Usman, M.; Shin, Y.-G. DEHA-Net: A Dual-Encoder-Based Hard Attention Network with an Adaptive ROI Mechanism for Lung Nodule Segmentation. Sensors2023, 23, 1989.
Usman, M.; Shin, Y.-G. DEHA-Net: A Dual-Encoder-Based Hard Attention Network with an Adaptive ROI Mechanism for Lung Nodule Segmentation. Sensors 2023, 23, 1989.
Usman, M.; Shin, Y.-G. DEHA-Net: A Dual-Encoder-Based Hard Attention Network with an Adaptive ROI Mechanism for Lung Nodule Segmentation. Sensors2023, 23, 1989.
Usman, M.; Shin, Y.-G. DEHA-Net: A Dual-Encoder-Based Hard Attention Network with an Adaptive ROI Mechanism for Lung Nodule Segmentation. Sensors 2023, 23, 1989.
Abstract
Measuring pulmonary nodules accurately can help with early diagnosis of lung cancer, which can improve a patient’s chances of survival. Many methods for segmenting nodules have been developed, but they all rely on input from radiologists in the form of a 3D volume of interest (VOI) or use a constant region of interest (ROI) and only consider the presence of nodule within the given VOI. These approaches limit the networks’ ability to detect nodules outside the given VOI and can also include unnecessary structures in the VOI, leading to potentially inaccurate segmentation. In this work, we propose a novel approach for 3D lung nodule segmentation by using 2D region of interest (ROI) inputted from radiologist or computer-aided detection (CADe) system. Particularly, we design a dual-encoder-based hard attention network (DEHA-Net) which incorporates the full slice of thoracic computed tomography scan along with the ROI mask to produce an accurate segmentation mask of lung nodule in the given slice. The proposed architecture exploits the adaptive region of interest (A-ROI) algorithm to automatically investigates the penetration of lung nodule into surrounding slices while eliminating the need to drawing separate ROIs in each slice. Further, the framework performs the multi-view analysis, i.e., in sagittal and coronal views, to improve the segmentation performance. The proposed scheme has been rigorously evaluated on the lung image database consortium and image database resource initiative (LIDC/IDRI) dataset and an extensive analysis of results have been performed. The quantitative analysis shows that the proposed method not only improves the existing state-of-the-art in term of dice score but also, significantly robust against the different types, shape and dimensions of lung nodules.
Keywords
lung nodule segmentation; 3D segmentation; dual-encoder-based CNN; hard attention
Subject
Computer Science and Mathematics, Computer Science
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