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A Lightweight Network for Contextual and Morphological Awareness for Hepatic Vein Segmentation

Authors :
Tong, Guoyu
Jiang, Huiyan
Shi, Tianyu
Han, Xian-Hua
Yao, Yu-Dong
Source :
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics; October 2023, Vol. 27 Issue: 10 p4878-4889, 12p
Publication Year :
2023

Abstract

Accurate segmentation of the hepatic vein can improve the precision of liver disease diagnosis and treatment. Since the hepatic venous system is a small target and sparsely distributed, with various and diverse morphology, data labeling is difficult. Therefore, automatic hepatic vein segmentation is extremely challenging. We propose a lightweight contextual and morphological awareness network and design a novel morphology aware module based on attention mechanism and a 3D reconstruction module. The morphology aware module can obtain the slice similarity awareness mapping, which can enhance the continuous area of the hepatic veins in two adjacent slices through attention weighting. The 3D reconstruction module connects the 2D encoder and the 3D decoder to obtain the learning ability of 3D context with a very small amount of parameters. Compared with other SOTA methods, using the proposed method demonstrates an enhancement in the dice coefficient with few parameters on the two datasets. A small number of parameters can reduce hardware requirements and potentially have stronger generalization, which is an advantage in clinical deployment.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
21682194 and 21682208
Volume :
27
Issue :
10
Database :
Supplemental Index
Journal :
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
Publication Type :
Periodical
Accession number :
ejs64200634
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1109/JBHI.2023.3305644