Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 58, Issue 8, 0810020(2021)

A Method for Brain Tumor Segmentation Using Cascaded Modified U-Net

Jinghui Chu, Kailong Huang, and Wei Lü*
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  • School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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    We proposed a deep learning approach for automatic segmentation of three-dimensional gliomas magnetic resonance images(MRI). First, we used a three-stage cascaded strategy to sequentially segment the subregions of gliomas. Second, to further improve the segmentation accuracy, we used intraslice and interslice convolutions, introduced additional multi-levels feature fusing, and implemented dilated convolution. Third, to produce a fine-grained output, conditional random fields as recurrent neural network were adopted as a part of network structure. Finally, we combined two types of loss functions in the training procedure to further improve the segmentation accuracy. We applied our method on the BraTS 2018 dataset and achieved a Dice score of 0.9093, 0.8254, and 0.7855 and the Hausdorff distance of 3.8188, 7.8487, and 4.3264 for the whole tumor, tumor core, and enhanced tumor, respectively. The proposed methods achieved better performance than most brain tumor segmentation methods.

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    Paper Information

    Category: Image Processing

    Received: Aug. 24, 2020

    Accepted: Sep. 20, 2020

    Published Online: Apr. 12, 2021

    The Author Email: Lü Wei (luwei@tju.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP202158.0810020

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