The flatfish is a major farmed species consumed globally in large quantities. However, due to the densely populated farming environment, flatfish are susceptible to lesions and diseases, making early lesion detection crucial. Traditionally, lesions were detected through visual inspection, but observing large numbers of fish is challenging. Automated approaches based on deep learning technologies have been widely used to address this problem, but accurate detection remains difficult due to the diversity of the fish and the lack of a fish lesion and disease dataset. This study augments fish lesion images using generative adversarial networks and image harmonization methods. Next, lesion detectors are trained separately for three body parts (head, fins, and body) to address individual lesions properly. Additionally, a flatfish lesion and disease image dataset, called FlatIMG, is created and verified using the proposed methods on the dataset. A flash salmon lesion dataset is also tested to validate the generalizability of the proposed methods. The results achieved 12% higher performance than the baseline framework. This study is the first attempt to create a high-quality flatfish lesion image dataset with detailed annotations and propose an effective lesion detection framework. Automatic lesion and disease monitoring can be achieved in farming environments using the proposed methods and dataset.
the University of Sydney（悉尼大学）；Shanghai Jiao Tong University（上海交通大学）
Segmentation of skin lesions is considered as an important step in computer aided diagnosis (CAD) for automated melanoma diagnosis. In recent years, segmentation methods based on fully convolutional networks (FCN) have achieved great success in general images. This success is primarily due to the leveraging of large labelled datasets to learn features that correspond to the shallow appearance as well as the deep semantics of the images. However, the dependence on large dataset does not translate well into medical images. To improve the FCN performance for skin lesion segmentations, researchers…
University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学技术大学）；University of Miami（迈阿密大学）；the First Affiliated Hospital of USTC（中国科学技术大学附属第一医院）
Automatic deep learning segmentation models has been shown to improve both the segmentation efficiency and the accuracy. However, training a robust segmentation model requires considerably large labeled training samples, which may be impractical. This study aimed to develop a deep learning framework for generating synthetic lesions that can be used to enhance network training. The lesion synthesis network is a modified generative adversarial network (GAN). Specifically, we innovated a partial convolution strategy to construct an Unet-like generator. The discriminator is designed using Wasserst…
Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is a leading cause of blindness in working age adults. DR lesions can be challenging to identify in fundus images, and automatic DR detection systems can offer strong clinical value. Of the publicly available labeled datasets for DR, the Indian Diabetic Retinopathy Image Dataset (IDRiD) presents retinal fundus images with pixel-level annotations of four distinct lesions: microaneurysms, hemorrhages, soft exudates and hard exudates. We utilize the HEDNet edge detector to solve a semantic segmentation task on this dataset, and then propose an end-to-end system for pixel…
University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学技术大学）；The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC (Anhui Provincial Hospital)（中国科学技术大学附属第一医院（安徽省立医院））
COVID-19 has become a global pandemic and is still posing a severe health risk to the public. Accurate and efficient segmentation of pneumonia lesions in CT scans is vital for treatment decision-making. We proposed a novel unsupervised approach using cycle consistent generative adversarial network (cycle-GAN) which automates and accelerates the process of lesion delineation. The workflow includes lung volume segmentation, "synthetic" healthy lung generation, infected and healthy image subtraction, and binary lesion mask creation. The lung volume volume was firstly delineated using a pre-traine…
Skin lesion segmentation is a vital task in skin cancer diagnosis and further treatment. Although deep learning based approaches have significantly improved the segmentation accuracy, these algorithms are still reliant on having a large enough dataset in order to achieve adequate results. Inspired by the immense success of generative adversarial networks (GANs), we propose a GAN-based augmentation of the original dataset in order to improve the segmentation performance. In particular, we use the segmentation masks available in the training dataset to train the Mask2Lesion model, and use the mo…
University of Barcelona（巴塞罗那大学）；Universitat Rovira i Virgili（罗维拉-维尔吉利大学）；Khalifa University of Science and Technology（哈利法科学技术大学）；Mil-kin Inc.（Mil-kin公司）；Dhaka Medical College Hospital（达卡医学院附属医院）；University of Warwick（华威大学）；University of Toulouse（图卢兹大学）
The determination of precise skin lesion boundaries in dermoscopic images using automated methods faces many challenges, most importantly, the presence of hair, inconspicuous lesion edges and low contrast in dermoscopic images, and variability in the color, texture and shapes of skin lesions. Existing deep learning-based skin lesion segmentation algorithms are expensive in terms of computational time and memory. Consequently, running such segmentation algorithms requires a powerful GPU and high bandwidth memory, which are not available in dermoscopy devices. Thus, this article aims to achieve …
How to Segment in 3D Using 2D Models: Automated 3D Segmentation of Prostate Cancer Metastatic Lesions on PET Volumes Using Multi-angle Maximum Intensity Projections and Diffusion Models
