Automatic liver segmentation is a crucial prerequisite yet challenging task for computer-aided hepatic disease diagnosis and treatment. In this paper, we implemented an improved 3D U-net[1] architecture, which achieves a more precise segmentation effect. The proposed 3D U-net takes advantage of dilated convolution [2] that extracts multi-scale feature information and separable convolution[3] that achieve separation of cross-channel correlation and spatial correlation. In addition to the skip concatenation of the down-sampling feature and the up-sampling feature, we add skip concatenation at intervals of two convolution layers during the down-sampling process. The improved 3D U-net produces high-quality segmentation result of liver in CT scans. We also used a post-processing based on liver feature information in CT to optimize the segmentation.
Liu Chunlei,Cui Deqi,Shi Dejun,et al.Automatic Liver Segmentation in CT Volumes with Improved 3D U-net[J].ISICDM 2018: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2ND INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON IMAGE COMPUTING AND DIGITAL MEDICINE.2018,78-82.doi:10.1145/3285996.3286014.
APA:
Liu, Chunlei,Cui, Deqi,Shi, Dejun,Hu, Zhiqiang,Qin, Yuan&Lang, Jinyi.(2018).Automatic Liver Segmentation in CT Volumes with Improved 3D U-net.ISICDM 2018: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2ND INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON IMAGE COMPUTING AND DIGITAL MEDICINE,,
MLA:
Liu, Chunlei,et al."Automatic Liver Segmentation in CT Volumes with Improved 3D U-net".ISICDM 2018: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2ND INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON IMAGE COMPUTING AND DIGITAL MEDICINE .(2018):78-82