Fully convolutional structured LSTM networks for joint 4D medical image segmentation

Yang Gao, Jeff M. Phillips, Yan Zheng, Renqiang Min, P. Thomas Fletcher, Guido Gerig

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    Abstract

    Longitudinal medical image analysis has great potential to reveal developmental trajectories and monitor disease progression. This process relies on consistent and robust joint 4D segmentation. Traditional methods highly depend on the similarity of images over time and either build a template or assume the images could be co-registered. This process may fail when image sequences present major appearance changes. Recently, deep learning (DL) approaches have achieved state-of-the-art results for related challenges in computer vision. These approaches make use of models such as fully convolutional networks (FCNs) for end-to-end pixel-wise segmentation and recurrent neural networks (RNNs) with long short-term memory (LSTM) units for sequence-to-sequence modeling. In this paper, we propose a new DL framework called FCSLSTM for 4D image segmentation with FCNs for the spatial model and LSTM for the temporal model. This is the first DL framework with deep integration of FCNs and LSTM for joint 4D segmentation that could be trained end-to-end. Our approach achieves promising results with the demonstrated application to longitudinal pediatric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) segmentation.

    Original languageEnglish (US)
    Title of host publication2018 IEEE 15th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI 2018
    PublisherIEEE Computer Society
    Pages1104-1108
    Number of pages5
    ISBN (Electronic)9781538636367
    DOIs
    StatePublished - May 23 2018
    Event15th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI 2018 - Washington, United States
    Duration: Apr 4 2018Apr 7 2018

    Publication series

    NameProceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging
    Volume2018-April
    ISSN (Print)1945-7928
    ISSN (Electronic)1945-8452

    Other

    Other15th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI 2018
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    CityWashington
    Period4/4/184/7/18

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Biomedical Engineering
    • Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging

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