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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2021
Zhejiang Lab, Hangzhou, CN;
Jingsong Li, Hangzhou, CN;
Peijun Hu, Hangzhou, CN;
Yu Tian, Hangzhou, CN;
Tianshu Zhou, Hangzhou, CN;
ZHEJIANG LAB, Hangzhou, CN;
Abstract
The present invention discloses an automatic pancreas CT segmentation method based on a saliency-aware densely connected dilated convolutional neural network. Under a coarse-to-fine two-step segmentation framework, the method uses a densely connected dilated convolutional neural network as a basis network architecture to obtain multi-scale image feature expression of the target. An initial segmentation probability map of the pancreas is predicted in the coarse segmentation stage. A saliency map is then calculated through saliency transformation based on a geodesic distance transformation. A saliency-aware module is introduced into the feature extraction layer of the densely connected dilated convolutional neural network, and the saliency-aware densely connected dilated convolutional neural network is constructed as the fine segmentation network model. A coarse segmentation model and the fine segmentation model are trained using a training set, respectively.