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Sulaiman A, Anand V, Gupta S, Al Reshan MS, Alshahrani H, Shaikh A, Elmagzoub MA. An intelligent LinkNet-34 model with EfficientNetB7 encoder for semantic segmentation of brain tumor. Sci Rep 2024; 14:1345. [PMID: 38228639 PMCID: PMC10792164 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-51472-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2023] [Accepted: 01/05/2024] [Indexed: 01/18/2024] Open
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A brain tumor is an unnatural expansion of brain cells that can't be stopped, making it one of the deadliest diseases of the nervous system. The brain tumor segmentation for its earlier diagnosis is a difficult task in the field of medical image analysis. Earlier, segmenting brain tumors was done manually by radiologists but that requires a lot of time and effort. Inspite of this, in the manual segmentation there was possibility of making mistakes due to human intervention. It has been proved that deep learning models can outperform human experts for the diagnosis of brain tumor in MRI images. These algorithms employ a huge number of MRI scans to learn the difficult patterns of brain tumors to segment them automatically and accurately. Here, an encoder-decoder based architecture with deep convolutional neural network is proposed for semantic segmentation of brain tumor in MRI images. The proposed method focuses on the image downsampling in the encoder part. For this, an intelligent LinkNet-34 model with EfficientNetB7 encoder based semantic segmentation model is proposed. The performance of LinkNet-34 model is compared with other three models namely FPN, U-Net, and PSPNet. Further, the performance of EfficientNetB7 used as encoder in LinkNet-34 model has been compared with three encoders namely ResNet34, MobileNet_V2, and ResNet50. After that, the proposed model is optimized using three different optimizers such as RMSProp, Adamax and Adam. The LinkNet-34 model has outperformed with EfficientNetB7 encoder using Adamax optimizer with the value of jaccard index as 0.89 and dice coefficient as 0.915.
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- Adel Sulaiman
- Department of Computer Science, College of Computer Science and Information Systems, Najran University, 61441, Najran, Saudi Arabia
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- Chitkara University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Chitkara University, Rajpura, Punjab, 140401, India.
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- Chitkara University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Chitkara University, Rajpura, Punjab, 140401, India
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- Department of Information Systems, College of Computer Science and Information Systems, Najran University, 61441, Najran, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Computer Science, College of Computer Science and Information Systems, Najran University, 61441, Najran, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Information Systems, College of Computer Science and Information Systems, Najran University, 61441, Najran, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Network and Communication Engineering, College of Computer Science and Information Systems, Najran University, 61441, Najran, Saudi Arabia
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SGC-ARANet: scale-wise global contextual axile reverse attention network for automatic brain tumor segmentation. APPL INTELL 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s10489-022-04209-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Tsai ER, Demirtas D, Hoogendijk N, Tintu AN, Boucherie RJ. Turnaround time prediction for clinical chemistry samples using machine learning. Clin Chem Lab Med 2022; 60:1902-1910. [PMID: 36219883 DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2022-0668] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2022] [Accepted: 09/12/2022] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Turnaround time (TAT) is an essential performance indicator of a medical diagnostic laboratory. Accurate TAT prediction is crucial for taking timely action in case of prolonged TAT and is important for efficient organization of healthcare. The objective was to develop a model to accurately predict TAT, focusing on the automated pre-analytical and analytical phase. METHODS A total of 90,543 clinical chemistry samples from Erasmus MC were included and 39 features were analyzed, including priority level and workload in the different stages upon sample arrival. PyCaret was used to evaluate and compare multiple regression models, including the Extra Trees (ET) Regressor, Ridge Regression and K Neighbors Regressor, to determine the best model for TAT prediction. The relative residual and SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanations) values were plotted for model evaluation. RESULTS The regression-tree-based method ET Regressor performed best with an R2 of 0.63, a mean absolute error of 2.42 min and a mean absolute percentage error of 7.35%, where the average TAT was 30.09 min. Of the test set samples, 77% had a relative residual error of at most 10%. SHAP value analysis indicated that TAT was mainly influenced by the workload in pre-analysis upon sample arrival and the number of modules visited. CONCLUSIONS Accurate TAT predictions were attained with the ET Regressor and features with the biggest impact on TAT were identified, enabling the laboratory to take timely action in case of prolonged TAT and helping healthcare providers to improve planning of scarce resources to increase healthcare efficiency.
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- Eline R Tsai
- Center for Healthcare Operations Improvement and Research (CHOIR), University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands.,Department of Clinical Chemistry, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Center for Healthcare Operations Improvement and Research (CHOIR), University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
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- Center for Healthcare Operations Improvement and Research (CHOIR), University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Center for Healthcare Operations Improvement and Research (CHOIR), University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
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Liu Y, Mu F, Shi Y, Cheng J, Li C, Chen X. Brain tumor segmentation in multimodal MRI via pixel-level and feature-level image fusion. Front Neurosci 2022; 16:1000587. [PMID: 36188482 PMCID: PMC9515796 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2022.1000587] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2022] [Accepted: 08/18/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Brain tumor segmentation in multimodal MRI volumes is of great significance to disease diagnosis, treatment planning, survival prediction and other relevant tasks. However, most existing brain tumor segmentation methods fail to make sufficient use of multimodal information. The most common way is to simply stack the original multimodal images or their low-level features as the model input, and many methods treat each modality data with equal importance to a given segmentation target. In this paper, we introduce multimodal image fusion technique including both pixel-level fusion and feature-level fusion for brain tumor segmentation, aiming to achieve more sufficient and finer utilization of multimodal information. At the pixel level, we present a convolutional network named PIF-Net for 3D MR image fusion to enrich the input modalities of the segmentation model. The fused modalities can strengthen the association among different types of pathological information captured by multiple source modalities, leading to a modality enhancement effect. At the feature level, we design an attention-based modality selection feature fusion (MSFF) module for multimodal feature refinement to address the difference among multiple modalities for a given segmentation target. A two-stage brain tumor segmentation framework is accordingly proposed based on the above components and the popular V-Net model. Experiments are conducted on the BraTS 2019 and BraTS 2020 benchmarks. The results demonstrate that the proposed components on both pixel-level and feature-level fusion can effectively improve the segmentation accuracy of brain tumors.
