Accurate segmentation of dental panoramic radiographs with u-NETS

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Fully convolutional neural networks (FCNs) have proven to be powerful tools for medical image segmentation. We apply an FCN based on the U-Net architecture for the challenging task of semantic segmentation of dental panoramic radiographs and discuss general tricks for improving segmentation performance. Among those are network ensembling, test-time augmentation, data symmetry exploitation and bootstrapping of low quality annotations. The performance of our approach was tested on a highly variable dataset of 1500 dental panoramic radiographs. A single network reached the Dice score of 0.934 where 1201 images were used for training, forming an ensemble increased the score to 0.936.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationISBI 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging
PublisherIEEE
Publication date2019
Pages15-19
ISBN (Electronic)9781538636411
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019
Event16th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI 2019 - Venice, Italy
Duration: 8 Apr 201911 Apr 2019

Conference

Conference16th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI 2019
LandItaly
ByVenice
Periode08/04/201911/04/2019
Sponsoret al., IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMB), IEEE Signal Processing Society, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), UAI, United Imaging Intelligence

    Research areas

  • Deep learning, Dental radiography, Fully convolutional neural network, Pantomogram, Segmentation

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