A Robust Deep Learning Segmentation Method for Hematoma Volumetric Detection in Intracerebral Hemorrhage

Stroke ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nannan Yu ◽  
He Yu ◽  
Haonan Li ◽  
Nannan Ma ◽  
Chunai Hu ◽  
...  

Background and Purpose: Hematoma volume (HV) is a significant diagnosis for determining the clinical stage and therapeutic approach for intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). The aim of this study is to develop a robust deep learning segmentation method for the fast and accurate HV analysis using computed tomography. Methods: A novel dimension reduction UNet (DR-UNet) model was developed for computed tomography image segmentation and HV measurement. Two data sets, 512 ICH patients with 12 568 computed tomography slices in the retrospective data set and 50 ICH patients with 1257 slices in the prospective data set, were used for network training, validation, and internal and external testing. Moreover, 13 irregular hematoma cases, 11 subdural and epidural hematoma cases, and 50 different HV cases into 3 groups (<30, 30–60, and >60 mL) were selected to further evaluate the robustness of DR-UNet. The image segmentation performance of DR-UNet was compared with those of UNet, the fuzzy clustering method, and the active contour method. The HV measurement performance was compared using DR-UNet, UNet, and the Coniglobus formula method. Results: Using DR-UNet, the segmentation model achieved a performance similar to that of expert clinicians in 2 independent test data sets containing internal testing data (Dice of 0.861±0.139) and external testing data (Dice of 0.874±0.130). The HV measurement derived from DR-UNet was strongly correlated with that from manual segmentation (R 2 =0.9979; P <0.0001). In the irregularly shaped hematoma group and the subdural and epidural hematoma group, DR-UNet was more robust than UNet in both hematoma segmentation and HV measurement. There is no statistical significance in segmentation accuracy among 3 different HV groups. Conclusions: DR-UNet can segment hematomas from the computed tomography scans of ICH patients and quantify the HV with better accuracy and greater efficiency than the main existing methods and with similar performance to expert clinicians. Due to robust performance and stable segmentation on different ICHs, DR-UNet could facilitate the development of deep learning systems for a variety of clinical applications.

Author(s):  
Kyungkoo Jun

Background & Objective: This paper proposes a Fourier transform inspired method to classify human activities from time series sensor data. Methods: Our method begins by decomposing 1D input signal into 2D patterns, which is motivated by the Fourier conversion. The decomposition is helped by Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) which captures the temporal dependency from the signal and then produces encoded sequences. The sequences, once arranged into the 2D array, can represent the fingerprints of the signals. The benefit of such transformation is that we can exploit the recent advances of the deep learning models for the image classification such as Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Results: The proposed model, as a result, is the combination of LSTM and CNN. We evaluate the model over two data sets. For the first data set, which is more standardized than the other, our model outperforms previous works or at least equal. In the case of the second data set, we devise the schemes to generate training and testing data by changing the parameters of the window size, the sliding size, and the labeling scheme. Conclusion: The evaluation results show that the accuracy is over 95% for some cases. We also analyze the effect of the parameters on the performance.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 157
Author(s):  
Xi Yu ◽  
Bing Ouyang ◽  
Jose C. Principe

Deep neural networks provide remarkable performances on supervised learning tasks with extensive collections of labeled data. However, creating such large well-annotated data sets requires a considerable amount of resources, time and effort, especially for underwater images data sets such as corals and marine animals. Therefore, the overreliance on labels is one of the main obstacles for widespread applications of deep learning methods. In order to overcome this need for large annotated dataset, this paper proposes a label-efficient deep learning framework for image segmentation using only very sparse point-supervision. Our approach employs a latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) with spatial coherence on feature space to iteratively generate pseudo labels. The method requires, as an initial condition, a Wide Residual Network (WRN) trained with sparse labels and mutual information constraints. The proposed method is evaluated on the sparsely labeled coral image data set collected from the Pulley Ridge region in the Gulf of Mexico. Experiments show that our method can improve image segmentation performance against sparsely labeled samples and achieves better results compared with other semi-supervised approaches.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jujuan Zhuang ◽  
Danyang Liu ◽  
Meng Lin ◽  
Wenjing Qiu ◽  
Jinyang Liu ◽  
...  

