Automatic airway segmentation in chest CT using convolutional neural networks

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Automatic airway segmentation in chest CT using convolutional neural networks. / Juarez, A. Garcia Uceda; Tiddens, H. A.W.M.; de Bruijne, M.

Image Analysis for Moving Organ, Breast, and Thoracic Images: Third International Workshop, RAMBO 2018, Fourth International Workshop, BIA 2018, and First International Workshop, TIA 2018, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2018, Proceedings. Springer, 2018. p. 238-250 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 11040 LNCS).

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Juarez, AGU, Tiddens, HAWM & de Bruijne, M 2018, Automatic airway segmentation in chest CT using convolutional neural networks. in Image Analysis for Moving Organ, Breast, and Thoracic Images: Third International Workshop, RAMBO 2018, Fourth International Workshop, BIA 2018, and First International Workshop, TIA 2018, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2018, Proceedings. Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 11040 LNCS, pp. 238-250, 3rd International Workshop on Reconstruction and Analysis of Moving Body Organs, RAMBO 2018, 4th International Workshop on Breast Image Analysis, BIA 2018, and 1st International Workshop on Thoracic Image Analysis, TIA 2018, held in conjunction with 21st International Conference on Medical Imaging and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2018, Granada, Spain, 16/09/2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00946-5_24

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Juarez, A. G. U., Tiddens, H. A. W. M., & de Bruijne, M. (2018). Automatic airway segmentation in chest CT using convolutional neural networks. In Image Analysis for Moving Organ, Breast, and Thoracic Images: Third International Workshop, RAMBO 2018, Fourth International Workshop, BIA 2018, and First International Workshop, TIA 2018, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2018, Proceedings (pp. 238-250). Springer. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) Vol. 11040 LNCS https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00946-5_24

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Juarez AGU, Tiddens HAWM, de Bruijne M. Automatic airway segmentation in chest CT using convolutional neural networks. In Image Analysis for Moving Organ, Breast, and Thoracic Images: Third International Workshop, RAMBO 2018, Fourth International Workshop, BIA 2018, and First International Workshop, TIA 2018, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2018, Proceedings. Springer. 2018. p. 238-250. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 11040 LNCS). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00946-5_24

Author

Juarez, A. Garcia Uceda ; Tiddens, H. A.W.M. ; de Bruijne, M. / Automatic airway segmentation in chest CT using convolutional neural networks. Image Analysis for Moving Organ, Breast, and Thoracic Images: Third International Workshop, RAMBO 2018, Fourth International Workshop, BIA 2018, and First International Workshop, TIA 2018, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2018, Proceedings. Springer, 2018. pp. 238-250 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 11040 LNCS).

Bibtex

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abstract = "Segmentation of the airway tree from chest computed tomography (CT) images is critical for quantitative assessment of airway diseases including bronchiectasis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, obtaining an accurate segmentation of airways from CT scans is difficult due to the high complexity of airway structures. Recently, deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have become the state-of-the-art for many segmentation tasks, and in particular the so-called Unet architecture for biomedical images. However, its application to the segmentation of airways still remains a challenging task. This work presents a simple but robust approach based on a 3D Unet to perform segmentation of airways from chest CTs. The method is trained on a dataset composed of 12 CTs, and tested on another 6 CTs. We evaluate the influence of different loss functions and data augmentation techniques, and reach an average dice coefficient of 0.8 between the ground-truth and our automated segmentations.",
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