Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence,
Journal Year:
2020,
Volume and Issue:
34(07), P. 12565 - 12572
Published: April 3, 2020
In
this
work,
we
propose
to
resolve
the
issue
existing
in
current
deep
learning
based
organ
segmentation
systems
that
they
often
produce
results
do
not
capture
overall
shape
of
target
and
lack
smoothness.
Since
there
is
a
rigorous
mapping
between
Signed
Distance
Map
(SDM)
calculated
from
object
boundary
contours
binary
map,
exploit
feasibility
SDM
directly
medical
scans.
By
converting
task
into
predicting
an
SDM,
show
our
proposed
method
retains
superior
performance
has
better
smoothness
continuity
shape.
To
leverage
complementary
information
traditional
training,
introduce
approximated
Heaviside
function
train
model
by
SDMs
maps
simultaneously.
We
validate
models
conducting
extensive
experiments
on
hippocampus
dataset
public
MICCAI
2015
Head
Neck
Auto
Segmentation
Challenge
with
multiple
organs.
While
carefully
designed
backbone
3D
network
improves
Dice
coefficient
more
than
5%
compared
state-of-the-arts,
produces
smoother
smaller
Hausdorff
distance
average
surface
distance,
thus
proving
effectiveness
method.
Remote Sensing,
Journal Year:
2020,
Volume and Issue:
12(3), P. 417 - 417
Published: Jan. 28, 2020
Land
cover
information
plays
an
important
role
in
mapping
ecological
and
environmental
changes
Earth’s
diverse
landscapes
for
ecosystem
monitoring.
Remote
sensing
data
have
been
widely
used
the
study
of
land
cover,
enabling
efficient
Earth
surface
from
Space.
Although
availability
high-resolution
remote
imagery
increases
significantly
every
year,
traditional
analysis
approaches
based
on
pixel
object
levels
are
not
optimal.
Recent
advancement
deep
learning
has
achieved
remarkable
success
image
recognition
field
shown
potential
high
spatial
resolution
applications,
including
classification
detection.
In
this
paper,
a
comprehensive
review
detection
using
is
provided.
Through
two
case
studies,
we
demonstrated
applications
state-of-the-art
models
to
evaluated
their
performances
against
approaches.
For
task,
deep-learning-based
methods
provide
end-to-end
solution
by
both
spectral
information.
They
better
performance
than
pixel-based
method,
especially
categories
different
vegetation.
objective
method
more
98%
accuracy
large
area;
its
efficiency
could
relieve
burden
traditional,
labour-intensive
method.
However,
considering
diversity
data,
training
datasets
required
order
improve
generalisation
robustness
learning-based
models.
Radiotherapy and Oncology,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
160, P. 175 - 184
Published: May 4, 2021
Delineating
organs
at
risk
(OARs)
on
computed
tomography
(CT)
images
is
an
essential
step
in
radiation
therapy;
however,
it
notoriously
time-consuming
and
prone
to
inter-observer
variation.
Herein,
we
report
a
deep
learning-based
automatic
segmentation
(AS)
algorithm
(WBNet)
that
can
accurately
efficiently
delineate
all
major
OARs
the
entire
body
directly
CT
scans.We
collected
755
scans
of
head
neck,
thorax,
abdomen,
pelvis
manually
delineated
50
images.
The
with
contours
were
split
into
training
test
sets
consisting
505
250
cases,
respectively,
develop
validate
WBNet.
volumetric
Dice
similarity
coefficient
(DSC)
95th-percentile
Hausdorff
distance
(95%
HD)
calculated
evaluate
delineation
quality
for
each
OAR.
We
compared
performance
WBNet
three
AS
algorithms:
one
commercial
multi-atlas-based
(ABAS)
software,
two
algorithms,
namely,
AnatomyNet
nnU-Net.
have
also
evaluated
time
saving
dose
accuracy
WBNet.WBNet
achieved
average
DSCs
0.84
0.81
in-house
public
datasets,
which
outperformed
ABAS,
AnatomyNet,
could
reduce
significantly
perform
well
treatment
planning,
clinically
acceptable
differences
those
manual
delineation.This
study
shows
feasibility
benefits
using
clinical
practice.
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
14, P. 7422 - 7434
Published: Jan. 1, 2021
Automated
water
body
detection
from
satellite
imagery
is
a
fundamental
stage
for
urban
hydrological
studies.
In
recent
years,
various
deep
convolutional
neural
network
(DCNN)-based
methods
have
been
proposed
to
segment
remote
sensing
data
collected
by
conventional
RGB
or
multispectral
such
However,
how
effectively
explore
the
wider
spectrum
bands
of
sensors
achieve
significantly
better
performance
compared
use
only
has
left
underexplored.
this
article,
we
propose
novel
DCNN
model-multichannel
(MC-WBDN)-that
incorporates
three
innovative
components,
i.e.,
multichannel
fusion
module,
an
Enhanced
Atrous
Spatial
Pyramid
Pooling
and
Space-to-Depth/Depth-to-Space
operations,
outperform
state-of-the-art
DCNN-based
methods.
Experimental
results
convincingly
show
that
our
MC-WBDN
model
achieves
remarkable
performance,
more
robust
light
weather
variations,
can
distinguish
tiny
bodies
other
models.
Nature Communications,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
13(1)
Published: Nov. 2, 2022
In
radiotherapy
for
cancer
patients,
an
indispensable
process
is
to
delineate
organs-at-risk
(OARs)
and
tumors.
However,
it
the
most
time-consuming
step
as
manual
delineation
always
required
from
radiation
oncologists.
Herein,
we
propose
a
lightweight
deep
learning
framework
treatment
planning
(RTP),
named
RTP-Net,
promote
automatic,
rapid,
precise
initialization
of
whole-body
OARs
Briefly,
implements
cascade
coarse-to-fine
segmentation,
with
adaptive
module
both
small
large
organs,
attention
mechanisms
organs
boundaries.
Our
experiments
show
three
merits:
1)
Extensively
evaluates
on
67
tasks
large-scale
dataset
28,581
cases;
2)
Demonstrates
comparable
or
superior
accuracy
average
Dice
0.95;
3)
Achieves
near
real-time
in
<2
s.
This
could
be
utilized
accelerate
contouring
All-in-One
scheme,
thus
greatly
shorten
turnaround
time
patients.