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- Yu Liu
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China
- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Measuring Theory and Precision Instrument, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China
- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Measuring Theory and Precision Instrument, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China
- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Measuring Theory and Precision Instrument, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China
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- Department of Electronic Engineering and Information Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
- *Correspondence: Xun Chen
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Alqazzaz S, Sun X, Nokes LD, Yang H, Yang Y, Xu R, Zhang Y, Yang X. Combined Features in Region of Interest for Brain Tumor Segmentation. J Digit Imaging 2022; 35:938-946. [PMID: 35293605 PMCID: PMC9485383 DOI: 10.1007/s10278-022-00602-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2021] [Revised: 01/27/2022] [Accepted: 02/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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Diagnosis of brain tumor gliomas is a challenging task in medical image analysis due to its complexity, the less regularity of tumor structures, and the diversity of tissue textures and shapes. Semantic segmentation approaches using deep learning have consistently outperformed the previous methods in this challenging task. However, deep learning is insufficient to provide the required local features related to tissue texture changes due to tumor growth. This paper designs a hybrid method arising from this need, which incorporates machine-learned and hand-crafted features. A semantic segmentation network (SegNet) is used to generate the machine-learned features, while the grey-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM)-based texture features construct the hand-crafted features. In addition, the proposed approach only takes the region of interest (ROI), which represents the extension of the complete tumor structure, as input, and suppresses the intensity of other irrelevant area. A decision tree (DT) is used to classify the pixels of ROI MRI images into different parts of tumors, i.e. edema, necrosis and enhanced tumor. The method was evaluated on BRATS 2017 dataset. The results demonstrate that the proposed model provides promising segmentation in brain tumor structure. The F-measures for automatic brain tumor segmentation against ground truth are 0.98, 0.75 and 0.69 for whole tumor, core and enhanced tumor, respectively.
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- Salma Alqazzaz
- School of Engineering, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF24 3AA, UK.,Department of Physics College of Science for Women, Baghdad University, Baghdad, Iraq
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- School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University, CF24 3AA, Cardiff, UK
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- School of Engineering, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF24 3AA, UK
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- Department of Radiology, The Second People's Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Guilin, 541002, PR China
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- Department of Radiology, The People's Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Nanning, 530021, PR China
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- Centre of Information and Network Management, The People's Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Nanning, 530021, PR China
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- State Information Center of China, Beijing, 100045, PR China
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- School of Engineering, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF24 3AA, UK.
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Lin Z, Laska E, Siegel C. A general iterative clustering algorithm. Stat Anal Data Min 2022; 15:433-446. [PMID: 36061078 PMCID: PMC9438941 DOI: 10.1002/sam.11573] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The quality of a cluster analysis of unlabeled units depends on the quality of the between units dissimilarity measures. Data‐dependent dissimilarity is more objective than data independent geometric measures such as Euclidean distance. As suggested by Breiman, many data driven approaches are based on decision tree ensembles, such as a random forest (RF), that produce a proximity matrix that can easily be transformed into a dissimilarity matrix. An RF can be obtained using labels that distinguish units with real data from units with synthetic data. The resulting dissimilarity matrix is input to a clustering program and units are assigned labels corresponding to cluster membership. We introduce a general iterative cluster (GIC) algorithm that improves the proximity matrix and clusters of the base RF. The cluster labels are used to grow a new RF yielding an updated proximity matrix, which is entered into the clustering program. The process is repeated until convergence. The same procedure can be used with many base procedures such as the extremely randomized tree ensemble. We evaluate the performance of the GIC algorithm using benchmark and simulated data sets. The properties measured by the Silhouette score are substantially superior to the base clustering algorithm. The GIC package has been released in R:
https://cran.r‐project.org/web/packages/GIC/index.html.
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- Ziqiang Lin
- Department of Psychiatry New York University Langone School of Medicine New York NY USA
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- Department of Psychiatry New York University Langone School of Medicine New York NY USA
- Department of Population Health, Division of Biostatistics New York University Langone School of Medicine New York NY USA
- One Park Avenue, New York NY 10016 USA
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- Department of Psychiatry New York University Langone School of Medicine New York NY USA
- Department of Population Health, Division of Biostatistics New York University Langone School of Medicine New York NY USA
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Bhalodiya JM, Lim Choi Keung SN, Arvanitis TN. Magnetic resonance image-based brain tumour segmentation methods: A systematic review. Digit Health 2022; 8:20552076221074122. [PMID: 35340900 PMCID: PMC8943308 DOI: 10.1177/20552076221074122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2021] [Revised: 11/20/2021] [Accepted: 12/27/2021] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Background Image segmentation is an essential step in the analysis and subsequent characterisation of brain tumours through magnetic resonance imaging. In the literature, segmentation methods are empowered by open-access magnetic resonance imaging datasets, such as the brain tumour segmentation dataset. Moreover, with the increased use of artificial intelligence methods in medical imaging, access to larger data repositories has become vital in method development. Purpose To determine what automated brain tumour segmentation techniques can medical imaging specialists and clinicians use to identify tumour components, compared to manual segmentation. Methods We conducted a systematic review of 572 brain tumour segmentation studies during 2015-2020. We reviewed segmentation techniques using T1-weighted, T2-weighted, gadolinium-enhanced T1-weighted, fluid-attenuated inversion recovery, diffusion-weighted and perfusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging sequences. Moreover, we assessed physics or mathematics-based methods, deep learning methods, and software-based or semi-automatic methods, as applied to magnetic resonance imaging techniques. Particularly, we synthesised each method as per the utilised magnetic resonance imaging sequences, study population, technical approach (such as deep learning) and performance score measures (such as Dice score). Statistical tests We compared median Dice score in segmenting the whole tumour, tumour core and enhanced tumour. Results We found that T1-weighted, gadolinium-enhanced T1-weighted, T2-weighted and fluid-attenuated inversion recovery magnetic resonance imaging are used the most in various segmentation algorithms. However, there is limited use of perfusion-weighted and diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging. Moreover, we found that the U-Net deep learning technology is cited the most, and has high accuracy (Dice score 0.9) for magnetic resonance imaging-based brain tumour segmentation. Conclusion U-Net is a promising deep learning technology for magnetic resonance imaging-based brain tumour segmentation. The community should be encouraged to contribute open-access datasets so training, testing and validation of deep learning algorithms can be improved, particularly for diffusion- and perfusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging, where there are limited datasets available.
