Title
W-net: Bridged U-net for 2D Medical Image Segmentation.
Abstract
In this paper, we focus on three problems in deep learning based medical image segmentation. Firstly, U-net, as a popular model for medical image segmentation, is difficult to train when convolutional layers increase even though a deeper network usually has a better generalization ability because of more learnable parameters. Secondly, the exponential ReLU (ELU), as an alternative of ReLU, is not much different from ReLU when the network of interest gets deep. Thirdly, the Dice loss, as one of the pervasive loss functions for medical image segmentation, is not effective when the prediction is close to ground truth and will cause oscillation during training. To address the aforementioned three problems, we propose and validate a deeper network that can fit medical image datasets that are usually small in the sample size. Meanwhile, we propose a new loss function to accelerate the learning process and a combination of different activation functions to improve the network performance. Our experimental results suggest that our network is comparable or superior to state-of-the-art methods.
Year
Venue
Field
2018
arXiv: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Exponential function,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Image segmentation,Ground truth,Artificial intelligence,Deep learning,Dice,Sample size determination,Network performance
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1807.04459
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wanli Chen1135.42
Yue Zhang218453.93
Junjun He371.46
Yu Qiao42267152.01
yifan chen5199.10
Hongjian Shi611.02
Xiaoying Tang735.44