scholarly journals 3D Dense Separated Convolution Module for Volumetric Medical Image Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Qu ◽  
Changfeng Wu ◽  
Liang Zou

With the thriving of deep learning, 3D convolutional neural networks have become a popular choice in volumetric image analysis due to their impressive 3D context mining ability. However, the 3D convolutional kernels will introduce a significant increase in the amount of trainable parameters. Considering the training data are often limited in biomedical tasks, a trade-off has to be made between model size and its representational power. To address this concern, in this paper, we propose a novel 3D Dense Separated Convolution (3D-DSC) module to replace the original 3D convolutional kernels. The 3D-DSC module is constructed by a series of densely connected 1D filters. The decomposition of 3D kernel into 1D filters reduces the risk of overfitting by removing the redundancy of 3D kernels in a topologically constrained manner, while providing the infrastructure for deepening the network. By further introducing nonlinear layers and dense connections between 1D filters, the network’s representational power can be significantly improved while maintaining a compact architecture. We demonstrate the superiority of 3D-DSC on volumetric medical image classification and segmentation, which are two challenging tasks often encountered in biomedical image computing.

Symmetry ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 1230
Author(s):  
Xiaofei Qin ◽  
Chengzi Wu ◽  
Hang Chang ◽  
Hao Lu ◽  
Xuedian Zhang

Medical image segmentation is a fundamental task in medical image analysis. Dynamic receptive field is very helpful for accurate medical image segmentation, which needs to be further studied and utilized. In this paper, we propose Match Feature U-Net, a novel, symmetric encoder– decoder architecture with dynamic receptive field for medical image segmentation. We modify the Selective Kernel convolution (a module proposed in Selective Kernel Networks) by inserting a newly proposed Match operation, which makes similar features in different convolution branches have corresponding positions, and then we replace the U-Net’s convolution with the redesigned Selective Kernel convolution. This network is a combination of U-Net and improved Selective Kernel convolution. It inherits the advantages of simple structure and low parameter complexity of U-Net, and enhances the efficiency of dynamic receptive field in Selective Kernel convolution, making it an ideal model for medical image segmentation tasks which often have small training data and large changes in targets size. Compared with state-of-the-art segmentation methods, the number of parameters in Match Feature U-Net (2.65 M) is 34% of U-Net (7.76 M), 29% of UNet++ (9.04 M), and 9.1% of CE-Net (29 M). We evaluated the proposed architecture in four medical image segmentation tasks: nuclei segmentation in microscopy images, breast cancer cell segmentation, gland segmentation in colon histology images, and disc/cup segmentation. Our experimental results show that Match Feature U-Net achieves an average Mean Intersection over Union (MIoU) gain of 1.8, 1.45, and 2.82 points over U-Net, UNet++, and CE-Net, respectively.


2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 999-1007
Author(s):  
Karthikeyan Periyasami ◽  
Arul Xavier Viswanathan Mariammal ◽  
Iwin Thanakumar Joseph ◽  
Velliangiri Sarveshwaran

Background: Medical image analysis application has complex resource requirement. Scheduling Medical image analysis application is the complex task to the grid resources. It is necessary to develop a new model to improve the breast cancer screening process. Proposed novel Meta scheduler algorithm allocate the image analyse applications to the local schedulers and local scheduler submit the job to the grid node which analyses the medical image and generates the result sent back to Meta scheduler. Meta schedulers are distinct from the local scheduler. Meta scheduler and local scheduler have the aim at resource allocation and management. Objective: The main objective of the CDAM meta-scheduler is to maximize the number of jobs accepted. Methods: In the beginning, the user sends jobs with the deadline to the global grid resource broker. Resource providers sent information about the available resources connected in the network at a fixed interval of time to the global grid resource broker, the information such as valuation of the resource and number of an available free resource. CDAM requests the global grid resource broker for available resources details and user jobs. After receiving the information from the global grid resource broker, it matches the job with the resources. CDAM sends jobs to the local scheduler and local scheduler schedule the job to the local grid site. Local grid site executes the jobs and sends the result back to the CDAM. Success full completion of the job status and resource status are updated into the auction history database. CDAM collect the result from all local grid site and return to the grid users. Results: The CDAM was simulated using grid simulator. Number of jobs increases then the percentage of the jobs accepted also decrease due to the scarcity of resources. CDAM is providing 2% to 5% better result than Fair share Meta scheduling algorithm. CDAM algorithm bid density value is generated based on the user requirement and user history and ask value is generated from the resource details. Users who, having the most significant deadline are generated the highest bid value, grid resource which is having the fastest processor are generated lowest ask value. The highest bid is assigned to the lowest Ask it means that the user who is having the most significant deadline is assigned to the grid resource which is having the fastest processor. The deadline represents a time by which the user requires the result. The user can define the deadline by which the results are needed, and the CDAM will try to find the fastest resource available in order to meet the user-defined deadline. If the scheduler detects that the tasks cannot be completed before the deadline, then the scheduler abandons the current resource, tries to select the next fastest resource and tries until the completion of application meets the deadline. CDAM is providing 25% better result than grid way Meta scheduler this is because grid way Meta scheduler allocate jobs to the resource based on the first come first served policy. Conclusion: The proposed CDAM model was validated through simulation and was evaluated based on jobs accepted. The experimental results clearly show that the CDAM model maximizes the number of jobs accepted than conventional Meta scheduler. We conclude that a CDAM is highly effective meta-scheduler systems and can be used for an extraordinary situation where jobs have a combinatorial requirement.


Author(s):  
Sanket Singh ◽  
Sarthak Jain ◽  
Akshit Khanna ◽  
Anupam Kumar ◽  
Ashish Sharma

2000 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 176-185
Author(s):  
Tilman P. Otto

Diagnostics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 1384
Author(s):  
Yin Dai ◽  
Yifan Gao ◽  
Fayu Liu

Over the past decade, convolutional neural networks (CNN) have shown very competitive performance in medical image analysis tasks, such as disease classification, tumor segmentation, and lesion detection. CNN has great advantages in extracting local features of images. However, due to the locality of convolution operation, it cannot deal with long-range relationships well. Recently, transformers have been applied to computer vision and achieved remarkable success in large-scale datasets. Compared with natural images, multi-modal medical images have explicit and important long-range dependencies, and effective multi-modal fusion strategies can greatly improve the performance of deep models. This prompts us to study transformer-based structures and apply them to multi-modal medical images. Existing transformer-based network architectures require large-scale datasets to achieve better performance. However, medical imaging datasets are relatively small, which makes it difficult to apply pure transformers to medical image analysis. Therefore, we propose TransMed for multi-modal medical image classification. TransMed combines the advantages of CNN and transformer to efficiently extract low-level features of images and establish long-range dependencies between modalities. We evaluated our model on two datasets, parotid gland tumors classification and knee injury classification. Combining our contributions, we achieve an improvement of 10.1% and 1.9% in average accuracy, respectively, outperforming other state-of-the-art CNN-based models. The results of the proposed method are promising and have tremendous potential to be applied to a large number of medical image analysis tasks. To our best knowledge, this is the first work to apply transformers to multi-modal medical image classification.


1996 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim McInerney ◽  
Demetri Terzopoulos

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