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- Jayendra M Bhalodiya
- Institute of Digital Healthcare, Warwick Manufacturing Group, The University of Warwick, UK
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- Institute of Digital Healthcare, Warwick Manufacturing Group, The University of Warwick, UK
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- Institute of Digital Healthcare, Warwick Manufacturing Group, The University of Warwick, UK
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van Kempen EJ, Post M, Mannil M, Witkam RL, Ter Laan M, Patel A, Meijer FJA, Henssen D. Performance of machine learning algorithms for glioma segmentation of brain MRI: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis. Eur Radiol 2021; 31:9638-9653. [PMID: 34019128 PMCID: PMC8589805 DOI: 10.1007/s00330-021-08035-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2021] [Revised: 04/04/2021] [Accepted: 05/03/2021] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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OBJECTIVES Different machine learning algorithms (MLAs) for automated segmentation of gliomas have been reported in the literature. Automated segmentation of different tumor characteristics can be of added value for the diagnostic work-up and treatment planning. The purpose of this study was to provide an overview and meta-analysis of different MLA methods. METHODS A systematic literature review and meta-analysis was performed on the eligible studies describing the segmentation of gliomas. Meta-analysis of the performance was conducted on the reported dice similarity coefficient (DSC) score of both the aggregated results as two subgroups (i.e., high-grade and low-grade gliomas). This study was registered in PROSPERO prior to initiation (CRD42020191033). RESULTS After the literature search (n = 734), 42 studies were included in the systematic literature review. Ten studies were eligible for inclusion in the meta-analysis. Overall, the MLAs from the included studies showed an overall DSC score of 0.84 (95% CI: 0.82-0.86). In addition, a DSC score of 0.83 (95% CI: 0.80-0.87) and 0.82 (95% CI: 0.78-0.87) was observed for the automated glioma segmentation of the high-grade and low-grade gliomas, respectively. However, heterogeneity was considerably high between included studies, and publication bias was observed. CONCLUSION MLAs facilitating automated segmentation of gliomas show good accuracy, which is promising for future implementation in neuroradiology. However, before actual implementation, a few hurdles are yet to be overcome. It is crucial that quality guidelines are followed when reporting on MLAs, which includes validation on an external test set. KEY POINTS • MLAs from the included studies showed an overall DSC score of 0.84 (95% CI: 0.82-0.86), indicating a good performance. • MLA performance was comparable when comparing the segmentation results of the high-grade gliomas and the low-grade gliomas. • For future studies using MLAs, it is crucial that quality guidelines are followed when reporting on MLAs, which includes validation on an external test set.
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- Evi J van Kempen
- Department of Medical Imaging, Radboud University Medical Center, Geert Grooteplein Zuid 10, 6525 EZ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Radboud University Medical Center, Geert Grooteplein Zuid 10, 6525 EZ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Clinic of Radiology, University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Department of Anaesthesiology, Pain and Palliative Medicine, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Department of Neurosurgery, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Radboud University Medical Center, Geert Grooteplein Zuid 10, 6525 EZ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Radboud University Medical Center, Geert Grooteplein Zuid 10, 6525 EZ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Radboud University Medical Center, Geert Grooteplein Zuid 10, 6525 EZ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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Nawaz M, Nazir T, Masood M, Mehmood A, Mahum R, Khan MA, Kadry S, Thinnukool O. Analysis of Brain MRI Images Using Improved CornerNet Approach. Diagnostics (Basel) 2021; 11:diagnostics11101856. [PMID: 34679554 PMCID: PMC8535141 DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics11101856] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2021] [Revised: 09/24/2021] [Accepted: 09/27/2021] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
Abstract
The brain tumor is a deadly disease that is caused by the abnormal growth of brain cells, which affects the human blood cells and nerves. Timely and precise detection of brain tumors is an important task to avoid complex and painful treatment procedures, as it can assist doctors in surgical planning. Manual brain tumor detection is a time-consuming activity and highly dependent on the availability of area experts. Therefore, it is a need of the hour to design accurate automated systems for the detection and classification of various types of brain tumors. However, the exact localization and categorization of brain tumors is a challenging job due to extensive variations in their size, position, and structure. To deal with the challenges, we have presented a novel approach, namely, DenseNet-41-based CornerNet framework. The proposed solution comprises three steps. Initially, we develop annotations to locate the exact region of interest. In the second step, a custom CornerNet with DenseNet-41 as a base network is introduced to extract the deep features from the suspected samples. In the last step, the one-stage detector CornerNet is employed to locate and classify several brain tumors. To evaluate the proposed method, we have utilized two databases, namely, the Figshare and Brain MRI datasets, and attained an average accuracy of 98.8% and 98.5%, respectively. Both qualitative and quantitative analysis show that our approach is more proficient and consistent with detecting and classifying various types of brain tumors than other latest techniques.