BC Cancer Research Institute（BC癌症研究所）；University of British Columbia（不列颠哥伦比亚大学）；BC Cancer（BC癌症中心）
Data augmentation can effectively resolve a scarcity of images when training machine-learning algorithms. It can make them more robust to unseen images. We present a lesion conditional Generative Adversarial Network LcGAN to generate synthetic Computed Tomography (CT) images for data augmentation. A lesion conditional image (segmented mask) is an input to both the generator and the discriminator of the LcGAN during training. The trained model generates contextual CT images based on input masks. We quantify the quality of the images by using a fully convolutional network (FCN) score and blurrin…
This report summarises our method and validation results for the ISIC Challenge 2018 - Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection - Task 1: Lesion Segmentation. We present a two-stage method for lesion segmentation with optimised training method and ensemble post-process. Our method achieves state-of-the-art performance on lesion segmentation and we win the first place in ISIC 2018 task1.
This paper summarizes our method and validation results for the ISIC Challenge 2018 - Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection - Task 1: Lesion Segmentation
This paper summarizes our method and validation results for the ISBI Challenge 2017 - Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection - Part I: Lesion Segmentation
We participated the Task 1: Lesion Segmentation. The paper describes our algorithm and the final result of validation set for the ISIC Challenge 2018 - Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection.
In this work, we explore the issue of the inter-annotator agreement for training and evaluating automated segmentation of skin lesions. We explore what different degrees of agreement represent, and how they affect different use cases for segmentation. We also evaluate how conditioning the ground truths using different (but very simple) algorithms may help to enhance agreement and may be appropriate for some use cases. The segmentation of skin lesions is a cornerstone task for automated skin lesion analysis, useful both as an end-result to locate/detect the lesions and as an ancillary task for …
Isfahan University of Technology（伊斯法罕理工大学）；University of British Columbia（不列颠哥伦比亚大学）；University of Michigan（密歇根大学）；McMaster University（麦克马斯特大学）
One of the essential tasks in medical image analysis is segmentation and accurate detection of borders. Lesion segmentation in skin images is an essential step in the computerized detection of skin cancer. However, many of the state-of-the-art segmentation methods have deficiencies in their border detection phase. In this paper, a new class of fully convolutional network is proposed, with new dense pooling layers for segmentation of lesion regions in skin images. This network leads to highly accurate segmentation of lesions on skin lesion datasets which outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms …
Imaging Biomarkers and Computer-Aided Diagnosis Laboratory, Radiology and Imaging Sciences, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center（美国国立卫生研究院临床中心放射与成像科学部成像生物标志物和计算机辅助诊断实验室）；Ping An Insurance Company of China（中国平安保险（集团）股份有限公司）
Lesion segmentation on computed tomography (CT) scans is an important step for precisely monitoring changes in lesion/tumor growth. This task, however, is very challenging since manual segmentation is prohibitively time-consuming, expensive, and requires professional knowledge. Current practices rely on an imprecise substitute called response evaluation criteria in solid tumors (RECIST). Although these markers lack detailed information about the lesion regions, they are commonly found in hospitals' picture archiving and communication systems (PACS). Thus, these markers have the potential to se…
Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA)（蒙特利尔学习算法研究所（MILA））；Centre de recherche du CHUM (CRCHUM)（蒙特利尔大学医院研究中心（CRCHUM））
We propose a model for the joint segmentation of the liver and liver lesions in computed tomography (CT) volumes. We build the model from two fully convolutional networks, connected in tandem and trained together end-to-end. We evaluate our approach on the 2017 MICCAI Liver Tumour Segmentation Challenge, attaining competitive liver and liver lesion detection and segmentation scores across a wide range of metrics. Unlike other top performing methods, our model output post-processing is trivial, we do not use data external to the challenge, and we propose a simple single-stage model that is trai…
Shanghai Jiao Tong University（上海交通大学）；École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec（魁北克大学高等技术学院）；University of Leicester（莱斯特大学）
Skin lesion detection in dermoscopic images is essential in the accurate and early diagnosis of skin cancer by a computerized apparatus. Current skin lesion segmentation approaches show poor performance in challenging circumstances such as indistinct lesion boundaries, low contrast between the lesion and the surrounding area, or heterogeneous background that causes over/under segmentation of the skin lesion. To accurately recognize the lesion from the neighboring regions, we propose a dilated scale-wise feature fusion network based on convolution factorization. Our network is designed to simul…
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…
In this paper we approach the problem of skin lesion segmentation using a convolutional neural network based on the U-Net architecture. We present a set of training strategies that had a significant impact on the performance of this model. We evaluated this method on the ISIC Challenge 2018 - Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection, obtaining threshold Jaccard index of 77.5%.
