D2A U-Net: Automatic Segmentation of COVID-19 Lesions from CT Slices with Dilated Convolution and Dual Attention Mechanism
School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University(北京航空航天大学生物与医学工程学院);Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, Beihang University(北京航空航天大学生物医学工程高精尖创新中心)
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused great casualties and becomes almost the most urgent public health events worldwide. Computed tomography (CT) is a significant screening tool for COVID-19 infection, and automated segmentation of lung infection in COVID-19 CT images will greatly assist diagnosis and health care of patients. However, accurate and automatic segmentation of COVID-19 lung infections remains to be challenging. In this paper we propose a dilated dual attention U-Net (D2A U-Net) for COVID-19 lesion segmentation in CT slices based on dilated convolution and a novel dual attention mechanism to address the issues above. We introduce a dilated convolution module in model decoder to achieve large receptive field, which refines decoding process and contributes to segmentation accuracy. Also, we present a dual attention mechanism composed of two attention modules which are inserted to skip connection and model decoder respectively. The dual attention mechanism is utilized to refine feature maps and reduce semantic gap between different levels of the model. The proposed method has been evaluated on open-source dataset and outperforms cutting edges methods in semantic segmentation. Our proposed D2A U-Net with pretrained encoder achieves a Dice score of 0.7298 and recall score of 0.7071. Besides, we also build a simplified D2A U-Net without pretrained encoder to provide a fair comparison with other models trained from scratch, which still outperforms popular U-Net family models with a Dice score of 0.7047 and recall score of 0.6626. Our experiment results have shown that by introducing dilated convolution and dual attention mechanism, the number of false positives is significantly reduced, which improves sensitivity to COVID-19 lesions and subsequently brings significant increase to Dice score.
Focalyx Technologies(Focalyx科技公司);City University of Hong Kong(香港城市大学);University College London(伦敦大学学院);Urological Research Network(泌尿外科研究网络)
Prostate cancer (PCa) is one of the leading causes of death for men worldwide. Multi-parametric magnetic resonance (mpMR) imaging has emerged as a non-invasive diagnostic tool for detecting and localising prostate tumours by specialised radiologists. These radiological examinations, for example, for differentiating malignant lesions from benign prostatic hyperplasia in transition zones and for defining the boundaries of clinically significant cancer, remain challenging and highly skill-and-experience-dependent. We first investigate experimental results in developing object detection neural net…
The success of supervised lesion segmentation algorithms using Computed Tomography (CT) exams depends significantly on the quantity and variability of samples available for training. While annotating such data constitutes a challenge itself, the variability of lesions in the dataset also depends on the prevalence of different types of lesions. This phenomenon adds an inherent bias to lesion segmentation algorithms that can be diminished, among different possibilities, using aggressive data augmentation methods. In this paper, we present a method for implanting realistic lesions in CT slices to…
NVIDIA AI Technology Center(英伟达人工智能技术中心);Nanyang Technological University(南洋理工大学);Monash University(莫纳什大学)
Lesion detection from computed tomography (CT) scans is challenging compared to natural object detection because of two major reasons: small lesion size and small inter-class variation. Firstly, the lesions usually only occupy a small region in the CT image. The feature of such small region may not be able to provide sufficient information due to its limited spatial feature resolution. Secondly, in CT scans, the lesions are often indistinguishable from the background since the lesion and non-lesion areas may have very similar appearances. To tackle both problems, we need to enrich the feature …
