Deep neural network for pancreas segmentation from CT images

Zhanlan Chen, Jiangbin Zheng

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Abstract

Automatic pancreas segmentation from Computed Tomography (CT) images is a prerequisite of clinical practices such as cancer detection, yet challenging due to the variability in shape. To address this challenge, we propose a Hierarchical Convolutional Neural Network (H-CNN) to fuse multi-scale features, which could remedy the lost image details in progressive convolutional and pooling layers. In our proposed H-CNN, a hierarchical fusion block is designed to fuse low-level and high-level features across different layers. The H-CNN is evaluated on NIH pancreas dataset and outperforms the current state-of-art methods by achieving 86.59% ± 4.33% in terms of DSC. The experimental results confirm the effectiveness of the proposed H-CNN.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems - 10th International Conference, BICS 2019, Proceedings
EditorsJinchang Ren, Amir Hussain, Huimin Zhao, Jun Cai, Rongjun Chen, Yinyin Xiao, Kaizhu Huang, Jiangbin Zheng
PublisherSpringer
Pages406-413
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)9783030394301
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
Event10th International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems, BICS 2019 - Guangzhou, China
Duration: 13 Jul 201914 Jul 2019

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11691 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference10th International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems, BICS 2019
Country/TerritoryChina
CityGuangzhou
Period13/07/1914/07/19

Keywords

  • Convolutional Neural Network
  • Medical image segmentation
  • Pancreas segmentation

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