Bladder cancer multi-class segmentation in MRI with pyramid-in-pyramid network

Jingxin Liu, Libo Liu, Bolei Xu, Xianxu Hou, Bozhi Liu, Xin Chen, Linlin Shen, Guoping Qiu

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Abstract

Recognition and segmentation of bladder walls and tumour in MRI is essential for bladder cancer diagnosis. In this paper, we propose a novel Pyramid in Pyramid (PiP) fully convolutional neural network to address this problem. A pyramid backbone with lateral connections between encoder and decoder is utilized to segment the bladder wall and tumour at multiple scales and in an end-to-end fashion. To boost the model's capability of extracting multiscale contextual information, a pyramidal atrous convolution block is embedded into the pyramid backbone. We present experimental results to show that the new method outperforms other state-of-the-art models and that the results have a good consistency with that of experienced radiologists.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationISBI 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages28-31
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781538636411
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event16th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI 2019 - Venice, Italy
Duration: 8 Apr 201911 Apr 2019

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging
Volume2019-April
ISSN (Print)1945-7928
ISSN (Electronic)1945-8452

Conference

Conference16th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI 2019
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityVenice
Period8/04/1911/04/19

Keywords

  • Bladder cancer
  • Deep learning
  • MRI
  • Segmentation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging

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