IMIIN : An inter-modality information interaction network for 3D multi-modal breast tumor segmentation

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Breast tumor segmentation is critical to the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer. In clinical breast cancer analysis, experts often examine multi-modal images since such images provide abundant complementary information on tumor morphology. Known multi-modal breast tumor segmentation methods extracted 2D tumor features and used information from one modal to assist another. However, these methods were not conducive to fusing multi-modal information efficiently, or may even fuse interference information, due to the lack of effective information interaction management between different modalities. Besides, these methods did not consider the effect of small tumor characteristics on the segmentation results. In this paper, We propose a new inter-modality information interaction network to segment breast tumors in 3D multi-modal MRI. Our network employs a hierarchical structure to extract local information of small tumors, which facilitates precise segmentation of tumor boundaries. Under this structure, we present a 3D tiny object segmentation network based on DenseVoxNet to preserve the boundary details of the segmented tumors (especially for small tumors). Further, we introduce a bi-directional request-supply information interaction module between different modalities so that each modal can request helpful auxiliary information according to its own needs. Experiments on a clinical 3D multi-modal MRI breast tumor dataset show that our new 3D IMIIN is superior to state-of-the-art methods and attains better segmentation results, suggesting that our new method has a good clinical application prospect.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:95

Enthalten in:

Computerized medical imaging and graphics : the official journal of the Computerized Medical Imaging Society - 95(2022) vom: 05. Jan., Seite 102021

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Peng, Chengtao [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Yue [VerfasserIn]
Zheng, Jian [VerfasserIn]
Li, Bin [VerfasserIn]
Shen, Jun [VerfasserIn]
Li, Ming [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Lei [VerfasserIn]
Qiu, Bensheng [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Danny Z [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Breast tumor segmentation
Deep learning
Inter-modality information interaction
Journal Article
Multi-modal
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 02.05.2022

Date Revised 02.05.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.compmedimag.2021.102021

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM333983742