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A lightweight asymmetric U-Net framework for acute ischemic stroke lesion segmentation in CT and CTP images

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DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2022.107157

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Convolutional neural network; Computed Tomography; Computed tomography perfusion; Stroke lesion; Segmentation

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This paper introduces a patch-based, residual, asymmetric, encoder-decoder CNN model for segmenting acute ischemic stroke lesions from CT and CT perfusion data. The model addresses the issues of class imbalance and vanishing gradients, achieving high performance.
Background and objectives: This paper has introduced a patch-based, residual, asymmetric, encoder -decoder CNN that solves two major problems in acute ischemic stroke lesion segmentation from CT and CT perfusion data using deep neural networks. First, the class imbalance is encountered since the lesion core size covers less than 5% of the volume of the entire brain. Second, deeper neural networks face the drawback of vanishing gradients, and this degrades the learning ability of the network.Methods: The neural network architecture has been designed for better convergence and faster inference time without compromising performance to address these difficulties. It uses a training strategy com-bining Focal Tversky and Binary cross-entropy loss functions to overcome the class imbalance issue. The model comprises only four resolution steps with a total of 11 convolutional layers. A base filter of 8, used for the residual connection with two convolutional blocks at the encoder side, is doubled after each resolution step. Simultaneously, the decoder consists of residual blocks with one convolutional layer and a constant number of 8 filters in each resolution step. This proposition allows for a lighter build with fewer trainable parameters as well as aids in avoiding overfitting by allowing the decoder to decode only necessary information.Results: The presented method has been evaluated through submission on the publicly accessible plat-form of the Ischemic Stroke Lesion Segmentation (ISLES) 2018 medical image segmentation challenge achieving the second-highest testing dice similarity coefficient (DSC). The experimental results demon-strate that the proposed model achieves comparable performance to other submitted strategies in terms of DSC Precision, Recall, and Absolute Volume Difference (AVD).Conclusions: Through the proposed approach, the two major research gaps are coherently addressed while achieving high challenge scores by solving the mentioned problems. Our model can serve as a tool for clinicians and radiologists to hasten decision-making and detect strokes efficiently.(c) 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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