Accurate lesion detection in computer tomography (CT) slices benefits pathologic organ analysis in the medical diagnosis process. More recently, it has been tackled as an object detection problem using the Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Despite the achievements from off-the-shelf CNN models, the current detection accuracy is limited by the inability of CNNs on lesions at vastly different scales. In this paper, we propose a Multi-Scale Booster (MSB) with channel and spatial attention integrated into the backbone Feature Pyramid Network (FPN). In each pyramid level, the proposed MSB captu…
Recently, some pioneering works have preferred applying more complex modules to improve segmentation performances. However, it is not friendly for actual clinical environments due to limited computing resources. To address this challenge, we propose a light-weight model to achieve competitive performances for skin lesion segmentation at the lowest cost of parameters and computational complexity so far. Briefly, we propose four modules: (1) DGA consists of dilated convolution and gated attention mechanisms to extract global and local feature information; (2) IEA, which is based on external atte…
Heidelberg University(海德堡大学);University Medical Center Mannheim(曼海姆大学医学中心)
At present, lesion segmentation is still performed manually (or semi-automatically) by medical experts. To facilitate this process, we contribute a fully-automatic lesion segmentation pipeline. This work proposes a method as a part of the LiTS (Liver Tumor Segmentation Challenge) competition for ISBI 17 and MICCAI 17 comparing methods for automatics egmentation of liver lesions in CT scans. By utilizing cascaded, densely connected 2D U-Nets and a Tversky-coefficient based loss function, our framework achieves very good shape extractions with high detection sensitivity, with competitive scores …
EAGLE: An Efficient Global Attention Lesion Segmentation Model for Hepatic Echinococcosis
School of Computer Technology and Application, Qinghai University(青海大学计算机技术与应用学院);Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University(清华大学计算机科学与技术系);Intelligent Computing and Application Laboratory of Qinghai Province, Qinghai University(青海省智能计算与应用实验室);School of Chemical Engineering, Qinghai University(青海大学化学工程学院);Department of General Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Qinghai University(青海大学附属医院普外科);Department of Medical Engineering Integration and Translational Application, Affiliated Hospital of Qinghai University(青海大学附属医院医学工程整合与转化应用系)
University of Science and Technology of China(中国科学技术大学)
Universal Lesion Detection (ULD) in computed tomography plays an essential role in computer-aided diagnosis. Promising ULD results have been reported by multi-slice-input detection approaches which model 3D context from multiple adjacent CT slices, but such methods still experience difficulty in obtaining a global representation among different slices and within each individual slice since they only use convolution-based fusion operations. In this paper, we propose a novel Slice Attention Transformer (SATr) block which can be easily plugged into convolution-based ULD backbones to form hybrid n…
BrainSegDMlF: A Dynamic Fusion-enhanced SAM for Brain Lesion Segmentation
Southern University of Science and Technology(南方科技大学);Jarvis Research Center, Tencent YouTu Lab(腾讯优图实验室);Westlake University(西湖大学);Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology(深圳先进技术大学);Tencent YouTu Lab(腾讯优图实验室);Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences(深圳先进技术研究所,中国科学院)
Umeå University(于默奥大学);Eindhoven University of Technology(埃因霍温理工大学)
When using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for segmentation of organs and lesions in medical images, the conventional approach is to work with inputs and outputs either as single slice (2D) or whole volumes (3D). One common alternative, in this study denoted as pseudo-3D, is to use a stack of adjacent slices as input and produce a prediction for at least the central slice. This approach gives the network the possibility to capture 3D spatial information, with only a minor additional computational cost. In this study, we systematically evaluate the segmentation performance and computationa…
Accurate liver and lesion segmentation from computed tomography (CT) images are highly demanded in clinical practice for assisting the diagnosis and assessment of hepatic tumor disease. However, automatic liver and lesion segmentation from contrast-enhanced CT volumes is extremely challenging due to the diversity in contrast, resolution, and quality of images. Previous methods based on UNet for 2D slice-by-slice or 3D volume-by-volume segmentation either lack sufficient spatial contexts or suffer from high GPU computational cost, which limits the performance. To tackle these issues, we propose…
