SymTC: A Symbiotic Transformer-CNN Net for Instance Segmentation of Lumbar Spine MRI

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.09627v4
• Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2024 17:03:08 GMT
• Title: SymTC: A Symbiotic Transformer-CNN Net for Instance Segmentation of Lumbar Spine MRI
• Authors: Jiasong Chen, Linchen Qian, Linhai Ma, Timur Urakov, Weiyong Gu, Liang Liang,
• Abstract summary: Intervertebral disc disease, a prevalent ailment, frequently leads to intermittent or persistent low back pain. Deep neural network (DNN) models may assist clinicians with more efficient image segmentation of individual instances. We propose SymTC, an innovative lumbar spine MR image segmentation model that combines the strengths of Transformer and CNN.
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• Abstract: Intervertebral disc disease, a prevalent ailment, frequently leads to intermittent or persistent low back pain, and diagnosing and assessing of this disease rely on accurate measurement of vertebral bone and intervertebral disc geometries from lumbar MR images. Deep neural network (DNN) models may assist clinicians with more efficient image segmentation of individual instances (disks and vertebrae) of the lumbar spine in an automated way, which is termed as instance image segmentation. In this work, we proposed SymTC, an innovative lumbar spine MR image segmentation model that combines the strengths of Transformer and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Specifically, we designed a parallel dual-path architecture to merge CNN layers and Transformer layers, and we integrated a novel position embedding into the self-attention module of Transformer, enhancing the utilization of positional information for more accurate segmentation. To further improves model performance, we introduced a new data augmentation technique to create synthetic yet realistic MR image dataset, named SSMSpine, which is made publicly available. We evaluated our SymTC and the other 15 existing image segmentation models on our private in-house dataset and the public SSMSpine dataset, using two metrics, Dice Similarity Coefficient and 95% Hausdorff Distance. The results show that our SymTC has the best performance for segmenting vertebral bones and intervertebral discs in lumbar spine MR images. The SymTC code and SSMSpine dataset are available at https://github.com/jiasongchen/SymTC.

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