Title
A Deep Level Set Method For Image Segmentation
Abstract
This paper proposes a novel image segmentation approach that integrates fully convolutional networks (FCNs) with a level set model. Compared with a FCN, the integrated method can incorporate smoothing and prior information to achieve an accurate segmentation. Furthermore, different than using the level set model as a post-processing tool, we integrate it into the training phase to fine-tune the FCN. This allows the use of unlabeled data during training in a semi-supervised setting. Using two types of medical imaging data (liver CT and left ventricle MRI data), we show that the integrated method achieves good performance even when little training data is available, outperforming the FCN or the level set model alone.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1007/978-3-319-67558-9_15
DEEP LEARNING IN MEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS AND MULTIMODAL LEARNING FOR CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Image segmentation, Level set, Deep learning, FCN, Semi-supervised learning, Shape prior
Conference
10553
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
7
0.56
References 
Authors
13
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Min Tang162351.33
Sepehr Valipour2192.10
Zichen Vincent Zhang392.26
Dana Cobzas420722.19
Martin Jagersand510010.96