Multi-Level Parallel Network for Brain Tumor Segmentation

作     者：Juhong Tie Hui Peng 

作者机构：School of Software EngineeringChengdu University of Information TechnologyChengdu610225China 

出 版 物：《Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences》 (工程与科学中的计算机建模（英文）)

年 卷 期：2024年第139卷第4期

页      面：741-757页

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学科分类：08[工学] 0701[理学-数学] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 

基　　金：supported by the Sichuan Science and Technology Program (No.2019YJ0356). 

主　　题：Convolution neural network brain tumor segmentation parallel network 

摘      要：Accurate automatic segmentation of gliomas in various sub-regions,including peritumoral edema,necrotic core,and enhancing and non-enhancing tumor core from 3D multimodal MRI images,is challenging because of its highly heterogeneous appearance and shape.Deep convolution neural networks(CNNs)have recently improved glioma segmentation performance.However,extensive down-sampling such as pooling or stridden convolution in CNNs significantly decreases the initial image resolution,resulting in the loss of accurate spatial and object parts information,especially information on the small sub-region tumors,affecting segmentation performance.Hence,this paper proposes a novel multi-level parallel network comprising three different level parallel subnetworks to fully use low-level,mid-level,and high-level information and improve the performance of brain tumor segmentation.We also introduce the Combo loss function to address input class imbalance and false positives and negatives imbalance in deep learning.The proposed method is trained and validated on the BraTS 2020 training and validation dataset.On the validation dataset,ourmethod achieved a mean Dice score of 0.907,0.830,and 0.787 for the whole tumor,tumor core,and enhancing tumor core,respectively.Compared with state-of-the-art methods,the multi-level parallel network has achieved competitive results on the validation dataset.