Title
A multi-scale pyramid of 3D fully convolutional networks for abdominal multi-organ segmentation.
Abstract
Recent advances in deep learning, like 3D fully convolutional networks (FCNs), have improved the state-of-the-art in dense semantic segmentation of medical images. However, most network architectures require severely downsampling or cropping the images to meet the memory limitations of today's GPU cards while still considering enough context in the images for accurate segmentation. In this work, we propose a novel approach that utilizes auto-context to perform semantic segmentation at higher resolutions in a multi-scale pyramid of stacked 3D FCNs. We train and validate our models on a dataset of manually annotated abdominal organs and vessels from 377 clinical CT images used in gastric surgery, and achieve promising results with close to 90% Dice score on average. For additional evaluation, we perform separate testing on datasets from different sources and achieve competitive results, illustrating the robustness of the model and approach.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1007/978-3-030-00937-3_48
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
DocType
Volume
ISSN
Conference
11073
0302-9743
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.38
10
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Holger Roth173745.70
chen shen210317.21
Hirohisa Oda3458.30
Takaaki Sugino452.12
Masahiro Oda518240.81
Yuichiro Hayashi614724.97
Kazunari Misawa726123.60
Kensaku Mori81125160.28