Segmentation of Brain Tumor Tissues in HGG and LGG MR Images Using 3D U-net Convolutional Neural Network

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Poornachandra Sandur ◽  
C. Naveena ◽  
V.N. Manjunath Aradhya ◽  
Nagasundara K. B.

The quantitative assessment of tumor extent is necessary for surgical planning, as well as monitoring of tumor growth or shrinkage, and radiotherapy planning. For brain tumors, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is used as a standard for diagnosis and prognosis. Manually segmenting brain tumors from 3D MRI volumes is tedious and depends on inter and intra observer variability. In the clinical facilities, a reliable fully automatic brain tumor segmentation method is necessary for the accurate delineation of tumor sub regions. This article presents a 3D U-net Convolutional Neural Network for segmentation of a brain tumor. The proposed method achieves a mean dice score of 0.83, a specificity of 0.80 and a sensitivity of 0.81 for segmenting the whole tumor, and for the tumor core region a mean dice score of 0.76, a specificity of 0.79 and a sensitivity of 0.73. For the enhancing region, the mean dice score is 0.68, a specificity of 0.73 and a sensitivity of 0.77. From the experimental analysis, the proposed U-net model achieved considerably good results compared to the other segmentation models.

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Yongchao Jiang ◽  
Mingquan Ye ◽  
Daobin Huang ◽  
Xiaojie Lu

Automatic and accurate segmentation of brain tumors plays an important role in the diagnosis and treatment of brain tumors. In order to improve the accuracy of brain tumor segmentation, an improved multimodal MRI brain tumor segmentation algorithm based on U-net is proposed in this paper. In the original U-net, the contracting path uses the pooling layer to reduce the resolution of the feature image and increase the receptive field. In the expanding path, the up sampling is used to restore the size of the feature image. In this process, some details of the image will be lost, leading to low segmentation accuracy. This paper proposes an improved convolutional neural network named AIU-net (Atrous-Inception U-net). In the encoder of U-net, A-inception (Atrous-inception) module is introduced to replace the original convolution block. The A-inception module is an inception structure with atrous convolution, which increases the depth and width of the network and can expand the receptive field without adding additional parameters. In order to capture the multiscale features, the atrous spatial pyramid pooling module (ASPP) is introduced. The experimental results on the BraTS (the multimodal brain tumor segmentation challenge) dataset show that the dice score obtained by this method is 0.93 for the enhancing tumor region, 0.86 for the whole tumor region, and 0.92 for the tumor core region, and the segmentation accuracy is improved.


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.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Wentao Wu ◽  
Daning Li ◽  
Jiaoyang Du ◽  
Xiangyu Gao ◽  
Wen Gu ◽  
...  

Among the currently proposed brain segmentation methods, brain tumor segmentation methods based on traditional image processing and machine learning are not ideal enough. Therefore, deep learning-based brain segmentation methods are widely used. In the brain tumor segmentation method based on deep learning, the convolutional network model has a good brain segmentation effect. The deep convolutional network model has the problems of a large number of parameters and large loss of information in the encoding and decoding process. This paper proposes a deep convolutional neural network fusion support vector machine algorithm (DCNN-F-SVM). The proposed brain tumor segmentation model is mainly divided into three stages. In the first stage, a deep convolutional neural network is trained to learn the mapping from image space to tumor marker space. In the second stage, the predicted labels obtained from the deep convolutional neural network training are input into the integrated support vector machine classifier together with the test images. In the third stage, a deep convolutional neural network and an integrated support vector machine are connected in series to train a deep classifier. Run each model on the BraTS dataset and the self-made dataset to segment brain tumors. The segmentation results show that the performance of the proposed model is significantly better than the deep convolutional neural network and the integrated SVM classifier.


2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Siyu Xiong ◽  
Guoqing Wu ◽  
Xitian Fan ◽  
Xuan Feng ◽  
Zhongcheng Huang ◽  
...  

Abstract Background Brain tumor segmentation is a challenging problem in medical image processing and analysis. It is a very time-consuming and error-prone task. In order to reduce the burden on physicians and improve the segmentation accuracy, the computer-aided detection (CAD) systems need to be developed. Due to the powerful feature learning ability of the deep learning technology, many deep learning-based methods have been applied to the brain tumor segmentation CAD systems and achieved satisfactory accuracy. However, deep learning neural networks have high computational complexity, and the brain tumor segmentation process consumes significant time. Therefore, in order to achieve the high segmentation accuracy of brain tumors and obtain the segmentation results efficiently, it is very demanding to speed up the segmentation process of brain tumors. Results Compared with traditional computing platforms, the proposed FPGA accelerator has greatly improved the speed and the power consumption. Based on the BraTS19 and BraTS20 dataset, our FPGA-based brain tumor segmentation accelerator is 5.21 and 44.47 times faster than the TITAN V GPU and the Xeon CPU. In addition, by comparing energy efficiency, our design can achieve 11.22 and 82.33 times energy efficiency than GPU and CPU, respectively. Conclusion We quantize and retrain the neural network for brain tumor segmentation and merge batch normalization layers to reduce the parameter size and computational complexity. The FPGA-based brain tumor segmentation accelerator is designed to map the quantized neural network model. The accelerator can increase the segmentation speed and reduce the power consumption on the basis of ensuring high accuracy which provides a new direction for the automatic segmentation and remote diagnosis of brain tumors.


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