Pan-cancer image segmentation based on feature pyramids and Mask R-CNN framework.

Journal: Medical physics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Cancer, a disease with a high mortality rate, poses a great threat to patients' physical and mental health and can lead to huge medical costs and emotional damage. With the continuous development of artificial intelligence technologies, deep learning-based cancer image segmentation techniques are becoming increasingly important in cancer detection and accurate diagnosis. However, in segmentation tasks, there are differences in efficiency between large and small objects and limited segmentation effects on objects of individual sizes. The previous segmentation frameworks still have room for improvement in multi-scale collaboration when segmenting objects.

Authors

  • Juan Wang
    Institute of Electrical Engineering, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, China.
  • Jian Zhou
    CTIQ, Canon Medical Research USA, Inc., Vernon Hills, 60061, USA.
  • Man Wang
    Department of Forensic Science, Soochow University, Suzhou 215000, Jiangsu Province, China.