Fully automated esophagus segmentation with a hierarchical deep learning approach

Roger Trullo; Caroline Petitjean; Dong Nie; Dinggang Shen; Su Ruan

doi:10.1109/ICSIPA.2017.8120664

Fully automated esophagus segmentation with a hierarchical deep learning approach

Roger Trullo, Caroline Petitjean, Dong Nie, Dinggang Shen, Su Ruan

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Abstract

Segmentation of organs at risk in CT volumes is a prerequisite for radiotherapy treatment planning. In this paper we focus on esophagus segmentation, a challenging problem since the walls of the esophagus have a very low contrast in CT images. Making use of Fully Convolutional Networks (FCN), we present several extensions that improve the performance, including a new architecture that allows to use low level features with high level information, effectively combining local and global information for improving the localization accuracy. Experiments demonstrate competitive performance on a dataset of 30 CT scans.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing Applications, ICSIPA 2017
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	503-506
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781509055593
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSIPA.2017.8120664
Publication status	Published - 2017 Jan 1
Externally published	Yes
Event	5th IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing Applications, ICSIPA 2017 - Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia Duration: 2017 Sep 12 → 2017 Sep 14

Other

Other	5th IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing Applications, ICSIPA 2017
Country	Malaysia
City	Kuching, Sarawak
Period	17/9/12 → 17/9/14

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Science Applications
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Signal Processing

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Trullo, R., Petitjean, C., Nie, D., Shen, D., & Ruan, S. (2017). Fully automated esophagus segmentation with a hierarchical deep learning approach. In Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing Applications, ICSIPA 2017 (pp. 503-506). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSIPA.2017.8120664

Fully automated esophagus segmentation with a hierarchical deep learning approach. / Trullo, Roger; Petitjean, Caroline; Nie, Dong; Shen, Dinggang; Ruan, Su.

Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing Applications, ICSIPA 2017. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017. p. 503-506.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Trullo, R, Petitjean, C, Nie, D, Shen, D & Ruan, S 2017, Fully automated esophagus segmentation with a hierarchical deep learning approach. in Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing Applications, ICSIPA 2017. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 503-506, 5th IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing Applications, ICSIPA 2017, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, 17/9/12. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSIPA.2017.8120664

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