Learning to segment brain tumors

Laura Daza; Catalina Gómez; Pablo Arbeláez

doi:10.1117/12.2542571

3 January 2020 Learning to segment brain tumors

Laura Daza, Catalina Gómez, Pablo Arbeláez

Proceedings Volume 11330, 15th International Symposium on Medical Information Processing and Analysis; 113300G (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2542571
Event: 15th International Symposium on Medical Information Processing and Analysis, 2019, Medelin, Colombia

Abstract

Automatic segmentation of brain tumors is a challenging problem with many inherent difficulties, such as restricted training data, great intra-class variance, and volumetric images with large computational requirements in terms of processing. To overcome these difficulties, we propose Brain Tumor Parser (BTP), a novel convolutional neural network that takes advantage of a refinement module and global 3D information to perform semantic segmentation of brain structures in volumetric images with multiple modalities. We draw inspiration from recent breakthroughs in edge detection and semantic segmentation in natural images, and we build an accurate and effective three-dimensional network that segments small structures while refining large instances in multi-modal Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). We evaluate our approach on the data from the Brain Tumor segmentation (BraTS) 2017 challenge, obtaining comparable results with the best performing algorithms, while using a single yet efficient architecture.

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Laura Daza, Catalina Gómez, and Pablo Arbeláez "Learning to segment brain tumors", Proc. SPIE 11330, 15th International Symposium on Medical Information Processing and Analysis, 113300G (3 January 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2542571

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