional neural networks have achieved remarkable progress on a variety of medical image computing tasks. A common problem when applying supervised deep learning methods to medical images is the lack of labeled data, which is very expensive and time-consuming to be collected. In this paper, we present a novel semi-supervised method for medical image segmentation, where the network is optimized by the weighted combination of a common supervised loss for labeled inputs only and a regularization loss for both labeled and unlabeled data. To utilize the unlabeled data, our method encourag…
We propose a computationally efficient architecture that learns to segment lesions from CT images of the liver. The proposed architecture uses bilinear interpolation with sub-pixel convolution at the last layer to upscale the course feature in bottle neck architecture. Since bilinear interpolation and sub-pixel convolution do not have any learnable parameter, our overall model is faster and occupies less memory footprint than the traditional U-net. We evaluate our proposed architecture on the highly competitive dataset of 2017 Liver Tumor Segmentation (LiTS) Challenge. Our method achieves comp…
Automatic liver lesion segmentation is a challenging task while having a significant impact on assisting medical professionals in the designing of effective treatment and planning proper care. In this paper we propose a cascaded system that combines both 2D and 3D convolutional neural networks to effectively segment hepatic lesions. Our 2D network operates on a slice by slice basis to segment the liver and larger tumors, while we use a 3D network to detect small lesions that are often missed in a 2D segmentation design. We employ this algorithm on the LiTS challenge obtaining a Dice score per …
An Automated Radiomics Framework for Postoperative Survival Prediction in Colorectal Liver Metastases using Preoperative MRI
Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto（多伦多大学医学生物物理学系）；Physical Sciences Platform, Sunnybrook Research Institute（阳光医疗研究学院物理科学平台）；UCL Cancer Institute, University College London（伦敦大学学院癌症研究所）；Systems and Biomedical Engineering Department, Cairo University（开罗大学系统与生物医学工程系）；Department of Surgery, University of Toronto（多伦多大学外科医学系）；Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto（多伦多大学实验室医学与病理学系）；Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre（阳光健康科学中心）；Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto（多伦多大学医学影像学系）
The Chinese University of Hong Kong（香港中文大学）；Imsight Medical Technology, Inc.（伊赛智能医疗科技有限公司）
Liver cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer death. To assist doctors in hepatocellular carcinoma diagnosis and treatment planning, an accurate and automatic liver and tumor segmentation method is highly demanded in the clinical practice. Recently, fully convolutional neural networks (FCNs), including 2D and 3D FCNs, serve as the back-bone in many volumetric image segmentation. However, 2D convolutions can not fully leverage the spatial information along the third dimension while 3D convolutions suffer from high computational cost and GPU memory consumption. To address these issues, we …
Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院计算技术研究所）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）；Lenovo Research（联想研究院）
Liver tumor segmentation plays an important role in hepatocellular carcinoma diagnosis and surgical planning. In this paper, we propose a novel Semantic Feature Attention Network (SFAN) for liver tumor segmentation from Computed Tomography (CT) volumes, which exploits the impact of both low-level and high-level features. In the SFAN, a Semantic Attention Transmission (SAT) module is designed to select discriminative low-level localization details with the guidance of neighboring high-level semantic information. Furthermore, a Global Context Attention (GCA) module is proposed to effectively fus…
Surgical resections are the most prevalent curative treatment for primary liver cancer. Tumors located in critical positions are known to complexify liver resections (LR). While experienced surgeons in specialized medical centers may have the necessary expertise to accurately anticipate LR complexity, and prepare accordingly, an objective method able to reproduce this behavior would have the potential to improve the standard routine of care, and avoid intra- and postoperative complications. In this article, we propose CoRe, an automated medical image processing pipeline for the prediction of p…
LIDIA: Precise Liver Tumor Diagnosis on Multi-Phase Contrast-Enhanced CT via Iterative Fusion and Asymmetric Contrastive Learning
College of Computer Science, Sichuan University（四川大学计算机学院）；DAMO Academy, Alibaba Group（阿里巴巴集团达摩院）；Hupan Lab（湖畔实验室）；Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University（中国医科大学附属盛京医院）；First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University（浙江大学附属第一医院）
Mask-guided Data Augmentation for Multiparametric MRI Generation with a Rare Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Universidad Industrial de Santander（桑坦德工业大学）；University of Toulouse（图卢兹大学）；Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse 3（图卢兹第三大学（保罗·萨巴蒂埃大学））；Bicêtre University Hospital（比塞特尔大学医院）；Assistance publique des hôpitaux de Paris（巴黎公共援助医院）；Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1（里昂第一大学（克洛德·贝尔纳里昂第一大学））