University of Burgundy（勃艮第大学）；University of Cassino（卡西诺大学）；University of Girona（赫罗纳大学）
Skin lesion segmentation is one of the first steps towards automatic Computer-Aided Diagnosis of skin cancer. Vast variety in the appearance of the skin lesion makes this task very challenging. The contribution of this paper is to apply a power foreground extraction technique called GrabCut for automatic skin lesion segmentation with minimal human interaction in HSV color space. Preprocessing was performed for removing the outer black border. Jaccard Index was measured to evaluate the performance of the segmentation method. On average, 0.71 Jaccard Index was achieved on 1000 images from ISIC c…
Lesion segmentation in medical imaging serves as an effective tool for assessing tumor sizes and monitoring changes in growth. However, not only is manual lesion segmentation time-consuming, but it is also expensive and requires expert radiologist knowledge. Therefore many hospitals rely on a loose substitute called response evaluation criteria in solid tumors (RECIST). Although these annotations are far from precise, they are widely used throughout hospitals and are found in their picture archiving and communication systems (PACS). Therefore, these annotations have the potential to serve as a…
Volumetric segmentation of lesions on CT scans is important for many types of analysis, including lesion growth kinetic modeling in clinical trials and machine learning of radiomic features. Manual segmentation is laborious, and impractical for large-scale use. For routine clinical use, and in clinical trials that apply the Response Evaluation Criteria In Solid Tumors (RECIST), clinicians typically outline the boundaries of a lesion on a single slice to extract diameter measurements. In this work, we have collected a large-scale database, named LesionVis, with pixel-wise manual 2D lesion delin…
Northwestern Polytechnical University（西北工业大学）；University of Adelaide（阿德莱德大学）
Automated skin lesion segmentation and classification are two most essential and related tasks in the computer-aided diagnosis of skin cancer. Despite their prevalence, deep learning models are usually designed for only one task, ignoring the potential benefits in jointly performing both tasks. In this paper, we propose the mutual bootstrapping deep convolutional neural networks (MB-DCNN) model for simultaneous skin lesion segmentation and classification. This model consists of a coarse segmentation network (coarse-SN), a mask-guided classification network (mask-CN), and an enhanced segmentati…
This paper summarizes our method and validation results for part 1 of the ISBI Challenge 2018. Our algorithm makes use of deep encoder-decoder network and novel skin lesion data augmentation to segment the challenge objective. Besides, we also propose an effective testing strategy by applying multi-model comparison.
