scholarly journals Neural Network based Whole Heart Segmentation from 3D CT images

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-31
Author(s):  
Marija Habijan ◽  
Hrvoje Leventić ◽  
Irena Galić ◽  
Danilo Babin
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Data Augmentation ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Ground Truth ◽  
Ct Images ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Optimal Learning ◽  
Learning Rates ◽  
Augmentation Techniques ◽  
Whole Heart

The most recent research is showing the importance and suitability of neural networks for medical image processing tasks. Nonetheless, their efficiency in segmentation tasks is greatly dependent on the amount of available training data. To overcome issues of using small datasets, various data augmentation techniques have been developed. In this paper, an approach for the whole heart segmentation based on the convolutional neural network, specifically on the 3D U-Net architecture, is presented. Also, we propose the incorporation of the principal component analysis as an additional data augmentation technique. The network is trained end-to-end, i.e., no pre-trained network is required. Evaluation of the proposed approach is performed on CT images from MICCAI 2017 Multi-Modality Whole Heart Segmentation Challenge dataset, delivering in a three-fold cross-validation an average dice coefficient overlap of 88.2% for the whole heart, i.e. all heart substructures. Final segmentation results show a high accuracy with the ground truth, indicating that the proposed approach is competitive to the state-of-the-art. Additionally, experiments on the influence of different learning rates are provided as well, showing the optimal learning rate of 0.005 to give the best segmentation results.

scholarly journals Automated Ventricular System Segmentation in Paediatric Patients Treated for Hydrocephalus Using Deep Learning Methods

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michał Klimont ◽  
Mateusz Flieger ◽  
Jacek Rzeszutek ◽  
Joanna Stachera ◽  
Aleksandra Zakrzewska ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Data Augmentation ◽  
Ct Images ◽  
Policy Transfer ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Intraobserver Variability ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Brain Scans ◽  
Rate Policy ◽  
Ct Brain

Hydrocephalus is a common neurological condition that can have traumatic ramifications and can be lethal without treatment. Nowadays, during therapy radiologists have to spend a vast amount of time assessing the volume of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) by manual segmentation on Computed Tomography (CT) images. Further, some of the segmentations are prone to radiologist bias and high intraobserver variability. To improve this, researchers are exploring methods to automate the process, which would enable faster and more unbiased results. In this study, we propose the application of U-Net convolutional neural network in order to automatically segment CT brain scans for location of CSF. U-Net is a neural network that has proven to be successful for various interdisciplinary segmentation tasks. We optimised training using state of the art methods, including “1cycle” learning rate policy, transfer learning, generalized dice loss function, mixed float precision, self-attention, and data augmentation. Even though the study was performed using a limited amount of data (80 CT images), our experiment has shown near human-level performance. We managed to achieve a 0.917 mean dice score with 0.0352 standard deviation on cross validation across the training data and a 0.9506 mean dice score on a separate test set. To our knowledge, these results are better than any known method for CSF segmentation in hydrocephalic patients, and thus, it is promising for potential practical applications.

Segmentation Neural Network Incorporating Scale-Space in the Application of Cardiac MRI

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 1494-1505
Author(s):  
Hyo-Hun Kim ◽  
Byung-Woo Hong
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Cardiac Mri ◽  
Network Architecture ◽  
Data Augmentation ◽  
Scale Space ◽  
Segmentation Algorithm ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Training Procedure ◽  
Whole Heart

In this work, we present an image segmentation algorithm based on the convolutional neural network framework where the scale space theory is incorporated in the course of training procedure. The construction of data augmentation is designed to apply the scale space to the training data in order to effectively deal with the variability of regions of interest in geometry and appearance such as shape and contrast. The proposed data augmentation algorithm via scale space is aimed to improve invariant features with respect to both geometry and appearance by taking into consideration of their diffusion process. We develop a segmentation algorithm based on the convolutional neural network framework where the network architecture consists of encoding and decoding substructures in combination with the data augmentation scheme via the scale space induced by the heat equation. The quantitative analysis using the cardiac MRI dataset indicates that the proposed algorithm achieves better accuracy in the delineation of the left ventricles, which demonstrates the potential of the algorithm in the application of the whole heart segmentation as a compute-aided diagnosis system for the cardiac diseases.

