Automatic Organ Segmentation for CT Scans Based on Super-Pixel and Convolutional Neural Networks
- Jilin University, College of Electronic Science & Engineering (China)
- Jilin University, College of Communication Engineering (China)
- LUSTER LightTech Group (China)
- The First Hospital of Jilin University, Department of Radiology (China)
Accurate segmentation of specific organ from computed tomography (CT) scans is a basic and crucial task for accurate diagnosis and treatment. To avoid time-consuming manual optimization and to help physicians distinguish diseases, an automatic organ segmentation framework is presented. The framework utilized convolution neural networks (CNN) to classify pixels. To reduce the redundant inputs, the simple linear iterative clustering (SLIC) of super-pixels and the support vector machine (SVM) classifier are introduced. To establish the perfect boundary of organs in one-pixel-level, the pixels need to be classified step-by-step. First, the SLIC is used to cut an image into grids and extract respective digital signatures. Next, the signature is classified by the SVM, and the rough edges are acquired. Finally, a precise boundary is obtained by the CNN, which is based on patches around each pixel-point. The framework is applied to abdominal CT scans of livers and high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) scans of lungs. The experimental CT scans are derived from two public datasets (Sliver 07 and a Chinese local dataset). Experimental results show that the proposed method can precisely and efficiently detect the organs. This method consumes 38 s/slice for liver segmentation. The Dice coefficient of the liver segmentation results reaches to 97.43%. For lung segmentation, the Dice coefficient is 97.93%. This finding demonstrates that the proposed framework is a favorable method for lung segmentation of HRCT scans.
- OSTI ID:
- 22795592
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Digital Imaging (Online), Vol. 31, Issue 5; Other Information: Copyright (c) 2018 Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1618-727X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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