SPHERICAL TRANSFORMER FOR QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF PEDIATRIC CORTICAL SURFACES

Brain cortical surfaces, which have an intrinsic spherical topology, are typically represented by triangular meshes and mapped onto a spherical manifold in neuroimaging analysis. Inspired by the strong capability of feature learning in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), spherical CNNs have been developed accordingly and achieved many successes in cortical surface analysis. Motivated by the recent success of the transformer, in this paper, for the first of time, we extend the transformer into the spherical space and propose the spherical transformer, which can better learn contextual and structural features than spherical CNNs. We applied the spherical transformer in the important task of automatic quality assessment of infant cortical surfaces, which is a necessary procedure to identify problematic cases due to extremely low tissue contrast and strong motion effects in pediatric brain MRI studies. Experiments on 1,860 infant cortical surfaces validated its superior effectiveness and efficiency in comparison with spherical CNNs.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:2022

Enthalten in:

Proceedings. IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging - 2022(2022) vom: 28. März

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Cheng, Jiale [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Xin [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Fenqiang [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Zhengwang [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Ya [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Ying [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Weili [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Li [VerfasserIn]
Li, Gang [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cortical Surface
Journal Article
Quality Assessment
Transformer
Triangular Mesh

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Date Revised 16.07.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1109/isbi52829.2022.9761609

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM340949430