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Towards Cross-Scale Attention and Surface Supervision for Fractured Bone Segmentation in CT

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01204v1
Date: Thu, 2 May 2024 11:46:12 GMT
Title: Towards Cross-Scale Attention and Surface Supervision for Fractured Bone Segmentation in CT
Authors: Yu Zhou, Xiahao Zou, Yi Wang,
Abstract summary: Cross-scale attention mechanism is introduced to aggregate the features among different scales to provide more powerful fracture representation. A surface supervision strategy is employed, which explicitly constrains the network to pay more attention to the bone boundary. The efficacy of the proposed method is evaluated on a public dataset containing CT scans with hip fractures.
Score: 5.913201544244602
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Abstract: Bone segmentation is an essential step for the preoperative planning of fracture trauma surgery. The automated segmentation of fractured bone from computed tomography (CT) scans remains challenging, due to the large differences of fractures in position and morphology, and also the inherent anatomical characteristics of different bone structures. To alleviate these issues, we propose a cross-scale attention mechanism as well as a surface supervision strategy for fractured bone segmentation in CT. Specifically, a cross-scale attention mechanism is introduced to effectively aggregate the features among different scales to provide more powerful fracture representation. Moreover, a surface supervision strategy is employed, which explicitly constrains the network to pay more attention to the bone boundary. The efficacy of the proposed method is evaluated on a public dataset containing CT scans with hip fractures. The evaluation metrics are Dice similarity coefficient (DSC), average symmetric surface distance (ASSD), and Hausdorff distance (95HD). The proposed method achieves an average DSC of 93.36%, ASSD of 0.85mm, 95HD of 7.51mm. Our method offers an effective fracture segmentation approach for the pelvic CT examinations, and has the potential to be used for improving the segmentation performance of other types of fractures.

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