Brain-vascular segmentation for SEEG planning via a 3D fully-convolutional neural network

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2019 Jul:2019:1014-1017. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2019.8857456.

Abstract

Three dimensional visualization of vascular structures can assist clinicians in preoperative planning, intra-operative guidance, and post-operative decision-making. The goal of this work is to provide an automatic, accurate and fast method for brain vessels segmentation in Contrast Enhanced Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CE-CBCT) dataset based on a residual Fully Convolutional Neural Network (FCNN). The proposed NN embeds in an encoder-decoder architecture residual elements which decreases the vanishing effect due to deep architecture while accelerating the convergence. Moreover, a two-stage training has been proposed as a countermeasure for the unbalanced nature of the dataset. The FCNN training was performed on 20 CE-CBCT volumes exploiting mini-batch gradient descent and the Adam optimizer. Binary cross-entropy was used as loss function. Performance evaluation was conducted considering 5 datasets. A median value of Dice, Precision and Recall of 0.79, 0.8 and 0.69 were obtained with respect to manual annotations.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Brain
  • Cone-Beam Computed Tomography
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
  • Neural Networks, Computer*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed