iW-Net : an automatic and minimalistic interactive lung nodule segmentation deep network

We propose iW-Net, a deep learning model that allows for both automatic and interactive segmentation of lung nodules in computed tomography images. iW-Net is composed of two blocks: the first one provides an automatic segmentation and the second one allows to correct it by analyzing 2 points introduced by the user in the nodule's boundary. For this purpose, a physics inspired weight map that takes the user input into account is proposed, which is used both as a feature map and in the system's loss function. Our approach is extensively evaluated on the public LIDC-IDRI dataset, where we achieve a state-of-the-art performance of 0.55 intersection over union vs the 0.59 inter-observer agreement. Also, we show that iW-Net allows to correct the segmentation of small nodules, essential for proper patient referral decision, as well as improve the segmentation of the challenging non-solid nodules and thus may be an important tool for increasing the early diagnosis of lung cancer.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:9

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Scientific reports - 9(2019), 1 vom: 12. Aug., Seite 11591

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Aresta, Guilherme [VerfasserIn]
Jacobs, Colin [VerfasserIn]
Araújo, Teresa [VerfasserIn]
Cunha, António [VerfasserIn]
Ramos, Isabel [VerfasserIn]
van Ginneken, Bram [VerfasserIn]
Campilho, Aurélio [VerfasserIn]

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Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 09.11.2020

Date Revised 10.01.2021

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/s41598-019-48004-8

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM300167210