A bone segmentation method based on Multi-scale features fuse U2Net and improved dice loss in CT image process. (August 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Liu, Tao; Lu, Yonghua; Zhang, Yu; Hu, Jiahui; Gao, Cheng
• Is Part Of: Biomedical signal processing and control. Volume 77(2022)
• Publication Date: 2022-08
• Subjects: Convolutional neural network -- Medical image -- Target segmentation -- Multi-scale feature fuse U2Net -- Improved dice loss; Signal processing -- Periodicals; Biomedical engineering -- Periodicals; Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted -- Periodicals; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted -- Periodicals; Biomedical Engineering -- Periodicals; 610.28
• DOI: 10.1016/j.bspc.2022.103813
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1746-8094

Abstract

Graphical abstract: Highlights: Computer-assisted automated bone segmentation in CT images. An adaptive label softening method based on the change of muscle area is proposed to improve the standard dice loss. This paper introduces a label based on distance map to improve the segmentation accuracy at the edge of targets. Improve the structure of U 2 Net and propose a multi-scale feature fuse U 2 Net (MFF U 2 Net) The segmentation accuracy of global and edge is higher than several sort of arts. Abstract: During the conventional CT image process, window width is set to extract target. However, different tissues may have the same value of hounsfield unit in CT images, which cause false extraction and noise. In this paper, a computer-assisted target segmentation method based on deep learning is proposed. According to the positional relationship between muscle and bone, an adaptive label softening method based on the change of muscle area is proposed to improve the standard dice loss. At the same time, this paper introduces a label based on distance map to improve the segmentation accuracy at the edge of targets, which can solve the problem of fuzzy bone boundary at the epiphysis. This paper also improves the structure of U 2 Net and proposes a multi-scale feature fuse U 2 Net (MFF U 2 Net). Compared with other U-shaped networks, the method proposed in this paper shows high prediction accuracy (mean 95.244%) and small dispersion of data (variance 0.0008) on the test set. The experiment results show that the proposed segmentation method based on deep learning outperforms the conventional segmentation method significantly.