Data augmentation techniques for transfer learning improvement in drill wear classification using convolutional neural network

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-12
Author(s):  
Jarosław Kurek ◽  
Joanna Aleksiejuk-Gawron ◽  
Izabella Antoniuk ◽  
Jarosław Górski ◽  
Albina Jegorowa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Transfer Learning ◽  
Data Augmentation ◽  
Good Condition ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Learning Improvement ◽  
Original Dataset ◽  
Augmentation Techniques

This paper presents an improved method for recognizing the drill state on the basis of hole images drilled in a laminated chipboard, using convolutional neural network (CNN) and data augmentation techniques. Three classes were used to describe the drill state: red -- for drill that is worn out and should be replaced, yellow -- for state in which the system should send a warning to the operator, indicating that this element should be checked manually, and green -- denoting the drill that is still in good condition, which allows for further use in the production process. The presented method combines the advantages of transfer learning and data augmentation methods to improve the accuracy of the received evaluations. In contrast to the classical deep learning methods, transfer learning requires much smaller training data sets to achieve acceptable results. At the same time, data augmentation customized for drill wear recognition makes it possible to expand the original dataset and to improve the overall accuracy. The experiments performed have confirmed the suitability of the presented approach to accurate class recognition in the given problem, even while using a small original dataset.

scholarly journals Robust Approach to Supervised Deep Neural Network Training for Real-Time Object Classification in Cluttered Indoor Environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (15) ◽  
pp. 7148
Author(s):  
Bedada Endale ◽  
Abera Tullu ◽  
Hayoung Shi ◽  
Beom-Soo Kang
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Network Architecture ◽  
Input Data ◽  
Deep Neural Network ◽  
Data Augmentation ◽  
Object Classification ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Gradient Descent Algorithm

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are being widely utilized for various missions: in both civilian and military sectors. Many of these missions demand UAVs to acquire artificial intelligence about the environments they are navigating in. This perception can be realized by training a computing machine to classify objects in the environment. One of the well known machine training approaches is supervised deep learning, which enables a machine to classify objects. However, supervised deep learning comes with huge sacrifice in terms of time and computational resources. Collecting big input data, pre-training processes, such as labeling training data, and the need for a high performance computer for training are some of the challenges that supervised deep learning poses. To address these setbacks, this study proposes mission specific input data augmentation techniques and the design of light-weight deep neural network architecture that is capable of real-time object classification. Semi-direct visual odometry (SVO) data of augmented images are used to train the network for object classification. Ten classes of 10,000 different images in each class were used as input data where 80% were for training the network and the remaining 20% were used for network validation. For the optimization of the designed deep neural network, a sequential gradient descent algorithm was implemented. This algorithm has the advantage of handling redundancy in the data more efficiently than other algorithms.

scholarly journals Rethinking the Random Cropping Data Augmentation Method Used in the Training of CNN-Based SAR Image Ship Detector

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Rong Yang ◽  
Robert Wang ◽  
Yunkai Deng ◽  
Xiaoxue Jia ◽  
Heng Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Data Augmentation ◽  
Back Propagation ◽  
Detection Performance ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Sar Image ◽  
Optical Images ◽  
The Neural Network ◽  
Effective Training ◽  
Standard Configuration

The random cropping data augmentation method is widely used to train convolutional neural network (CNN)-based target detectors to detect targets in optical images (e.g., COCO datasets). It can expand the scale of the dataset dozens of times while consuming only a small amount of calculations when training the neural network detector. In addition, random cropping can also greatly enhance the spatial robustness of the model, because it can make the same target appear in different positions of the sample image. Nowadays, random cropping and random flipping have become the standard configuration for those tasks with limited training data, which makes it natural to introduce them into the training of CNN-based synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image ship detectors. However, in this paper, we show that the introduction of traditional random cropping methods directly in the training of the CNN-based SAR image ship detector may generate a lot of noise in the gradient during back propagation, which hurts the detection performance. In order to eliminate the noise in the training gradient, a simple and effective training method based on feature map mask is proposed. Experiments prove that the proposed method can effectively eliminate the gradient noise introduced by random cropping and significantly improve the detection performance under a variety of evaluation indicators without increasing inference cost.

scholarly journals A review: preprocessing techniques and data augmentation for sentiment analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Huu-Thanh Duong ◽  
Tram-Anh Nguyen-Thi
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Sentiment Analysis ◽  
Supervised Learning ◽  
Data Augmentation ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Unseen Data ◽  
Augmentation Techniques ◽  
User Intervention

AbstractIn literature, the machine learning-based studies of sentiment analysis are usually supervised learning which must have pre-labeled datasets to be large enough in certain domains. Obviously, this task is tedious, expensive and time-consuming to build, and hard to handle unseen data. This paper has approached semi-supervised learning for Vietnamese sentiment analysis which has limited datasets. We have summarized many preprocessing techniques which were performed to clean and normalize data, negation handling, intensification handling to improve the performances. Moreover, data augmentation techniques, which generate new data from the original data to enrich training data without user intervention, have also been presented. In experiments, we have performed various aspects and obtained competitive results which may motivate the next propositions.

