Brain tumor segmentation is critical in clinical diagnosis and treatment planning.Existing methods for brain tumor segmentation with missing modalities often struggle when dealing with multiple missing modalities,a co...Brain tumor segmentation is critical in clinical diagnosis and treatment planning.Existing methods for brain tumor segmentation with missing modalities often struggle when dealing with multiple missing modalities,a common scenario in real-world clinical settings.These methods primarily focus on handling a single missing modality at a time,making them insufficiently robust for the additional complexity encountered with incomplete data containing various missing modality combinations.Additionally,most existing methods rely on single models,which may limit their performance and increase the risk of overfitting the training data.This work proposes a novel method called the ensemble adversarial co-training neural network(EACNet)for accurate brain tumor segmentation from multi-modal magnetic resonance imaging(MRI)scans with multiple missing modalities.The proposed method consists of three key modules:the ensemble of pre-trained models,which captures diverse feature representations from the MRI data by employing an ensemble of pre-trained models;adversarial learning,which leverages a competitive training approach involving two models;a generator model,which creates realistic missing data,while sub-networks acting as discriminators learn to distinguish real data from the generated“fake”data.Co-training framework utilizes the information extracted by the multimodal path(trained on complete scans)to guide the learning process in the path handling missing modalities.The model potentially compensates for missing information through co-training interactions by exploiting the relationships between available modalities and the tumor segmentation task.EACNet was evaluated on the BraTS2018 and BraTS2020 challenge datasets and achieved state-of-the-art and competitive performance respectively.Notably,the segmentation results for the whole tumor(WT)dice similarity coefficient(DSC)reached 89.27%,surpassing the performance of existing methods.The analysis suggests that the ensemble approach offers potential benefits,and the adversarial co-training contributes to the increased robustness and accuracy of EACNet for brain tumor segmentation of MRI scans with missing modalities.The experimental results show that EACNet has promising results for the task of brain tumor segmentation of MRI scans with missing modalities and is a better candidate for real-world clinical applications.展开更多
Instance segmentation plays an important role in image processing.The Deep Snake algorithm based on contour iteration deforms an initial bounding box to an instance contour end-to-end,which can improve the performance...Instance segmentation plays an important role in image processing.The Deep Snake algorithm based on contour iteration deforms an initial bounding box to an instance contour end-to-end,which can improve the performance of instance segmentation,but has defects such as slow segmentation speed and sub-optimal initial contour.To solve these problems,a real-time instance segmentation algorithm based on contour learning was proposed.Firstly,ShuffleNet V2 was used as backbone network,and the receptive field of the model was expanded by using a 5×5 convolution kernel.Secondly,a lightweight up-sampling module,multi-stage aggregation(MSA),performs residual fusion of multi-layer features,which not only improves segmentation speed,but also extracts effective features more comprehensively.Thirdly,a contour initialization method for network learning was designed,and a global contour feature aggregation mechanism was used to return a coarse contour,which solves the problem of excessive error between manually initialized contour and real contour.Finally,the Snake deformation module was used to iteratively optimize the coarse contour to obtain the final instance contour.The experimental results showed that the proposed method improved the instance segmentation accuracy on semantic boundaries dataset(SBD),Cityscapes and Kins datasets,and the average precision reached 55.8 on the SBD;Compared with Deep Snake,the model parameters were reduced by 87.2%,calculation amount was reduced by 78.3%,and segmentation speed reached 39.8 frame·s−1 when instance segmentation was performed on an image with a size of 512×512 pixels on a 2080Ti GPU.The proposed method can reduce resource consumption,realize instance segmentation tasks quickly and accurately,and therefore is more suitable for embedded platforms with limited resources.展开更多
针对长时目标跟踪所面临的目标被遮挡、出视野等常常会导致跟踪漂移或丢失的问题,基于MDNet提出一种深度长时目标跟踪算法(long-term object tracking based on MDNet,LT-MDNet)。首先,引入了一种改进的收缩损失函数,以解决模型训练时...针对长时目标跟踪所面临的目标被遮挡、出视野等常常会导致跟踪漂移或丢失的问题,基于MDNet提出一种深度长时目标跟踪算法(long-term object tracking based on MDNet,LT-MDNet)。首先,引入了一种改进的收缩损失函数,以解决模型训练时正负样本不均衡的问题;其次,设计了一种高置信度保留样本池,对在线跟踪时的每一帧的有效并且置信度最高结果进行保留,并在池满时替换最低置信度的保留样本;最后,在模型检测到跟踪失败或连续跟踪帧数达到特定阈值时,利用保留样本池进行在线训练更新模型,从而使模型在应对长时跟踪时保持鲁棒和高效。实验结果表明,LT-MDNet在跟踪精度和成功率上都展现了极强的竞争力,并且在目标被遮挡、出视野等情况下保持了优越的跟踪性能和可靠性。展开更多
基金supported by Gansu Natural Science Foundation Programme(No.24JRRA231)National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.62061023)Gansu Provincial Education,Science and Technology Innovation and Industry(No.2021CYZC-04)。