SliceMamba with Neural Architecture Search for Medical Image Segmentation
School of Computer Science, Beijing University of Technology(北京工业大学计算机科学学院);Xiaomi Inc(小米公司);Department of Radiology, Capital Medical University Affiliated Beijing Friendship Hospital(首都医科大学附属北京友谊医院放射科);New Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院自动化研究所模式识别新实验室)
Accurate segmentation of retinal vessels is a basic step in Diabetic retinopathy(DR) detection. Most methods based on deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) have small receptive fields, and hence they are unable to capture global context information of larger regions, with difficult to identify lesions. The final segmented retina vessels contain more noise with low classification accuracy. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a DCNN structure named as D-Net. In the proposed D-Net, the dilation convolution is used in the backbone network to obtain a larger receptive field without losing spati…
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic neurological condition characterized by the development of lesions in the white matter of the brain. T2-fluid attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides superior visualization and characterization of MS lesions, relative to other MRI modalities. Follow-up brain FLAIR MRI in MS provides helpful information for clinicians towards monitoring disease progression. In this study, we propose a novel modification to generative adversarial networks (GANs) to predict future lesion-specific FLAIR MRI for MS at fixed time inte…
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 …
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…
DyGLNet: Hybrid Global-Local Feature Fusion with Dynamic Upsampling for Medical Image Segmentation
College of Information Science and Engineering, Henan University of Technology(河南理工大学信息科学与工程学院);School of Science, Sun Yat-sen University(中山大学科学学院);Key Lab of Intelligent Information Processing of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Institute of Computing Technology, CAS(中国科学院智能信息处理重点实验室)
Beyond Self-Attention: Deformable Large Kernel Attention for Medical Image Segmentation
RWTH Aachen University(亚琛工业大学);Iran University of Science and Technology(伊朗科技大学);Shahid Beheshti University(沙希德·贝赫什提大学);Northwestern University(西北大学);University of Regensburg(雷根斯堡大学);Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS(弗劳恩霍夫数字医学研究所MEVIS)
Dual-Encoder Transformer-Based Multimodal Learning for Ischemic Stroke Lesion Segmentation Using Diffusion MRI
Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University(麻醉学、围术期与疼痛医学系,斯坦福大学);Department of Biomedical Sciences, Seoul National University(生物医学科学系,首尔国立大学);Department of Computer Engineering, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)(计算机工程系,国立科学与技术大学(NUST));Department of Computer Science, The University of Alabama(计算机科学系,阿拉巴马大学);Department of Computer Science, Hanyang University(计算机科学系,翰阳大学)
Modeling 3D context is essential for high-performance 3D medical image analysis. Although 2D networks benefit from large-scale 2D supervised pretraining, it is weak in capturing 3D context. 3D networks are strong in 3D context yet lack supervised pretraining. As an emerging technique, \emph{3D context fusion operator}, which enables conversion from 2D pretrained networks, leverages the advantages of both and has achieved great success. Existing 3D context fusion operators are designed to be spatially symmetric, i.e., performing identical operations on each 2D slice like convolutions. However, …
Faculty of Information Technology, University of Science, VNU-HCM(越南胡志明市国家大学科学大学信息技术学院);SBEI School №1228 ”Lefortovo”(第1228号“列福尔托沃”基础普通教育学校)
In the development of technology, there are increasing cases of brain disease, there are more treatments proposed and achieved a positive result. However, with Brain-Lesion, the early diagnoses can improve the possibility for successful treatment and can help patients recuperate better. From this reason, Brain-Lesion is one of the controversial topics in medical images analysis nowadays. With the improvement of the architecture, there is a variety of methods that are proposed and achieve competitive scores. In this paper, we proposed a technique that uses efficient-net for 3D images, especiall…
