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FocusNetv2: Imbalanced Large and Small Organ Segmentation with Adversarial Shape Constraint for Head and Neck CT Images

Authors :
Gao, Yunhe
Huang, Rui
Yang, Yiwei
Zhang, Jie
Shao, Kainan
Tao, Changjuan
Chen, Yuanyuan
Metaxas, Dimitris N.
Li, Hongsheng
Chen, Ming
Gao, Yunhe
Huang, Rui
Yang, Yiwei
Zhang, Jie
Shao, Kainan
Tao, Changjuan
Chen, Yuanyuan
Metaxas, Dimitris N.
Li, Hongsheng
Chen, Ming
Publication Year :
2021

Abstract

Radiotherapy is a treatment where radiation is used to eliminate cancer cells. The delineation of organs-at-risk (OARs) is a vital step in radiotherapy treatment planning to avoid damage to healthy organs. For nasopharyngeal cancer, more than 20 OARs are needed to be precisely segmented in advance. The challenge of this task lies in complex anatomical structure, low-contrast organ contours, and the extremely imbalanced size between large and small organs. Common segmentation methods that treat them equally would generally lead to inaccurate small-organ labeling. We propose a novel two-stage deep neural network, FocusNetv2, to solve this challenging problem by automatically locating, ROI-pooling, and segmenting small organs with specifically designed small-organ localization and segmentation sub-networks while maintaining the accuracy of large organ segmentation. In addition to our original FocusNet, we employ a novel adversarial shape constraint on small organs to ensure the consistency between estimated small-organ shapes and organ shape prior knowledge. Our proposed framework is extensively tested on both self-collected dataset of 1,164 CT scans and the MICCAI Head and Neck Auto Segmentation Challenge 2015 dataset, which shows superior performance compared with state-of-the-art head and neck OAR segmentation methods.<br />Comment: Accepted by Medical Image Analysis

Details

Database :
OAIster
Publication Type :
Electronic Resource
Accession number :
edsoai.on1269540006
Document Type :
Electronic Resource
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1016.j.media.2020.101831