文摘Brain tumor segmentation is critical in clinical diagnosis and treatment planning.Existing methods for brain tumor segmentation with missing modalities often struggle when dealing with multiple missing modalities,a common scenario in real-world clinical settings.These methods primarily focus on handling a single missing modality at a time,making them insufficiently robust for the additional complexity encountered with incomplete data containing various missing modality combinations.Additionally,most existing methods rely on single models,which may limit their performance and increase the risk of overfitting the training data.This work proposes a novel method called the ensemble adversarial co-training neural network(EACNet)for accurate brain tumor segmentation from multi-modal magnetic resonance imaging(MRI)scans with multiple missing modalities.The proposed method consists of three key modules:the ensemble of pre-trained models,which captures diverse feature representations from the MRI data by employing an ensemble of pre-trained models;adversarial learning,which leverages a competitive training approach involving two models;a generator model,which creates realistic missing data,while sub-networks acting as discriminators learn to distinguish real data from the generated“fake”data.Co-training framework utilizes the information extracted by the multimodal path(trained on complete scans)to guide the learning process in the path handling missing modalities.The model potentially compensates for missing information through co-training interactions by exploiting the relationships between available modalities and the tumor segmentation task.EACNet was evaluated on the BraTS2018 and BraTS2020 challenge datasets and achieved state-of-the-art and competitive performance respectively.Notably,the segmentation results for the whole tumor(WT)dice similarity coefficient(DSC)reached 89.27%,surpassing the performance of existing methods.The analysis suggests that the ensemble approach offers potential benefits,and the adversarial co-training contributes to the increased robustness and accuracy of EACNet for brain tumor segmentation of MRI scans with missing modalities.The experimental results show that EACNet has promising results for the task of brain tumor segmentation of MRI scans with missing modalities and is a better candidate for real-world clinical applications.
文摘现有的光流估计网络为了获得更高的精度,往往使用相关性成本量和门控循环单元(gate recurrent unit,GRU)来进行迭代优化,但是这样会导致计算量大并限制了在边缘设备上的部署性能。为了实现更轻量的光流估计方法,本文提出局部约束与局部扩张模块(local constraint and local dilation module,LC-LD module),通过结合卷积和一次轴注意力来替代自注意力,以较低的计算量对每个匹配特征点周边区域内不同重要程度的关注,生成更准确的相关性成本量,进而降低迭代次数,达到更轻量化的目的。其次,提出了混洗凸优化上采样,通过将分组卷积、混洗操作与凸优化上采样相结合,在实现其参数数量降低的同时进一步提高精度。实验结果证明了该方法在保证高精度的同时,运行效率显著提升,具有较高的应用前景。
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61806006)Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions111 Project(No.B12018)。
基金supported by National Key Research and Development Program(No.2022YFE0112400)National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.21706096)Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(No.BK20160162).
文摘Instance segmentation plays an important role in image processing.The Deep Snake algorithm based on contour iteration deforms an initial bounding box to an instance contour end-to-end,which can improve the performance of instance segmentation,but has defects such as slow segmentation speed and sub-optimal initial contour.To solve these problems,a real-time instance segmentation algorithm based on contour learning was proposed.Firstly,ShuffleNet V2 was used as backbone network,and the receptive field of the model was expanded by using a 5×5 convolution kernel.Secondly,a lightweight up-sampling module,multi-stage aggregation(MSA),performs residual fusion of multi-layer features,which not only improves segmentation speed,but also extracts effective features more comprehensively.Thirdly,a contour initialization method for network learning was designed,and a global contour feature aggregation mechanism was used to return a coarse contour,which solves the problem of excessive error between manually initialized contour and real contour.Finally,the Snake deformation module was used to iteratively optimize the coarse contour to obtain the final instance contour.The experimental results showed that the proposed method improved the instance segmentation accuracy on semantic boundaries dataset(SBD),Cityscapes and Kins datasets,and the average precision reached 55.8 on the SBD;Compared with Deep Snake,the model parameters were reduced by 87.2%,calculation amount was reduced by 78.3%,and segmentation speed reached 39.8 frame·s−1 when instance segmentation was performed on an image with a size of 512×512 pixels on a 2080Ti GPU.The proposed method can reduce resource consumption,realize instance segmentation tasks quickly and accurately,and therefore is more suitable for embedded platforms with limited resources.
文摘针对长时目标跟踪所面临的目标被遮挡、出视野等常常会导致跟踪漂移或丢失的问题,基于MDNet提出一种深度长时目标跟踪算法(long-term object tracking based on MDNet,LT-MDNet)。首先,引入了一种改进的收缩损失函数,以解决模型训练时正负样本不均衡的问题;其次,设计了一种高置信度保留样本池,对在线跟踪时的每一帧的有效并且置信度最高结果进行保留,并在池满时替换最低置信度的保留样本;最后,在模型检测到跟踪失败或连续跟踪帧数达到特定阈值时,利用保留样本池进行在线训练更新模型,从而使模型在应对长时跟踪时保持鲁棒和高效。实验结果表明,LT-MDNet在跟踪精度和成功率上都展现了极强的竞争力,并且在目标被遮挡、出视野等情况下保持了优越的跟踪性能和可靠性。