GaitSense: Towards Ubiquitous Gait-Based Human Identification with Wi-Fi

2022 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Yi Zhang ◽  
Yue Zheng ◽  
Guidong Zhang ◽  
Kun Qian ◽  
Chen Qian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Augmentation ◽  
Gait Recognition ◽  
Wearable Sensors ◽  
Human Identification ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Identification Accuracy ◽  
Identification System ◽  
Gait Patterns ◽  
Training Samples ◽  
Augmentation Techniques

Gait, the walking manner of a person, has been perceived as a physical and behavioral trait for human identification. Compared with cameras and wearable sensors, Wi-Fi-based gait recognition is more attractive because Wi-Fi infrastructure is almost available everywhere and is able to sense passively without the requirement of on-body devices. However, existing Wi-Fi sensing approaches impose strong assumptions of fixed user walking trajectories, sufficient training data, and identification of already known users. In this article, we present GaitSense , a Wi-Fi-based human identification system, to overcome the above unrealistic assumptions. To deal with various walking trajectories and speeds, GaitSense first extracts target specific features that best characterize gait patterns and applies novel normalization algorithms to eliminate gait irrelevant perturbation in signals. On this basis, GaitSense reduces the training efforts in new deployment scenarios by transfer learning and data augmentation techniques. GaitSense also enables a distinct feature of illegal user identification by anomaly detection, making the system readily available for real-world deployment. Our implementation and evaluation with commodity Wi-Fi devices demonstrate a consistent identification accuracy across various deployment scenarios with little training samples, pushing the limit of gait recognition with Wi-Fi signals.

Oversampling Based on Data Augmentation in Convolutional Neural Network for Silicon Wafer Defect Classification

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uzma Batool ◽  
Mohd Ibrahim Shapiai ◽  
Nordinah Ismail ◽  
Hilman Fauzi ◽  
Syahrizal Salleh
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Silicon Wafer ◽  
Data Augmentation ◽  
Imbalanced Data ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Defect Classification ◽  
Learning Method ◽  
Test Set

Silicon wafer defect data collected from fabrication facilities is intrinsically imbalanced because of the variable frequencies of defect types. Frequently occurring types will have more influence on the classification predictions if a model gets trained on such skewed data. A fair classifier for such imbalanced data requires a mechanism to deal with type imbalance in order to avoid biased results. This study has proposed a convolutional neural network for wafer map defect classification, employing oversampling as an imbalance addressing technique. To have an equal participation of all classes in the classifier’s training, data augmentation has been employed, generating more samples in minor classes. The proposed deep learning method has been evaluated on a real wafer map defect dataset and its classification results on the test set returned a 97.91% accuracy. The results were compared with another deep learning based auto-encoder model demonstrating the proposed method, a potential approach for silicon wafer defect classification that needs to be investigated further for its robustness.

scholarly journals Insufficient Data Can Also Rock! Learning to Converse Using Smaller Data with Augmentation

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 6698-6705
Author(s):  
Juntao Li ◽  
Lisong Qiu ◽  
Bo Tang ◽  
Dongmin Chen ◽  
Dongyan Zhao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Augmentation ◽  
Network Models ◽  
Generative Models ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Insufficient Data ◽  
Dialogue System ◽  
Neural Network Models ◽  
Augmentation Techniques ◽  
Training Pair ◽  
Existing Data

Recent successes of open-domain dialogue generation mainly rely on the advances of deep neural networks. The effectiveness of deep neural network models depends on the amount of training data. As it is laboursome and expensive to acquire a huge amount of data in most scenarios, how to effectively utilize existing data is the crux of this issue. In this paper, we use data augmentation techniques to improve the performance of neural dialogue models on the condition of insufficient data. Specifically, we propose a novel generative model to augment existing data, where the conditional variational autoencoder (CVAE) is employed as the generator to output more training data with diversified expressions. To improve the correlation of each augmented training pair, we design a discriminator with adversarial training to supervise the augmentation process. Moreover, we thoroughly investigate various data augmentation schemes for neural dialogue system with generative models, both GAN and CVAE. Experimental results on two open corpora, Weibo and Twitter, demonstrate the superiority of our proposed data augmentation model.

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