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA(加利福尼亚大学);LOS ANGELES(洛杉矶)
Image segmentation is widely used in a variety of computer vision tasks, such as object localization and recognition, boundary detection, and medical imaging. This thesis proposes deep learning architectures to improve automatic object localization and boundary delineation for salient object segmentation in natural images and for 2D medical image segmentation. First, we propose and evaluate a novel dilated dense encoder-decoder architecture with a custom dilated spatial pyramid pooling block to accurately localize and delineate boundaries for salient object segmentation. The dilation offers be…
School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland(昆士兰大学信息技术与电气工程学院);Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology(昆士兰科技大学科学与工程学院)
Previous studies on computer aided detection/diagnosis (CAD) in 4D breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) regard lesion detection, segmentation and characterization as separate tasks, and typically require users to manually select 2D MRI slices or regions of interest as the input. In this work, we present a breast MRI CAD system that can handle 4D multimodal breast MRI data, and integrate lesion detection, segmentation and characterization with no user intervention. The proposed CAD system consists of three major stages: region candidate generation, feature extraction and region candidate cla…
University of Sydney(悉尼大学);University of New South Wales(新南威尔士大学);Sydney Neuroimaging Analysis Centre(悉尼神经影像分析中心)
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory and degenerative disease of the central nervous system, characterized by the appearance of focal lesions in the white and gray matter that topographically correlate with an individual patient's neurological symptoms and signs. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides detailed in-vivo structural information, permitting the quantification and categorization of MS lesions that critically inform disease management. Traditionally, MS lesions have been manually annotated on 2D MRI slices, a process that is inefficient and prone to inter-/intra-obser…
SPEEDNet: Salient Pyramidal Enhancement Encoder-Decoder Network for Colonoscopy Images
Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Jabalpur(印度贾巴尔普尔信息技术学院);Gujarat Technological University(古吉拉特理工大学);Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee(印度理工学院鲁尔基分校);SVIMS Tirupati(蒂鲁帕蒂斯里文卡特斯瓦拉医学科学研究所)
Adapting Segment Anything Model 3 for Concept-Driven Lesion Segmentation in Medical Images: An Experimental Study
The Medical Artificial Intelligence and Automation (MAIA) Laboratory, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center(德克萨斯大学西南医学中心放射肿瘤学系医学人工智能与自动化(MAIA)实验室);Medical Image Processing Group, Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania(宾夕法尼亚大学放射学系医学图像处理组);Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center(德克萨斯大学西南医学中心内科学系消化与肝脏疾病科)
State-of-the-Art Stroke Lesion Segmentation at 1/1000th of Parameters
Center for Data Science, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing(内尔·霍奇森·伍德拉夫护理学院数据科学中心);Emory University(埃默里大学);University of South Carolina(南卡罗来纳大学);Georgia State University(佐治亚州立大学)
Fudan University(复旦大学);Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence(人工智能 inception 研究所);Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, Fudan University(复旦大学附属上海公共卫生临床中心)
To counter the outbreak of COVID-19, the accurate diagnosis of suspected cases plays a crucial role in timely quarantine, medical treatment, and preventing the spread of the pandemic. Considering the limited training cases and resources (e.g, time and budget), we propose a Multi-task Multi-slice Deep Learning System (M3Lung-Sys) for multi-class lung pneumonia screening from CT imaging, which only consists of two 2D CNN networks, i.e., slice- and patient-level classification networks. The former aims to seek the feature representations from abundant CT slices instead of limited CT volumes, and …
Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital(东方肝胆外科医院);Ping An Technology(平安科技);Georgia Institute of Technology(佐治亚理工学院);PAII Inc.(PAII公司)