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- Marriam Nawaz
- Department of Computer Science, University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila 47050, Pakistan; (M.N.); (T.N.); (M.M.); (A.M.); (R.M.)
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila 47050, Pakistan; (M.N.); (T.N.); (M.M.); (A.M.); (R.M.)
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila 47050, Pakistan; (M.N.); (T.N.); (M.M.); (A.M.); (R.M.)
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila 47050, Pakistan; (M.N.); (T.N.); (M.M.); (A.M.); (R.M.)
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila 47050, Pakistan; (M.N.); (T.N.); (M.M.); (A.M.); (R.M.)
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- Department of Applied Data Science, Noroff University College, 4612 Kristiansand, Norway;
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- Research Group of Embedded Systems and Mobile Application in Health Science, College of Arts, Media and Technology, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand
- Correspondence:
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Zhang W, Wu Y, Yang B, Hu S, Wu L, Dhelimd S. Overview of Multi-Modal Brain Tumor MR Image Segmentation. Healthcare (Basel) 2021; 9:1051. [PMID: 34442188 PMCID: PMC8392341 DOI: 10.3390/healthcare9081051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2021] [Revised: 08/08/2021] [Accepted: 08/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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The precise segmentation of brain tumor images is a vital step towards accurate diagnosis and effective treatment of brain tumors. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) can generate brain images without tissue damage or skull artifacts, providing important discriminant information for clinicians in the study of brain tumors and other brain diseases. In this paper, we survey the field of brain tumor MRI images segmentation. Firstly, we present the commonly used databases. Then, we summarize multi-modal brain tumor MRI image segmentation methods, which are divided into three categories: conventional segmentation methods, segmentation methods based on classical machine learning methods, and segmentation methods based on deep learning methods. The principles, structures, advantages and disadvantages of typical algorithms in each method are summarized. Finally, we analyze the challenges, and suggest a prospect for future development trends.
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- Wenyin Zhang
- School of Information Science and Engineering, Linyi University, Linyi 276000, China; (W.Z.); (S.H.)
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- School of Information Science and Engineering, Linyi University, Linyi 276000, China; (W.Z.); (S.H.)
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- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Network Based Intelligent Computing, Jinan 250022, China;
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- School of Information Science and Engineering, Linyi University, Linyi 276000, China; (W.Z.); (S.H.)
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- School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250061, China;
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- School of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China;
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Chen H, Ban D, Qi XS, Pan X, Qiang Y, Yang Q. A Hybrid Feature Selection based Brain Tumor Detection and Segmentation in Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Med Phys 2021; 48:6614-6626. [PMID: 34089524 DOI: 10.1002/mp.15026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2021] [Revised: 03/29/2021] [Accepted: 05/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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PURPOSE To develop a novel method based on feature selection, combining convolutional neural network (CNN) and ensemble learning (EL), to achieve high accuracy and efficiency of glioma detection and segmentation using multiparametric MRIs. METHODS We proposed an evolutionary feature selection-based hybrid approach for glioma detection and segmentation on 4 MR sequences (T2-FLAIR, T1, T1Gd, and T2). First, we trained a lightweight CNN to detect glioma and mask the suspected region to process large batch of MRI images. Second, we employed a differential evolution algorithm to search a feature space, which composed of 416-dimensions radiomics features extracted from 4 sequences of MRIs and 128-dimensions high-order features extracted by the CNN, to generate an optimal feature combination for pixel classification. Finally, we trained an EL classifier using the optimal feature combination to segment whole tumor (WT) and its subregions including non-enhancing tumor (NET), peritumoral edema (ED), and enhancing tumor (ET) in the suspected region. Experiments were carried out on 300 glioma patients from the BraTS2019 dataset using 5-fold cross-validation, the model was independently validated using the rest 35 patients from the same database. RESULTS The approach achieved a detection accuracy of 98.8% using four MRIs. The Dice coefficients (and standard deviations) were 0.852±0.057, 0.844±0.046, and 0.799±0.053 for segmentation of WT (NET+ET+ED), tumor core (NET+ET), and ET, respectively. The sensitivities and specificities were 0.873±0.074, 0.863±0.072, and 0.852±0.082; the specificities were 0.994±0.005, 0.994±0.005, and 0.995±0.004 for the WT, tumor core and ET, respectively. The performances and calculation times were compared with the state-of-the-art approaches, our approach yielded a better overall performance with average processing time of 139.5 sec per set of four sequence MRIs. CONCLUSIONS We demonstrated a robust and computational cost-effective hybrid segmentation approach for glioma and its subregions on multi-sequence MR images. The proposed approach can be used for automated target delineation for glioma patients.
