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Deep CNN ensembles and suggestive annotations for infant brain MRI segmentation

Authors
Dolz, JoseDesrosiers, ChristianWang, LiYuan, JingShen, DinggangBen Ayed, Ismail
Issue Date
1월-2020
Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
Keywords
Deep learning; MRI; Infant brain segmentation; 3D CNN; ensemble learning
Citation
COMPUTERIZED MEDICAL IMAGING AND GRAPHICS, v.79
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SCIE
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Journal Title
COMPUTERIZED MEDICAL IMAGING AND GRAPHICS
Volume
79
URI
https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/58581
DOI
10.1016/j.compmedimag.2019.101660
ISSN
0895-6111
Abstract
Precise 3D segmentation of infant brain tissues is an essential step towards comprehensive volumetric studies and quantitative analysis of early brain development. However, computing such segmentations is very challenging, especially for 6-month infant brain, due to the poor image quality, among other difficulties inherent to infant brain MRI, e.g., the isointense contrast between white and gray matter and the severe partial volume effect due to small brain sizes. This study investigates the problem with an ensemble of semi-dense fully convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which employs T1-weighted and T2-weighted MR images as input. We demonstrate that the ensemble agreement is highly correlated with the segmentation errors. Therefore, our method provides measures that can guide local user corrections. To the best of our knowledge, this work is the first ensemble of 3D CNNs for suggesting annotations within images. Our quasi-dense architecture allows the efficient propagation of gradients during training, while limiting the number of parameters, requiring one order of magnitude less parameters than popular medical image segmentation networks such as 3D U-Net (Cicek, et al.). We also investigated the impact that early or late fusions of multiple image modalities might have on the performances of deep architectures. We report evaluations of our method on the public data of the MICCAI iSEG-2017 Challenge on 6-month infant brain MRI segmentation, and show very competitive results among 21 teams, ranking first or second in most metrics. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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