Self-supervised context-aware correlation filter for robust landmark tracking in liver ultrasound sequences

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OBJECTIVES: Respiratory motion-induced displacement of internal organs poses a significant challenge in image-guided radiation therapy, particularly affecting liver landmark tracking accuracy.

METHODS: Addressing this concern, we propose a self-supervised method for robust landmark tracking in long liver ultrasound sequences. Our approach leverages a Siamese-based context-aware correlation filter network, trained by using the consistency loss between forward tracking and back verification. By effectively utilizing both labeled and unlabeled liver ultrasound images, our model, Siam-CCF , mitigates the impact of speckle noise and artifacts on ultrasonic image tracking by a context-aware correlation filter. Additionally, a fusion strategy for template patch feature helps the tracker to obtain rich appearance information around the point-landmark.

RESULTS: Siam-CCF achieves a mean tracking error of 0.79 ± 0.83 mm at a frame rate of 118.6 fps, exhibiting a superior speed-accuracy trade-off on the public MICCAI 2015 Challenge on Liver Ultrasound Tracking (CLUST2015) 2D dataset. This performance won the 5th place on the CLUST2015 2D point-landmark tracking task.

CONCLUSIONS: Extensive experiments validate the effectiveness of our proposed approach, establishing it as one of the top-performing techniques on the CLUST2015 online leaderboard at the time of this submission.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

Enthalten in:

Biomedizinische Technik. Biomedical engineering - (2024) vom: 07. Feb.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ma, Lin [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Junjie [VerfasserIn]
Gong, Shu [VerfasserIn]
Lan, Libin [VerfasserIn]
Geng, Li [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Siping [VerfasserIn]
Feng, Xin [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Image-guided radiation therapy
Journal Article
Liver ultrasound landmark tracking
Respiratory motion estimation
Self-supervised context-aware correlation filter

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Date Revised 14.02.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status Publisher

doi:

10.1515/bmt-2022-0489

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM36843205X