Deep Active Lesion Segmentation

Ali Hatamizadeh, Assaf Hoogi, Debleena Sengupta, Wuyue Lu, Brian Wilcox, Daniel Rubin, Demetri Terzopoulos

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Abstract

Lesion segmentation is an important problem in computer-assisted diagnosis that remains challenging due to the prevalence of low contrast, irregular boundaries that are unamenable to shape priors. We introduce Deep Active Lesion Segmentation (DALS), a fully automated segmentation framework that leverages the powerful nonlinear feature extraction abilities of fully Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and the precise boundary delineation abilities of Active Contour Models (ACMs). Our DALS framework benefits from an improved level-set ACM formulation with a per-pixel-parameterized energy functional and a novel multiscale encoder-decoder CNN that learns an initialization probability map along with parameter maps for the ACM. We evaluate our lesion segmentation model on a new Multiorgan Lesion Segmentation (MLS) dataset that contains images of various organs, including brain, liver, and lung, across different imaging modalities—MR and CT. Our results demonstrate favorable performance compared to competing methods, especially for small training datasets.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMachine Learning in Medical Imaging - 10th International Workshop, MLMI 2019, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2019, Proceedings
EditorsHeung-Il Suk, Mingxia Liu, Chunfeng Lian, Pingkun Yan
Pages98-105
Number of pages8
Volume11861
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event10th International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, MLMI 2019 held in conjunction with the 22nd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2019 - Shenzhen, China
Duration: 13 Oct 201913 Oct 2019

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11861 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference10th International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, MLMI 2019 held in conjunction with the 22nd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2019
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShenzhen
Period13/10/1913/10/19

Keywords

  • Active contour model
  • Deep learning
  • Lesion segmentation
  • Level sets

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