Paper ID | BIO-1.7 | ||
Paper Title | MULTI-ENCODER PARSE-DECODER NETWORK FOR SEQUENTIAL MEDICAL IMAGE SEGMENTATION | ||
Authors | Dachuan Shi, Ruiyang Liu, Linmi Tao, Zuoxiang He, Tsinghua University, China; Li Huo, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, China | ||
Session | BIO-1: Biomedical Signal Processing 1 | ||
Location | Area C | ||
Session Time: | Monday, 20 September, 13:30 - 15:00 | ||
Presentation Time: | Monday, 20 September, 13:30 - 15:00 | ||
Presentation | Poster | ||
Topic | Biomedical Signal Processing: Medical image analysis | ||
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Abstract | Deep learning models, especially U-Net and its derivate models, have been widely used in medical image segmentation. These approaches have achieved promising results in many medical image segmentation tasks with a limited number of training samples. We aim on enhancing medical image segmentation by using spatial continuity information in a proposed Multi-Encoder Parse-Decoder Network (MEPDNet) based on the fact that most of the medical images are sampled continuously. Sequential images are input into parameter-shared encoders for getting feature maps, which are then fused by a fusion block. A $\textbf{V}\mathbf{\Lambda}$-block is structured to parse the fused feature map to extract the hidden continuity information. The reconstructed feature map is fed into a decoder for generating segmentation masks. Experiments on three datasets show MEPDNet outperforms other state-of-the-art segmentation models while using the least parameters. |