Journal
COMPUTERIZED MEDICAL IMAGING AND GRAPHICS
Volume 87, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2020.101835
Keywords
Calf muscle compartment segmentation; Fully convolutional network; Edge constraint; Magnetic resonance image; 3D
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This paper presents a novel fully convolutional network for segmenting calf muscle compartments from 3D MR images, achieving satisfactory results through edge-aware constraints and large neighborhood contextual information.
Automated segmentation of individual calf muscle compartments from 3D magnetic resonance (MR) images is essential for developing quantitative biomarkers for muscular disease progression and its prediction. Achieving clinically acceptable results is a challenging task due to large variations in muscle shape and MR appearance. In this paper, we present a novel fully convolutional network (FCN) that utilizes contextual information in a large neighborhood and embeds edge-aware constraints for individual calf muscle compartment segmentations. An encoder-decoder architecture is used to systematically enlarge convolution receptive field and preserve information at all resolutions. Edge positions derived from the FCN output muscle probability maps are explicitly regularized using kernel-based edge detection in an end-to-end optimization framework. Our method was evaluated on 40 T1-weighted MR images of 10 healthy and 30 diseased subjects by fourfold cross-validation. Mean DICE coefficients of 88.00-91.29% and mean absolute surface positioning errors of 1.04-1.66 mm were achieved for the five 3D muscle compartments.
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