Title
Machine Vision Guided 3d Medical Image Compression For Efficient Transmission And Accurate Segmentation In The Clouds
Abstract
Cloud based medical image analysis has become popular recently due to the high computation complexities of various deep neural network (DNN) based frameworks and the increasingly large volume of medical images that need to be processed. It has been demonstrated that for medical images the transmission from local to clouds is much more expensive than the computation in the clouds itself. Towards this, 3D image compression techniques have been widely applied to reduce the data traffic. However, most of the existing image compression techniques are developed around human vision, i.e., they are designed to minimize distortions that can be perceived by human eyes. In this paper we will use deep learning based medical image segmentation as a vehicle and demonstrate that interestingly,machine and human view the compression quality differently. Medical images compressed with good quality w.r.t. human vision may result in inferior segmentation accuracy. We then design a machine vision oriented 3D image compression framework tailored for segmentation using DNNs. Our method automatically extracts and retains image features that are most important to the segmentation. Comprehensive experiments on widely adopted segmentation frameworks with HVSMR 2016 challenge dataset show that our method can achieve significantly higher segmentation accuracy at the same compression rate, or much better compression rate under the same segmentation accuracy,when compared with the existing JPEG 2000 method. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first machine vision guided medical image compression framework for segmentation in the clouds.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/CVPR.2019.01297
2019 IEEE/CVF CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION (CVPR 2019)
Field
DocType
Volume
Data compression ratio,Machine vision,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Feature (computer vision),Segmentation,Image segmentation,Artificial intelligence,JPEG 2000,Deep learning,Image compression
Journal
abs/1904.08487
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1063-6919
2
0.37
References 
Authors
0
10
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zihao Liu1345.45
Xiaowei Xu26441683.89
Tao Liu3457.40
Qi Liu4173.67
Yanzhi Wang51082136.11
Yiyu Shi655383.22
Wujie Wen730030.61
Meiping Huang8104.36
Haiyun Yuan993.99
Jian Zhuang1010415.09