BronchusNet: Region and Structure Prior Embedded Representation Learning for Bronchus Segmentation and Classification

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.06947v1
• Date: Sat, 14 May 2022 02:32:33 GMT
• Title: BronchusNet: Region and Structure Prior Embedded Representation Learning for Bronchus Segmentation and Classification
• Authors: Wenhao Huang, Haifan Gong, Huan Zhang, Yu Wang, Haofeng Li, Guanbin Li, Hong Shen
• Abstract summary: We propose a region and structure prior embedded framework named BronchusNet to achieve accurate bronchial analysis. For bronchus segmentation, we propose an adaptive hard region-aware UNet that incorporates multi-level prior guidance of hard pixel-wise samples. For the classification of bronchial branches, we propose a hybrid point-voxel graph learning module.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: CT-based bronchial tree analysis plays an important role in the computer-aided diagnosis for respiratory diseases, as it could provide structured information for clinicians. The basis of airway analysis is bronchial tree reconstruction, which consists of bronchus segmentation and classification. However, there remains a challenge for accurate bronchial analysis due to the individual variations and the severe class imbalance. In this paper, we propose a region and structure prior embedded framework named BronchusNet to achieve accurate segmentation and classification of bronchial regions in CT images. For bronchus segmentation, we propose an adaptive hard region-aware UNet that incorporates multi-level prior guidance of hard pixel-wise samples in the general Unet segmentation network to achieve better hierarchical feature learning. For the classification of bronchial branches, we propose a hybrid point-voxel graph learning module to fully exploit bronchial structure priors and to support simultaneous feature interactions across different branches. To facilitate the study of bronchial analysis, we contribute~\textbf{BRSC}: an open-access benchmark of \textbf{BR}onchus imaging analysis with high-quality pixel-wise \textbf{S}egmentation masks and the \textbf{C}lass of bronchial segments. Experimental results on BRSC show that our proposed method not only achieves the state-of-the-art performance for binary segmentation of bronchial region but also exceeds the best existing method on bronchial branches classification by 6.9\%.

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