Semantic decomposition Network with Contrastive and Structural Constraints for Dental Plaque Segmentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2208.06283v1
• Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2022 14:10:29 GMT
• Title: Semantic decomposition Network with Contrastive and Structural Constraints for Dental Plaque Segmentation
• Authors: Jian Shi, Baoli Sun, Xinchen Ye, Zhihui Wang, Xiaolong Luo, Jin Liu, Heli Gao, Haojie Li
• Abstract summary: Dental plaque segmentation is a challenging task that requires identifying teeth and dental plaque subjected to semanticblur regions. We propose a semantic decomposition network (SDNet) that introduces two single-task branches to address the segmentation of teeth and dental plaque.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Segmenting dental plaque from images of medical reagent staining provides valuable information for diagnosis and the determination of follow-up treatment plan. However, accurate dental plaque segmentation is a challenging task that requires identifying teeth and dental plaque subjected to semantic-blur regions (i.e., confused boundaries in border regions between teeth and dental plaque) and complex variations of instance shapes, which are not fully addressed by existing methods. Therefore, we propose a semantic decomposition network (SDNet) that introduces two single-task branches to separately address the segmentation of teeth and dental plaque and designs additional constraints to learn category-specific features for each branch, thus facilitating the semantic decomposition and improving the performance of dental plaque segmentation. Specifically, SDNet learns two separate segmentation branches for teeth and dental plaque in a divide-and-conquer manner to decouple the entangled relation between them. Each branch that specifies a category tends to yield accurate segmentation. To help these two branches better focus on category-specific features, two constraint modules are further proposed: 1) contrastive constraint module (CCM) to learn discriminative feature representations by maximizing the distance between different category representations, so as to reduce the negative impact of semantic-blur regions on feature extraction; 2) structural constraint module (SCM) to provide complete structural information for dental plaque of various shapes by the supervision of an boundary-aware geometric constraint. Besides, we construct a large-scale open-source Stained Dental Plaque Segmentation dataset (SDPSeg), which provides high-quality annotations for teeth and dental plaque. Experimental results on SDPSeg datasets show SDNet achieves state-of-the-art performance.

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