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Spider U-Net: Incorporating Inter-Slice Connectivity Using LSTM for 3D Blood Vessel Segmentation
| Content Provider | MDPI |
|---|---|
| Author | Lee, Kyeorye Sunwoo, Leonard Kim, Tackeun Lee, Kyong |
| Copyright Year | 2021 |
| Description | Blood vessel segmentation (BVS) of 3D medical imaging such as computed tomography and magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) is an essential task in the clinical field. Automation of 3D BVS using deep supervised learning is being researched, and U-Net-based approaches, which are considered as standard for medical image segmentation, are proposed a lot. However, the inherent characteristics of blood vessels, e.g., they are complex and narrow, as well as the resolution and sensitivity of the imaging modalities increases the difficulty of 3D BVS. We propose a novel U-Net-based model named Spider U-Net for 3D BVS that considers the connectivity of the blood vessels between the axial slices. To achieve this, long short-term memory (LSTM), which can capture the context of the consecutive data, is inserted into the baseline model. We also propose a data feeding strategy that augments data and makes Spider U-Net stable. Spider U-Net outperformed 2D U-Net, 3D U-Net, and the fully convolutional network-recurrent neural network (FCN-RNN) in dice coefficient score (DSC) by 0.048, 0.077, and 0.041, respectively, for our in-house brain MRA dataset and also achieved the highest DSC for two public datasets. The results imply that considering inter-slice connectivity with LSTM improves model performance in the 3D BVS task. |
| Starting Page | 2014 |
| e-ISSN | 20763417 |
| DOI | 10.3390/app11052014 |
| Journal | Applied Sciences |
| Issue Number | 5 |
| Volume Number | 11 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | MDPI |
| Publisher Date | 2021-02-25 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Applied Sciences Industrial Engineering 3d Blood Vessel Segmentation Deep Supervised Learning Inter-slice Connectivity Long Short-term Memory Medical Imaging Semantic Segmentation U-net |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
