Title
Learning Incrementally to Segment Multiple Organs in a CT Image
Abstract
There exists a large number of datasets for organ segmentation, which are partially annotated and sequentially constructed. A typical dataset is constructed at a certain time by curating medical images and annotating the organs of interest. In other words, new datasets with annotations of new organ categories are built over time. To unleash the potential behind these partially labeled, sequentially-constructed datasets, we propose to incrementally learn a multi-organ segmentation model. In each incremental learning (IL) stage, we lose the access to previous data and annotations, whose knowledge is assumingly captured by the current model, and gain the access to a new dataset with annotations of new organ categories, from which we learn to update the organ segmentation model to include the new organs. While IL is notorious for its 'catastrophic forgetting' weakness in the context of natural image analysis, we experimentally discover that such a weakness mostly disappears for CT multi-organ segmentation. To further stabilize the model performance across the IL stages, we introduce a light memory module and some loss functions to restrain the representation of different categories in feature space, aggregating feature representation of the same class and separating feature representation of different classes. Extensive experiments on five open-sourced datasets are conducted to illustrate the effectiveness of our method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1007/978-3-031-16440-8_68
MEDICAL IMAGE COMPUTING AND COMPUTER ASSISTED INTERVENTION, MICCAI 2022, PT IV
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Incremental learning, Partially labeled datasets, Multi-organ segmentation
Conference
13434
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
12
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pengbo Liu100.34
Xia Wang200.34
Mengsi Fan300.34
Hongli Pan400.34
Minmin Yin500.34
Xiaohong Zhu600.34
Dandan Du700.34
Xiaoying Zhao800.34
Li Xiao900.34
Lian Ding1000.34
Xingwang Wu1100.34
S. Kevin Zhou1200.68