Hepatic and portal vein segmentation with dual-stream deep neural network.

Journal: Medical physics
PMID: 38648676

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Liver lesions mainly occur inside the liver parenchyma, which are difficult to locate and have complicated relationships with essential vessels. Thus, preoperative planning is crucial for the resection of liver lesions. Accurate segmentation of the hepatic and portal veins (PVs) on computed tomography (CT) images is of great importance for preoperative planning. However, manually labeling the mask of vessels is laborious and time-consuming, and the labeling results of different clinicians are prone to inconsistencies. Hence, developing an automatic segmentation algorithm for hepatic and PVs on CT images has attracted the attention of researchers. Unfortunately, existing deep learning based automatic segmentation methods are prone to misclassifying peripheral vessels into wrong categories.

Authors

  • Jichen Xu
    National Key Laboratory of Human-Machine Hybrid Augmented Intelligence, National Engineering Research Center for Visual Information and Applications, and Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
  • Wei Jiang
    Department of Civil Engineering, Johns Hopkins System Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
  • Jiayi Wu
    State Key Laboratory for Artificial Microstructure and Mesoscopic Physics, Institute of Condensed Matter Physics, School of Physics, Center for Quantitative Biology, Peking University, Beijing, China.
  • Wei Zhang
    The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China.
  • Zhenyu Zhu
    School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, 325 Guohe Road, Shanghai, 200433, China.
  • Jingmin Xin
    Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049, China.
  • Nanning Zheng
    Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049, China.
  • Bo Wang
    Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine Center, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region People's Hospital, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China.

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