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ArticleInternational journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery2023

Multi-scale dense selective network based on border modeling for lung nodule segmentation.

Hexi Wang, Ning Xiao, Shichao Luo, Runrui Li, Jun Zhao, Yulan Ma, Juanjuan Zhao, Yan Qiang, Long Wang, Jianhong Lian

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Hexi WangCollege of Information and Computer, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, 030000, Shanxi, China.
Ning XiaoCollege of Information and Computer, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, 030000, Shanxi, China.
Shichao LuoCollege of Information and Computer, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, 030000, Shanxi, China.
Runrui LiCollege of Information and Computer, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, 030000, Shanxi, China.
Jun ZhaoCollege of Information and Computer, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, 030000, Shanxi, China.
Yulan MaCollege of Information and Computer, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, 030000, Shanxi, China.
Juanjuan ZhaoCollege of Information and Computer, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, 030000, Shanxi, China. zhaojuanjuan@tyut.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8134-9076
Yan QiangCollege of Information and Computer, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, 030000, Shanxi, China.
Long WangCollege of Information, Jinzhong College of Information, Jinzhong, 030600, Shanxi, China.
Jianhong LianCancer Hospital, Shanxi Cancer Hospital, Taiyuan, 030000, Shanxi, China.
Taiyuan University of Technology · CNJinzhong University · CNShanxi Provincial Cancer Hospital · CN

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National Natural Science Foundation of China 61872261National Natural Science Foundation of China 61972274
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Abstract

purposeAccurate quantification of pulmonary nodules helps physicians to accurately diagnose and treat lung cancer. We try to improve the segmentation efficiency of irregular nodules while maintaining the segmentation accuracy of simple types of nodules.

methodsIn this paper, we obtain the unique edge part of pulmonary nodules and process it as a single branch stream, i.e., border stream, to explicitly model the nodule edge information. We propose a multi-scale dense selective network based on border modeling (BorDenNet). Its overall framework consists of a dual-branch encoder-decoder, which achieves parallel processing of classical image stream and border stream. We design a dense attention module to facilitate a strongly coupled status of feature images to focus on key regions of pulmonary nodules. Then, during the process of model decoding, the multi-scale selective attention module is proposed to establish long-range correlation relationships between different scale features, which further achieves finer feature discrimination and spatial recovery. We introduce border context enhancement module to mutually fuse and enhance the edge-related voxel features contained in the image stream and border stream and finally achieve the accurate segmentation of pulmonary nodules.

resultsWe evaluate the BorDenNet rigorously on the lung public dataset LIDC-IDRI. For the segmentation of the target nodules, the average Dice score is 92.78[Formula: see text], the average sensitivity is 91.37[Formula: see text], and the average Hausdorff distance is 3.06 mm. We further test on a private dataset from Shanxi Provincial People's Hospital, which verifies the excellent generalization of BorDenNet. Our BorDenNet relatively improves the segmentation efficiency for multi-type nodules such as adherent pulmonary nodules and ground-glass pulmonary nodules.

conclusionAccurate segmentation of irregular pulmonary nodules can obtain important clinical parameters, which can be used as a guide for clinicians and improve clinical efficiency.

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Lung NeoplasmsTomography, X-Ray ComputedHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedLungBorder modelingDense selective attentionImage segmentationPulmonary nodules

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