Stanford（斯坦福大学）；Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc（西门子医疗解决方案美国公司）
We propose a fully-automated method for accurate and robust detection and segmentation of potentially cancerous lesions found in the liver and in lymph nodes. The process is performed in three steps, including organ detection, lesion detection and lesion segmentation. Our method applies machine learning techniques such as marginal space learning and convolutional neural networks, as well as active contour models. The method proves to be robust in its handling of extremely high lesion diversity. We tested our method on volumetric computed tomography (CT) images, including 42 volumes containing …
Unsupervised Skin Lesion Segmentation via Structural Entropy Minimization on Multi-Scale Superpixel Graphs
Beihang University（北京航空航天大学）；Zhongguancun Laboratory（中关村实验室）；Salesforce AI Research（赛富时人工智能研究院）；Didi Chuxing（滴滴出行）；University of Illinois Chicago（伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校）；Lehigh University（理海大学）
Ohio University（俄亥俄大学）；University of Kentucky（肯塔基大学）
In this paper, we develop a two-stage neural network solution for the challenging task of white-matter lesion segmentation. To cope with the vast vari- ability in lesion sizes, we sample brain MR scans with patches at three differ- ent dimensions and feed them into separate fully convolutional neural networks (FCNs). In the second stage, we process large and small lesion separately, and use ensemble-nets to combine the segmentation results generated from the FCNs. A novel activation function is adopted in the ensemble-nets to improve the segmen- tation accuracy measured by Dice Similarity Coef…
The main objective of this project is to segment different breast ultrasound images to find out lesion area by discarding the low contrast regions as well as the inherent speckle noise. The proposed method consists of three stages (removing noise, segmentation, classification) in order to extract the correct lesion. We used normalized cuts approach to segment ultrasound images into regions of interest where we can possibly finds the lesion, and then K-means classifier is applied to decide finally the location of the lesion. For every original image, an annotated ground-truth image is given to …
Tel Aviv University（特拉维夫大学）；Bar-Ilan University（巴伊兰大学）
This paper explores the use of a soft ground-truth mask ("soft mask'') to train a Fully Convolutional Neural Network (FCNN) for segmentation of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) lesions. Detection and segmentation of MS lesions is a complex task largely due to the extreme unbalanced data, with very small number of lesion pixels that can be used for training. Utilizing the anatomical knowledge that the lesion surrounding pixels may also include some lesion level information, we suggest to increase the data set of the lesion class with neighboring pixel data - with a reduced confidence weight. A soft mask…
Melanoma is clinically difficult to distinguish from common benign skin lesions, particularly melanocytic naevus and seborrhoeic keratosis. The dermoscopic appearance of these lesions has huge intra-class variations and high inter-class visual similarities. Most current research is focusing on single-class segmentation irrespective of classes of skin lesions. In this work, we evaluate the performance of deep learning on multi-class segmentation of ISIC-2017 challenge dataset, which consists of 2,750 dermoscopic images. We propose an end-to-end solution using fully convolutional networks (FCNs)…
Tarbiat Modares University（塔比亚特·莫达雷斯大学）；NRP company（NRP公司）；University of Sheffield（谢菲尔德大学）
Lesion segmentation is the first step in most automatic melanoma recognition systems. Deficiencies and difficulties in dermoscopic images such as color inconstancy, hair occlusion, dark corners and color charts make lesion segmentation an intricate task. In order to detect the lesion in the presence of these problems, we propose a supervised saliency detection method tailored for dermoscopic images based on the discriminative regional feature integration (DRFI). DRFI method incorporates multi-level segmentation, regional contrast, property, background descriptors, and a random forest regressor…
This extended abstract describes the participation of RECOD Titans in parts 1 to 3 of the ISIC Challenge 2018 "Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection" (MICCAI 2018). Although our team has a long experience with melanoma classification and moderate experience with lesion segmentation, the ISIC Challenge 2018 was the very first time we worked on lesion attribute detection. For each task we submitted 3 different ensemble approaches, varying combinations of models and datasets. Our best results on the official testing set, regarding the official metric of each task, were: 0.728 (segmentat…
Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR（新加坡科技研究局高性能计算研究所）；Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR（新加坡科技研究局资讯通信研究院）；National Skin Center, National Healthcare Group（国立皮肤中心，国立保健集团）
In this study, a multi-task deep neural network is proposed for skin lesion analysis. The proposed multi-task learning model solves different tasks (e.g., lesion segmentation and two independent binary lesion classifications) at the same time by exploiting commonalities and differences across tasks. This results in improved learning efficiency and potential prediction accuracy for the task-specific models, when compared to training the individual models separately. The proposed multi-task deep learning model is trained and evaluated on the dermoscopic image sets from the International Skin Ima…
