Lesion-Inspired Denoising Network: Connecting Medical Image Denoising and Lesion Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2104.08845v1
• Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2021 12:53:36 GMT
• Title: Lesion-Inspired Denoising Network: Connecting Medical Image Denoising and Lesion Detection
• Authors: Kecheng Chen, Kun Long, Yazhou Ren, Jiayu Sun and Xiaorong Pu
• Abstract summary: We propose Lesion-Inspired Denoising Network (LIDnet) to improve both denoising performance and lesion detection accuracy. Experiments show that, by equipping with LIDnet, both of the denoising and lesion detection performance of baseline methods can be significantly improved.
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• Abstract: Deep learning has achieved notable performance in the denoising task of low-quality medical images and the detection task of lesions, respectively. However, existing low-quality medical image denoising approaches are disconnected from the detection task of lesions. Intuitively, the quality of denoised images will influence the lesion detection accuracy that in turn can be used to affect the denoising performance. To this end, we propose a play-and-plug medical image denoising framework, namely Lesion-Inspired Denoising Network (LIDnet), to collaboratively improve both denoising performance and detection accuracy of denoised medical images. Specifically, we propose to insert the feedback of downstream detection task into existing denoising framework by jointly learning a multi-loss objective. Instead of using perceptual loss calculated on the entire feature map, a novel region-of-interest (ROI) perceptual loss induced by the lesion detection task is proposed to further connect these two tasks. To achieve better optimization for overall framework, we propose a customized collaborative training strategy for LIDnet. On consideration of clinical usability and imaging characteristics, three low-dose CT images datasets are used to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed LIDnet. Experiments show that, by equipping with LIDnet, both of the denoising and lesion detection performance of baseline methods can be significantly improved.

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