Objectives: to propose a fully-automatic computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) solution for liver lesion characterization, with uncertainty estimation. Methods: we enrolled 400 patients who had either liver resection or a biopsy and was diagnosed with either hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, or secondary metastasis, from 2006 to 2019. Each patient was scanned with T1WI, T2WI, T1WI venous phase (T2WI-V), T1WI arterial phase (T1WI-A), and DWI MRI sequences. We propose a fully-automatic deep CAD pipeline that localizes lesions from 3D MRI studies using key-slice parsing an…
Integrating Radiomics with Deep Learning Enhances Multiple Sclerosis Lesion Delineation
Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology(斯克尔科夫科学与技术研究所);Biomedically Informed Artificial Intelligence Laboratory(生物医学引导人工智能实验室);University of Sharjah(沙迦大学);College of Medicine and Health Sciences(医学与健康科学学院);United Arab Emirates University(阿拉伯联合酋长国大学)
Precise Liver Tumor Segmentation in CT Using a Hybrid Deep Learning-Radiomics Framework
School of Information Science & Engineering, Shandong Normal University(信息科学与工程学院,山东师范大学);Tajik State University of Law, Business and Politics(塔吉克国立法律、商业与政治大学)
The accurate segmentation of multiple types of lesions from adjacent tissues in medical images is significant in clinical practice. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) based on the coarse-to-fine strategy have been widely used in this field. However, multi-lesion segmentation remains to be challenging due to the uncertainty in size, contrast, and high interclass similarity of tissues. In addition, the commonly adopted cascaded strategy is rather demanding in terms of hardware, which limits the potential of clinical deployment. To address the problems above,we propose a novel Prior Attention N…
Hybrid Ensemble of Segmentation-Assisted Classification and GBDT for Skin Cancer Detection with Engineered Metadata and Synthetic Lesions from ISIC 2024 Non-Dermoscopic 3D-TBP Images
Fudan University(复旦大学);Children’s Hospital of Fudan University(复旦大学附属儿科医院);National Children’s Medical Center(国家儿童医学中心)
This paper presents our solution for the 2nd COVID-19 Severity Detection Competition. This task aims to distinguish the Mild, Moderate, Severe, and Critical grades in COVID-19 chest CT images. In our approach, we devise a novel infection-aware 3D Contrastive Mixup Classification network for severity grading. Specifcally, we train two segmentation networks to first extract the lung region and then the inner lesion region. The lesion segmentation mask serves as complementary information for the original CT slices. To relieve the issue of imbalanced data distribution, we further improve the advan…
Sberbank AI Laboratory(俄罗斯联邦储蓄银行人工智能实验室);New York University(纽约大学)
Analysis of chest CT scans can be used in detecting parts of lungs that are affected by infectious diseases such as COVID-19.Determining the volume of lungs affected by lesions is essential for formulating treatment recommendations and prioritizingpatients by severity of the disease. In this paper we adopted an approach based on using an ensemble of deep convolutionalneural networks for segmentation of slices of lung CT scans. Using our models we are able to segment the lesions, evaluatepatients dynamics, estimate relative volume of lungs affected by lesions and evaluate the lung damage stage.…
MSWAL: 3D Multi-class Segmentation of Whole Abdominal Lesions Dataset
Shanghai AI Lab(上海人工智能实验室);University of Liverpool(利物浦大学);Columbia university(哥伦比亚大学);Monash University(墨尔本大学);Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University(西安交通大学利物浦大学);MBZUAI(穆斯林人工智能研究所);People's Hospital of Gong'an County(公安县人民医院)
本文提出首个 3D 全腹部病变多类分割数据集 MSWAL,覆盖七类常见病变,并提出 Inception nnU-Net 框架,在分割性能上显著优于现有方法。
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China(电子科技大学);University of Maryland School of Medicine(马里兰大学医学院);Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey(罗格斯大学(新泽西州立大学))
Computed Tomography (CT) plays an important role in monitoring radiation-induced Pulmonary Fibrosis (PF), where accurate segmentation of the PF lesions is highly desired for diagnosis and treatment follow-up. However, the task is challenged by ambiguous boundary, irregular shape, various position and size of the lesions, as well as the difficulty in acquiring a large set of annotated volumetric images for training. To overcome these problems, we propose a novel convolutional neural network called PF-Net and incorporate it into a semi-supervised learning framework based on Iterative Confidence-…