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- Hao Chen
- School of Computer Science and Technology, Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications, Xi'an 710121, China.,Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Network Data Analysis and Intelligent Processing, University of Posts and Telecommunications, Xi'an, 710121, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications, Xi'an 710121, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications, Xi'an 710121, China.,Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Network Data Analysis and Intelligent Processing, University of Posts and Telecommunications, Xi'an, 710121, China.,First Affiliated Hospital of Xi`an Jiaotong University, Xi`an 710061, China
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- First Affiliated Hospital of Xi`an Jiaotong University, Xi`an 710061, China
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- School of Sport and Health Sciences, Xi'an Physical Education University, Xi'an, 710068, China
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Sparse Coding for Brain Tumor Segmentation Based on the Non-Linear Features. JOURNAL OF BIOMIMETICS BIOMATERIALS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING 2021. [DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/jbbbe.49.63] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The main aim of brain Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) segmentation is to extractthe significant objects like tumors for better diagnosis and proper treatment. As the brain tumors are distinct in the sense of shapes, location, and intensity it is hard to define a general algorithm for the tumor segmentation. Accurate extraction of tumors from the brain MRIs is a challenging task due to the complex anatomical structure of brain tissues in addition to the existence of intensity inhomogeneity, partial volume effects, and noise. In this paper, a method of Sparse coding based on non-linear features is proposed for the tumor segmentation from MR images of the brain. Initially, first and second-order statistical eigenvectors of 3 × 3 size are extracted from the MRIs then the process of Sparse coding is applied to them. The kernel dictionary learning algorithm is employed to obtain the non-linear features from these processed vectors to build two individual adaptive dictionaries for healthy and pathological tissues. This work proposes dictionary learning based kernel clustering algorithm to code the pixels, and then the target pixelsare classified by utilizing the method of linear discrimination. The proposed technique is applied to several tumor MRIs, taken from the BRATS database. This technique overcomes the problem of linear inseparability produced by the high level intensity similarity between the normal and abnormal tissues of the given brain image. All the performance parameters are high for the proposed technique. Comparison of the results with some other existing methods such as Fuzzy – C- Means (FCM), Hybrid k-Mean Graph Cut (HKMGC) and Neutrosophic Set – Expert Maximum Fuzzy Sure Entropy (NS-EMFSE) demonstrates that the proposed sparse coding method is effective in segmenting the brain tumor regions.
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Gryska E, Schneiderman J, Björkman-Burtscher I, Heckemann RA. Automatic brain lesion segmentation on standard magnetic resonance images: a scoping review. BMJ Open 2021; 11:e042660. [PMID: 33514580 PMCID: PMC7849889 DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-042660] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2020] [Revised: 01/09/2021] [Accepted: 01/12/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES Medical image analysis practices face challenges that can potentially be addressed with algorithm-based segmentation tools. In this study, we map the field of automatic MR brain lesion segmentation to understand the clinical applicability of prevalent methods and study designs, as well as challenges and limitations in the field. DESIGN Scoping review. SETTING Three databases (PubMed, IEEE Xplore and Scopus) were searched with tailored queries. Studies were included based on predefined criteria. Emerging themes during consecutive title, abstract, methods and whole-text screening were identified. The full-text analysis focused on materials, preprocessing, performance evaluation and comparison. RESULTS Out of 2990 unique articles identified through the search, 441 articles met the eligibility criteria, with an estimated growth rate of 10% per year. We present a general overview and trends in the field with regard to publication sources, segmentation principles used and types of lesions. Algorithms are predominantly evaluated by measuring the agreement of segmentation results with a trusted reference. Few articles describe measures of clinical validity. CONCLUSIONS The observed reporting practices leave room for improvement with a view to studying replication, method comparison and clinical applicability. To promote this improvement, we propose a list of recommendations for future studies in the field.
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- Emilia Gryska
- Medical Radiation Sciences, Goteborgs universitet Institutionen for kliniska vetenskaper, Goteborg, Sweden
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- Sektionen för klinisk neurovetenskap, Goteborgs Universitet Institutionen for Neurovetenskap och fysiologi, Goteborg, Sweden
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- Medical Radiation Sciences, Goteborgs universitet Institutionen for kliniska vetenskaper, Goteborg, Sweden
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Zhang D, Huang G, Zhang Q, Han J, Han J, Wang Y, Yu Y. Exploring Task Structure for Brain Tumor Segmentation from Multi-modality MR Images. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON IMAGE PROCESSING : A PUBLICATION OF THE IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING SOCIETY 2020; PP:9032-9043. [PMID: 32941137 DOI: 10.1109/tip.2020.3023609] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Brain tumor segmentation, which aims at segmenting the whole tumor area, enhancing tumor core area, and tumor core area from each input multi-modality bioimaging data, has received considerable attention from both academia and industry. However, the existing approaches usually treat this problem as a common semantic segmentation task without taking into account the underlying rules in clinical practice. In reality, physicians tend to discover different tumor areas by weighing different modality volume data. Also, they initially segment the most distinct tumor area, and then gradually search around to find the other two. We refer to the first property as the task-modality structure while the second property as the task-task structure, based on which we propose a novel task-structured brain tumor segmentation network (TSBTS net). Specifically, to explore the task-modality structure, we design a modality-aware feature embedding mechanism to infer the important weights of the modality data during network learning. To explore the tasktask structure, we formulate the prediction of the different tumor areas as conditional dependency sub-tasks and encode such dependency in the network stream. Experiments on BraTS benchmarks show that the proposed method achieves superior performance in segmenting the desired brain tumor areas while requiring relatively lower computational costs, compared to other state-of-the-art methods and baseline models.