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）；Emory University（埃默里大学）；University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign（伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校）；University of Southern California（南加利福尼亚大学）；Johns Hopkins University（约翰斯·霍普金斯大学）
ASLseg: Adapting SAM in the Loop for Semi-supervised Liver Tumor Segmentation
Southern University of Science and Technology（南方科技大学）；The University of Hong Kong（香港大学）；Jiaxing Research Institute, Southern University of Science and Technology（南方科技大学嘉兴研究院）
T-MPEDNet: Unveiling the Synergy of Transformer-aware Multiscale Progressive Encoder-Decoder Network with Feature Recalibration for Tumor and Liver Segmentation
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore, Indore 453552, India（计算机科学与工程系，印度理工学院（IIT）印尔德，印尔德453552，印度）；Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore, Indore 453552, India（电气工程系，印度理工学院（IIT）印尔德，印尔德453552，印度）
LDCSF: Local depth convolution-based Swim framework for classifying multi-label histopathology images
College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering（计算机科学与电子工程学院）；Third Xiangya Hospital（湘雅三医院）；Hunan University（湖南大学）；Central South University（中南大学）
University of Science and Technology Beijing（北京科技大学）；University of Central Florida（中佛罗里达大学）
Transformer, benefiting from global (long-range) information modeling using self-attention mechanism, has been successful in natural language processing and computer vision recently. Convolutional Neural Networks, capable of capturing local features, are difficult to model explicit long-distance dependencies from global feature space. However, both local and global features are crucial for dense prediction tasks, especially for 3D medical image segmentation. In this paper, we present the further attempt to exploit Transformer in 3D CNN for 3D medical image volumetric segmentation and propose a…
BioFact-MoE: Biologically Factorized Mixture of Experts for Vision-Language Prognostic Modeling in Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Department of Radiology \& Biomedical Imaging, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, Department of Statistics \& Data Science Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06510, USA
Johns Hopkins University（约翰斯·霍普金斯大学）；PAII Inc.（PAII公司）；The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University（南京医科大学第一附属医院）；Ping An Technology（平安科技）；Shanghai Jiao Tong University（上海交通大学）
The boundary of tumors (hepatocellular carcinoma, or HCC) contains rich semantics: capsular invasion, visibility, smoothness, folding and protuberance, etc. Capsular invasion on tumor boundary has proven to be clinically correlated with the prognostic indicator, microvascular invasion (MVI). Investigating tumor boundary semantics has tremendous clinical values. In this paper, we propose the first and novel computational framework that disentangles the task into two components: spatial vertex localization and sequential semantic classification. (1) A HCC tumor segmentor is built for tumor mask …
China University of Petroleum（中国石油大学）；Qingdao Municipal Hospital（青岛市市立医院）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）
Liver cancer is one of the most common malignant diseases in the world. Segmentation and labeling of liver tumors and blood vessels in CT images can provide convenience for doctors in liver tumor diagnosis and surgical intervention. In the past decades, many state-of-the-art medical image segmentation algorithms appeared during this period. With the development of embedded devices, embedded deployment for medical segmentation and automatic reconstruction brings prospects for future automated surgical tasks. Yet, most of the existing segmentation methods mostly care about the spatial feature co…
Washington State University（华盛顿州立大学）；M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas（德克萨斯大学MD安德森癌症中心）
Tumor detection in biomedical imaging is a time-consuming process for medical professionals and is not without errors. Thus in recent decades, researchers have developed algorithmic techniques for image processing using a wide variety of mathematical methods, such as statistical modeling, variational techniques, and machine learning. In this paper, we propose a semi-automatic method for liver segmentation of 2D CT scans into three labels denoting healthy, vessel, or tumor tissue based on graph cuts. First, we create a feature vector for each pixel in a novel way that consists of the 59 intensi…
YOLO-PVC: 2D-to-3D Consolidation of Slice-wise Detections for Volumetric Liver Tumor Localization in MRI
ESME Research Lab（ESME研究实验室）；Université Paris-Est Créteil（巴黎东部克雷泰伊大学）；LRE EPITA（EPITA LRE实验室）；Institute of Space Technology（空间技术研究所）；Henri Mondor University Hospital（亨利·蒙多大学医院）
Johns Hopkins University（约翰霍普金斯大学）；University of Bologna（博洛尼亚大学）；Italian Institute of Technology（意大利理工学院）；University of California, San Francisco（加州大学旧金山分校）；Istanbul Medipol University（伊斯坦布尔Medipol大学）；University of Zurich（苏黎世大学）；ETH AI Center（ETH人工智能中心）；University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign（伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校）；École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne（洛桑联邦理工学院）
