Pan: Projective adversarial network for medical image segmentation

N Khosravan, A Mortazi, M Wallace, U Bagci - Medical Image Computing …, 2019 - Springer
Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention–MICCAI 2019: 22nd …, 2019Springer
Adversarial learning has been proven to be effective for capturing long-range and high-level
label consistencies in semantic segmentation. Unique to medical imaging, capturing 3D
semantics in an effective yet computationally efficient way remains an open problem. In this
study, we address this computational burden by proposing a novel projective adversarial
network, called PAN, which incorporates high-level 3D information through 2D projections.
Furthermore, we introduce an attention module into our framework that helps for a selective …
Abstract
Adversarial learning has been proven to be effective for capturing long-range and high-level label consistencies in semantic segmentation. Unique to medical imaging, capturing 3D semantics in an effective yet computationally efficient way remains an open problem. In this study, we address this computational burden by proposing a novel projective adversarial network, called PAN, which incorporates high-level 3D information through 2D projections. Furthermore, we introduce an attention module into our framework that helps for a selective integration of global information directly from our segmentor to our adversarial network. For the clinical application we chose pancreas segmentation from CT scans. Our proposed framework achieved state-of-the-art performance without adding to the complexity of the segmentor.
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