Title
Catheter segmentation in X-ray fluoroscopy using synthetic data and transfer learning with light U-nets.
Abstract
•Fully-automated, real-time catheter and guidewire segmentation in fluoroscopy using CNNs.•Two-stage training strategy based on transfer learning technique, using synthetic images with predefined labelled segmentation.•Methods to reduce the need of manual pixel-level labelling to facilitate the development of CNN models for semantic segmentation, especially in the medical field.•Lightweight CNN model with a decreased number of network parameters which results in more efficient training and faster run times (84% reduction in testing time compared to the state-of-the-art).
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1016/j.cmpb.2020.105420
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Catheter segmentation,Deep learning,Fluoroscopy,Transfer learning
Journal
192
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0169-2607
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marta Gherardini100.34
Evangelos B Mazomenos29811.86
Arianna Menciassi3768138.57
Danail Stoyanov479281.36