SLoRD: Structural Low-Rank Descriptors for Shape Consistency in Vertebrae Segmentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.08555v1
• Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 14:39:54 GMT
• Title: SLoRD: Structural Low-Rank Descriptors for Shape Consistency in Vertebrae Segmentation
• Authors: Xin You, Yixin Lou, Minghui Zhang, Chuyan Zhang, Jie Yang, Yun Gu,
• Abstract summary: We propose a contour-based network for automatic and precise segmentation of vertebrae from CT images. Specifically, a contour-based network is proposed based on Structural Low-Rank Descriptors for shape consistency, termed SLoRD. For a more precise representation of contour descriptors, we adopt the spherical coordinate system and devise the spherical centroid.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Automatic and precise segmentation of vertebrae from CT images is crucial for various clinical applications. However, due to a lack of explicit and strict constraints, existing methods especially for single-stage methods, still suffer from the challenge of intra-vertebrae segmentation inconsistency, which refers to multiple label predictions inside a singular vertebra. For multi-stage methods, vertebrae detection serving as the first step, is affected by the pathology and mental implants. Thus, incorrect detections cause biased patches before segmentation, then lead to inconsistent labeling and segmentation. In our work, motivated by the perspective of instance segmentation, we try to label individual and complete binary masks to address this limitation. Specifically, a contour-based network is proposed based on Structural Low-Rank Descriptors for shape consistency, termed SLoRD. These contour descriptors are acquired in a data-driven manner in advance. For a more precise representation of contour descriptors, we adopt the spherical coordinate system and devise the spherical centroid. Besides, the contour loss is designed to impose explicit consistency constraints, facilitating regressed contour points close to vertebral boundaries. Quantitative and qualitative evaluations on VerSe 2019 demonstrate the superior performance of our framework over other single-stage and multi-stage state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods.

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