Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 57, Issue 22, 221003(2020)

Improved U-Net Based on Mixed Loss Function for Liver Medical Image Segmentation

Yongjia Huang1, Zaifeng Shi1,2、*, Zhongqi Wang1, and Zhe Wang1
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Microelectronics, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
  • 2Tianjin Key Laboratory of Microelectronic Technology for Imaging and Sensing, Tianjin 300072, China
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    Structure of proposed network
    Improved U-Net structure
    Residual refine module of network structure. (a) General residual refine module; (b) improved residual refine module
    Training error and test accuracy of improved U-Net. (a) Liver tumor segmentation; (b) liver segmentation
    Segmentation results of liver images obtained by different networks
    Box plot of Dice coefficient of liver segmentation
    Segmentation results of liver tumor images obtained by different networks
    Box plot of Dice coefficient of liver tumor segmentation
    Segmentation results of big nodules
    Segmentation results of small nodules
    • Table 1. Performance comparison of different networks for liver image segmentation

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      Table 1. Performance comparison of different networks for liver image segmentation

      NetworkDice coefficientVOE /%RVD /%SENJaccard coefficient
      FCN-8s88.3819.62-1.2586.490.88
      UNet82.7824.79-2.7281.460.83
      H-DenseUNet[5]96.507.401.80
      2D FCN[14]94.3010.70-1.40
      BS UNet[15]96.107.502
      Proposed network96.267.900.8095.960.92
    • Table 2. Performance comparison of different networks for liver tumor image segmentation

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      Table 2. Performance comparison of different networks for liver tumor image segmentation

      NetworkDice coefficientVOE /%RVD /%SENJaccard coefficient
      FCN-8s75 .5771.43-14.2570.290.52
      U-Net72.2367.62-18.7266.870.40
      KC-SVM[16]8428.220.73
      RA-UNet[17]8330.610.74
      Edge-SVM[18]8236.700.69
      Proposed network83.3211.62-15.9879.880.72
    • Table 3. Performance comparison of different networks

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      Table 3. Performance comparison of different networks

      NetworkDice coefficientSENJaccard coefficient
      FCN-8s73.3279.830.64
      U-Net71.1776.960.71
      CDP-ResNet+IWS[19]81.8587.30
      DB-ResNet[20]82.7489.35
      CF-CNN+Scale[21]78.5586.01
      Proposed network79.2386.490.78
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    Yongjia Huang, Zaifeng Shi, Zhongqi Wang, Zhe Wang. Improved U-Net Based on Mixed Loss Function for Liver Medical Image Segmentation[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2020, 57(22): 221003

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    Paper Information

    Category: Image Processing

    Received: Feb. 21, 2020

    Accepted: Mar. 27, 2020

    Published Online: Nov. 5, 2020

    The Author Email: Zaifeng Shi (shizaifeng@tju.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP57.221003

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