A deep symmetry convnet for stroke lesion segmentation

Yanran Wang, Aggelos K. Katsaggelos, Xue Wang, Todd B. Parrish

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Abstract

Stroke is one of the leading causes of death and disability. Clinically, to establish stroke patient prognosis, an accurate delineation of brain lesion is essential, which is time consuming and prone to subjective errors. In this paper, we propose a novel method call Deep Lesion Symmetry ConvNet to automatically segment chronic stroke lesions using MRI. An 8-layer 3D convolutional neural network is constructed to handle the MRI voxels. An additional CNN stream using the corresponding symmetric MRI voxels is combined, leading to a significant improvement in system performance. The high average dice coefficient achieved on our dataset based on data collected from three research labs demonstrates the effectiveness of our method.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2016 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2016 - Proceedings
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages111-115
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781467399616
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 3 2016
Event23rd IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2016 - Phoenix, United States
Duration: Sep 25 2016Sep 28 2016

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP
Volume2016-August
ISSN (Print)1522-4880

Other

Other23rd IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPhoenix
Period9/25/169/28/16

Funding

This study was supported by NIDCD P50 DC012283 (Project Leader, Cynthia Thompson) and the Center for Translational Imaging, Northwestern University.

Keywords

  • Brain Quasi-symmetry
  • Deep Learning
  • Image Segmentation
  • MRI
  • Stroke

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Signal Processing

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