A Holistic Weakly Supervised Approach for Liver Tumor Segmentation with Clinical Knowledge-Informed Label Smoothing

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.10005v1
• Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2024 20:52:25 GMT
• Title: A Holistic Weakly Supervised Approach for Liver Tumor Segmentation with Clinical Knowledge-Informed Label Smoothing
• Authors: Hairong Wang, Lingchao Mao, Zihan Zhang, Jing Li,
• Abstract summary: Liver cancer is a leading cause of mortality worldwide. Deep learning has shown promise for automated liver segmentation. We present a novel holistic weakly supervised framework to address these challenges.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Liver cancer is a leading cause of mortality worldwide, and accurate CT-based tumor segmentation is essential for diagnosis and treatment. Manual delineation is time-intensive, prone to variability, and highlights the need for reliable automation. While deep learning has shown promise for automated liver segmentation, precise liver tumor segmentation remains challenging due to the heterogeneous nature of tumors, imprecise tumor margins, and limited labeled data. We present a novel holistic weakly supervised framework that integrates clinical knowledge to address these challenges with (1) A knowledge-informed label smoothing technique that leverages clinical data to generate smooth labels, which regularizes model training reducing the risk of overfitting and enhancing model performance; (2) A global and local-view segmentation framework, breaking down the task into two simpler sub-tasks, allowing optimized preprocessing and training for each; and (3) Pre- and post-processing pipelines customized to the challenges of each subtask, which enhances tumor visibility and refines tumor boundaries. We evaluated the proposed method on the HCC-TACE-Seg dataset and showed that these three key components complementarily contribute to the improved performance. Lastly, we prototyped a tool for automated liver tumor segmentation and diagnosis summary generation called MedAssistLiver. The app and code are published at https://github.com/lingchm/medassist-liver-cancer.

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