SCOPE: Structural Continuity Preservation for Medical Image Segmentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.14572v1
• Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2023 00:11:35 GMT
• Title: SCOPE: Structural Continuity Preservation for Medical Image Segmentation
• Authors: Yousef Yeganeh, Azade Farshad, Goktug Guevercin, Amr Abu-zer, Rui Xiao, Yongjian Tang, Ehsan Adeli, Nassir Navab
• Abstract summary: We propose a graph-based approach that enforces the continuity and connectivity of anatomical topology in medical images. Our method encodes the continuity of shapes as a graph constraint, ensuring that the network's predictions maintain this continuity.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Although the preservation of shape continuity and physiological anatomy is a natural assumption in the segmentation of medical images, it is often neglected by deep learning methods that mostly aim for the statistical modeling of input data as pixels rather than interconnected structures. In biological structures, however, organs are not separate entities; for example, in reality, a severed vessel is an indication of an underlying problem, but traditional segmentation models are not designed to strictly enforce the continuity of anatomy, potentially leading to inaccurate medical diagnoses. To address this issue, we propose a graph-based approach that enforces the continuity and connectivity of anatomical topology in medical images. Our method encodes the continuity of shapes as a graph constraint, ensuring that the network's predictions maintain this continuity. We evaluate our method on two public benchmarks on retinal vessel segmentation, showing significant improvements in connectivity metrics compared to traditional methods while getting better or on-par performance on segmentation metrics.

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