Background: Pseudouridine (Ψ) is a common ribonucleotide modification that plays a significant role in many biological processes. The identification of Ψ modification sites is of great significance for disease mechanism and biological processes research in which machine learning algorithms are desirable as the lab exploratory techniques are expensive and time-consuming.Results: In this work, we propose a deep learning framework, called PseUdeep, to identify Ψ sites of three species: H. sapiens, S. cerevisiae, and M. musculus. In this method, three encoding methods are used to extract the features of RNA sequences, that is, one-hot encoding, K-tuple nucleotide frequency pattern, and position-specific nucleotide composition. The three feature matrices are convoluted twice and fed into the capsule neural network and bidirectional gated recurrent unit network with a self-attention mechanism for classification.Conclusion: Compared with other state-of-the-art methods, our model gets the highest accuracy of the prediction on the independent testing data set S-200; the accuracy improves 12.38%, and on the independent testing data set H-200, the accuracy improves 0.68%. Moreover, the dimensions of the features we derive from the RNA sequences are only 109,109, and 119 in H. sapiens, M. musculus, and S. cerevisiae, which is much smaller than those used in the traditional algorithms. On evaluation via tenfold cross-validation and two independent testing data sets, PseUdeep outperforms the best traditional machine learning model available. PseUdeep source code and data sets are available at https://github.com/dan111262/PseUdeep.


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yahya Albalawi ◽  
Jim Buckley ◽  
Nikola S. Nikolov

AbstractThis paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of data pre-processing and word embedding techniques in the context of Arabic document classification in the domain of health-related communication on social media. We evaluate 26 text pre-processings applied to Arabic tweets within the process of training a classifier to identify health-related tweets. For this task we use the (traditional) machine learning classifiers KNN, SVM, Multinomial NB and Logistic Regression. Furthermore, we report experimental results with the deep learning architectures BLSTM and CNN for the same text classification problem. Since word embeddings are more typically used as the input layer in deep networks, in the deep learning experiments we evaluate several state-of-the-art pre-trained word embeddings with the same text pre-processing applied. To achieve these goals, we use two data sets: one for both training and testing, and another for testing the generality of our models only. Our results point to the conclusion that only four out of the 26 pre-processings improve the classification accuracy significantly. For the first data set of Arabic tweets, we found that Mazajak CBOW pre-trained word embeddings as the input to a BLSTM deep network led to the most accurate classifier with F1 score of 89.7%. For the second data set, Mazajak Skip-Gram pre-trained word embeddings as the input to BLSTM led to the most accurate model with F1 score of 75.2% and accuracy of 90.7% compared to F1 score of 90.8% achieved by Mazajak CBOW for the same architecture but with lower accuracy of 70.89%. Our results also show that the performance of the best of the traditional classifier we trained is comparable to the deep learning methods on the first dataset, but significantly worse on the second dataset.


Plant Methods ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiong Xiong ◽  
Lingfeng Duan ◽  
Lingbo Liu ◽  
Haifu Tu ◽  
Peng Yang ◽  
...  

10.2196/26151 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (7) ◽  
pp. e26151
Author(s):  
Stanislav Nikolov ◽  
Sam Blackwell ◽  
Alexei Zverovitch ◽  
Ruheena Mendes ◽  
Michelle Livne ◽  
...  

