Small Organ Segmentation in Whole-body MRI using a Two-stage FCN and Weighting Schemes

Vanya V. Valindria, Ioannis Lavdas, Juan Cerrolaza, Eric O. Aboagye, Andrea G. Rockall, Daniel Rueckert, Ben Glocker

Accurate and robust segmentation of small organs in whole-body MRI is difficult due to anatomical variation and class imbalance. Recent deep network based approaches have demonstrated promising performance on abdominal multi-organ segmentations. However, the performance on small organs is still suboptimal as these occupy only small regions of the whole-body volumes with unclear boundaries and variable shapes. A coarse-to-fine, hierarchical strategy is a common approach to alleviate this problem, however, this might miss useful contextual information. We propose a two-stage approach with weighting schemes based on auto-context and spatial atlas priors. Our experiments show that the proposed approach can boost the segmentation accuracy of multiple small organs in whole-body MRI scans.

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