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Coarse-to-fine airway segmentation using multi information fusion network and CNN-based region growing

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Guo, Jinquan (Guo, Jinquan.) [1] | Fu, Rongda (Fu, Rongda.) [2] | Pan, Lin (Pan, Lin.) [3] | Unfold

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Background and Objectives: Automatic airway segmentation from chest computed tomography (CT) scans plays an important role in pulmonary disease diagnosis and computer-assisted therapy. However, low contrast at peripheral branches and complex tree-like structures remain as two mainly challenges for airway segmentation. Recent research has illustrated that deep learning methods perform well in segmentation tasks. Motivated by these works, a coarse-to-fine segmentation framework is proposed to obtain a complete airway tree. Methods: Our framework segments the overall airway and small branches via the multi-information fusion convolution neural network (Mif-CNN) and the CNN-based region growing, respectively. In Mif-CNN, atrous spatial pyramid pooling (ASPP) is integrated into a u-shaped network, and it can expend the receptive field and capture multi-scale information. Meanwhile, boundary and location information are incorporated into semantic information. These information are fused to help Mif-CNN utilize additional context knowledge and useful features. To improve the performance of the segmentation result, the CNN-based region growing method is designed to focus on obtaining small branches. A voxel classification network (VCN), which can entirely capture the rich information around each voxel, is applied to classify the voxels into airway and non-airway. In addition, a shape reconstruction method is used to refine the airway tree. Results: We evaluate our method on a private dataset and a public dataset from EXACT09. Compared with the segmentation results from other methods, our method demonstrated promising accuracy in complete airway tree segmentation. In the private dataset, the Dice similarity coefficient (DSC), Intersection over Union (IoU), false positive rate (FPR), and sensitivity are 93.5%, 87.8%, 0.015%, and 90.8%, respectively. In the public dataset, the DSC, IoU, FPR, and sensitivity are 95.8%, 91.9%, 0.053% and 96.6%, respectively. Conclusion: The proposed Mif-CNN and CNN-based region growing method segment the airway tree accurately and efficiently in CT scans. Experimental results also demonstrate that the framework is ready for application in computer-aided diagnosis systems for lung disease and other related works. © 2021

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Classification (of information) Computer aided diagnosis Computerized tomography Convolution Deep learning Disease control Image segmentation Information fusion Pulmonary diseases Semantics

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  • [ 1 ] [Guo, Jinquan]School of Mechanical engineering and Automation, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou; 350108, China
  • [ 2 ] [Fu, Rongda]School of Mechanical engineering and Automation, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou; 350108, China
  • [ 3 ] [Pan, Lin]School of Physics and Information Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou; 350108, China
  • [ 4 ] [Zheng, Shaohua]School of Physics and Information Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou; 350108, China
  • [ 5 ] [Huang, Liqin]School of Physics and Information Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou; 350108, China
  • [ 6 ] [Zheng, Bin]Thoracic Department, Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, China
  • [ 7 ] [He, Bingwei]School of Mechanical engineering and Automation, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou; 350108, China

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Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

ISSN: 0169-2607

Year: 2022

Volume: 215

6 . 1

JCR@2022

4 . 9 0 0

JCR@2023

ESI HC Threshold:61

JCR Journal Grade:1

CAS Journal Grade:2

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SCOPUS Cited Count: 7

30 Days PV: 2

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