Grayscale medical image segmentation method based on 2D&3D object detection with deep learning.

Journal: BMC medical imaging
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Grayscale medical image segmentation is the key step in clinical computer-aided diagnosis. Model-driven and data-driven image segmentation methods are widely used for their less computational complexity and more accurate feature extraction. However, model-driven methods like thresholding usually suffer from wrong segmentation and noises regions because different grayscale images have distinct intensity distribution property thus pre-processing is always demanded. While data-driven methods with deep learning like encoder-decoder networks always are always accompanied by complex architectures which require amounts of training data.

Authors

  • Yunfei Ge
    School of Computer Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China.
  • Qing Zhang
    Department of Respiratory Medicine, Affiliated Zhongshan Hospital of Dalian University, Dalian, China.
  • Yuantao Sun
    School of Mechanical Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. sun1979@sina.com.
  • Yidong Shen
    Department of Orthopaedics, The First People's Hospital of Yancheng, Yancheng, China.
  • Xijiong Wang
    Shanghai Bojin Electric Instrument and Device Co., Ltd, Shanghai, China.