The Impact of Interstitial Diseases Patterns on Lung CT Segmentation

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2021

Authors

Silva, F (Author) Other; Pereira, T (Author) Other; Morgado, J (Author) Other; Cunha, A (Author) Other; Oliveira, HP (Author) FCUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society, EMBC 2021, Mexico, November 1-5, 2021

Pages: 2856-2859

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Authenticus ID: P-00V-V1K

DOI: 10.1109/embc46164.2021.9630354

Abstract (EN): Lung segmentation represents a fundamental step in the development of computer-aided decision systems for the investigation of interstitial lung diseases. In a holistic lung analysis, eliminating background areas from Computed Tomography (CT) images is essential to avoid the inclusion of noise information and spend unnecessary computational resources on non-relevant data. However, the major challenge in this segmentation task relies on the ability of the models to deal with imaging manifestations associated with severe disease. Based on U-net, a general biomedical image segmentation architecture, we proposed a light-weight and faster architecture. In this 2D approach, experiments were conducted with a combination of two publicly available databases to improve the heterogeneity of the training data. Results showed that, when compared to the original U-net, the proposed architecture maintained performance levels, achieving 0.894 +/- 0.060, 4.493 +/- 0.633 and 4.457 +/- 0.628 for DSC, HD and HD-95 metrics, respectively, when using all patients from the ILD database for testing only, while allowing a more efficient computational usage. Quantitative and qualitative evaluations on the ability to cope with high-density lung patterns associated with severe disease were conducted, supporting the idea that more representative and diverse data is necessary to build robust and reliable segmentation tools.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 4