Brain tumor segmentation on multimodal MR imaging using multi-level upsampling in decoder

Yan Hu, Xiang Liu, Xin Wen, Chen Niu, Yong Xia

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Abstract

Accurate brain tumor segmentation plays a pivotal role in clinical practice and research settings. In this paper, we propose the multi-level up-sampling network (MU-Net) to learn the image presentations of transverse, sagittal and coronal view and fuse them to automatically segment brain tumors, including necrosis, edema, non-enhancing, and enhancing tumor, in multimodal magnetic resonance (MR) sequences. The MU-Net model has an encoder–decoder structure, in which low level feature maps obtained by the encoder and high level feature maps obtained by the decoder are combined by using a newly designed global attention (GA) module. The proposed model has been evaluated on the BraTS 2018 Challenge validation dataset and achieved an average Dice similarity coefficient of 0.88, 0.74, 0.69 and 0.85, 0.72, 0.66 for the whole tumor, core tumor and enhancing tumor on the validation dataset and testing dataset, respectively. Our results indicate that the proposed model has a promising performance in automated brain tumor segmentation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationBrainlesion
Subtitle of host publicationGlioma, Multiple Sclerosis, Stroke and Traumatic Brain Injuries - 4th International Workshop, BrainLes 2018, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2018, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsFarahani Keyvan, Alessandro Crimi, Theo van Walsum, Mauricio Reyes, Spyridon Bakas, Hugo Kuijf
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages168-177
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783030117252
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019
Event4th International MICCAI Brainlesion Workshop, BrainLes 2018 held in conjunction with the Medical Image Computing for Computer Assisted Intervention Conference, MICCAI 2018 - Granada, Spain
Duration: 16 Sep 201820 Sep 2018

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11384 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference4th International MICCAI Brainlesion Workshop, BrainLes 2018 held in conjunction with the Medical Image Computing for Computer Assisted Intervention Conference, MICCAI 2018
Country/TerritorySpain
CityGranada
Period16/09/1820/09/18

Keywords

  • Brain tumor segmentation
  • Encoder–decoder
  • Global attention
  • Magnetic resonance imaging
  • Multi-level upsampling

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