Currently,deep learning is widely used in medical image segmentation and has achieved good results.However,3D medical image segmentation tasks with diverse lesion characters,blurred edges,and unstable positions requir...Currently,deep learning is widely used in medical image segmentation and has achieved good results.However,3D medical image segmentation tasks with diverse lesion characters,blurred edges,and unstable positions require complex networks with a large number of parameters.It is computationally expensive and results in high requirements on equipment,making it hard to deploy the network in hospitals.In this work,we propose a method for network lightweighting and applied it to a 3D CNN based network.We experimented on a COVID-19 lesion segmentation dataset.Specifically,we use three cascaded one-dimensional convolutions to replace a 3D convolution,and integrate instance normalization with the previous layer of one-dimensional convolutions to accelerate network inference.In addition,we simplify test-time augmentation and deep supervision of the network.Experiments show that the lightweight network can reduce the prediction time of each sample and the memory usage by 50%and reduce the number of parameters by 60%compared with the original network.The training time of one epoch is also reduced by 50%with the segmentation accuracy dropped within the acceptable range.展开更多
in this poper a novel data-and rule-driven system for 3D scene description and segmentation inan unknown environment is presented.This system generatss hierachies of features that correspond tostructural elements such...in this poper a novel data-and rule-driven system for 3D scene description and segmentation inan unknown environment is presented.This system generatss hierachies of features that correspond tostructural elements such as boundaries and shape classes of individual object as well as relationshipsbetween objects.It is implemented as an added high-level component to an existing low-level binocularvision system[1]. Based on a pair of matched stereo images produced by that system,3D segmentation is firstperformed to group object boundary data into several edge-sets,each of which is believed to belong to aparticular object.Then gross features of each object are extracted and stored in an object recbrd.The finalstructural description of the scene is accomplished with information in the object record,a set of rules and arule implementor. The System is designed to handle partially occluded objects of different shapes and sizeson the 2D imager.Experimental results have shown its success in computing both object and structurallevel descriptions of common man-made objects.展开更多
文摘Currently,deep learning is widely used in medical image segmentation and has achieved good results.However,3D medical image segmentation tasks with diverse lesion characters,blurred edges,and unstable positions require complex networks with a large number of parameters.It is computationally expensive and results in high requirements on equipment,making it hard to deploy the network in hospitals.In this work,we propose a method for network lightweighting and applied it to a 3D CNN based network.We experimented on a COVID-19 lesion segmentation dataset.Specifically,we use three cascaded one-dimensional convolutions to replace a 3D convolution,and integrate instance normalization with the previous layer of one-dimensional convolutions to accelerate network inference.In addition,we simplify test-time augmentation and deep supervision of the network.Experiments show that the lightweight network can reduce the prediction time of each sample and the memory usage by 50%and reduce the number of parameters by 60%compared with the original network.The training time of one epoch is also reduced by 50%with the segmentation accuracy dropped within the acceptable range.
文摘in this poper a novel data-and rule-driven system for 3D scene description and segmentation inan unknown environment is presented.This system generatss hierachies of features that correspond tostructural elements such as boundaries and shape classes of individual object as well as relationshipsbetween objects.It is implemented as an added high-level component to an existing low-level binocularvision system[1]. Based on a pair of matched stereo images produced by that system,3D segmentation is firstperformed to group object boundary data into several edge-sets,each of which is believed to belong to aparticular object.Then gross features of each object are extracted and stored in an object recbrd.The finalstructural description of the scene is accomplished with information in the object record,a set of rules and arule implementor. The System is designed to handle partially occluded objects of different shapes and sizeson the 2D imager.Experimental results have shown its success in computing both object and structurallevel descriptions of common man-made objects.
