Full convolutional network based multiple side-output fusion architecture for the segmentation of rectal tumors in magnetic resonance images: A multi-vendor study.

Journal: Medical physics
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Abstract

PURPOSE: Accurate segmentation of rectal tumors is a basic and crucial task for diagnosis and treatment of rectal cancer. To avoid tedious manual delineation, an automatic rectal tumor segmentation model is proposed.

Authors

  • Mengmeng Wang
    Department of General Medicine, Heping Hospital Affiliated to Changzhi Medical College, Changzhi, 046000, China. wangtygqsf@sina.com.
  • Peiyi Xie
    Department of Radiology, The Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510655, China.
  • Zhao Ran
    University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China.
  • Junming Jian
    University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China.
  • Rui Zhang
    Department of Cardiology, Zhongda Hospital, Medical School of Southeast University, Nanjing, China.
  • Wei Xia
    Key Laboratory of Environment and Health, Ministry of Education & Ministry of Environmental Protection, State Key Laboratory of Environmental Health (Incubation), School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
  • Tao Yu
    Department of Smart Experience Design Kookmin University, Seoul 02707, Republic of Korea.
  • Caifeng Ni
    The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215006, China.
  • Jinhui Gu
    Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing, 100700, China.
  • Xin Gao
    Department of Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey, USA.
  • Xiaochun Meng
    Department of Radiology, The Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510655, China.