Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 61, Issue 4, 0417001(2024)

Lateral Spine Landmark Detection Based on Matching Clue Regression

Menghao Gao1, Lijun Guo1、*, Rong Zhang1, Lixin Ni2,3, Qiang Wang4, and Xiuchao He4
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  • 1Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, Zhejiang, China
  • 2School of Medicine, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, Zhejiang, China
  • 3Haishu District Second Hospital of Ningbo, Ningbo 315099, Zhejiang, China
  • 4The First Affiliated Hospital of Ningbo University, Ningbo 315000, Zhejiang, China
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    In lateral spine landmark detection, the previous heatmap regression methods have difficulty in distinguishing landmarks on different vertebrae due to the influence of organ occlusion and are prone to landmark and vertebrae matching errors. To solve this problem, we propose a new one-stage lateral spine landmark detection method, which simultaneously predicts the landmark heatmap and landmark matching clue (vertebra center heatmap and landmark offset), and uses the matching clue to match the landmarks with the corresponding vertebra. In order to improve the matching effect, we propose the geometry-aware feature aggregator module, which can extract the landmark features on the vertebra to enhance the feature representation of the vertebra center. We also use a weighted loss function to alleviate the imbalance of positive and negative samples in the landmark and the vertebra center heatmaps. Experimental results show that the average detection error of the proposed method is 8.84, which has 36% improvement in accuracy compared to the method with the second-highest performance.

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    Menghao Gao, Lijun Guo, Rong Zhang, Lixin Ni, Qiang Wang, Xiuchao He. Lateral Spine Landmark Detection Based on Matching Clue Regression[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2024, 61(4): 0417001

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    Paper Information

    Category: Medical Optics and Biotechnology

    Received: Apr. 25, 2023

    Accepted: May. 29, 2023

    Published Online: Feb. 26, 2024

    The Author Email: Guo Lijun (guolijun@nbu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP231172

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