Sinus floor elevation with a lateral window approach requires bone graft(BG)to ensure sufficient bone mass,and it is necessary to measure and analyse the BG region for follow-up of postoperative patients.However,the B...Sinus floor elevation with a lateral window approach requires bone graft(BG)to ensure sufficient bone mass,and it is necessary to measure and analyse the BG region for follow-up of postoperative patients.However,the BG region from cone-beam computed tomography(CBCT)images is connected to the margin of the maxillary sinus,and its boundary is blurred.Common segmentation methods are usually performed manually by experienced doctors,and are complicated by challenges such as low efficiency and low precision.In this study,an auto-segmentation approach was applied to the BG region within the maxillary sinus based on an atrous spatial pyramid convolution(ASPC)network.The ASPC module was adopted using residual connections to compose multiple atrous convolutions,which could extract more features on multiple scales.Subsequently,a segmentation network of the BG region with multiple ASPC modules was established,which effectively improved the segmentation performance.Although the training data were insufficient,our networks still achieved good auto-segmentation results,with a dice coefficient(Dice)of 87.13%,an Intersection over Union(Iou)of 78.01%,and a sensitivity of 95.02%.Compared with other methods,our method achieved a better segmentation effect,and effectively reduced the misjudgement of segmentation.Our method can thus be used to implement automatic segmentation of the BG region and improve doctors’work efficiency,which is of great importance for developing preliminary studies on the measurement of postoperative BG within the maxillary sinus.展开更多
Automatic segmentation of pulmonary vessels is a fundamental and essential task for the diagnosis of various pulmonary vessels diseases.The accuracy of segmentation is suffering from the complex vascular structure.In ...Automatic segmentation of pulmonary vessels is a fundamental and essential task for the diagnosis of various pulmonary vessels diseases.The accuracy of segmentation is suffering from the complex vascular structure.In this paper,an Improved Residual Attention U-Net(IRAU-Net)aiming to segment pulmonary vessel in 3D is proposed.To extract more vessel structure information,the Squeeze and Excitation(SE)block is embedded in the down sampling stage.And in the up sampling stage,the global attention module(GAM)is used to capture target features in both high and low levels.These two stages are connected by Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling(ASPP)which can sample in various receptive fields with a low computational cost.By the evaluation experiment,the better performance of IRAU-Net on the segmentation of terminal vessel is indicated.It is expected to provide robust support for clinical diagnosis and treatment.展开更多
基金the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2017YFB1302900)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.81971709,M-0019,and 82011530141)+2 种基金the Foundation of Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality(Nos.19510712200,and 20490740700)the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Foundation on Medical and Technological Joint Science Research(Nos.ZH2018ZDA15,YG2019ZDA06,and ZH2018QNA23)the 2020 Key Research Project of Xiamen Municipal Government(No.3502Z20201030)。
文摘Sinus floor elevation with a lateral window approach requires bone graft(BG)to ensure sufficient bone mass,and it is necessary to measure and analyse the BG region for follow-up of postoperative patients.However,the BG region from cone-beam computed tomography(CBCT)images is connected to the margin of the maxillary sinus,and its boundary is blurred.Common segmentation methods are usually performed manually by experienced doctors,and are complicated by challenges such as low efficiency and low precision.In this study,an auto-segmentation approach was applied to the BG region within the maxillary sinus based on an atrous spatial pyramid convolution(ASPC)network.The ASPC module was adopted using residual connections to compose multiple atrous convolutions,which could extract more features on multiple scales.Subsequently,a segmentation network of the BG region with multiple ASPC modules was established,which effectively improved the segmentation performance.Although the training data were insufficient,our networks still achieved good auto-segmentation results,with a dice coefficient(Dice)of 87.13%,an Intersection over Union(Iou)of 78.01%,and a sensitivity of 95.02%.Compared with other methods,our method achieved a better segmentation effect,and effectively reduced the misjudgement of segmentation.Our method can thus be used to implement automatic segmentation of the BG region and improve doctors’work efficiency,which is of great importance for developing preliminary studies on the measurement of postoperative BG within the maxillary sinus.
文摘Automatic segmentation of pulmonary vessels is a fundamental and essential task for the diagnosis of various pulmonary vessels diseases.The accuracy of segmentation is suffering from the complex vascular structure.In this paper,an Improved Residual Attention U-Net(IRAU-Net)aiming to segment pulmonary vessel in 3D is proposed.To extract more vessel structure information,the Squeeze and Excitation(SE)block is embedded in the down sampling stage.And in the up sampling stage,the global attention module(GAM)is used to capture target features in both high and low levels.These two stages are connected by Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling(ASPP)which can sample in various receptive fields with a low computational cost.By the evaluation experiment,the better performance of IRAU-Net on the segmentation of terminal vessel is indicated.It is expected to provide robust support for clinical diagnosis and treatment.
