单位:[1]Beijing Key Laboratory of Computational Intelligence and Intelligent System, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, China [2] Department of Radiology, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100050, China医技科室影像中心放射科首都医科大学附属北京友谊医院
The inner ear labyrinth is a combined sensory organ of hearing and balance, which is surrounding the bony cavity located in the petrous temporal bone. The structure of the inner ear labyrinth plays an important role in otology research and clinic diagnosis of ear diseases. Automatic and accurate segmentation of the inner ear labyrinth is a foundation of computer-aided temporal bone quantitively measurements and diagnosis. The inner ear labyrinth is characterized by its complex morphology, small size, and high labeling cost, which brings challenges for deep learning-based automatic segmentation methods. In this paper, we propose a robust segmentation method for the labyrinth in temporal bone CT images via multi-model inconsistency. In the active learning paradigm, we design an informative sample assessment strategy for screening informative unlabeled data. An observer network is introduced to confirm the confidence of segmented voxels based on the inconsistency to a backbone segmentation network. To further improve the efficiency of the sample screening, a maximum-connected probability map (MCP-Map) is introduced to eliminate the influence of outliers in the result of coarse segmentation. Experimental results show that our methods have the highest labeling efficiency and the lowest labeling cost compared with several existing active learning methods. With 40% labeled reduce, our method achieved 95.67% in Dice Similarity Coefficient (DSC), which is the state-of-the-art in the labyrinth segmentation.
基金:
National Key R&D Program of China [2020YFA0712200]; Natural Science Foundation of Beijing [7212199]; National Natural Science Foundation of China [61527807]
第一作者单位:[1]Beijing Key Laboratory of Computational Intelligence and Intelligent System, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, China
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推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714):
Li Xiaoguang,Zhu Ziyao,Yin Hongxia,et al.Labyrinth net: A robust segmentation method for inner ear labyrinth in CT images[J].COMPUTERS in BIOLOGY and MEDICINE.2022,146:doi:10.1016/j.compbiomed.2022.105630.
APA:
Li Xiaoguang,Zhu Ziyao,Yin Hongxia,Wang Zhenchang,Zhuo Li&Zhou Yichao.(2022).Labyrinth net: A robust segmentation method for inner ear labyrinth in CT images.COMPUTERS in BIOLOGY and MEDICINE,146,
MLA:
Li Xiaoguang,et al."Labyrinth net: A robust segmentation method for inner ear labyrinth in CT images".COMPUTERS in BIOLOGY and MEDICINE 146.(2022)