scholarly journals Two-Stage Liver and Tumor Segmentation Algorithm Based on Convolutional Neural Network

Diagnostics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 1806
Author(s):  
Lu Meng ◽  
Qianqian Zhang ◽  
Sihang Bu
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Liver Tumors ◽  
Segmentation Algorithm ◽  
Tumor Segmentation ◽  
Liver Segmentation ◽  
Dice Coefficient ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Two Stage ◽  
Public Data

The liver is an essential metabolic organ of the human body, and malignant liver tumors seriously affect and threaten human life. The segmentation algorithm for liver and liver tumors is one of the essential branches of computer-aided diagnosis. This paper proposed a two-stage liver and tumor segmentation algorithm based on the convolutional neural network (CNN). In the present study, we used two stages to segment the liver and tumors: liver localization and tumor segmentation. In the liver localization stage, the network segments the liver region, adopts the encoding–decoding structure and long-distance feature fusion operation, and utilizes the shallow features’ spatial information to improve liver identification. In the tumor segmentation stage, based on the liver segmentation results of the first two steps, a CNN model was designed to accurately identify the liver tumors by using the 2D image features and 3D spatial features of the CT image slices. At the same time, we use the attention mechanism to improve the segmentation performance of small liver tumors. The proposed algorithm was tested on the public data set Liver Tumor Segmentation Challenge (LiTS). The Dice coefficient of liver segmentation was 0.967, and the Dice coefficient of tumor segmentation was 0.725. The proposed algorithm can accurately segment the liver and liver tumors in CT images. Compared with other state-of-the-art algorithms, the segmentation results of the proposed algorithm rank the highest in the Dice coefficient.

scholarly journals Dynamic Regulation of Level Set Parameters Using 3D Convolutional Neural Network for Liver Tumor Segmentation

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhuofu Deng ◽  
Qingzhe Guo ◽  
Zhiliang Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Level Set ◽  
Liver Tumors ◽  
Window Size ◽  
Energy Functional ◽  
Tumor Segmentation ◽  
Dynamic Regulation ◽  
Low Contrast ◽  
3D Cnn

Segmentation of liver tumors plays an important role in the choice of therapeutic strategies for liver disease and treatment monitoring. In this paper, we generalize the process of a level set with a novel algorithm of dynamic regulation to energy functional parameters. The presented method is fully automatic once the tumor has been detected. First, a 3D convolutional neural network with dense layers for classification is used to estimate current contour location relative to the tumor boundary. Second, the output 3D CNN probabilities can dynamically regulate parameters of the level set functional over the process of segmentation. Finally, for full automation, appropriate initializations and local window size are generated based on the current contour position probabilities. We demonstrate the proposed method on the dataset of MICCAI 2017 LiTS Challenge and 3DIRCADb that include low contrast and heterogeneous tumors as well as noisy images. To illustrate the strength of our method, we evaluated it against the state-of-the-art methods. Compared with the level set framework with fixed parameters, our method performed better significantly with an average DICE improvement of 0.15. We also analyzed a challenging dataset 3DIRCADb of tumors and obtained a competitive DICE of 0.85±0.06 with the proposed method.

A Novel Approach of Lung Tumor Segmentation Using a 3D Deep Convolutional Neural Network

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Shweta Tyagi ◽  
Sanjay N. Talbar ◽  
Abhishek Mahajan
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Lung Cancer ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Lung Tumor ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Tumor Segmentation ◽  
Lung Tumour ◽  
Dice Coefficient ◽  
Tumour Segmentation ◽  
Diagnosis Of Lung Cancer

Cancer is one of the most life-threatening diseases in the world, and lung cancer is the leading cause of death worldwide. If not detected at an early stage, the survival rate of lung cancer patients can be very low. To treat patients in later stages, one needs to analyze the tumour region. For accurate diagnosis of lung cancer, the first step is to detect and segment the tumor. In this chapter, an approach for segmentation of a lung tumour is presented. For pre-processing of lung CT images, simple image processing like morphological operations is used, and for tumour segmentation task, a 3D convolutional neural network (CNN) is used. The CNN architecture consists of a 3D encoder block followed by 3D decoder block just like U-Net but with deformable convolution blocks. For this study, two datasets have been used; one is the online-available NSCLC Radiomics dataset, and the other is collected from an Indian local hospital. The approach proposed in this chapter is evaluated in terms of dice coefficient. This approach is able to give significant results with a dice coefficient of 77.23%.

scholarly journals Kidney and Kidney Tumor Segmentation Using Two- stage Convolutional Neural Network

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junghyun Lee ◽  
Joonyoung Song ◽  
Serin Yang ◽  
Inhwa Han ◽  
Jong Chul Ye
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Tumor Segmentation ◽  
Kidney Tumor ◽  
Two Stage

scholarly journals A Real-time Driver Fatigue Detection Method Based on Two-Stage Convolutional Neural Network

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 15374-15379
Author(s):  
Hu He ◽  
Xiaoyong Zhang ◽  
Fu Jiang ◽  
Chenglong Wang ◽  
Yingze Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Detection Method ◽  
Driver Fatigue ◽  
Two Stage ◽  
Fatigue Detection

scholarly journals Brain Tumor Segmentation using K-Means Clustering and Detection using Convolutional Neural Network

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 1452-1455
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Image Processing ◽  
Brain Tumor ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Clustering Algorithm ◽  
Tumor Segmentation ◽  
Brain Tumor Segmentation ◽  
Mri Scans ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Processing Techniques

This paper presents brain tumor detection and segmentation using image processing techniques. Convolutional neural networks can be applied for medical research in brain tumor analysis. The tumor in the MRI scans is segmented using the K-means clustering algorithm which is applied of every scan and the feed it to the convolutional neural network for training and testing. In our CNN we propose to use ReLU and Sigmoid activation functions to determine our end result. The training is done only using the CPU power and no GPU is used. The research is done in two phases, image processing and applying neural network.

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