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Rehman ZU, Zia MS, Bojja GR, Yaqub M, Jinchao F, Arshid K. Texture based localization of a brain tumor from MR-images by using a machine learning approach. Med Hypotheses 2020; 141:109705. [PMID: 32289646 DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2020.109705] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2020] [Revised: 03/13/2020] [Accepted: 04/02/2020] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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In this paper, a machine learning approach was used for brain tumour localization on FLAIR scans of magnetic resonance images (MRI). The multi-modal brain images dataset (BraTs 2012) was used, that is a skull stripped and co-registered. In order to remove the noise, bilateral filtering is applied and then texton-map images are created by using the Gabor filter bank. From the texton-map, the image is segmented out into superpixel and then the low-level features are extracted: the first order intensity statistical features and also calculates the histogram level of texton-map at each superpixel level. There is a significant contribution here that the low features are not too much significant for the localization of brain tumour from MR images, but we have to make them meaningful by integrating features with the texton-map images at the region level approach. Then these features which are provided later to classifier for the prediction of three classes: background, tumour and non-tumour region, and used the labels for computation of two different areas (i.e. complete tumour and non-tumour). A Leave-one-out (LOOCV) cross validation technique is applied and achieves the dice overlap score of 88% for the whole tumour area localization, which is similar to the declared score in MICCAI BraTS challenge. This brain tumour localization approach using the textonmap image based on superpixel features illustrates the equivalent performance with other contemporary techniques. Recently, medical hypothesis generation by using autonomous computer based systems in disease diagnosis have given the great contribution in medical diagnosis.
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- Zaka Ur Rehman
- Department of Computer science and IT, The University of Lahore, Gujrat Campus, Gujrat, Pakistan.
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- Department of Computer science and IT, The University of Lahore, Gujrat Campus, Gujrat, Pakistan.
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- College of Business and Information Systems, Dakota State University, Madison, USA.
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- Faculty of Information Technology, Beijing University of Technology, China
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- Faculty of Information Technology, Beijing University of Technology, China.
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- Faculty of Information Technology, Beijing University of Technology, China
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Amin J, Sharif M, Raza M, Saba T, Sial R, Shad SA. Brain tumor detection: a long short-term memory (LSTM)-based learning model. Neural Comput Appl 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s00521-019-04650-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Munir K, Elahi H, Ayub A, Frezza F, Rizzi A. Cancer Diagnosis Using Deep Learning: A Bibliographic Review. Cancers (Basel) 2019; 11:E1235. [PMID: 31450799 PMCID: PMC6770116 DOI: 10.3390/cancers11091235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2019] [Revised: 06/30/2019] [Accepted: 08/14/2019] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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In this paper, we first describe the basics of the field of cancer diagnosis, which includes steps of cancer diagnosis followed by the typical classification methods used by doctors, providing a historical idea of cancer classification techniques to the readers. These methods include Asymmetry, Border, Color and Diameter (ABCD) method, seven-point detection method, Menzies method, and pattern analysis. They are used regularly by doctors for cancer diagnosis, although they are not considered very efficient for obtaining better performance. Moreover, considering all types of audience, the basic evaluation criteria are also discussed. The criteria include the receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC curve), Area under the ROC curve (AUC), F1 score, accuracy, specificity, sensitivity, precision, dice-coefficient, average accuracy, and Jaccard index. Previously used methods are considered inefficient, asking for better and smarter methods for cancer diagnosis. Artificial intelligence and cancer diagnosis are gaining attention as a way to define better diagnostic tools. In particular, deep neural networks can be successfully used for intelligent image analysis. The basic framework of how this machine learning works on medical imaging is provided in this study, i.e., pre-processing, image segmentation and post-processing. The second part of this manuscript describes the different deep learning techniques, such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs), generative adversarial models (GANs), deep autoencoders (DANs), restricted Boltzmann's machine (RBM), stacked autoencoders (SAE), convolutional autoencoders (CAE), recurrent neural networks (RNNs), long short-term memory (LTSM), multi-scale convolutional neural network (M-CNN), multi-instance learning convolutional neural network (MIL-CNN). For each technique, we provide Python codes, to allow interested readers to experiment with the cited algorithms on their own diagnostic problems. The third part of this manuscript compiles the successfully applied deep learning models for different types of cancers. Considering the length of the manuscript, we restrict ourselves to the discussion of breast cancer, lung cancer, brain cancer, and skin cancer. The purpose of this bibliographic review is to provide researchers opting to work in implementing deep learning and artificial neural networks for cancer diagnosis a knowledge from scratch of the state-of-the-art achievements.
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- Khushboo Munir
- Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications (DIET), Sapienza University of Rome, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, Italy.
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (DIMA), Sapienza University of Rome, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Basic and Applied Science for Engineering (SBAI), Sapienza University of Rome, Via Antonio Scarpa 14/16, 00161 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications (DIET), Sapienza University of Rome, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications (DIET), Sapienza University of Rome, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, Italy
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Brain Tumor Detection and Segmentation in MR Images Using Deep Learning. ARABIAN JOURNAL FOR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s13369-019-03967-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Jarrett D, Stride E, Vallis K, Gooding MJ. Applications and limitations of machine learning in radiation oncology. Br J Radiol 2019; 92:20190001. [PMID: 31112393 PMCID: PMC6724618 DOI: 10.1259/bjr.20190001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Machine learning approaches to problem-solving are growing rapidly within healthcare, and radiation oncology is no exception. With the burgeoning interest in machine learning comes the significant risk of misaligned expectations as to what it can and cannot accomplish. This paper evaluates the role of machine learning and the problems it solves within the context of current clinical challenges in radiation oncology. The role of learning algorithms within the workflow for external beam radiation therapy are surveyed, considering simulation imaging, multimodal fusion, image segmentation, treatment planning, quality assurance, and treatment delivery and adaptation. For each aspect, the clinical challenges faced, the learning algorithms proposed, and the successes and limitations of various approaches are analyzed. It is observed that machine learning has largely thrived on reproducibly mimicking conventional human-driven solutions with more efficiency and consistency. On the other hand, since algorithms are generally trained using expert opinion as ground truth, machine learning is of limited utility where problems or ground truths are not well-defined, or if suitable measures of correctness are not available. As a result, machines may excel at replicating, automating and standardizing human behaviour on manual chores, meanwhile the conceptual clinical challenges relating to definition, evaluation, and judgement remain in the realm of human intelligence and insight.