Automatic lesion segmentation in dermoscopy images is an essential step for computer-aided diagnosis of melanoma. The dermoscopy images exhibits rotational and reflectional symmetry, however, this geometric property has not been encoded in the state-of-the-art convolutional neural networks based skin lesion segmentation methods. In this paper, we present a deeply supervised rotation equivariant network for skin lesion segmentation by extending the recent group rotation equivariant network~\cite{cohen2016group}. Specifically, we propose the G-upsampling and G-projection operations to adapt the …
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）
Weakly-supervised learning under image-level labels supervision has been widely applied to semantic segmentation of medical lesions regions. However, 1) most existing models rely on effective constraints to explore the internal representation of lesions, which only produces inaccurate and coarse lesions regions; 2) they ignore the strong probabilistic dependencies between target lesions dataset (e.g., enteroscopy images) and well-to-annotated source diseases dataset (e.g., gastroscope images). To better utilize these dependencies, we present a new semantic lesions representation transfer model…
We present a superpixel-based strategy for segmenting skin lesion on dermoscopic images. The segmentation is carried out by over-segmenting the original image using the SLIC algorithm, and then merge the resulting superpixels into two regions: healthy skin and lesion. The mean RGB color of each superpixel was used as merging criterion. The presented method is capable of dealing with segmentation problems commonly found in dermoscopic images such as hair removal, oil bubbles, changes in illumination, and reflections images without any additional steps. The method was evaluated on the PH2 and IS…
Accurate segmentation of breast lesions is a crucial step in evaluating the characteristics of tumors. However, this is a challenging task, since breast lesions have sophisticated shape, topological structure, and variation in the intensity distribution. In this paper, we evaluated the performance of three unsupervised algorithms for the task of breast Magnetic Resonance (MRI) lesion segmentation, namely, Gaussian Mixture Model clustering, K-means clustering and a marker-controlled Watershed transformation based method. All methods were applied on breast MRI slices following selection of regio…
Clinical Center（临床中心）；National Center for Biotechnology Information（国家生物技术信息中心）；National Library of Medicine（国家医学图书馆）；National Institutes of Health（美国国立卫生研究院）
When reading medical images such as a computed tomography (CT) scan, radiologists generally search across the image to find lesions, characterize and measure them, and then describe them in the radiological report. To automate this process, we propose a multitask universal lesion analysis network (MULAN) for joint detection, tagging, and segmentation of lesions in a variety of body parts, which greatly extends existing work of single-task lesion analysis on specific body parts. MULAN is based on an improved Mask R-CNN framework with three head branches and a 3D feature fusion strategy. It achi…
The semantic segmentation of skin lesions is an important and common initial task in the computer aided diagnosis of dermoscopic images. Although deep learning-based approaches have considerably improved the segmentation accuracy, there is still room for improvement by addressing the major challenges, such as variations in lesion shape, size, color and varying levels of contrast. In this work, we propose the first deep semantic segmentation framework for dermoscopic images which incorporates, along with the original RGB images, information extracted using the physics of skin illumination and i…
SD-RetinaNet: Topologically Constrained Semi-Supervised Retinal Lesion and Layer Segmentation in OCT
Christian Doppler Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence in Retina（基督教多普勒人工智能视网膜实验室）；Institute of Artificial Intelligence（人工智能研究所）；Center for Medical Data Science（医学数据科学中心）；Medical University of Vienna（维也纳医学大学）；Computational Imaging Research Lab（计算成像研究实验室）；Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy（生物医学成像与影像引导治疗部门）；Department of Ophthalmology and Optometry（眼科与视光学部门）
Lesion segmentation from the surrounding skin is the first task for developing automatic Computer-Aided Diagnosis of skin cancer. Variant features of lesion like uneven distribution of color, irregular shape, border and texture make this task challenging. The contribution of this paper is to present and compare two different approaches to skin lesion segmentation. The first approach uses watershed, while the second approach uses mean-shift. Pre-processing steps were performed in both approaches for removing hair and dark borders of microscopic images. The Evaluation of the proposed approaches …
VIT University（VIT大学）；SSN College of Engineering（SSN工程学院）
Skin cancer is the most common of all cancers and each year million cases of skin cancer are treated. Treating and curing skin cancer is easy, if it is diagnosed and treated at an early stage. In this work we propose an automatic technique for skin lesion segmentation in dermoscopic images which helps in classifying the skin cancer types. The proposed method comprises of two major phases (1) preprocessing and (2) segmentation using semi-supervised learning algorithm. In the preprocessing phase noise are removed using filtering technique and in the segmentation phase skin lesions are segmented …
