Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 61, Issue 12, 1237008(2024)

Intravascular Ultrasound Image Segmentation Fusing Transformer Branch and Topology Enforcement

Wenyue Hao1, Huaiyu Cai1、*, Tingtao Zuo2, Zhongwei Jia3, Yi Wang1, and Xiaodong Chen1
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  • 1Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Information Technology, School of Precision Instrument and Optoelectronic Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
  • 2Lepu Medical Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd., Beijing 102200, China
  • 3Southwestern Lu Hospital, Liaocheng 252325, Shandong, China
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    Most intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) image segmentation methods lack capture of global information, and the topological relationships of segmentation results do not conform to medical prior knowledge, which affects subsequent diagnosis and treatment. To address the above issues, an image segmentation method is proposed that combines convolutional neural networks (CNN) and Transformer dual branch backbone networks with topological forcing networks. A backbone network is constructed by juxtaposing CNN branches and Transformer branches to achieve the fusion of local and global information. The modules that make up the Transformer branch combine axial self attention mechanism and enhanced mixed feedforward neural network to adapt to small datasets. In addition, connecting the topology forcing network after the backbone network and using a bilateral filtering smoothing layer instead of a Gaussian filtering smoothing layer can further improve the segmentation accuracy while ensuring the correctness of the topology structure of the segmentation results. The experimental results show that the Jaccard measure coefficients of the lumen and media obtained by the proposed method are 0.018 and 0.016 higher than those of the baseline network, and the Hausdorff distance coefficients are 0.148 and 0.288 higher, respectively. Moreover, the accuracy of the topological structure is 100%. This method can provide accurate, reliable, and topologically correct segmentation results for IVUS images, and performs well in visualization results and various evaluation indicators.

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    Wenyue Hao, Huaiyu Cai, Tingtao Zuo, Zhongwei Jia, Yi Wang, Xiaodong Chen. Intravascular Ultrasound Image Segmentation Fusing Transformer Branch and Topology Enforcement[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2024, 61(12): 1237008

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    Paper Information

    Category: Digital Image Processing

    Received: Aug. 15, 2023

    Accepted: Sep. 18, 2023

    Published Online: Jun. 17, 2024

    The Author Email: Huaiyu Cai (hycai@tju.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP231918

    CSTR:32186.14.LOP231918

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