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- Daniel Jarrett
- 1 Department of Engineering Science, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oxford, UK.,2 Mirada Medical Ltd, Oxford, UK
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- 1 Department of Engineering Science, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oxford, UK
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- 3 Department of Oncology, Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology, University of Oxford, UK
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Automatic Semantic Segmentation of Brain Gliomas from MRI Images Using a Deep Cascaded Neural Network. JOURNAL OF HEALTHCARE ENGINEERING 2018; 2018:4940593. [PMID: 29755716 PMCID: PMC5884212 DOI: 10.1155/2018/4940593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2017] [Accepted: 02/11/2018] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Brain tumors can appear anywhere in the brain and have vastly different sizes and morphology. Additionally, these tumors are often diffused and poorly contrasted. Consequently, the segmentation of brain tumor and intratumor subregions using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data with minimal human interventions remains a challenging task. In this paper, we present a novel fully automatic segmentation method from MRI data containing in vivo brain gliomas. This approach can not only localize the entire tumor region but can also accurately segment the intratumor structure. The proposed work was based on a cascaded deep learning convolutional neural network consisting of two subnetworks: (1) a tumor localization network (TLN) and (2) an intratumor classification network (ITCN). The TLN, a fully convolutional network (FCN) in conjunction with the transfer learning technology, was used to first process MRI data. The goal of the first subnetwork was to define the tumor region from an MRI slice. Then, the ITCN was used to label the defined tumor region into multiple subregions. Particularly, ITCN exploited a convolutional neural network (CNN) with deeper architecture and smaller kernel. The proposed approach was validated on multimodal brain tumor segmentation (BRATS 2015) datasets, which contain 220 high-grade glioma (HGG) and 54 low-grade glioma (LGG) cases. Dice similarity coefficient (DSC), positive predictive value (PPV), and sensitivity were used as evaluation metrics. Our experimental results indicated that our method could obtain the promising segmentation results and had a faster segmentation speed. More specifically, the proposed method obtained comparable and overall better DSC values (0.89, 0.77, and 0.80) on the combined (HGG + LGG) testing set, as compared to other methods reported in the literature. Additionally, the proposed approach was able to complete a segmentation task at a rate of 1.54 seconds per slice.
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Alex V, Vaidhya K, Thirunavukkarasu S, Kesavadas C, Krishnamurthi G. Semisupervised learning using denoising autoencoders for brain lesion detection and segmentation. J Med Imaging (Bellingham) 2017; 4:041311. [PMID: 29285516 DOI: 10.1117/1.jmi.4.4.041311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2017] [Accepted: 11/16/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The work explores the use of denoising autoencoders (DAEs) for brain lesion detection, segmentation, and false-positive reduction. Stacked denoising autoencoders (SDAEs) were pretrained using a large number of unlabeled patient volumes and fine-tuned with patches drawn from a limited number of patients ([Formula: see text], 40, 65). The results show negligible loss in performance even when SDAE was fine-tuned using 20 labeled patients. Low grade glioma (LGG) segmentation was achieved using a transfer learning approach in which a network pretrained with high grade glioma data was fine-tuned using LGG image patches. The networks were also shown to generalize well and provide good segmentation on unseen BraTS 2013 and BraTS 2015 test data. The manuscript also includes the use of a single layer DAE, referred to as novelty detector (ND). ND was trained to accurately reconstruct nonlesion patches. The reconstruction error maps of test data were used to localize lesions. The error maps were shown to assign unique error distributions to various constituents of the glioma, enabling localization. The ND learns the nonlesion brain accurately as it was also shown to provide good segmentation performance on ischemic brain lesions in images from a different database.
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- Varghese Alex
- Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Department of Engineering Design, Chennai, India
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- Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Department of Engineering Design, Chennai, India
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- Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Department of Radiology, Trivandrum, India
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Zhuge Y, Krauze AV, Ning H, Cheng JY, Arora BC, Camphausen K, Miller RW. Brain tumor segmentation using holistically nested neural networks in MRI images. Med Phys 2017; 44:5234-5243. [PMID: 28736864 DOI: 10.1002/mp.12481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2017] [Revised: 06/23/2017] [Accepted: 07/10/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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PURPOSE Gliomas are rapidly progressive, neurologically devastating, largely fatal brain tumors. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a widely used technique employed in the diagnosis and management of gliomas in clinical practice. MRI is also the standard imaging modality used to delineate the brain tumor target as part of treatment planning for the administration of radiation therapy. Despite more than 20 yr of research and development, computational brain tumor segmentation in MRI images remains a challenging task. We are presenting a novel method of automatic image segmentation based on holistically nested neural networks that could be employed for brain tumor segmentation of MRI images. METHODS Two preprocessing techniques were applied to MRI images. The N4ITK method was employed for correction of bias field distortion. A novel landmark-based intensity normalization method was developed so that tissue types have a similar intensity scale in images of different subjects for the same MRI protocol. The holistically nested neural networks (HNN), which extend from the convolutional neural networks (CNN) with a deep supervision through an additional weighted-fusion output layer, was trained to learn the multiscale and multilevel hierarchical appearance representation of the brain tumor in MRI images and was subsequently applied to produce a prediction map of the brain tumor on test images. Finally, the brain tumor was obtained through an optimum thresholding on the prediction map. RESULTS The proposed method was evaluated on both the Multimodal Brain Tumor Image Segmentation (BRATS) Benchmark 2013 training datasets, and clinical data from our institute. A dice similarity coefficient (DSC) and sensitivity of 0.78 and 0.81 were achieved on 20 BRATS 2013 training datasets with high-grade gliomas (HGG), based on a two-fold cross-validation. The HNN model built on the BRATS 2013 training data was applied to ten clinical datasets with HGG from a locally developed database. DSC and sensitivity of 0.83 and 0.85 were achieved. A quantitative comparison indicated that the proposed method outperforms the popular fully convolutional network (FCN) method. In terms of efficiency, the proposed method took around 10 h for training with 50,000 iterations, and approximately 30 s for testing of a typical MRI image in the BRATS 2013 dataset with a size of 160 × 216 × 176, using a DELL PRECISION workstation T7400, with an NVIDIA Tesla K20c GPU. CONCLUSIONS An effective brain tumor segmentation method for MRI images based on a HNN has been developed. The high level of accuracy and efficiency make this method practical in brain tumor segmentation. It may play a crucial role in both brain tumor diagnostic analysis and in the treatment planning of radiation therapy.