Troy High School（特洛伊高中）；Harvard College（哈佛学院）；Beaumont Health（博蒙特健康）
As melanoma diagnoses increase across the US, automated efforts to identify malignant lesions become increasingly of interest to the research community. Segmentation of dermoscopic images is the first step in this process, thus accuracy is crucial. Although techniques utilizing convolutional neural networks have been used in the past for lesion segmentation, we present a solution employing the recently published DeepLab 3, an atrous convolution method for image segmentation. Although the results produced by this run are not ideal, with a mean Jaccard index of 0.498, we believe that with furthe…
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology（孟加拉国工程技术大学）
Characterization of breast lesions is an essential prerequisite to detect breast cancer in an early stage. Automatic segmentation makes this categorization method robust by freeing it from subjectivity and human error. Both spectral and morphometric features are successfully used for differentiating between benign and malignant breast lesions. In this thesis, we used empirical mode decomposition method for semi-automatic segmentation. Sonographic features like ehcogenicity, heterogeneity, FNPA, margin definition, Hurst coefficient, compactness, roundness, aspect ratio, convexity, solidity, for…
Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg（埃尔朗根-纽伦堡大学）；Universitat Politècnica de València（瓦伦西亚理工大学）；Universitätsklinikum Erlangen（埃尔朗根大学医院）
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an effective imaging modality for identifying and localizing breast lesions in women. Accurate and precise lesion segmentation using a computer-aided-diagnosis (CAD) system, is a crucial step in evaluating tumor volume and in the quantification of tumor characteristics. However, this is a challenging task, since breast lesions have sophisticated shape, topological structure, and high variance in their intensity distribution across patients. In this paper, we propose a novel marker-controlled watershed transformation-based approach, which uses the brightest p…
Acute stroke lesion segmentation tasks are of great clinical interest as they can help doctors make better informed treatment decisions. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is time demanding but can provide images that are considered gold standard for diagnosis. Automated stroke lesion segmentation can provide with an estimate of the location and volume of the lesioned tissue, which can help in the clinical practice to better assess and evaluate the risks of each treatment. We propose a deep learning methodology for acute and sub-acute stroke lesion segmentation using multimodal MR imaging. The p…
Asturias University Central Hospital（阿斯图里亚斯大学中央医院）
This abstract briefly describes a segmentation algorithm developed for the ISIC 2017 Skin Lesion Detection Competition hosted at [ref]. The objective of the competition is to perform a segmentation (in the form of a binary mask image) of skin lesions in dermoscopic images as close as possible to a segmentation performed by trained clinicians, which is taken as ground truth. This project only takes part in the segmentation phase of the challenge. The other phases of the competition (feature extraction and lesion identification) are not considered. The proposed algorithm consists of 4 steps: (1)…
We propose a generalized focal loss function based on the Tversky index to address the issue of data imbalance in medical image segmentation. Compared to the commonly used Dice loss, our loss function achieves a better trade off between precision and recall when training on small structures such as lesions. To evaluate our loss function, we improve the attention U-Net model by incorporating an image pyramid to preserve contextual features. We experiment on the BUS 2017 dataset and ISIC 2018 dataset where lesions occupy 4.84% and 21.4% of the images area and improve segmentation accuracy when c…
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…
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）
National Institutes of Health（美国国立卫生研究院）；University of Florida（佛罗里达大学）；Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd.（中国平安保险（集团）股份有限公司）
Volumetric lesion segmentation from computed tomography (CT) images is a powerful means to precisely assess multiple time-point lesion/tumor changes. However, because manual 3D segmentation is prohibitively time consuming, current practices rely on an imprecise surrogate called response evaluation criteria in solid tumors (RECIST). Despite their coarseness, RECIST markers are commonly found in current hospital picture and archiving systems (PACS), meaning they can provide a potentially powerful, yet extraordinarily challenging, source of weak supervision for full 3D segmentation. Toward this e…
In this paper, a novel approach for automatic segmentation and classification of skin lesions is proposed. Initially, skin images are filtered to remove unwanted hairs and noise and then the segmentation process is carried out to extract lesion areas. For segmentation, a region growing method is applied by automatic initialization of seed points. The segmentation performance is measured with different well known measures and the results are appreciable. Subsequently, the extracted lesion areas are represented by color and texture features. SVM and k-NN classifiers are used along with their fus…