Background Over half a million individuals are diagnosed with head and neck cancer each year globally. Radiotherapy is an important curative treatment for this disease, but it requires manual time to delineate radiosensitive organs at risk. This planning process can delay treatment while also introducing interoperator variability, resulting in downstream radiation dose differences. Although auto-segmentation algorithms offer a potentially time-saving solution, the challenges in defining, quantifying, and achieving expert performance remain. Objective Adopting a deep learning approach, we aim to demonstrate a 3D U-Net architecture that achieves expert-level performance in delineating 21 distinct head and neck organs at risk commonly segmented in clinical practice. Methods The model was trained on a data set of 663 deidentified computed tomography scans acquired in routine clinical practice and with both segmentations taken from clinical practice and segmentations created by experienced radiographers as part of this research, all in accordance with consensus organ at risk definitions. Results We demonstrated the model’s clinical applicability by assessing its performance on a test set of 21 computed tomography scans from clinical practice, each with 21 organs at risk segmented by 2 independent experts. We also introduced surface Dice similarity coefficient, a new metric for the comparison of organ delineation, to quantify the deviation between organ at risk surface contours rather than volumes, better reflecting the clinical task of correcting errors in automated organ segmentations. The model’s generalizability was then demonstrated on 2 distinct open-source data sets, reflecting different centers and countries to model training. Conclusions Deep learning is an effective and clinically applicable technique for the segmentation of the head and neck anatomy for radiotherapy. With appropriate validation studies and regulatory approvals, this system could improve the efficiency, consistency, and safety of radiotherapy pathways.


Cancers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Jose M. Castillo T. ◽  
Muhammad Arif ◽  
Martijn P. A. Starmans ◽  
Wiro J. Niessen ◽  
Chris H. Bangma ◽  
...  

The computer-aided analysis of prostate multiparametric MRI (mpMRI) could improve significant-prostate-cancer (PCa) detection. Various deep-learning- and radiomics-based methods for significant-PCa segmentation or classification have been reported in the literature. To be able to assess the generalizability of the performance of these methods, using various external data sets is crucial. While both deep-learning and radiomics approaches have been compared based on the same data set of one center, the comparison of the performances of both approaches on various data sets from different centers and different scanners is lacking. The goal of this study was to compare the performance of a deep-learning model with the performance of a radiomics model for the significant-PCa diagnosis of the cohorts of various patients. We included the data from two consecutive patient cohorts from our own center (n = 371 patients), and two external sets of which one was a publicly available patient cohort (n = 195 patients) and the other contained data from patients from two hospitals (n = 79 patients). Using multiparametric MRI (mpMRI), the radiologist tumor delineations and pathology reports were collected for all patients. During training, one of our patient cohorts (n = 271 patients) was used for both the deep-learning- and radiomics-model development, and the three remaining cohorts (n = 374 patients) were kept as unseen test sets. The performances of the models were assessed in terms of their area under the receiver-operating-characteristic curve (AUC). Whereas the internal cross-validation showed a higher AUC for the deep-learning approach, the radiomics model obtained AUCs of 0.88, 0.91 and 0.65 on the independent test sets compared to AUCs of 0.70, 0.73 and 0.44 for the deep-learning model. Our radiomics model that was based on delineated regions resulted in a more accurate tool for significant-PCa classification in the three unseen test sets when compared to a fully automated deep-learning model.


Author(s):  
Usman Ahmed ◽  
Jerry Chun-Wei Lin ◽  
Gautam Srivastava

Deep learning methods have led to a state of the art medical applications, such as image classification and segmentation. The data-driven deep learning application can help stakeholders to collaborate. However, limited labelled data set limits the deep learning algorithm to generalize for one domain into another. To handle the problem, meta-learning helps to learn from a small set of data. We proposed a meta learning-based image segmentation model that combines the learning of the state-of-the-art model and then used it to achieve domain adoption and high accuracy. Also, we proposed a prepossessing algorithm to increase the usability of the segments part and remove noise from the new test image. The proposed model can achieve 0.94 precision and 0.92 recall. The ability to increase 3.3% among the state-of-the-art algorithms.


Author(s):  
Xi Li ◽  
Ting Wang ◽  
Shexiong Wang

It draws researchers’ attentions how to make use of the log data effectively without paying much for storing them. In this paper, we propose pattern-based deep learning method to extract the features from log datasets and to facilitate its further use at the reasonable expense of the storage performances. By taking the advantages of the neural network and thoughts to combine statistical features with experts’ knowledge, there are satisfactory results in the experiments on some specified datasets and on the routine systems that our group maintains. Processed on testing data sets, the model is 5%, at least, more likely to outperform its competitors in accuracy perspective. More importantly, its schema unveils a new way to mingle experts’ experiences with statistical log parser.


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