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- Ying Zhuge
- Radiation Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Radiation Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Radiation Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Radiation Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Radiation Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Radiation Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Radiation Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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Automatic Brain Tumor Detection and Segmentation Using U-Net Based Fully Convolutional Networks. COMMUNICATIONS IN COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE 2017. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-60964-5_44] [Citation(s) in RCA: 312] [Impact Index Per Article: 44.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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Soltaninejad M, Yang G, Lambrou T, Allinson N, Jones TL, Barrick TR, Howe FA, Ye X. Automated brain tumour detection and segmentation using superpixel-based extremely randomized trees in FLAIR MRI. Int J Comput Assist Radiol Surg 2016; 12:183-203. [PMID: 27651330 PMCID: PMC5263212 DOI: 10.1007/s11548-016-1483-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 171] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2016] [Accepted: 08/31/2016] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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Purpose We propose a fully automated method for detection and segmentation of the abnormal tissue associated with brain tumour (tumour core and oedema) from Fluid- Attenuated Inversion Recovery (FLAIR) Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Methods The method is based on superpixel technique and classification of each superpixel. A number of novel image features including intensity-based, Gabor textons, fractal analysis and curvatures are calculated from each superpixel within the entire brain area in FLAIR MRI to ensure a robust classification. Extremely randomized trees (ERT) classifier is compared with support vector machine (SVM) to classify each superpixel into tumour and non-tumour. Results The proposed method is evaluated on two datasets: (1) Our own clinical dataset: 19 MRI FLAIR images of patients with gliomas of grade II to IV, and (2) BRATS 2012 dataset: 30 FLAIR images with 10 low-grade and 20 high-grade gliomas. The experimental results demonstrate the high detection and segmentation performance of the proposed method using ERT classifier. For our own cohort, the average detection sensitivity, balanced error rate and the Dice overlap measure for the segmented tumour against the ground truth are 89.48 %, 6 % and 0.91, respectively, while, for the BRATS dataset, the corresponding evaluation results are 88.09 %, 6 % and 0.88, respectively. Conclusions This provides a close match to expert delineation across all grades of glioma, leading to a faster and more reproducible method of brain tumour detection and delineation to aid patient management.
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- Mohammadreza Soltaninejad
- Laboratory of Vision Engineering, School of Computer Science, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, LN6 7TS, UK.
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- Neurosciences Research Centre, Molecular and Clinical Sciences Institute, St. George's, University of London, London, SW17 0RE, UK.,National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Laboratory of Vision Engineering, School of Computer Science, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, LN6 7TS, UK
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- Laboratory of Vision Engineering, School of Computer Science, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, LN6 7TS, UK
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- Atkinson Morley Department of Neurosurgery, St George's Hospital London, London, SW17 0RE, UK
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- Neurosciences Research Centre, Molecular and Clinical Sciences Institute, St. George's, University of London, London, SW17 0RE, UK
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- Neurosciences Research Centre, Molecular and Clinical Sciences Institute, St. George's, University of London, London, SW17 0RE, UK
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- Laboratory of Vision Engineering, School of Computer Science, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, LN6 7TS, UK
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Pereira S, Pinto A, Alves V, Silva CA. Brain Tumor Segmentation Using Convolutional Neural Networks in MRI Images. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING 2016; 35:1240-1251. [PMID: 26960222 DOI: 10.1109/tmi.2016.2538465] [Citation(s) in RCA: 819] [Impact Index Per Article: 102.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Among brain tumors, gliomas are the most common and aggressive, leading to a very short life expectancy in their highest grade. Thus, treatment planning is a key stage to improve the quality of life of oncological patients. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a widely used imaging technique to assess these tumors, but the large amount of data produced by MRI prevents manual segmentation in a reasonable time, limiting the use of precise quantitative measurements in the clinical practice. So, automatic and reliable segmentation methods are required; however, the large spatial and structural variability among brain tumors make automatic segmentation a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose an automatic segmentation method based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), exploring small 3 ×3 kernels. The use of small kernels allows designing a deeper architecture, besides having a positive effect against overfitting, given the fewer number of weights in the network. We also investigated the use of intensity normalization as a pre-processing step, which though not common in CNN-based segmentation methods, proved together with data augmentation to be very effective for brain tumor segmentation in MRI images. Our proposal was validated in the Brain Tumor Segmentation Challenge 2013 database (BRATS 2013), obtaining simultaneously the first position for the complete, core, and enhancing regions in Dice Similarity Coefficient metric (0.88, 0.83, 0.77) for the Challenge data set. Also, it obtained the overall first position by the online evaluation platform. We also participated in the on-site BRATS 2015 Challenge using the same model, obtaining the second place, with Dice Similarity Coefficient metric of 0.78, 0.65, and 0.75 for the complete, core, and enhancing regions, respectively.
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Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for the Segmentation of Gliomas in Multi-sequence MRI. BRAINLESION: GLIOMA, MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, STROKE AND TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES 2016. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-30858-6_12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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