Liver lesion segmentation in ultrasound: A benchmark and a baseline network.

Authors

Li J,Zhu L,Shen G,Zhao B,Hu Y,Zhang H,Wang W,Wang Q

Affiliations (8)

  • The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangdong, China. Electronic address: [email protected].
  • The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangdong, China; Henan Key Laboratory of Imaging and Intelligent Processing, China. Electronic address: [email protected].
  • The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangdong, China. Electronic address: [email protected].
  • Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Computer Vision and Virtual Reality Technology, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. Electronic address: [email protected].
  • Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Computer Vision and Virtual Reality Technology, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. Electronic address: [email protected].
  • The Second Clinical College of Jinan University, China; The First Affiliated Hospital of Southern University of Science and Technology, China. Electronic address: [email protected].
  • Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China. Electronic address: [email protected].
  • Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Computer Vision and Virtual Reality Technology, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. Electronic address: [email protected].

Abstract

Accurate liver lesion segmentation in ultrasound is a challenging task due to high speckle noise, ambiguous lesion boundaries, and inhomogeneous intensity distribution inside the lesion regions. This work first collected and annotated a dataset for liver lesion segmentation in ultrasound. In this paper, we propose a novel convolutional neural network to learn dual self-attentive transformer features for boosting liver lesion segmentation by leveraging the complementary information among non-local features encoded at different layers of the transformer architecture. To do so, we devise a dual self-attention refinement (DSR) module to synergistically utilize self-attention and reverse self-attention mechanisms to extract complementary lesion characteristics between cascaded multi-layer feature maps, assisting the model to produce more accurate segmentation results. Moreover, we propose a False-Positive-Negative loss to enable our network to further suppress the non-liver-lesion noise at shallow transformer layers and enhance more target liver lesion details into CNN features at deep transformer layers. Experimental results show that our network outperforms state-of-the-art methods quantitatively and qualitatively.

Topics

Neural Networks, ComputerLiver NeoplasmsImage Interpretation, Computer-AssistedJournal Article

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