MRI Brain Tumor Segmentation Using Deep Encoder-Decoder Convolutional Neural Networks

Benjamin B. Yan, Yujia Wei, Jaidip Manikrao M. Jagtap, Mana Moassefi, Diana V.Vera Garcia, Yashbir Singh, Sanaz Vahdati, Shahriar Faghani, Bradley J. Erickson, Gian Marco Conte

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Abstract

In this study, we focus on Task 1 of the 2021 Multimodal Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) challenge. We present a modified U-net model aimed at improving the segmentation of glioblastomas, reducing the computation time without compromising detection sensitivity. Our automated approach takes multimodal MR images as input, generates a bounding box of the brain volume, and combines the model predictions at the 2D slice level into a full 3D segmentation that is written into a NIfTI file. On the official 2021 BraTS test set of 570 cases, the model obtained median Dice scores of 0.80, 0.87, and 0.87, as well as median 95% Hausdorff distances of 2.45, 4.64, and 6.40 for the enhancing tumor, tumor core, and whole tumor regions, respectively.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationBrainlesion
Subtitle of host publicationGlioma, Multiple Sclerosis, Stroke and Traumatic Brain Injuries - 7th International Workshop, BrainLes 2021, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2021, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsAlessandro Crimi, Spyridon Bakas
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages80-89
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783031090011
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event7th International Brain Lesion Workshop, BrainLes 2021, held in conjunction with the Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: Sep 27 2021Sep 27 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12963 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference7th International Brain Lesion Workshop, BrainLes 2021, held in conjunction with the Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period9/27/219/27/21

Keywords

  • Glioblastoma
  • MRI
  • Segmentation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Computer Science(all)

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