An early effective screening and grading of COVID-19 has become imperative towards optimizing the limited available resources of the medical facilities. An automated segmentation of the infected volumes in lung CT is expected to significantly aid in the diagnosis and care of patients. However, an accurate demarcation of lesions remains problematic due to their irregular structure and location(s) within the lung. A novel deep learning architecture, Composite Deep network with Feature Weighting (CDNetFW), is proposed for efficient delineation of infected regions from lung CT images. Initially a …
Optimization in Sparse 2D to Dense 3D Weakly Supervised Learning: Application to Multi-Label Segmentation of Large ex vivo MRI Data
NeuroPoly Lab, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Polytechnique Montreal(神经多极实验室,生物医学工程学院,蒙特利尔理工学院);École Centrale de Lyon(里昂中央理工学院);Mila - Quebec AI Institute(魁北克人工智能研究所);Functional Neuroimaging Unit, CRIUGM, University of Montreal(功能神经影像单元,CRIUGM,蒙特利尔大学);Translational Neuroradiology Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health(转化神经放射学部门,国家神经疾病与中风研究所,国家卫生研究院);Translational Imaging in Neurology (ThINk) Basel, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital Basel and University of Basel(神经学转化成像(ThINk)巴塞尔,生物医学工程系,医学院,巴塞尔大学医院和巴塞尔大学);Neurologic Clinic and Policlinic, Departments of Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland(神经科诊所和多科诊所,医学院,巴塞尔大学医院,瑞士);Research Center for Clinical Neuroimmunology and Neuroscience Basel (RC2NB), University Hospital Basel and University of Basel, Switzerland(临床神经免疫学和神经科学巴塞尔研究中心(RC2NB),巴塞尔大学医院和巴塞尔大学,瑞士);National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health(国家神经疾病与中风研究所,国家卫生研究院);Centre de recherche du CHU Sainte-Justine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada(圣朱斯特医院研究中心,蒙特利尔大学,蒙特利尔,魁北克,加拿大);Quantitative MRI core facility, NINDS, NIH(定量MRI核心设施,NINDS,NIH);Experimental Immunotherapeutics Unit, Division of Neuroimmunology and Neurovirology, NINDS, NIH(实验免疫治疗单元,神经免疫学和神经病毒学部门,NINDS,NIH)
Changes in Visual Attention Patterns for Detection Tasks due to Dependencies on Signal and Background Spatial Frequencies
Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston(生物医学工程系,休斯顿大学);Department of Physics, University of Houston(物理系,休斯顿大学);Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston(电气与计算机工程系,休斯顿大学)
Z-SSMNet: Zonal-aware Self-supervised Mesh Network for Prostate Cancer Detection and Diagnosis with Bi-parametric MRI
School of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Sydney(悉尼大学工程学院计算机科学学院);College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University(詹姆斯库克大学科学与工程学院);Institute of Translational Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交通大学转化医学研究院);Nepean Hospital(尼平医院);Telehealth and Technology Centre, Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD)(尼平蓝山地方卫生区远程医疗与技术中心)
Learning from spatially inhomogenous data: resolution-adaptive convolutions for multiple sclerosis lesion segmentation
University Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology(诊断与介入神经放射学大学研究所);Inselspital, Bern University Hospital and University of Bern(伯尔尼大学医院因塞尔spital与伯尔尼大学);Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine(医学人工智能中心);University of Bern(伯尔尼大学)
ToNNO: Tomographic Reconstruction of a Neural Network's Output for Weakly Supervised Segmentation of 3D Medical Images
TheraPanacea;University of Crete(克里特大学);IACM, FORTH(FORTH 应用与计算数学研究所);Archimedes, Athena RC(雅典研究中心阿基米德研究所);CentraleSupélec, University of Paris-Saclay(中央理工-高等电力学院,巴黎-萨克雷大学)
Université de Rouen Normandie(鲁昂诺曼底大学);INSA Rouen(鲁昂国立应用科学学院);Normandie Univ(诺曼底大学);UNIROUEN(鲁昂大学);UNIHAVRE(勒阿弗尔大学)
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has led to a devastating effect on the global public health. Computed Tomography (CT) is an effective tool in the screening of COVID-19. It is of great importance to rapidly and accurately segment COVID-19 from CT to help diagnostic and patient monitoring. In this paper, we propose a U-Net based segmentation network using attention mechanism. As not all the features extracted from the encoders are useful for segmentation, we propose to incorporate an attention mechanism including a spatial and a channel attention, to a U-Net architecture to re-weight…