多站点新冠肺炎肺部CT图像的三维深度卷积分割
3D CNN Segmentation of Multi-site Lung CT COVID-19 Lesion
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摘要: CT(Computed Tomography)肺部图像的毛玻璃病变是检测新冠肺炎的重要指标之一,准确分割病变区域对诊断、治疗和预后有重要意义。然而,作为世界性的流行性疾病,新冠肺炎患者肺部的病变类型、大小会随着人口种群、病情以及采集设备的不同存在较大差异,难以获得具备泛化能力的定量分析模型。本文提出一种基于Unet的深度卷积网络,通过提取感兴趣区(region of interest, ROI)解决分割中前景背景不均衡的问题;同时,我们集成不同分辨率的网络,通过不同的感受野实现鲁棒分割多种分辨率图像的目的。为了解决医学图像数据集小的问题,在训练和测试阶段采用数据扩增技术来避免分割结果出现假阳性。在训练集和测试集含有199个和46个多站点新冠肺炎病变患者CT图像的数据集上对本文提出的方法进行了验证,从Dice指标来看,本文算法获得了较好的效果。
Abstract: The ground glass lesions in CT lung images are one of the important indicators for the diagnosis of COVID-19(Coronavirus disease 2019), and segmenting the lesion is critical for diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis. However, as a worldwide epidemic, heterogeneous lesions in the lungs vary greatly with the population, disease and collection equipment. It is difficult to obtain a quantitative analysis model with generalization capabilities. This paper proposes a deep convolutional network based on U-net, which has solved the problem of unbalanced foreground and background by extracting region of interesting; in addition, we integrate different resolutions networks in the framework, and achieve robust segmentation through different receptive fields. To solve the small-sample problem, data augmentation techniques are used in the training and testing stages to avoid false positives in segmentation predictions. The proposed method was evaluated on the training set and test set containing 199 and 46 multi-site CT images of patients with COVID-19 lesions. Quantitative and quanlitative evaluation suggest that the presented network could achieve superior segmentation results.