Title
HIFUNet: Multi-Class Segmentation of Uterine Regions From MR Images Using Global Convolutional Networks for HIFU Surgery Planning
Abstract
Accurate segmentation of uterus, uterine fibroids, and spine from MR images is crucial for high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) therapy but remains still difficult to achieve because of 1) the large shape and size variations among individuals, 2) the low contrast between adjacent organs and tissues, and 3) the unknown number of uterine fibroids. To tackle this problem, in this paper, we propose a large kernel Encoder-Decoder Network based on a 2D segmentation model. The use of this large kernel can capture multi-scale contexts by enlarging the valid receptive field. In addition, a deep multiple atrous convolution block is also employed to enlarge the receptive field and extract denser feature maps. Our approach is compared to both conventional and other deep learning methods and the experimental results conducted on a large dataset show its effectiveness.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/TMI.2020.2991266
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Female,High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound Ablation,Humans,Uterus
Journal
39
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
11
0278-0062
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chen Zhang100.68
Huazhong Shu294090.05
Guanyu Yang32713.48
Faqi Li400.68
Yingang Wen500.34
Qin Zhang600.34
Jean-Louis Dillenseger754.79
J L Coatrieux827351.89