Article ; Online: CoLe-CNN: Context-learning convolutional neural network with adaptive loss function for lung nodule segmentation.
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
2020 Volume 198, Page(s) 105792
Abstract: Background and objective: An accurate segmentation of lung nodules in computed tomography images is a crucial step for the physical characterization of the tumour. Being often completely manually accomplished, nodule segmentation turns to be a tedious ... ...
| Abstract | Background and objective: An accurate segmentation of lung nodules in computed tomography images is a crucial step for the physical characterization of the tumour. Being often completely manually accomplished, nodule segmentation turns to be a tedious and time-consuming procedure and this represents a high obstacle in clinical practice. In this paper, we propose a novel Convolutional Neural Network for nodule segmentation that combines a light and efficient architecture with innovative loss function and segmentation strategy. Methods: In contrast to most of the standard end-to-end architectures for nodule segmentation, our network learns the context of the nodules by producing two masks representing all the background and secondary-important elements in the Computed Tomography scan. The nodule is detected by subtracting the context from the original scan image. Additionally, we introduce an asymmetric loss function that automatically compensates for potential errors in the nodule annotations. We trained and tested our Neural Network on the public LIDC-IDRI database, compared it with the state of the art and run a pseudo-Turing test between four radiologists and the network. Results: The results proved that the behaviour of the algorithm is very near to the human performance and its segmentation masks are almost indistinguishable from the ones made by the radiologists. Our method clearly outperforms the state of the art on CT nodule segmentation in terms of F1 score and IoU of 3.3% and 4.7%, respectively. Conclusions: The main structure of the network ensures all the properties of the UNet architecture, while the Multi Convolutional Layers give a more accurate pattern recognition. The newly adopted solutions also increase the details on the border of the nodule, even under the noisiest conditions. This method can be applied now for single CT slice nodule segmentation and it represents a starting point for the future development of a fully automatic 3D segmentation software. |
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| MeSH term(s) | Algorithms ; Databases, Factual ; Humans ; Lung/diagnostic imaging ; Neural Networks, Computer ; Tomography, X-Ray Computed |
| Language | English |
| Publishing date | 2020-10-15 |
| Publishing country | Ireland |
| Document type | Journal Article |
| ZDB-ID | 632564-6 |
| ISSN | 1872-7565 ; 0169-2607 |
| ISSN (online) | 1872-7565 |
| ISSN | 0169-2607 |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.cmpb.2020.105792 |
| Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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