Automatic Pulmonary Segmentation in Chest Radiography, Using Wavelet, Morphology and Active Contours

Vital, Daniel Aparecido; Sais, Barbara Teixeira; Moraes, Matheus Cardoso

doi:10.1007/978-981-13-2517-5_12

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“…Fuzzy c-means clustering [28,30,37] Better performance compared to K-means The lower value of β requires more iterations Active contour and morphology [29,39] Active contour can estimate the real lung boundary…”

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“…Anatomical structure segmentation of the chest can be divided into two groups of conventional handcrafted features and deep feature-based methods. Starting from the baseline of handcrafted features-based methods that just consider the single class lung segmentation [2] using local features, researchers have mainly focussed on the general image processing-based methods for the chest anatomy segmentation, as presented in studies [25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39]. As this study is based on multiclass deep learning-based semantic segmentation, we mainly focus on learned feature-based literature.…”

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Artificial Intelligence-Based Diagnosis of Cardiac and Related Diseases

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Automatic chest anatomy segmentation plays a key role in computer-aided disease diagnosis, such as for cardiomegaly, pleural effusion, emphysema, and pneumothorax. Among these diseases, cardiomegaly is considered a perilous disease, involving a high risk of sudden cardiac death. It can be diagnosed early by an expert medical practitioner using a chest X-Ray (CXR) analysis. The cardiothoracic ratio (CTR) and transverse cardiac diameter (TCD) are the clinical criteria used to estimate the heart size for diagnosing cardiomegaly. Manual estimation of CTR and other diseases is a time-consuming process and requires significant work by the medical expert. Cardiomegaly and related diseases can be automatically estimated by accurate anatomical semantic segmentation of CXRs using artificial intelligence. Automatic segmentation of the lungs and heart from the CXRs is considered an intensive task owing to inferior quality images and intensity variations using nonideal imaging conditions. Although there are a few deep learning-based techniques for chest anatomy segmentation, most of them only consider single class lung segmentation with deep complex architectures that require a lot of trainable parameters. To address these issues, this study presents two multiclass residual mesh-based CXR segmentation networks, X-RayNet-1 and X-RayNet-2, which are specifically designed to provide fine segmentation performance with a few trainable parameters compared to conventional deep learning schemes. The proposed methods utilize semantic segmentation to support the diagnostic procedure of related diseases. To evaluate X-RayNet-1 and X-RayNet-2, experiments were performed with a publicly available Japanese Society of Radiological Technology (JSRT) dataset for multiclass segmentation of the lungs, heart, and clavicle bones; two other publicly available datasets, Montgomery County (MC) and Shenzhen X-Ray sets (SC), were evaluated for lung segmentation. The experimental results showed that X-RayNet-1 achieved fine performance for all datasets and X-RayNet-2 achieved competitive performance with a 75% parameter reduction.

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